What is the Food that has the longest shelf life?

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    If you knew a famine was about to come, what food would you store, and how would you store it?
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Dry grains... wheat for example you can store for 40+ years.
     
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    Rebecca Prominent Member

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    I just bought a box of non-fat dry milk, it's stamped "Best When Used by 2DEC15" In addition, dried grains, dried beans, and dry pasta can probably last years and years, - though, I would make sure they're all in airtight containers.
     
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    heheheheh....i would store a dry grain like rice or wheat, then a salted food for additional like salted fish.
     
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    I think anything with a cartoon version of it on the wrapper. i.e. twinkies, spagettios...etc.
     
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    It would be Honey..
    Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
     
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    I recall a 3500 year old mass of butter that archaeologists found in a bog in Ireland in the 60s which was edible, but tasteless because it had not been salted ...
     
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    dry milk.
    honey
    canned food
    organic food products.....
     
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    zahidhassan1992 Greenhorn

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    think it is all kind of fiber food. Normally our liver can't take this so many time it still in our belly.
     
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