While you can store it for the long-term there are several disadvantages.įirst is the cost. The biggest benefit is the fuel needed to cook instant vs normal rice. Cooking times are greatly reduced (only a few minutes compared to 20-45 with other rice varieties). Instant rice is pre-cooked and then dehydrated. As a result, their shelf life is measured in months, not decades. Each of these retains an amount of the natural oils. First, let’s look at the rice that should be avoided for long-term storage.īrown rice for all its flavor, complexity, and nutrition is not a good candidate for long-term storage. Rice Selectionįor your bulk storage, you also need to consider the selection of rice for the longest available term. Next, you must focus on fats and protein. If you have a combined 300 pounds per person of these staples then you have your carbs covered. Just as a side note wheat berries, pasta, oatmeal, and beans all have about 1600 calories per pound. Naturally, you will be reducing it based on your other long-term storage items. 1 year – 300 pounds (rounded up from 285)Īssuming a 4-person family, that’s 1200 pounds of rice for a year of carbs.6 months – 150 pounds (rounded up from 140).30 days – 25 pounds (rounded up from 23).This assumes that rice is your only carb.ĭepending on your storage goals we now get the following: That equates to about 12.5 ounces of uncooked rice per day. If you want to get an exact break out, a basal metabolic calculator and fine-tune these estimates.Īssuming a daily requirement of 2,500 calories it is recommended that half of that comes from carbohydrates. I realize that every person and every case is unique. I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than starve. Note: I prefer to estimate low when working with food. A pound of uncooked rice has about 1600 calories. So how much should you store? Let’s start with calorie counts. With the benefit of a few spices or protein, you can add rice in infinite variety to your prepper meals. A large portion of the world lives on it and so can you. When more exciting food is at a premium, rice will be the ultimate addition. A bit of rice allowed to boil for a while transforms soup into a rib-sticking stew. In my house, we use it as a thickener for chicken soup. My mother added it to chili, meatballs, and several soups. Growing up it was used as a meat extender. It can even be dessert if you boil it in sweetened milk or coconut milk.Īs rice is normally bland – it absorbs the flavor of whatever it is cooked with. It can be breakfast if you stir in an egg. Congee forms the base of a savory side with the addition of chicken or pork. How about rice porridge aka congee? Boiled low and slow with extra water until silky smooth is the foolproof recipe for Congee. A little salt and butter and there it sits. We all know it as the traditional side dish. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner all have a spot on the plate for rice. Especially considering at that rate you’re adding 32,000 calories per month (16 – 2,000 calorie days) to your panty.įinally, you must consider the flexibility of rice. That 5-pounds adds up quickly over the months. At about $0.06 per ounce or $0.96 per pound, rice is affordable on any budget.Īdding a 5-pound bag to the grocery cart each week is obtainable to any prepper. Pound for pound, calorie for calorie, it doesn’t get much cheaper than rice. Properly packaged, white rice has a shelf life exceeding 30 years. The second benefit is how long it stores. It’s not just the calorie count that makes rice attractive to preppers, although it helps. From this, it’s easy to see how a bag of rice keeps bellies full. At 6.5 ounces per cup of uncooked rice that equates to 1600 calories per pound of uncooked rice.ġ cup of uncooked makes between 3 and 4 cups of cooked rice. The result is that 1 cup of uncooked rice has 700 calories. The grains are mostly starch and are flush with calories. Nutritionally, rice is approximately 80% carbohydrates by weight. Many cultures depend on it as a staple of their diet. With it, we feed our ever-growing population. Today the world produces over 700 million tons annually. Rice was such an important grain humans began the process of understanding ways to control its growth rather than leave the valuable harvest up to chance and mother nature. Rice (Oryza sativa) was domesticated by humans around 10,000 years ago.
What makes it such a great survival food? Why should it form the foundation of your long-term food storage? Method #3: Buckets and O2 and Mylar, Oh MyĪt the risk of over-glamorizing rice, we first need to understand why rice.Method #2: Storing in Buckets with Diatomaceous Earth.Method #1: Storing Rice in Bags and Totes.
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