Food Options

[kellys_eye]

Most tinned goods I see have 'best before' dates, never a 'use by' date.

Does anyone recall the old Terry Wogan Radio 2 breakfast show? He did a long running article on old tinned foods and listeners rang in with dates from tins they'd kept - some for many decades! - and they'd open them 'on air' for a taste test. In most cases the tin contents were perfectly ok - but not all!

I've personally opened tins from 2007 and ate the contents - no problems.

The issue of stock rotation is probably more important but there's two routes to take on that. In a SHTF scenario you might need only prep for a 'short term' event - 2 years??? - before life returns to a kind of normality that doesn't require you to isolate and look after #1. In that case there's probably nothing in your cupboard that doesn't pass that length of time anyway?

But an EOTWAWKI is entirely different - but I wouldn't be worried in the least about dates on the tins!

Has anyone found a source for tinned chicken? ISTR (as a kid) opening tins that held a whole chicken but it's been decades since I've seen one. Not even sure they exist in the UK at all?

I did find some 'chicken in a jar' in a Polish food store and it had a 3+ year shelf life printed on it.

But I've been keeping hens for about a decade now so eggs/meat isn't really an issue.