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[Anonymous No.11250405]

What foods have the longest shelf lifes?
I'm in the Arctic, and need supplies. Keeping things cold and dry is no problem. What are some tasty things that last a long time?
Obviously canned things, but I don't want to eat spaghetti O's all winter. I've got some Campbell's chowder and chili bowls. Some Pace Ready Meals. Alcohol. Popcorn. Deenz and Makrell in tins.

Give me recommendations.

[Anonymous No.11250448]

>>11250405
Dried grains, beans, seeds, nuts, nut/seed pastes, dried fruit. All of it is optimal for half a year. A year is fine. The oils eventually rancidify and taste bad. If you don't want to deal with pre-soaking or pressure cooking, lentils, matpe, mung, dals cook fast. Dals tend to be the gassiest in my experience. The others aren't bad if you have an efficient gut ecosystem from having already been eating whole plant foods for a while.

[Anonymous No.11250458]

>>11250448
This is why vegans deserve to be shot.

[Anonymous No.11250495]

>>11250448
>Dried grains, beans, seeds, nuts, nut/seed pastes, dried fruit.
Not really available up here. Sunflower seeds are expensive, and I don't really care for the mess they make. Dried fruit is more expensive than jerkey, I'll just eat the canned shit.

[Anonymous No.11250679]

Poor faggots, post your food GamePro tips.

[Anonymous No.11250812]

>>11250495
what are you a fucking eskimo?

[Anonymous No.11250842]

>>11250405
>What foods have the longest shelf lifes?
Honey lasts for thousands of years.

[Anonymous No.11250855]

>>11250405
if you're looking for Cthulhu, tell me how his jerky tastes

[Anonymous No.11250858]

>>11250405
Could you get a shitload of frozen fish, fruit, veggy mixes and stir fries to your station?
Those will be as good as new even after a few years and make really good meals together with the usual pasta/rice/millet.

[TobiasNoel No.11250889]

>>11250405
granola
canned pankcake batter

[TobiasNoel No.11250895]

>>11250405
make a sauce of dried fruit rehydrated in simple syrup for the pancakes.

[Anonymous No.11250970]

>arctic
>keeping things cold not a problem
NO SHIT BRAINLET

[Anonymous No.11250987]

>>11250970
Please don't be mean...

[Anonymous No.11250996]

>>11250970
Well maybe he can't just leave shit out in the snow, polar bears or penguins might make off with the rations.

[Anonymous No.11251053]

do you have a hunting license?
do you have a gun?

if not you could try to sweet talk someone into sellung you half a buck or something for cheap you just need to cut it in usable pieces and have a big enough freezer

all grains have a long shell life
cooked food if.frozen can last up to.3months so you could prep a bunch of food freeze it and eat it for 3 months

[Anonymous No.11251124]

>>11250996
>arctic
>polar bears or penguins
You're a bigger brainlet than the OP.

[Anonymous No.11252404]

>>11250858
>Could you get a shitload of frozen fish, fruit, veggy mixes and stir fries to your station?
Yeah, we have that stuff.

>>11250895
>make a sauce of dried fruit rehydrated in simple syrup for the pancakes.
Interesting idea. I'll do that when I get back to a warmer climate, we don't have either of those things here, and I don't like pancakes. I'm a waffle guy.

>>11251053
There's not a lot of wildlife up here. Random rabid arctic fox, might see a Musk Ox once a month, or a Polar Bear. It's starting to get to the night season though, half way there. The continuous daylight finally ended last month, and next month should start the continuous night.
I'm wanting to know what foods, like dry goods, last longer than their 'expiration' date. I've ate chips, mac'n'cheese, beer, etc that tasted fine after their 'best before' date. I'm looking for more stuff I can buy that will last, and I can munch on for easy calories.

[Anonymous No.11252410]

>>11250405
Why do you newfags get so attached to unrelated pics? Is it that hard to find a fucking stock image of whatever you're posting about?

[Anonymous No.11252442]

>>11252410
why does this enrage you so much?

[Anonymous No.11252468]

just bring a bag of rice you can survive foraging and hunting in alaska

[Anonymous No.11252476]

>>11252410
Been here forever, I just saw that speed test prior to making this thread, and was hella jelly. Pic related

[Anonymous No.11252486]

>>11252404
Would you mind posting a few pics here or even making a thread on /out/?
Would love to ask few a questions about that life

[Anonymous No.11252490]

>>11252442
Because when I'm glancing over the catalog I tend to ignore threads that don't use food related pictures. It's not hard to google search what you're talking about and using the picture to grab interest for people who might be casually browsing. This is a topic board, not /b/.

[Anonymous No.11252492]

OP here. Also, I'm gay. Not sure if that matters.

[Anonymous No.11252503]

>>11252486
You can ask here. Imagine a desert, with no sun, and it's cold.

>>11252490
Dude, there's nothing up here but dirt and snow. We get food shipped into port via boat, or flown in. When storm season starts, we've got what we've got. I want to buy some shit that tastes good past its expiration date. I don't want to be eating canned/frozen food all winter if I can help it.

[Anonymous No.11252515]

>>11252503
I'm assuming you're staying there for 6 months or 1 month
What do you do there? What made you want to do a stay in the Arctic?
Do you like it and would you recommend it to other people?

[Anonymous No.11252521]

>>11252515
Or 1 year*

[Anonymous No.11252537]

>>11252515
>I'm assuming you're staying there for 6 months or 1 month
I can stay up here for as long as I want. This is my first year. Got up here during the summer.
>What do you do there? What made you want to do a stay in the Arctic?
It's just somewhere new, where I've never been. I've been all over the world. I'm on my third passport in 12 years.
>Do you like it and would you recommend it to other people?
Meh, not really. It's kinda boring. Maybe visit for a week or two. Once you've seen a glacier and an iceberg in a bay, you're pretty much seen it. The constant daylight in summer sucks. Pretty sure the constant night that's incoming is going to be worse. Shit's expensive too. Satellite internet is dumb slow and very expensive. Doesn't work when the weather is bad. Today it's clear, so the speed is 'fast'. It's usually slower.

[Anonymous No.11252596]

>>11252537
Pretty much what I expected, what do you do there beside wanking all day?

[Anonymous No.11252614]

>>11252596
Shitposting here.

[Anonymous No.11252622]

>>11250405
How do I get speeds like this? Also, can you bake? Get stuff for pizza and freeze it. Hard to get bored of pizza.

[Anonymous No.11252626]

>>11252614
I meant for work, what's the reason for you being on the base?

[Anonymous No.11252663]

>>11252622
>How do I get speeds like this?
glow in the dark.
>Also, can you bake? Get stuff for pizza and freeze it. Hard to get bored of pizza.
Yeah, have a convection oven. I'd love to make pizza, but we can't get all the ingredients. Probably the worst part too, pizza is one of my favorite foods. Bought a couple frozen pizzas, the smaller, single serving type. Haven't tried them yet.

>>11252626
>I meant for work, what's the reason for you being on the base?
I pretty much just monitor phones.

[Anonymous No.11252696]

>>11252663
What is it that you can't get? Flour, salt, oil, yeast, water for the dough. Sauce is optional. Cheese and other toppings are hard to come by or expensive? It would be a lot easier to help if we knew what all is hard to come by or ridiculously expensive there.

[Anonymous No.11252726]

>>11252696
Can't get the yeast, and
>Cheese and other toppings are hard to come by

It's mostly dry goods, canned goods, and frozen foods. They've got frozen meals, and instant meals that don't need freezing. Everything is expensive, unless it is past its Sell By date. Then it's 75% off. Think of a supermarket, with no fresh food in it.

So, stuff like, noodles. Do they ever go bad? I can make soups or pastas, we have the stuff for that. Frozen meats, like beef and pork, so I can make dishes with them.

[Anonymous No.11252734]

>>11252726
That helps. Make some pasta puttanesca.

[Anonymous No.11252746]

>>11252734
>puttanesca
There we go, yeah, I can make that. Already have most of the ingredients too. Never thought about putting green olives and sardines in spaghetti lol, this should be interesting.

[Anonymous No.11252949]

>>11250405
How do I get that internet, op

[Anonymous No.11253374]

>>11252949
glow in the dark

[Anonymous No.11253458]

>>11253374
Like Terry Davis ?

[Anonymous No.11253909]

>>11253458
Nah, like the people he ran over with his car.

[Anonymous No.11254009]

OP’s virginity

[Anonymous No.11254528]

>>11254009
What does this even mean?

[Anonymous No.11254537]

>>11250405

you live in the fucking arctic, just stick that shit in the ice box and it'll last forever. yeah after a few months freezer burn will make it taste like shit but it'll still be edible.

[Anonymous No.11254541]

>>11250812
he literally said he was living in the arctic

[Anonymous No.11254644]

>>11250495

The fuck.
Move a couple hundred miles just past the nearest Russian border and you'll be swimming in that stuff. Been to far north of Russia recently. Every shop = a whole aisle of various nuts, seeds, dried fruit etc, costing peanuts (pun unintended), and excellent quality.

Also, dried fish sold as a beer snack. Aisle with beers and dried fish hanging in between.

[Anonymous No.11254710]

>>11254644
I'm on an island.

[Anonymous No.11255080]

>>11250405
mountain home foods have a shelf life of 30 years. I keep a month or so worth in the closet for use during hurricanes.