Food Rice Shortage

[nomifyle]

India is not exporting rice this year, California's rice crop is seriously struggling and so on.

How much rice do you have stored? I don't mean for you to say how much. just a heads up on do you have enough. Its still in the stores.

Personally, we are not rice eaters, DH doesn't really like rice and I just don't eat it. We are not really potato eaters either, but we don't dislike them.

I have enough rice so we could each eat about a cup a day for awhile. I also have long term food storage that has rice in it. I've never tasted it, just never wanted to open a #10 can of it to sample, probably a mistake on my part. I probably spent way to much money on LTF storage several years ago.

How much rice do you have?

 

[kelee877]

Lots and lots..only me and the dog now so enough to do us for couple years

 

[patriotgal]

Prob more than I need. Had to throw out 2 bags recently. They were left unattended in the shop and were one buggy mess.

 

[packyderms_wife]

India is not exporting rice this year, California's rice crop is seriously struggling and so on.

How much rice do you have stored? I don't mean for you to say how much. just a heads up on do you have enough. Its still in the stores.

Personally, we are not rice eaters, DH doesn't really like rice and I just don't eat it. We are not really potato eaters either, but we don't dislike them.

I have enough rice so we could each eat about a cup a day for awhile. I also have long term food storage that has rice in it. I've never tasted it, just never wanted to open a #10 can of it to sample, probably a mistake on my part. I probably spent way to much money on LTF storage several years ago.

How much rice do you have?

There was a thread about this here about a month or so ago, stocked up when I read the news. It might be in the bomb shelter, but not 100% on that one.

 

[psychgirl]

Not enough.

We eat rice maybe 1-2 weekly, but I’ll get more!

 

[Hfcomms]

How much rice do you have?

Close to 500# in 5 gallon buckets and still have a few #30 Uncle Ben's still in the bag. Mine all goes back to Y2K. Being white rice it will keep forever if you keep the critters out. I used to eat a lot of rice but as I'm getting older I've been cutting way back on starches and between the storage rice and potatoes it's hundreds and hundreds of pounds. If I don't use it I surmise I'll have hungry neighbors if I can figure out a way to get it over to them without them knowing it came from me.

 

[nomifyle]

Prob more than I need. Had to throw out 2 bags recently. They were left unattended in the shop and were one buggy mess.

I had some rice that got bugs in it, I wrote dog rice on the bags and put it in a bucket for her if I run out of dog food.

 

[kyrsyan]

Ironically, more than we need. I am no longer able to eat it. And we have been slowly reducing the amount my son eats, and changing it to brown basmati rice, because he has a kidney issue that is a definitive pre-marker for diabetes. So what I had put back is slowly getting worked through. None of the white rice will be replaced. The brown basmati will, in lower amounts.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Close to 500# in 5 gallon buckets and still have a few #30 Uncle Ben's still in the bag. Mine all goes back to Y2K. Being white rice it will keep forever if you keep the critters out. I used to eat a lot of rice but as I'm getting older I've been cutting way back on starches and between the storage rice and potatoes it's hundreds and hundreds of pounds. If I don't use it I surmise I'll have hungry neighbors if I can figure out a way to get it over to them without them knowing it came from me.

white rice will go rancid eventually!

 

[Loretta Van Riet]

Prob more than I need. Had to throw out 2 bags recently. They were left unattended in the shop and were one buggy mess.

My grandmother would have me shake it through various sifters. She said don't worry, it's going to be boiled!

She was born in Ireland in 1880 and reminded me often about what it was like not to have enough food. She was the youngest of 13 children!

 

[bassaholic]

We have rice sacks we buy from Costco and just keep them in original packaging.

It seems that they can easily last a couple years as long as they are in the house.

Though, after about a year we donate them to the homeless shelter and restock. Just to have a fresh batch.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

We have a ton of white rice in storage for us and another ton out in Cary's shop stored just for our dog in the fridge out there. All rice. So far, it's all still good even though it's a few years old. We eat a lot of rice and potatoes, so I keep what I have stored for us rotated and bug proofed.

 

[skwentnaflyer]

My grandmother would have me shake it through various sifters. She said don't worry, it's going to be boiled!

She was born in Ireland in 1880 and reminded me often about what it was like not to have enough food. She was the youngest of 13 children!

My mother was the same way with the flour. We'd buy sacks of white and whole wheat, but we kids didn't like the whole wheat bread, so we would carry on about it. Mom would use up the white flour first, then switch to the whole wheat, which of course had bugs in it by then. We never did figure out that we should have shut up and eaten the whole wheat first

 

[Hfcomms]

white rice will go rancid eventually!

I've never seen it. A lot of it is in the mylar bags in the buck with nitrogen put in but I have a lot of free standing rice in bags and the oldest are 1998 and it still cooks up just fine. Now brown rice doesn't keep very long as the bran does go rancid but I have yet to see white rice do it.

 

[packyderms_wife]

I've never seen it. A lot of it is in the mylar bags in the buck with nitrogen put in but I have a lot of free standing rice in bags and the oldest are 1998 and it still cooks up just fine. Now brown rice doesn't keep very long as the bran does go rancid but I have yet to see white rice do it.

I had a 25 pound bag of white jasmine rice go off. curious as to which rice you are storing for long term.

 

[WalknTrot]

Enough. And in #10 cans so it will last a long time. Rice is always there for a filler or side in soup, hot dishes, ethnic dishes but in a shortage, people can shift carb sources. Wheat, corn, potatoes, oats, barley, etc.

Don't really see it as a problem here. We will produce enough or get it if we need it.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

,I've never seen it. A lot of it is in the mylar bags in the buck with nitrogen put in but I have a lot of free standing rice in bags and the oldest are 1998 and it still cooks up just fine. Now brown rice doesn't keep very long as the bran does go rancid but I have yet to see white rice do it.

Same here. None of mine is in mylar, either, just jars and big jugs. I'm using rice that is at least 3 years old. I think that's the oldest, though. Mine is just plain ole white rice. For long term storage, we have Mountain House meals in #10 cans by the case that have rice in them, too.

 

[greysage]

Shortages and shortages.

 

[Hfcomms]

I had a 25 pound bag of white jasmine rice go off. curious as to which rice you are storing for long term.

Plain white rice. The vast majority of it was the Uncle Ben's rice in the paper #30 bags and I transferred most of them to the 5 gallon buckets with mylar and N2. But a few of the buckets are just the rice without the mylar and even have a couple of bags of the Uncle Ben's that I never transferred and just left in the bag and the bag I'm using now does go back to 2000. So 22 years isn't too bad.

Of course I'm in the U.P. with cold winters and fairly warm summers but the humidity usually doesn't get out of line. Kept in an outside storage shed which can get quite warm inside in the summer though.

 

[Hfcomms]

Same here. None of mine is in mylar, either, just jars and big jugs. I'm using rice that is at least 3 years old. I think that's the oldest, though. Mine is just plain ole white rice. For long term storage, we have Mountain House meals in #10 cans by the case that have rice in them, too.

That is kind of my plan as well. Rice is a great filler and you can use a rice base and put less mountain house on the top of it and use your spices and you could really stretch your dehydrated foods with the rice. And hey, starch isn't ideal but during stressful times you need a lot of calories.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

That is kind of my plan as well. Rice is a great filler and you can use a rice base and put less mountain house on the top of it and use your spices and you could really stretch your dehydrated foods with the rice. And hey, starch isn't ideal but during stressful times you need a lot of calories.

In a SHTF event, I don't think anyone is going to be counting calories. We will need all we can get for the work that we'll be doing. There won't be any just "sitting around twiddling our thumbs" watching videos all day, I don't think. Our lives will be totally different. Some more so than others.

 

[packyderms_wife]

That is kind of my plan as well. Rice is a great filler and you can use a rice base and put less mountain house on the top of it and use your spices and you could really stretch your dehydrated foods with the rice. And hey, starch isn't ideal but during stressful times you need a lot of calories.

Mountain house? Yeah, not in this house!

 

[nomifyle]

I opened a can of basmati white rice a while back that had been stored in a clean paint can with o2s for several years and it was pristine. Other rice from the grocery store is stored in mylar in buckets with 02s or vacuum sealed in canning jars. There will probably be plenty left long after we are gone.

 

[Kathy in WV]

Prob more than I need. Had to throw out 2 bags recently. They were left unattended in the shop and were one buggy mess.

I'm not throwing out anything that can be dual purpose. I can cook it outside and supplement the chickens. They won't care!

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

India is not exporting rice this year, California's rice crop is seriously struggling and so on.

How much rice do you have stored? I don't mean for you to say how much. just a heads up on do you have enough. Its still in the stores.

Personally, we are not rice eaters, DH doesn't really like rice and I just don't eat it. We are not really potato eaters either, but we don't dislike them.

I have enough rice so we could each eat about a cup a day for awhile. I also have long term food storage that has rice in it. I've never tasted it, just never wanted to open a #10 can of it to sample, probably a mistake on my part. I probably spent way to much money on LTF storage several years ago.

How much rice do you have?

Enough for me and my lovely wife to last for awhile.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

white rice will go rancid eventually!

Maybe. But I have used 10 year plus white rice, and I am still here to write about it.

And as somebody already suggested, even if it does get pretty ragged with age, it might still be suitable as chicken feed.

Though I would mix it with a protein source before I fed it to my chickens.

 

[Cag3db1rd]

Oh hell. I didn't even think of saving that buggy bag of rice as pet food. I just chucked it in the bin because I was having to purge a bunch of stuff in my kitchen to spray for roaches. Otherwise, a few hundred #.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

Oh hell. I didn't even think of saving that buggy bag of rice as pet food. I just chucked it in the bin because I was having to purge a bunch of stuff in my kitchen to spray for roaches. Otherwise, a few hundred #.

My chickens would look at the bugs as bonus food. Better than the rice, actually.

 

[helen]

I've eaten thoroughly cooked maggot-infested rice out of necessity. It has a vinegar taste. Not pleasant, not bad enough to barf. Covering the rice in water first helps get the bugs to float, making it possible to skim most of them off. That was when rice was cheap. If times get hard, you may have to do it.