Food Preservation and Shortages

[2009]

[Fred]

I've been on the internet, there's people predicting we're gonna have huge food shortages. I just wonder if you've got any tips, suggestions, or advice. Like if we get get into a serious food shortage, how we still somehow stay on the diet.

[Aajonus]

Well, it certainly won't be easy. I've got five gallons of honey put away. I've got lots of butter, probably 30 pounds of butter and I keep them recycled in my refrigerator. Some of them are blue cheese, so I made my Roquefort dressing with blue cheese, which was wonderful. I also have meat that I've cut up and stuffed in jars, some dehydrated, if I had to carry some that's dehydrated in oil, I did that.

That's deer meat. Most of that's deer meat and I did that in the year 2000 for Y2K, I never thought it was gonna happen.

[Attendee]

Why deer?

[Aajonus]

Because a friend of mine shot it and I butchered it. I got a third of the deer, so that's what I had on hand., right. You can do with any meat. So, what you do is just stuff it in a jar with olive oil and it coats, it surrounds it. And I've had some beef jerky in oil for 10 years. I have one jar left and I will open it in December and I open one every December to see how it holds up.

[Fred]

It's all meat in the fridge or do you keep it out?

[Aajonus]

No, it gets out, it's never refrigerated.

Now,, I tried coconut oil, but it doesn't quite last as long.