Food how much sugar and salt

[Shooter]

so as a wild example, if someone, NOT ME< really its not me, had 200 pounds of salt, and240 pounds of sugar. this unknown person should be set for most trouble.

 

[nomifyle]

so as a wild example, if someone, NOT ME< really its not me, had 200 pounds of salt, and240 pounds of sugar. this unknown person should be set for most trouble.

that amount would work for us, but we don't have that much

 

[summerthyme]

so as a wild example, if someone, NOT ME< really its not me, had 200 pounds of salt, and240 pounds of sugar. this unknown person should be set for most trouble.

As long as you don't want to make commercial quantities of hooch, you should be set!

Summerthyme

 

[lonestar09]

I just added 4 cannisters of iodine salt and I probably have twice that much. We don't use it though, so I have plenty of pink himilayian salt stored. We don't use much salt though. As for sugar I have about 100 pounds stuck back that DH doesn't know about.

DH uses sugar for what he calls ice cream. He takes three cans of fruit, puts them in the bullet, then he adds sugar and freezes it. He eats it as a snack and also to cool off. I eat a little bit of it, too fattening but it does taste good. When he needs sugar, he has to buy it. I can no longer fund some things for him.

Sugar and salt would be a good thing for barter, but I hesitate to do that, some people around here will have their hand out and have nothing in return. I don't mind that now, but if things are shut down, I would not look too kindly on that.

If you want to use salt or sugar or even pepper for barter, stop by a Sam's and get the paper packs of them that you get from fast food restaurants. Doesnt takenup much space in a ziploc bag to store

 

[lonestar09]

My grandmother used to store salt in the clear half gallon juice bottles, she did that because she didn't want the canning salt boxes to get damaged.

 

[Orion Commander]

salt makes a great trade item - a variety of salt - study up on the various uses and the particular salt for the purpose >>> example: the animal salt blocks will be useful animal draws in a regulations gone post-SHTF ....

something about salt that isn't emphasized enough - salt itself is one of the "forever" preps - but ionized salt deteriorates with it returning to plain old salt ...

Yes, it is still good. I store my salt in plastic bags with the air squeezed out. This helps a lot, and even if it starts to get hard it is easier to break it up.

I store the cardboard salt container in Ziploc bags. Two to a gallon bag. Keeps several years in the basement. When the box gets hard just whack the side with a wood cabbage plunger, rolling pin, or meat mallet. Same treatment for a 4# bag of sugar.

I store the 4oz cans of black pepper the same way.
Manards here sells bags of Himalayan pink salt. Just make sure you use it by the expiration date on the bag. I still haven't figured out how thousands year old salt in the ground has a two year experation date.

 

[Freebirde]

"I still haven't figured out how thousands year old salt in the ground has a two year experation date. "

It's the packaging that has an expiration date.

 

[Millwright]

I always consider the chemicals in plastic and will avoid using it, if possible.

Salt is fairly aggressive chemically.

Will it do funky stuff to the plastic?? Hellifino.

I'd store in glass, just on GPs.

 

[summerthyme]

I always consider the chemicals in plastic and will avoid using it, if possible.

Salt is fairly aggressive chemically.

Will it do funky stuff to the plastic?? Hellifino.

I'd store in glass, just on GPs.

I understand where you're coming from, but if it hardens in a glass jar, you're going to have to either break the jar or give up on the salt. Mylar bags should be non reactive.

Summerthyme

 

[Millwright]

I understand where you're coming from, but if it hardens in a glass jar, you're going to have to either break the jar or give up on the salt. Mylar bags should be non reactive.

Summerthyme

I keep a clean paddle bit for garlic powder that has turned to rock.

 

[nehimama]

That is my go-to answer for many things.

Percussive maintenance.

 

[Kathy in FL]

Please remember, if you plan on doing any amount of food preservation you will likely go through a lot more sugar and salt than you think.

If you plan on baking your own bread and/or making your own sauces/condiments … for that matter any cooking from scratch … and you will likely use quite a bit of salt, sugar, spices, etc than you expect.

If you live in a hot environment where you sweat a lot you’ll need more salt.

Just something to keep in mind.