Best Keto foods for long term storage?

(Dirty Lazy Keto'er, Sucralose freak ;)) #1

Yes, of course this has to do with emergency food sources. The SF Bay area (7 million people) just went into “home lock down” last night at mid-night. Yes, of course people can go out for essential needs, groceries and such, and unlike communist nations, you will not be shot on your front porch leaving your house… But I do think social restrictions are a good idea, and plan to follow it as closely as possible.

Anyway, I have a couple things which I really like, and can be stored long term without refrigeration, and give a lot of bang for the buck… Or, should I say, for the pound ?

Canned tuna… I prefer mine in olive oil. Just bought 10 cans yesterday.
And Peanut Butter. My GF and I get huge jars of Adams all natural PB for like $5.95. Great value, and a TON of fat and protein, for $6… Struggling a little to find it right now though… We can order 6 of these big jars (13.5 lbs) for $49 on Amazon… might go on and do that now…

What other things can you add, that provide a lot of healthy cals, but do not need to be refrigerated… great shelf life ???

(charlie3) #2

There is a thread going for the past 6 weeks.
https://www.ketogenicforums.com/t/food-stockpile-in-case-corona-virus-comes-nearby/97583/201
The way I’m planning is how to carry on eating my preferred foods but shop as seldom as possible. I’m assuming utilities and essential services will carry on the same as always but may be something will be temperarily out of stock or I just want to minimize travel. I’ll be shoping every 10 days but I’ve got a 20-30 day supply of everything except fresh vegetables. There’s no reason i can see for persistant food shortages. I did pick up 6 lbs of peanut butter for the worst case.

#3

Can tuna, chicken and pork. Mayo.
Eggs bacon cheese butter
Frozen veggies
Stuff your freezer with meat

Good luck

#4

I am very glad I don’t need to have such things as the options are too limited for me… But I can think about some, not nearly as great for storage as dry carbs but still, something.

Smoked meat. My anchestors stored them for months at a cool, dry place, I don’t have such a thing so I keep them in the fridge to be safe but they wouldn’t spoil very easily at room temperature either, my kitchen is somewhat cool.
Totally dried meat is even better regarding shelf life, not like I know anything about it…
Canned meat/fish. Not my style but good to have some for emergencies. I would be okay with meat that I canned myself but I never did that yet.

Fat, I have that. We have coconut oil, lard and mutton tallow. And a little butter in the fridge, it spoils the easiest, it seems.

My favs, eggs. I store them only for a month in a cupboard, they probably have a longer shelf-life if it’s not summer, never tried, I eat them up quickly. But a very hot kitchen might be a problem. I never stored more than 250 at once.

That’s about it for me though I still have lots of oily seeds, oily seed flour, fibers and other things. And lots of gluten, that can be useful. And lots of sugar alcohol, cocoa (little, we need to order another 7-8 lbs again, it doesn’t last very long), coffee and so on. Sometimes comfort is very important too, not only nutrients. My SO would lose spirit without his daily chocolate but he eats mostly carbs and he has food (probably everything important except vegetables and apples) for months almost all the time. We are far from shops, we do a proper shopping once a month, our fridge has its limits so we learned to have lots of ingredients with a longer shelf life.
I just have a moderately little amount of carnivore food right now and I need to get more in a few days. My staples have nothing to do with regular shops, it’s some houses and a tiny shop of a nearby farm, I don’t see it as a particular risk. My SO working with zillion other people, that’s worse but it’s work, it must be done, most of the workers there would starve due to no money for food without work (no health insurance, either).

I got carried away, sorry, I need to stop thinking about this topic already…

I have some walnuts outside of the house, since more than 1.5 years. Or 2.5? I don’t remember. They are still mostly good.

Heavy cream often has a long shelf life too, too bad they ruin its taste in the process… But it’s still edible and not everyone is this choosy anyway.

#5

Sardines, cod liver (huge nutrition boost for the buck and tastes more like sweet cream than anything else), other canned fish. I have a freezer full of bacon, chicken liver, beef liver, pork chops, ground beef and some roasts I got delivered from a restaurant supply place. Good quality too, and much lower prices. A couple of jicamas keep a long time in the fridge. Planning to resurrect my veggie garden, or maybe just raise veggies in big pots on the deck.

(Dirty Lazy Keto'er, Sucralose freak ;)) #6

Thanks all. The easiest stuff here, sounds like canned chicken, and pork… Don’t know if anyone mentioned canned salmon, but some brands are pretty edible.

Oh, and I do have a pretty good supply of all the dry stuff to make me weekly keto bread… Only thing, it needs eggs… Not sure if powered eggs would suffice ? And butter… But I’d imagine any kind of oil would do.

#7

I didn’t even see canned salmon in my life but it sounds something even I would like… My favorite fish. Fish is the only animal I am willing to buy canned, I definitely need the rest from a good farm.

I make your keto bread (with my tiny changes) with a cheaper fat, even coconut oil works as it’s the same to me. Some cakes totally need butter but the bread didn’t really benefit from it, at least with the butter I used and according to my tastebuds. And even if it was noticeably better with butter, one can sacrifice a tiny something in need. (But I use lard for almost everything now and it’s cheap AND tasty.)
I imagine powdered eggs work but I have zero experience with them. But if I run out of eggs and even meat, I either stop eating (it probably couldn’t last long) or make seitan, that doesn’t require eggs and way tastier than the keto bread due to the copious amounts of red pepper and other spices I use, soy sauce and of course, some good lard… I don’t actually need bread except in (now) extremely rare circumstances. We obviously need different things to feel comfortable and we make our choices accordingly.

(Dirty Lazy Keto'er, Sucralose freak ;)) #8

Well, I see it all the time… But it’s really not even on the same page as fresh Salmon. I used to eat the stuff in foil pouches… But you have to have a real love of Salmon in the first place, and maybe also be ravenous hungry like I always was when I did Paleo, and worked out like a mad man 6-7 days a week :slightly_smiling_face:

#9

I love salmon and I am never ravenously hungry without lots of carbs (rarely with lots of carbs), I am almost never hungry at all. But I like to eat, love variety and salmon is something very rare in my life nowadays. It would work. I surely ate worse, eggs and spices/condiments/vegetables make almost everything technically edible at least borderline enjoyable. I still do my best to buy delicious ingredients but I don’t throw out the odd weaker items either. Only the truly, hopelessly horrible ones. I met some bad tiny fish in my life (I ate them or gave them to the cats, protein is precious and the cats are usually not particularly choosy but never bought them again).