What foods never expire?

[F22RaptorDude]

Are you just curious or are you considering some long-term food storage?

Planning on it

[Meatwad]

Fruitcake.

[mbailey]

Fruitcake.

To be precise, my motherinlaws fruitcake. If there is ever a nuclear war the things that will remain are....cockroaches.....Keith Richards.......and my mother in laws fruitcake 

[DREDIOCK]

What are some foods that never go bad? I've heard before that honey never expires, and military M.R.E's last about 4-5 years I've read. What are other nutritious foods that have either a long expiration date or none at all?

Fruitcake. I hear the same batch has been passed around for generations lol

[Babalonian]

This

nutritious foods

and this

either a long expiration date or none at all?

does not compute.

[Jayhawk]

This is what I've started to do, though not in the 5gal buckets.  10 Mylar bags with 10 oxygen absorbers on Amazon for about $25.  I've got some rice, beans, and other simple stuff sealed in bags in a box in my closet, about 50,000 calories worth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTexMTQd2eQ

[Killer91]

What are some foods that never go bad? I've heard before that honey never expires, and military M.R.E's last about 4-5 years I've read. What are other nutritious foods that have either a long expiration date or none at all?

I ate an MRE that i've had in a pantry for about 8 year just the other day.. The main food was still great but the crackers and stuff were just 

[greens]

If your an eskimo, no foods expire 
aged beluga= YUMMMMM!!!!

[Belial]

Ah i remember my first MRE with Tabasco sauce..


Oh yea it was also my last...

[fbWldcat]

I heard that a human could survive on a tablespoon of flour, cooking oil and sugar. Oil was used by the body to absorb the sugar and the starch. Essentially, water was the only other necessity. This was told to me by a teacher long ago who lived during the Cold War. Whether or not I got the jest of it is another matter entirely.

[Obie303]

Ah i remember my first MRE with Tabasco sauce..


Oh yea it was also my last...

Tabasco sauce makes everything better.   

[Penguin]

I heard that a human could survive on a tablespoon of flour, cooking oil and sugar. Oil was used by the body to absorb the sugar and the starch. Essentially, water was the only other necessity. This was told to me by a teacher long ago who lived during the Cold War. Whether or not I got the jest of it is another matter entirely.

No, you'd catch all kinds of vitamin and mineral definciency diseases, such as scurvy and osteoperosis.  You'd be dead in less than a month.

-Penguin

[rpm]

I can't speak for specially manufactured products like MRE's, but I'm in the grocery business and can tell you this much. Canned prepared goods (spam, veggies, ravioli, ect) have on average 2 years shelf life with 6 months beyond the date. Frozen foods 18 months shelf with 3 months beyond the date. Some ultra pasteurized dairy products can have over a year shelf life unrefrigerated.

Perishables like bakery, meat, produce and dairy are just that, perishable.

[Plazus]

A little of both. If I can find the space for it, then I'd like to do some long-term food storage for those emergency situations.

Getting ready for 2012? 

[Killer91]

Getting ready for 2012?