How much beans should I store for a family of four?

Beans fuck beans who the fuck wants beans and rice when your in the most depressed state

fuckin noob

FOUR

four beans is too little IMHO

Rule of thumb on your 80 of rice would be 40 of beans. I tend to lean around the 2:1 ratio as many others.

You could grow beans on shelves on empty walls all year round using full spectrum led lights. They have strips with tape, bars you can hang in place, any type you can imagine.

can you rotate that shit?

have you thought about that?

have you thought about how to keep it from going bad or getting bugs in it?

and 80 lbs of rice for three people is less than 6 months

maybe more like 4 or less

and if that is all you have then maybe one month

or less

If you store beans store water and fuel

Beans take a lot of water and fuel to make them consumable

If you are building a short term like 90 Day food Supply - canned goods on sale will be your friend

And

A CAN OPENER!

Things canned in liquids are cooked and can be consumed without water or fuel straight from the can

Your mountain of beans will leave you like a cat with a can of tuna and no way to consume it

Many many lists

Start small with easy consumables and water

Are you gonna eat all four at once?

Go to the dollar store

Get Dinty Moore beef stew in a can

And some canned chicken and dumplings

Maybe some chunky soups you can serve over rice

Canned chili and other MEALS in a CAN already prepared and ready to eat

Rough rule for prepping is one 5 gallon bucket per person per month of beans and grains. Plus oils and animal proteins.

If you are wealthy get only long term packaged items. Otherwise rotate.

Food grade diatomaceous earth in preps. 1/2 cup mixed into 5 gallons kills off any bugs. Dont breath it, and rinse before cooking.

Thank you. I will write down that ratio. Definitely will need more rice and beans from what I am thinking.

This will substitute meat we have in a freezer chest that is tri-powered; DC/AC/LP



Now that is interesting. Thank you I will have to look into that.



Yes we plan on rotating the dry beans and rice.

Storing will be done in 5 - 6 gallon buckets with mylar 3.4mil or 5mil with O2 absorbers.

How much rice do you recommend for a family of four? I have two younger children, 5 and 14 years old.



I heard you can soak beans overnight in water so I am hoping to not use much fuel if this go south which is what my military friends are saying will begin to happen.

We do have canned goods but would like longer term storage such as rice, beans, honey, etc.

Also, talking dried beans not canned beans.

It should be a ratio of salt, pepper, and beans. Don't be miserable.

fuel will not last

unless it is lpg

that never goes bad but the containers will after about 10-20 years

So we would need a lot of buckets for one year.

Not wealthy but we do alright both wife and I make $200,000 plus/minus each yearly.

Do you put the DE on top of the mylar bags when sealed or inside the bags with the food?

if you have no can opener there are videos to show you how to open the can by rubbing it on concrete

the metal is very thin

Put it in Mylar bags with 2000cc oxygen absorbers then in a 5 gallon bucket. Seal the Mylar with a straight iron. It will suck out all the air. If you are that paranoid, freeze the rice and beans for 3 days then give a day to get back to room temperature. These will be good minimum 20 years this way

Enough to haul that big fat tanker of gas across the wasteland.
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4 cups of dried beans in bag and 4 cups of rice makes a meal for four or five people. Tested it out already. Plus dried beef and spics, salt dried vegetables...

Cooked slow over low heat. Perfect...

Beans are now routinely "dessicated" with roundup herbicide right before harvest to kill the plant quickly so that id will dry out by harvest time. Make sure you get beans that have not been.

store rice in food grade buckets lines with foood grade bags and displace oxygen with nitrogen

that will keep food for years

Green, baked or coffee ?

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Last Edited by Tynyyn on 03/07/2021 09:40 AM

or buy some land and grow fucking beans on it

Thank you! I will write that down as well. We do have a lot of salt and peppercorn.



That is not good. Where may I find beans that are not herbicided?



Dried beans for long term food storage.

I have coffee beans covered as I roast the green ones :)

At Family Dollar, they sell huge glass jars with rubber sealed clamp lids for 2 bucks. I buy them out when they restock. I have a stockroom full of beans, rice, pasta, mixes, herbs....etc. beans are great to store - we have red beans, black beans, navy beans, cranberry beans, pinto beans....so many beans. White rice, jasmine rice, brown rice....it goes on and on.

Storing is important. You should use glass if possible. If you keep everything in plastic, especially flour, you will get tiny black bugs that will destroy all your work. Also, Keep in mind that some dry goods can come with insects already mixed in, so always pour your contents in a colander and toss it around a little to see what drops out below - you’d be surprised how much trash falls out. Then you can pour the good stuff in your storage containers.

might wanna focus on water supply first, since both items require it to cook. And lots of ass whiping material. lol

Sorry to burst your bubble bro but families do not make it post collapse. Individuals do. Savage, life loving men make it and hookers who are smart make it. That is about it. No families.

homos like you make it on your knees

I hope you are wrong about that.

We have a community of like minded people so maybe we shall survive. But I just want to make sure my family has enough food for what may come.

I've been a prepper for20 years.

I store my beans, rice, corn, flour, etc. in 5 gallon buckets with screw-on tops, sealed in mylar bags, with oxygen absorbers.

I live in the deep south, hot and humid.

I have had 12 year old rice that tastes OK. Not as good as new, but definitely edible.

Beans on the other hand, don't last over 6 years.

After that long, you can soak them before cooking, pressure cook them, whatever, and they are still extremely hard.

Flour stays good for 6 years, but after about 10 years, it smells and tastes different.

We hardly ever eat any of the dried beans we store.

It is just not something we like to eat, when we have other stuff.

I have stored canned foods for over 6 years. Most don't make it. The cans of acidic things, like tomato products and fruit, corrode badly.

Oddly, so does chili and beans.

DAK ham and vienna sausage taste pretty good, after that long, though.

I think you should save your money, and spend it on tools and seed to grow food. AND PRACTICE BEFORE YOU HAVE TO.

Buy enough canned goods to last you for a couple of years, so you can have something to eat until you can grow your own food.