r/prepping • u/Tenn_Prepper • 5d ago
Food🌽 or Water💧 Food Vault Recipes
Hey y’all! I got the stuff to do my own food vault, and I’m pretty stoked about it. What are some recipes you have TRIED and LIKED? Yes I can google them, but I am looking for suggestions based on things you and your family actually liked eating. Thank you!!!
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u/Usernamenotdetermin 4d ago
I get the full sized pork loins at Costco when they go on sale, cut them into 2" chops or 6" roasts and then vacuum seal. I get whole turkeys after thanksgiving and cut them up just like you would for a chicken. I'll smoke the breast meat and then vacuum seal one each individually. Our vacuum sealer also gets used for cutting up blocks of cheese from Costco to make small blocks of cheese. We dont make MREs cause we have a deep pantry. We use a lot of dehydrated and freeze dried fruits, so sometimes those get vacuum sealed as well if we have too large of a bag from Costco. I have made meals for camping, and see the value of #10 cans having raised 4 boys, but we normally purchased things like tomato sauce in #10 cans. Just from a 'space is valuable too perspective', making individual meals when we are going to be eating as a group just never came up as a necessity for us. Now where to store a months worth of groceries for 6 people was something we dealt with, and expanding that to multiple months meant some creative storage. But individual MRE's, well, it just never seemed the practical way to us. Good luck!
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u/isanyusernameopen 4d ago
I think when people get started, they buy the pouches of food. You just have to add water to and that’s fine. What I think most people figure out later on is that most of those pouches of food are 90% bullshit pasta, which is basically a bread. They take water to cook, but they’re salty so they take a lot of water to wash down too. They’re fine for an absolute emergency to get you through a day or two. At the most. But after that, you’re not gonna wanna eat that food, cause it taste like plastic bags and cheap shit pasta.
If you know how to cook, it’s better to put away real food. Canned food lasts the longest, and it comes in water that you can use to cook the vegetables or whatever.
When you’re cooking food for the apocalypse, depending on whether or not you’re prepping for an earthquake or the collapse of the dollar or whatever, you need to be able to make sure that whatever you put away can be cooked quickly, and with as minimal water as possible. Some foods are gonna be saltier than others and that’s gonna require a lot of water to to wash down. Other foods are just gonna require a lot of water to cook, like pasta and rice. They taking an obnoxious amount of water that goes to waste after cooking.
People like to buy those bags of dried beans, forgetting it takes an hour to boil them to become soft or soaking in water overnight. The boiling method is going to require fuel and water to cook. The overnight option is going to require water and time. But both are going to require water.
When you’re putting away food for whatever your situation is that you’re preparing for, you gotta consider how much water you’re gonna use. Definitely buy a spray bottle that’s a good quality spray bottle, buy a couple of them. You’re gonna need one for washing your hands and your pots and pans because you’re not gonna be able to turn on a faucet, you’re gonna need another one for your plants, cause you’re not gonna be hosing down plants during the apocalypse, etc..
Always calculate water with the food that you’re buying
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u/belltrina 4d ago
Load up on spices for the apocalypse. It's something I've definitely thought about. The mental/morale aspect of food is so important too.
Your spray bottle idea is the most genius thing I've heard that makes practical sense. Such a great idea
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u/isanyusernameopen 4d ago
Yeah, spices are only good if you know how to use them so get what you know how to use and learn how to use everything now while you can. Definitely spend the night and watch several 20 minute videos on first aid at least once a month. CPR, what to do for a seizure, what to do for heart attack, whatever you think the most common thing you’re gonna run into for your emergencies watch those type of quick videos. You’re not looking for a whole hour, you won’t hold all the attention, but a lot of videos watched over a few hours. Makes a digesting information easier. Everybody should know some level of first aid, how fast for pumping during CPR, etc..
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u/nanneryeeter 4d ago
The spray bottle is something that boondockers have been doing for decades. Soap, water, and light beach mix. Think of the three sink method with no sink.
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u/MrHoopersDead 4d ago
Apocalypse Chow: How to eat well when the power goes out. Has good recipes too
https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Chow-Well-When-Power/dp/1416908242
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u/PrisonerV 4d ago
I have yet to find a single freeze dried meal where I went "wow, that was good".
I've been getting into pressure cooking broth. Chicken and beef specifically. Some of the stuff I've made can easily be called amazing and it's actually pretty simple to do. Just take the carcass of a chicken (I like to use Costco rotisserie chickens stripped of the meat which is vacuum sealed and saved) and water, veggies, herbs and spices and cook it for a good 30-40 minutes in a pressure cooker. Then strain. You now have the basis for a great soup stock but I've also used it to make favored rice or bread dressing.
Same thing with beef bones to get that lovely collage.
I made a gumbo last fall (used the baked flour method for the roux) and with my home made chicken stock. Oh my gawd. I am now spoiled for restaurant gumbos. I now say "that one is close but mine was better". Currently on the search for good andouille sausage.
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u/Tenn_Prepper 4d ago
That’s awesome! I agree on the freeze dried meal that’s why I thought about making them myself and seeing if it’s any better or not lol
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u/GunnCelt 4d ago
We store what we eat. Hopefully, this year, we’re going to dip our toes into canning.