http://www.frugalvillage.com/2008/05/12/use-your-bean-when-figuring-out-expiration/ Frugal Living by Sara Noel Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:43:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.frugalvillage.com/2008/05/12/use-your-bean-when-figuring-out-expiration/#comment-37039 Anna Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:02:40 +0000 http://www.frugalvillage.com/?p=247#comment-37039 The LDS church and most suburban preppers keep and use beans that have been around up to 30 years. The secret is how well they've been preserved (room with a cool stable dry temperature, air tight seal (preferably vacuum sealed or oxygen absorbers, but tightly sealed in a plastic container might be OK). If they otherwise appear to be OK (no mold or bugs), then why not reconstitute a small batch and cook them in something simple like Boston Baked Beans? They'll take longer (a -lot- longer) to reconstitute before cooking. If they taste OK, then take them off your parents hands and put all the money you save in the bank. It will make your parents very, very happy. If they don't taste OK, then at least you'll be able to tell your parents you tried and give them a book such as Emergency Preparedness by Jack Spignarelli so they'll learn to rotate their stockpile next time (before helping them haul their investment out to the compost pile). Emergency preparedness, stockpiling, and buying in bulk when the prices are low is good. Not rotating your stock is bad. The LDS church and most suburban preppers keep and use beans that have been around up to 30 years. The secret is how well they’ve been preserved (room with a cool stable dry temperature, air tight seal (preferably vacuum sealed or oxygen absorbers, but tightly sealed in a plastic container might be OK). If they otherwise appear to be OK (no mold or bugs), then why not reconstitute a small batch and cook them in something simple like Boston Baked Beans? They’ll take longer (a -lot- longer) to reconstitute before cooking. If they taste OK, then take them off your parents hands and put all the money you save in the bank. It will make your parents very, very happy. If they don’t taste OK, then at least you’ll be able to tell your parents you tried and give them a book such as Emergency Preparedness by Jack Spignarelli so they’ll learn to rotate their stockpile next time (before helping them haul their investment out to the compost pile). Emergency preparedness, stockpiling, and buying in bulk when the prices are low is good. Not rotating your stock is bad.

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