Deadly Food Storage: What Happens To Packaged Foods Over Time

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

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[@SgtSkrog]

I was forced to eat canned food from the 1950's in the military in the 1980's, some was real bad. I based risking eating it on smell. The wax based chocolate bar, coffee powder, canned crackers, etc. were always OK. Problem is now with age, cannot trust my nose all of the time. Not your favorite video to do but one of my favorite ones to watch😆

[@susierosido790]

Thank you, I'm sharing to 3 places..

[@MarleneStoddard-l7j]

😊

[@bobmeyers3478]

We had the same called C-Rations most were good That’s all we had when on maneuvers back in the 60’s. USMC

[@tylerandmaren]

It definitely was entertaining to watch!

[@KellyS_77]

This takes me back!! I haven’t seen Richmoor products in ages. I spent a couple years of my childhood (1984-1986) in Southern California. Our family was into hiking and bought these products sometimes. I especially remember the drinks, we used to take those in our backpacks to make our water taste better. They were not really intended for storage, just for picking up when you were going for a long hike or a camping trip.

[@allyrooh3628]

Thanks for taking one for the team and trying this for us!

[@nunyabznz3029]

You two are so funny! My Scottish-Irish cheapness hates to waste but this stuff would have been trashed without even opening.

[@margaretpadley7834]

I got some white rice from an uncle that had been stored in bulk and air tight in 1963 and it is still wonderful. Tastes good cooks normally and we really enjoy it. I’ve broke it down into pint and half pint jars, vacuum sealed and we are still using it.

[@JonathanBJones]

Makes a strong case for storage conditions. What was it stored in and how was it treated. Thanks for sharing, and for being part of the solution!

[@margaretpadley7834]

I don’t know if it was treated or not. Looked and tasted like raw rice. I’m not sure I can describe the container. Circular, like a 5 gal canning jar. Very heavy plastic with a screw top lid.

[@lowmanite]

The expression on your face said it all. Thanks for taking one for the team. It makes me want to take my food rotation more seriously. Thanks for the entertainment.

[@Georgiaonmymind862]

Thanks for your investigations into old foods to see how they survived over long periods of time. Very interesting.

[@littlebird585]

You guys are brave to even open those. Great video!! Thanks for all you two do.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Thanks for watching!

[@RyanMercer]

😱🤮🪦

[@taylormade9693]

I think I’d wear gloves and a mask opening those things. I don’t think I’d be sniffing them. Thanks for showing us! Blessings.

[@jabolbot9371]

This has been so helpful. Also, greatly appreciate Kylene’s comment about dried eggs always smelling bad in the package.

[@tylerandmaren]

That was definitely educational.

[@tooshieg2059]

One of the things I noticed right away was "4 1/3cup servings" not alot of food for a serving - as most of the commercial package stuff is. I've never seen old food storage before so this video was of great educational value for me. Thank you for doing this and for sharing. I had some commercial, Hamburger Helper, Taco. It was about 10 years old and the taco chips were so rancid I didn't need to open the bag to smell them. Out they went.

[@debbielanier2973]

AWESOME VIDEO! PEOPLE ARE BUYING INTO THIS LONG TERM BUCKETS OF FOOD AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE YEARS PROMISED ARE A LIFETIME AWAY! 25 YEARS IS A LONG TIME FOR FOODS! GOOD JOB!

[@KellyS_77]

I agree with you, but this stuff wasn't meant to be long term food storage. It was just food to take with you when you were camping or hiking.

[@missdenim6590]

Note to self 🤔 1. Rotate food stores 2. Do not keep food stores in garage

[@deedieducati2272]

That's what I was going to say!

[@lizadivine3785]

I find I donate more than I can eat at this point.

[@roncameron7461]

As old as those packages were, it was great to see you open them! We've done similar tests on really old packages also... We've even tried eating but in our experience for better results you need to "air" them out awhile 😂 Seriously the oldest storage items we've successfully eaten and enjoyed have been Simplot brand Hash browns, they were 23 years out of date. Other than a slight darkening, they were perfect and very tasty!👌

[@537537]

Thanks for taking another one for the team!!!

[@retiredoldcrab1256]

Loved the griddle you used to cook the “omelette” and “hash browns”. After the cook test, I don’t think I could bring myself to ever use that griddle again. I’d be checking for pitting in your glassware too. Thanks for taking one for the team.

[@bettyjanefelts]

I found myself praying through this whole video for you guys. I wanted to vomit just thinking and looking at the bad food. But you did make the point to rotate your food and make sure the food is stored under good conditions. Thank you for this video.❤

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Thank you for the prayers!! I smelled it for hours. I didn't eat any of it but I felt like it was coming out my pores.

[@OriginalCosmicBabe]

An elderly couple I know were cleaning out their storage and offered me 9 cases of Y2K emergency food they discovered (having forgotten about). I was intrigued so I said yes. The original invoice was still in one of the boxes, dated January 1999! There were #10 cans of powdered milk, powdered peanut butter, dehydrated apple slices, dehydrated mixed vegetables, chicken-flavored TVP, and dehydrated applesauce. I opened a few cans out of curiosity and the TVP actually looked & smelled okay. But I didn’t want to taste it, and my quail (that I keep for eggs) didn’t want to eat it. The dehydrated vegetables didn’t look significantly different from #10 cans of dehydrated AF vegetables, and they smelled fine, but I’m still waffling on whether to try them. The cans of apple items were trashed, just powdery & stale-smelling. I don’t trust powdered milk after 24 years so I didn’t even open those. I’m not a big fan of peanut butter so I’m not opening that either. What the experience DID prompt me to do was to pull all my long-term storage food out, inspect the cans for dents or other damage, locate the best-by dates on the paper labels and write those dates on the can lid in Sharpie (in case the paper labels come off), and pull a couple of cans that are within a year of the best-by date so I can use them soon. It also prompted me to place an order for items I know my family loves (especially dehydrated hash browns and spaghetti bites). Great video, thank you! It’s fun and educational to open old food storage items and see what may still be good - and what is definitely not okay!

[@patriciatow2485]

YUCK!!! You are braver then me, I could never have opened the bags without gagging. but thank you for showing the world how people need to be careful and STOP filling their pantry with items that they think will last forever.

[@bearrivermama6414]

I think this was my favorite video you have done yet, I’m sorry you had to have such an unpleasant experience to produce it but THANK YOU for your commitment to educating us even at your own peril 😂. You are brave!!! I am relieved that you did find any thing satisfactory enough to eat! But super interesting 😊. I am such a scaredy-cat about “old foods”! I think the oldest date in my stored foods is best by 2018. It’s a can of soup and a can of peppers for enchilada soup dated 2019. But I’m new to food storage and we moved 6 years ago and I purged my pantry then. I’m sure things will progress in the future 😂 Great video. I smiled the whole way through ❤

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Hello!!

[@CindyCapehart-x3d]

My Dad bought emergency storage food similar to this around 1973. When my husband and I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1994 we used some of the food. The ham flavored cheese sauce was the most memorable as it gave us horrible gas. Anything with milk or eggs was bad. Most dehydrated vegetables didn’t fully rehydrate. The orange drink was still good though. The metal 4-5 gallon containers of hard red winter wheat were still good. It was sad that most of it had to be thrown out.

[@skavenqblight]

3:35 Given that it’s sealed and more than 30 years old, I can’t imagine that anything was growing in there, right?

[@Adam0263]

I’m not a NASCAR fan, but your videos are very well done. Great details, research, stories. You have a bright future.

[@sg224]

This was really interesting and very funny to watch 😂. My neighbour and I both started prepping at the same time. We both take different approaches to it. I like to stock up on more raw ingredients to make meals with whereas she likes to stock up on pre prepared cans of food. Both have its advantages and disadvantages, but the real learning curve was when I was rotating stock and moving older stuff out of the pantry and into my kitchen and putting newer stuff into the pantry she wasn’t. My rotation system isn’t 100% full proof due to storage constraints, but I’ve ended up with a lot less stuff going over it’s BBE dates than she has, and the stuff that has gone over is still good to use (I’m currently using tomatoes etc that are past BBE) whereas she ended up having to bin a lot of her stored foods due to them going rancid. We are going to gut her food store and go through it all to see what’s salvageable very soon, but we did have a chat on why rotating is so important and hopefully, we can both improve our systems for the future!

[@sweetzuka]

This was soo helpful and loved learning about this! I’m going to rotate better!!!!

[@joeyjennings9548]

i found lately the easy open newer cans dont seal well. the metal used is not as good. rust spots & leaks. i had to return can soups still in date stored in good temps dry & right. so INSPECT new cans you buy.

[@val2952]

You guys are great!!! So transparent ❤️

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Aw thanks :)

[@thebhn]

I ate a bunch of 30-year-old MREs once! The orange juice tasted like grapefruit juice, but the rest of it was delicious. Especially the pound cake. I drank the juice, too, lol. I was ten. :D

[@lorisimpson1801]

You guys are wonderful. 😊 something also you should talked about, this was in a garage, sure the heat didn't help. Foods should be stored in cool dry dark place and rotate. Thanks for the fun video.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

It was stored in her basement fruit room for most of the time and only made it to the garage recently. I completely agree about the storage conditions!

[@hollyh9334]

Well, one good thing--packaging has come a long way since back then! And I think we now know why Richmoor isn't around any longer. Run, Kylene, run!

[@gonefishing3644]

Proper storage conditions are important. So is paying attention to the "best used by" date. When a dried food gets past its expected storage time, I test it to see if it can still be used. If it passes visual inspection and the sniff test, I will use it right away to make something. When I use "expired" bread mixes, I add yeast or baking powder to make up for the leavening agents already in the bread mix that may have lost their effectiveness. We have had hot rolls and pizza crusts made from "expired" bread mixes and they tasted fine. If a dried food looks wrong or smells off, it gets tossed into the trash bag. I would not consume any kind of emergency food storage, even Mt. House meals, that had been stored more than two years in a garage or attic that gets hot during the summer. I would expect the heat would cause the powdered eggs, milk or cheese to age rapidly and perhaps go rancid. I would rather go hungry than become seriously ill from eating a bite of spoiled food. On the other hand, I would be happy to use 30-year-old wheat grain that has been stored in a moisture-proof bucket in a temperature-controlled storage room if there are no signs of insect infestation. If the freshly milled flour made from that old wheat looks right and smells right, it should be good for baking bread and making pie crusts and pasta. And I can always compost that old grain if it produces rancid flour.

[@victorialg1270]

Actually I found this fun. One because I knew I was not inhaling any toxic bacteria. Thanks for taking one for the team.

[@danaborealis]

Great video. Thanks!

[@DesertDweller74]

OH MY GOODNESS! You two are brave! LOL! If something smelled really off, that would be the end of the experiment for me! So, I have many cans and mylar bags full of foods stored since 2008. They are in a storage unit that has been in extreme heat and quite cold. It will certainly be interesting to open them up and do this "sniff test". 😬

[@smadden911]

Oh gosh..too funny! Kudos to you both for even trying!!

[@BruceForster-k9n]

GREAT VIDEO! Something I could really "sink my teeth into" lol!

[@ker4all]

You guys ROCK! Thank you, keep staying real.

[@wendydriggs1539]

The looks on your faces was the best part! LOL. People ask all the time how they can know if something is too old. It is easy to know by look, smell and if you are still in doubt, take a taste.

[@generic53]

I think I would stay far away from ANY breakfast named, "#2."

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

LOL!! It smelled a bit like #2 for sure!

[@davidhawkins847]

That's probably from the 70s. The orange drink is most likely Tang which was very popular at that time. Especially in the hiking scene. I can't remember if Rossmoor was a competitor or became mountain house. The idea of freeze drying was just getting started so there were ingredients like the oil that were not long term. It was marketed more for the weight savings for camping at the time. This was also a period when isobutane stoves were just coming onto the market.

[@derr2438]

So funny Kylene! My sniffer is highly sensitive (maybe it makes up for my poor, partial eyesight, sigh) and a handful of times I have snatched food from my better half's hands, en route to his mouth, saying "Don't eat that!" I could smell the rancidity from afar. Must've been something that fell in the back of a shelf years ago. We used to live right next to Van Nuys and passed Richmoor daily. Back then I packed PBJ etc. for our camping/hiking trips. Richmoor and Mountain House were much too expensive for us back in the early '80s, and from what you showed, I am glad we never bought those foods.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

They were probably much better when they were fresh. Jonathan would always go for a PBJ :)

[@poodledaddles1091]

I discovered a jar of my mom’s apple butter that was 30 years old. It was very dark and “cinnamony “ the texture was somewhat thick and and sticky. It tasted quite fine, if I needed food i would have eaten it.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Wow!

[@donnashomeplacetn4089]

I just hope there are antibiotics in your preps. The thought of sniffing that stuff makes me feel a sinus infection coming on. Thanks for this reminder. I went through a lot of my items this past winter and some of them made it to the compost pile. The worms are well fed now. I have recommended your videos to my friends and family. Y'all are awesome.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Thanks!

[@judyofthewoods]

I made some raspberry syrup back in the early 80s and gave a bottle to my mother. It had a phenolic screw lid (glass medicine bottle) and I drizzled some wax into the edge of the lid to give a better seal. My mother was quite sentimental and kept it until she had to go into a nursing home 30 years later. She gave me the bottle back and I opened it to see if it was still OK. It had lost some colour, but it was still fine. Made a soda drink with it, and no bad taste or ill effect. Now it's been sitting in my cupboard for another ten years, lol. Time to have another look.

[@organizedchaoslife]

I know this was a painful experiment for you all this time, but it gave me a good laugh. 😂 Thanks for that...and a great reminder as to why to rotate food storage!

[@villiehaizlip7626]

You have brave hearts for doing that!

[@philw7174]

Interesting video, thank you Jonathan and Kylene. That false sense of security that you spoke about is important to know. I have some 40 year old MRE's that I am afraid to test. Hey, here's a thought, you can try these also! Pfff! After watching this video, I am going to toss them. Happy trails!

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

How about you open them and send us a video to post? It would make great content. Then I won't have to smell them! It would be interesting to see how they aged.

[@donnad4264]

I definitely need to focus on items i sealed last year

[@lizadivine3785]

My Chinese made vaccum sealer bags fail…a lot.

[@leslieg9406]

I don't have any really old food, maybe some rice mixes with BB dates of 2020? But this was really fun to watch! I'm just glad I couldn't smell any of these. 🤣

[@shaneroberts9466]

I have a fully sealed MRE from my military days from the late 80's, and a limited edition can of spam from an unknown date. Not intending to eat, only nostalgic, but would be interesting opening both some day.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Take pictures for us if you ever do!! That would be very interesting.

[@ashlaunicaalpari4584]

Videos like these are important cause I don’t think people realize some dangers associated to long term food storage. For example, I see tons of people stocking cans and cans of tomato, tomato sauces etc, meanwhile it’s been proven acids in tomato degrade metal packaging and leads to cancer. Just imagine the cancer laden leaching after 10 plus yrs of storage. It’s great to stockpile and prepare but it sucks just to die from the foods we’re trying to store FOR survival.

[@theimperfectpantry5936]

Lots of good information. I didn’t see oxygen absorbers, and if it was in a garage for decades, there were huge temperature fluctuations. So glad you didn’t taste it!😅

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

You are absolutely correct about the temperature fluctuations in the garage. It was actually in her basement fruit room for most of the time and only in the garage for a little while.

[@NicoleHoltActress]

That video made me giggle. One thing after another: First there's hope, then there's trash. :)

[@janicehavens1395]

The cake the oils probably went rancid.

[@jaydeemarie]

Thanks for this video. My husband & I have been together for 30 years next month, he came with some fd food lol I think it is time to open a can or two and see what lurks inside!

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Congratulations!!

[@amishatheart47]

My family eats through my storage crazy, so that isn't a problem. But my parents had jars of canned food from when I was in 4-H and I graduated out in 1985. I discovered this in 2014. Not only that, but my mom had saved jars with food in it where the seals were broken, and the food was visibly molding, and she was eating it! Needless to say, when they moved to AZ and left all the food to us, I emptied jars and threw out all the jars of food, frozen meat that was also from the mid-1980s and so forth. There was even a cooked roast in a down stairs refrigerator that had mold growing out of the pot that was thrown out, pot and all. By the end of the week, everything was sanitized, and smelled better. That was worse than finding in my mom's cupboard items she was using in food from when my grandma died in 1977- mainly spices, sugar and baking powder- no wonder everything tasted like metal.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Oh my!

[@julesf.]

Y'all are incredibly brave to do these experiments, but I thank you immensely for showing people why regularly checking and rotating your preps is so important.

[@marygallagher3428]

Ick! Good video to encourage food storage rotation ;-)

[@nessasnook]

You all are way gutsier than me. Hopefully you fully sterilized those containers when done. That food looked crazy and it probably didnt help it was in the heat of the garage. Great video!

[@janicehavens1395]

Considering its probably over 30 yrs old you can't really expect it to be good. The quality of mylar30 years ago is not what we have now.

[@generic53]

Are these freeze dried or dehydrated? Using your age estimation based on when barcodes where introduced, these FAR exceed the expiration of even those 25 year freeze dried meals.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

I'm not sure. I agree!

[@DebbieAndrews3435]

I give my old food storage to the provident Prepper. Haha

[@misterdaycare]

I became a SamAndy dealer in 2000, but upon trying out a few demo items, I found new labels placed over the old, and some of the plastic bags inside kind of disintegrated when I picked it out of the can. I ended up throwing out the whole lot despite the ok date on the can.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

It is so important to try the food. The false sense of security that storing these things concerns me. Thanks for your comment!

[@mscatnipper2359]

When we adjust one hour ahead or back for daylight savings time where I live, I check all smoke detectors and update/purge my medications and food preps, so I seldom find anything gross. However, I learned recently that fruit juice stored in glass bottles doesn't last as long as I thought it would. (I was ignoring the Best By dates.) The grape and pomegranate juices had lots of sediment at the bottom and didn't taste "right." Also, I was dismayed earlier this year when I discovered moths in my current crop of walnuts from the farmers' market. They were stored in unopened, heavy plastic pouches and should have been stored in glass jars.

[@roddyandbella]

In Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in the 1980’s our troops and camps used Richmoor meal kits and it was the worst under the best conditions! It was the cheapest food and we stopped using it! I thought the company went out of business a long time ago. Backpacker’s Pantry and Mountain House makes better quality food. uality!

[@goofyroofy]

Reminds me more of the MRE channels I watch vs prepping, so kinda like a crossover episode^^ I'd say from the font on the packaging, I'd wager mid70s to early80s for when it was packaged. I see someone commented they were designed for use in camping not storage, and you can kinda see that with the thin mylar-ish but not really mylar packaging. The MRE's of that era were just coming online, and the packaging for those was more robust (obv mil vs civ use). Also guessing since a garage, not temp controlled, I know a lot of the MRE's you can see a difference if theyre temp controlled or not for how they store. As far as the numbers stamped on the pouches, I know with MRE's they will often stamp the day month year in some format, so like 17575 for 175th day of 1975, so might be info online on what those numbers mean. With MRE's of that era, they're generally edible, but obv not as fresh tasting as the intended use. Most common items to spoil are the milk powder in cocoa, or other goods, nuts in cakes, brownies, etc. and or broken packaging, you kinda had a twofer with the rancid oil and broken pkg. A good lesson to know what you're putting up and how its built to last, although I'm guessing the previous owner got them for a trip or something and they just never got used. On my front, the dried meat is still A-OK, I'm using supply from Dec 2021, so I seem to be eating it at a rate that keeps it at 1.5-2 yrs out. As far as oldest, potentially funky thing, i have a couple boxes of pancake mix from when i last moved 3 yrs ago, gotta throw them out, cause even though im sure they look fine, the non flour stuff is prob off, and dont eat them anymore, anyway^^. Many Blessings.

[@terribunner1034]

I don’t know if I could have been so calm 😳

[@steve8189]

Just a thought - you had stated a service project involving a garage. Garage's get HOT which could be the ruin of food?

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Yes but this was actually brought up from the basement store room.

[@steve8189]

@@TheProvidentPrepper Thanks for the clarification

[@BruceForster-k9n]

The drink mixes will not dissolve because the sugar is old and has gone BAD! Also, very similarly to the Bisquick and Cake Mixes, Sugar can undergo chemical changes and become Toxic as well. I'm sticking with good Ole Beans and Rice in Vacuum Seal Bags & Oxygen Absorbers!

[@generic53]

I think I'm gonna HURL. 🤮

[@Undercoverbooks]

Someone gave me a sealed bucket of wheat that was about forty years old. I put it in my basement...about twenty years ago. So now it's about sixty. I have never opened it. It might still be good for sprouting...after all, they've sprouted grain found in ancient Egyptian tombs...but I suspect it will just go into the composter eventually. Maybe not even that...

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

I'd love to see if it sprouts!

[@miloontheready7814]

I am so glad modern foods are stored with oxygen absorbers. It is quite apparent that Oxygen Absorbers have had a great impact on the longevity of the foods.

[@droidian]

You kids are funny. kek I guess we have to wonder if it was stored in a cool dry place for all of those years. I think NOT. Or if that would even have made any difference. Was it vacuum packed? Freeze dried? I don't have a system for rotating just yet, but I will eventually. Tx 4 the vid. Good stuff.

[@tinkerbell9396]

🤢 it's puffy 😖. 🤔 No thank you, I'll pass. I do appreciate the science behind all of this.

[@roxannespragg1557]

Food storage has come a long way since then... This was obviously not for extended food storage which is 30 plus years... Always rotate, and use your food storage...

[@k.p.1139]

Oh, I could tell you stories! Cleaning out 2 of my Aunts homes. Home canned foods, that if they didn't have the name written on them, you would think it was ALL blackberry jelly. When it was thrown out, they were horrified at the wasting of food. Umm, you canned this "ground beef" in 1999- 20+ years ago. When we asked why didn't you use it? They said, it's for a rainy day. Being prepare isn't a one stop shopping "thing", it's always keeping your lamps full, and your wicks trimmed. The cost of food is still on the rise, while the packages continue to shrink. That sounds like a rainy day to me! Maybe I should plant a few more seeds. If it's bountiful, then I can preserve more, and bless my neighbors as well. Our reasoning has been tainted with a dash of this, and a sprinkle of that, to where we don't know that it's POURING- right now!

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Absolutely pouring!

[@jacktough]

Chalk one up for more modern vacuum packaging, freeze-drying, etc.! 🤢

[@srice6231]

You are brave! I would want to throw away the dishes also! So gross!!!

[@whydoyoucare27]

Not sure if those could contain botulism of not, but if they can, you don't want those spores all over your body or your home. Yikes!

[@fahinahigby1152]

I had a number 10 can of peach drink from the LDS church. That will tell you how old it was cuz they stopped selling peach drink years ago. I opened it up and it was black. So it went into the trash! YULK!

[@Fredhig11465]

Can you do one on frozen meat?

[@Dan-bj1cz]

So your saying that the food that supposed to last 25 year’s really don’t?

[@breheaton4758]

Hello bro.sis.have a Lord bless life.thanks for demo..potatoes an onions worst stinky,s.coco that look yummy..if package right.should be ok.we no more today,then our people of yesterday..I still say using jars is the best way..hugs,an stay strong out there.jesus love you.hugs

[@breheaton4758]

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[@g-whiz286]

Oh come on you guys! Everyone knows that Richmoor foods are basically fat-free. You've got to put down some kind of fat on the griddle before you put the food on or everything will stick. Richmoor used to provide a little plastic bottle of something called Vegalene in every meal bag.

[@PreppingAngel]

Those packs weren't meant for long term storage. It was for backpacks for hiking, camping etc. Katadyn, well-known for its water filters, is adding food to its camp kitchen in North America.The North American wholly-owned subsidiary of the Swiss brand announced Friday it is acquiring the dehydrated and freeze-dried food brands Natural High, Richmoor, AlpineAire and Gourmet Reserves from TyRy Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will broaden Katadyn North American’s camp kitchen portfolio, which also includes Optimus Stoves that it purchased in 2007. Idk what happened from there. Maybe they closed the brand. I can find apple slices still available online.

[@miked5728]

Didn't your mom ever tell you "Don't play with your food" ???? Come on, take a little taste!!! Do it for science !!!!! 😂🤣😆

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Not a chance!

[@ctbrodie]

Food preservation techniques used to be pretty awful so that the food would be ok to eat but would taste awful. I don't mind powdered eggs now but they sure used to taste pretty bad. Not that I would want eat your samples. 😊

[@claratarver3138]

I would be afraid it would contaminate tje air

[@OffgridVictory]

The key for me is to store wheat berries and honey for over 25 years and freeze dried foods for 10 years. Thanks 🤢

[@JanuaryLisa]

Made the mistake of sitting down to lunch while watching this. 🤢 😆 🤢

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

I am so sorry!

[@JanuaryLisa]

@@TheProvidentPrepper it's ok, I love to eat so much I quickly got over it, haha! 😄

[@maryjane-vx4dd]

When in doubt, throw it out

[@lostinvictory8526]

I think if you want food you can buy, store and forget, then go for whole wheat stored in mylar with oxygen absorbers and put in a vermin proof container.

[@robininva]

…..made from imitation pigs. LOL😂

[@123gwilco]

Looks like a science project gone seriously wrong. I would have used only disposable spoons and measuring cups and not the dishes/utensils I may eat in/with later.

[@lisasproject]

I wonder if it was in metal cans, would it still be good. Makes me want to open some. 😂😢

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

We have that metal square can that also came with the gift. We will be opening it in a few weeks after my nose recovers!

[@snort5203]

Don’t feed it to the Raccoons!

[@sar4x474]

I think y’all should have been wearing PPE for this video. Yikes!

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

I completely agree!

[@kathym2501]

Alaska Prepper got some 40 year old number 10 cans of food that was still good. But your old stuff I don't think so .