Dan Goodman wrote:

> Dimitri wrote:
>
> >
> > "Gill Smith" > wrote in message
> > et...
> > > Seeing money's about to become worthless, what foods should we
>
> Dried beans last a long time. Back when misc.survivalism was actually
> about survivalism, someone there wrote about cooking dried beans which
> were about ten years past their pull date. They took a _long_ time to
> cook.


IIRC there have been dried beans found in archeological digs in Mesopotamia,
etc., they are thousands of years old. They've been found to be not only
cookable, but even sproutable. Same for yeast found in urns that held
beer/mead - like beverages, the yeast was still usuable...


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Best
Greg