5 Grocery Foods With the Longest Best-By Dates—No Repackaging Required

How long can ordinary grocery-store foods really last in your emergency pantry? In this video, I look at 5 grocery foods with some of the longest Best By dates I could find—including canned beans, almonds, canned fish, canned chicken, and a freeze-dried meal with a Best By date nearly 30 years away. Best of all, none of these foods needs to be repackaged for storage. No Mylar bags. No oxygen absorbers. No vacuum sealing. They can be stored in their original, unopened packaging. We'll look at: • Goya Organic Black Beans • Blue Diamond Almonds • Canned salmon and sardines • Keystone Canned Chicken • Mountain House Freeze-Dried Meals I'll show you the actual Best By dates on the products I purchased, explain what a Best By date really means, and discuss why these foods can be useful additions to an emergency food supply. I'll also show you a can of salmon with a Best By date from 2018 that I've had for more than a decade. If you'd like to see me open it and compare it with a new can of the same product, let me know in the comments. FREE FOOD STORAGE GUIDES The FREE Canned Food Storage Guide: https://lescollinsworth.com/landing/https-attractwell-2724-standard-b-cdn-net-file-2 The FREE Guide To Long Term Food Storage: https://lescollinsworth.com/landing/https-attractwell-2724-standard-b-cdn-net-file-2 Having food with a long Best By date is only part of the equation. Proper storage conditions are still essential if you want your emergency food supply to maintain its quality for as long as practical. Subscribe to The Grid-Down Kitchen for practical videos on long-term food storage, emergency cooking, shelf-stable foods, non-electric cooking equipment, and building a more useful emergency pantry. No Need To Repackage These Foods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpGUSwYsbiM&t=1s If you would like to show appreciation for the videos produced by The Grid-Down Kitchen/Chef Prepper you can do so by buying me a $3 coffee! at Buy Me A Coffee, which offers a simple way to