Low carb storage food?

In article <[email hidden]>,

Sam said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

Hmm, canned other stuff too? Tuna, chicken, other vegetables. Beef
jerky.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Sam said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

Beef jerky!

Home made is best as a lot of commercial ones tend to add sugar.

Pick up a dehydrator.

Canned or dry black soy beans are also good.
Canned chicken or tuna, as well as other canned meats work well too.

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

Sam said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

On my bicycle camping trips, I consume low carb dried foods. I dry most
of the foods myself with a Walmart $39.95 dehydrator.

Dried vegetables ---
Fresh or frozen brocolli, dehydrated
frozen mixed veggies, dehydrated
dehydrated cauliflower (as fake mashed potatos)
sun dried tomatos
Freeze dried mushrooms (Sam's Club)

Fruit---
fruit rolls
Rasins
dried apricots

Meats---
Hamburger, cooked/hot water rinsed/dehydrated on paper towels
Dried luncheon meats (hard to get the fat off)

Packaged Meats, commercial
Tuna, in foil packs
Salmon, in foil packs
Hamburger, in foil packs (almost impossible to find and very expensive)
small tins of meat products
Various "Hard Salami" or "Summer Sausage" products

Hard cheeses
Dried cheeses

There are some fairly nice books on dried foods, either by those who
simply like dehydrators or by backpackers who like good tasting food
rather than the standard freeze dried expensive stuff.

"Trail Foods"

"The Back-country Kitchen"

Look them up at Amazon.com

Jim

--
1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplimental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

jbuch said:

Sam said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a
two week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

You can prepare pasta (including Dreamfields Low Carb) and then
dehydrate the fully prepared product. It rehydrates easily into edible
past in cool water in half an hour (and warm it up in a minute), or with
hot water it is ready in minutes.

You can dehydrate cooked canned foods:
Edan Black Soy Beans
..... anything else.

They too rehydrate quickly.

Quoted message said:

On my bicycle camping trips, I consume low carb dried foods. I dry most
of the foods myself with a Walmart $39.95 dehydrator.

Dried vegetables ---
Fresh or frozen brocolli, dehydrated
frozen mixed veggies, dehydrated
dehydrated cauliflower (as fake mashed potatos)
sun dried tomatos
Freeze dried mushrooms (Sam's Club)

Fruit---
fruit rolls
Rasins
dried apricots

Meats---
Hamburger, cooked/hot water rinsed/dehydrated on paper towels
Dried luncheon meats (hard to get the fat off)

Packaged Meats, commercial
Tuna, in foil packs
Salmon, in foil packs
Hamburger, in foil packs (almost impossible to find and very expensive)
small tins of meat products
Various "Hard Salami" or "Summer Sausage" products

Hard cheeses
Dried cheeses

There are some fairly nice books on dried foods, either by those who
simply like dehydrators or by backpackers who like good tasting food
rather than the standard freeze dried expensive stuff.

"Trail Foods"

"The Back-country Kitchen"

Look them up at Amazon.com

Jim

--
1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplimental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

In article <[email hidden]>,

Sam said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

Canned black soy beans. Canned tuna and other meats.

Priscilla

Sam said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

Since you used canned beans as your example, want the
storage to be dry not the food to be dry, right? So
there's no need to stick with jerky, nuts and leathery
dried low carb veggies and expensive vacuum sealed
freeze dried. I think of my disaster preparedness
stock as a simple answer. Canning was invented in
the time of Napoleon (he held a contest with a huge
prize) for long term food storage so a disaster
preparedness stock will be mostly canned goods:

Canned meats - there is a large selection in any grocery.
Beef (from Argentina not Brazil if available), chicken,
turkey, fin fish (tuna, salmon, sardine, mackerel),
shell fish (clam, oyster, crab). Other processed meats
like spam, treet, vienna sausage and so on.

Canned veggies - there are far more options than just
canned green beans even though most of the canned veggies
are carby. Yellow beans, asparugus, sauerkraut, spinach,
you name it. About a third of the types of canned veggies
are low carb and depending on how carby you're willing
to go it can be as much as half of the non-potato cans
with types of beans that are canned straight.

Bottled water - lasts well past the point where it
merely tastes nasty from the plastic.

When we lived in Los Angeles we kept an earthquake
preparedness closet stocked with a couple of boxes of
canned good, a couple of cases of water, a first aid kit,
candles and oil lamps. It would not have taken much
effort to switch all of the canned veggies to low carb.
I made a point of cycling one of the boxes of canned
and a case of bottled water back into my regular
shelves to keep them from getting old. Now here in
Chicago there are similar stocks in our shelves in the
garage without a specific shake-proof closet enclosure.

Then on to stuff that could be stored but that I
don't generally consider DR/DP stock:

Dairy - cheeses were first invented to preserve milk.
The softer the cheese the shorter the shelf life so
think at least an uncut round of some named type of
cheese. If you select a cheese hard enough that it needs
to be grated not sliced it will last a year not just a
couple of weeks.

Eggs - eggs keep two weeks without refrigeration. Likely
not what you had in mind to put into an emergency larder
but if you have an extended power failure just pull the
eggs out and they will keep for a while. Powdered eggs
would be an option when you can find them but yuck not
until there's a real emergency as far as I'm concerned.

Dried sausage - salami, pepperoni, ham types, beef summer
sausage, pemmican.

When camping I tended to take such low-tech foods. A
couple rounds of cheese, several sticks of salami, a flat
of eggs. The fact that most of the camping I've ever
done has been with anachronistic groups left me not
included to take the high-tech stuff.

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:56:14 -0400, "Sam" <[email hidden]> Huffed and
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Quoted message said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

don't forget that low-carb is also a matter of portion control. so
when buying canned goods and the item is a moderate to high carb item
look for the mini cans that serve one.

Then you won't be tempted to eat the whole can so as to avoid left
overs or throwing anything out.

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President, or that we are to stand by the President
right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public."
....Theodore Roosevelt

(o o)
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half as well as I should like;
and I like less than half of you
half as well as you deserve."

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"Sam" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two

week

Quoted message said:

dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

Canned or pouch fish, canned ham, chicken, corned beef or turkey (watch for
added sugar though), bottled asparagus spears (the pickled ones still have
crunch!), dill pickles, protein powder, Kraft cheese sticks, dried green
beans, marinated antipasta selections (roasted peppers, aubergine, semi
dried tomatoes, olives, mushrooms etc), canned mushrooms, some of the
prepared stews such as braised steak & onion or chilli con carne can also be
reasonably low carb (read your labels). Basically take some time to browse
through the canned goods aisle and read some labels, you'd be surprised!
I put together a 2 week supply with our 'emergency kit' in the panic after
9/11 when we were urged to take precautions in case of a terror attack and
was surprised at how much in the way of long shelf life LC I could actually
find.

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Quoted message said:

don't forget that low-carb is also a matter of portion control. so
when buying canned goods and the item is a moderate to high carb item
look for the mini cans that serve one.

Then you won't be tempted to eat the whole can so as to avoid left
overs or throwing anything out.

Good advice.

OTOH; if you're in a survival situation, I'd submit that the number and
amount of carbs is going to be relatively low on the list of things that
matter. I'd favor a storage food mix geared towards longevity, nutrition,
and variety (trust me, a couple of days eating the same "rations" gets old
fast).

Remember, you can always go back to your LC ways when the survival aspect of
the reason for eating that food goes away...(:-o)!

DustyB
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Edison, or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has been tested and
proved impracticable."- New York Times, Jan 1, 1880; as wrong as they are
today.

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Quoted message said:

"Ma¢k" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

don't forget that low-carb is also a matter of portion control. so
when buying canned goods and the item is a moderate to high carb item
look for the mini cans that serve one.

Then you won't be tempted to eat the whole can so as to avoid left
overs or throwing anything out.

Good advice.

OTOH; if you're in a survival situation, I'd submit that the number and
amount of carbs is going to be relatively low on the list of things that
matter. I'd favor a storage food mix geared towards longevity, nutrition,
and variety (trust me, a couple of days eating the same "rations" gets old
fast).

Remember, you can always go back to your LC ways when the survival aspect of
the reason for eating that food goes away...(:-o)!

DustyB

in a survival situation where cooking and storing unused foods becomes
part of the equation portion dcontrol becomes even more important.

--
Mâck©®
Type 1 since 1975
http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org
http://www.diabetic-talk.org
http://www.insulin-pumpers.org

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the
President, or that we are to stand by the President
right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public."
....Theodore Roosevelt

(o o)
--ooO-(_)-Ooo--------------------

"I don't know half of you
half as well as I should like;
and I like less than half of you
half as well as you deserve."

Jesus never hated anyone.

"Dusty Bleher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

OTOH; if you're in a survival situation, I'd submit that the number and
amount of carbs is going to be relatively low on the list of things that
matter. I'd favor a storage food mix geared towards longevity, nutrition,
and variety (trust me, a couple of days eating the same "rations" gets old
fast).

Remember, you can always go back to your LC ways when the survival aspect

of

Quoted message said:

the reason for eating that food goes away...(:-o)!

This is very true. When I was living in NY, we had a power outage during
the summer that lasted for several days. Then even after the power came
back on, our food supply was limited because the stores all lost their fresh
and frozen foods as well and they hadn't restocked.

Luckily I had just been to the grocery store and was in the middle of
putting away the food when the power went off. We were able to eat some of
the refrigerated stuff that didn't require cooking for a day or two. After
that, when the high temperatures we had, I had to throw the rest away.

We soon became miserable in the high heat with no way of cooling off. Even
the water coming from the tap was warm. We sucked down a ton of warm,
bottled water. Yes, we could have used tap water, but the water where we
lived looked a bit suspect and we preferred not to drink it.

After the first meal or two, I didn't feel much like eating at all.
Everyone was hot, cranky and miserable and there was no end to this in
sight. At first, we had peanut butter sandwiches with the bread I had just
bought. But that bread soon went moldy in the heat. That left crackers
that could be eaten with peanut butter or little wedges of locally made
cheese. It wasn't the tastiest stuff, but it came in individually wrapped
wedges and had a shelf life of a year or so without needing refrigeration.
I wasn't really doing low carb at this point, but if I needed to cut back,
I'd have just one piece of bread or a cracker or two with a lot of protein
on it.

I also had a few packages of those little tuna salad things with crackers.
Had some nuts. Had beef jerky. Sometimes ate condensed soup straight from
the can. Not necessarily the most tasty thing, but I remember my biology
teacher telling me that it was a good emergency food. Mostly I ate canned
vegetables such as green beans. I bought a lot of little cans with pop
tops. We also had some stuff like boxes of raisins and fruit snacks.

With the high heat, the main concern was staying hydrated. Water was more
important to us than food. Luckily I had bought several cases of bottled
water. I remember drinking and drinking and eating only enough food to keep
me from going hypo.

In other types of emergency situations, you might be much more active than
usual. So it would pay to keep some carb rich food as well, just in case
you need it!

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in a survival situation where cooking and storing unused foods becomes
part of the equation portion dcontrol becomes even more important.

Maybe, but I suppose that depends on the situation. If you knew the
situation was to be short lived, then having high BG for a day or two would
be tolerable. But the main concern for many of us would be prevention of
hypos. You don't want to be fainting in an emergency situation.

My high school science class made the local newspaper when they went on a
camping trip that went awry. I didn't go because I had to work. But I
heard about it on the news. One silly girl took along a ton of makeup,
several changes of clothing, and an electric hairdryer, even though they had
been told they would be in total wilderness with no bathrooms or
conveniences for the weekend. She could not keep up with the others because
of all the stuff she was hauling. She also failed to tell the teacher that
she suffered from reactive hypoglycemia.

The teacher got word that a bad storm was coming their way and they needed
to turn around immediately and head back. They started to do so when the
girl had a hypo. Not only did she faint, but she got injured as she went
down. She couldn't walk. The teacher had to make a decision fast! He sent
the two most experienced hikers on to find a cabin they had passed in the
hopes of getting help.

Meanwhile, the rest of the class became stranded as the rain came and the
low ground they were on got flooded. Luckily, the two boys made it to the
cabin and were able to get help. But the stranded class was running out of
food. They had brought enough food with them for two days, but not quite
enough for a third day. And then there was the injured, hypoglycemic girl.
The others had to make sure she got enough to eat first before they took a
few bites.

The teacher gave us quite a lecture after that. Mainly he mentioned the way
the girl had packed her backpack. She took along anything and everything
she thought she might possibly need, but not a scrap of food.

I know now to take some food along with me wherever I go! Some people think
this is silly, but for a diabetic, it's vital. My husband and his friend
once took a day hike near the same area where my biology class had gotten
stranded. They had packed a lunch, but nothing else. I was worried that
they didn't have enough food and insisted that they take some power bars
along that I had bought for them. They weren't going to take them, but I
sneaked them into one of their backpacks.

Sure enough as they got high enough up into the mountains, they discovered
it was snowing. And foolishly they continued on, thinking this was just a
brief, passing storm. But no. The higher they climbed, the worse trouble
they got in. They were not dressed for snow and they soon became exhausted.
Sitting there in the cold didn't help. The sun began to set and they ran
out of energy. At that point, they were very glad I had put those power
bars. They said they tasted really awful, but they did provide them enough
energy to get back down the mountain before hypothermia set in.

Neither of them have diabetes. But just imagine if they did! I don't think
I'd want to.

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Pasta is not low carb.

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"jbuch" <jbuch@CUT_HERE.revealed.net> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

jbuch said:

Sam said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two
week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

You can prepare pasta (including Dreamfields Low Carb) and then dehydrate
the fully prepared product. It rehydrates easily into edible past in cool
water in half an hour (and warm it up in a minute), or with hot water it
is ready in minutes.

You can dehydrate cooked canned foods:
Edan Black Soy Beans
.... anything else.

They too rehydrate quickly.

Quoted message said:

On my bicycle camping trips, I consume low carb dried foods. I dry most
of the foods myself with a Walmart $39.95 dehydrator.

Dried vegetables ---
Fresh or frozen brocolli, dehydrated
frozen mixed veggies, dehydrated
dehydrated cauliflower (as fake mashed potatos)
sun dried tomatos
Freeze dried mushrooms (Sam's Club)

Fruit---
fruit rolls
Rasins
dried apricots

Meats---
Hamburger, cooked/hot water rinsed/dehydrated on paper towels
Dried luncheon meats (hard to get the fat off)

Packaged Meats, commercial
Tuna, in foil packs
Salmon, in foil packs
Hamburger, in foil packs (almost impossible to find and very expensive)
small tins of meat products
Various "Hard Salami" or "Summer Sausage" products

Hard cheeses
Dried cheeses

There are some fairly nice books on dried foods, either by those who
simply like dehydrators or by backpackers who like good tasting food
rather than the standard freeze dried expensive stuff.

"Trail Foods"

"The Back-country Kitchen"

Look them up at Amazon.com

Jim

--
1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplimental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

JC Der Koenig said:

Pasta is not low carb.

Robotic reply, no intelligence required.

--
1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplimental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

Stuffing pasta down your throat while claiming to be on a low carb diet
indicates no intelligence.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW

"jbuch" <jbuch@CUT_HERE.revealed.net> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

JC Der Koenig said:

Pasta is not low carb.

Robotic reply, no intelligence required.

--
1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplimental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

Sam said:

Most of my diet is fresh or frozen food, but I would like to make a two week
dry storage of low carb foods. Any suggestions... besides canned green
beans?

I keep a minimum of a months food and water supply, but many of my
items are from before my diabetes diagnosis, so not low carb.
Therefor, I'm presently rebuilding my stocks with low-carb items, and
have a few suggestions:

Beef jerky
dehydrated eggs
canned soups that aren't too high in carbs (check labels)
Soy based low-carb pasta (beware of dreamfields; it acts as high-carb
for some people)
Nuts of most any kind
dried fruits (to be eaten in small portions, as they are high-carb)
low-carb meal replacement shakes

I'll be reading the rest of this thread for other ideas, thanks for
posting!

JC Der Koenig said:

Stuffing pasta down your throat while claiming to be on a

low carb

Quoted message said:

diet indicates no intelligence.

There is stuffing and there is eating a small quantity. A
slice of pumpkin or a whole pumpkin?

Your weight indicates stuffing.

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"Ozgirl" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

JC Der Koenig said:

Stuffing pasta down your throat while claiming to be on a

low carb

Quoted message said:

diet indicates no intelligence.

There is stuffing and there is eating a small quantity. A
slice of pumpkin or a whole pumpkin?

JC Der Koenig said:

Your weight indicates stuffing.

My weight? Sorry precious, at 5'7" and 62 kg, I don't think
I have a problem.

Quoted message said:

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Quoted message said:

JC Der Koenig said:

Stuffing pasta down your throat while claiming to be on

a low carb

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

diet indicates no intelligence.

There is stuffing and there is eating a small quantity. A
slice of pumpkin or a whole pumpkin?