Salt supply ???

[TexMex247]

A friend of mine and I were recently debating some end of times scenarios. He knows I have adequate stocks of ammo and dehydrated foods but brought up the need for salt. I always thought I'd just smoke meats as needed to stretch their longevity. We have a retreat that's a good distance from metro areas and has cattle and tanks as well as a fair amount of wild game. He's also working on solar power supplies.

How do y'all feel about stock piling salt? I have no idea what keeps or how to do so. Although I know salting fish and meats are an ages old reliable preservation method. Who has salt in their survival stores? What kind and how much?

 

[Army 1911]

Salt at one time was used as money. Stock up.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Sea salt will keep pretty much indefinitely.

 

[Bozz10mm]

How do y'all feel about stock piling salt? I have no idea what keeps or how to do so. Although I know salting fish and meats are an ages old reliable preservation method. Who has salt in their survival stores? What kind and how much?

It's cheap and lasts forever. Stock up. I have about 8 lbs of table salt and 16 lbs. of rock salt on hand. Mostly for de-icing the steps during ice and snow storms.

 

[Brains]

Not sure how much you'd need to stockpile, but it's pretty cheap. I usually have a couple 40lb. bags around to keep the pool salinity in range, which would definitely get transitioned to curing meats if the proverbial poop hit the air handler.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Like anything you need to figure out where it sits on your scale of (truly) need to have vs ability to make/get. A minute amount of sodium is necessary to avoid hyponatremia, but animal eyeballs are saline dense and make a great additive to a broth if you need sodium.

Then there’s the celery, beets, spinach, carrots, radishes, and other veggies that are naturally sodium rich.

 

[Vaquero]

And naturally occurring deposits.

 

[oldag]

And naturally occurring deposits.

True. But how many people would know how to locate them and what to do if they did?

 

[gll]

A friend of mine and I were recently debating some end of times scenarios. He knows I have adequate stocks of ammo and dehydrated foods but brought up the need for salt. I always thought I'd just smoke meats as needed to stretch their longevity. We have a retreat that's a good distance from metro areas and has cattle and tanks as well as a fair amount of wild game. He's also working on solar power supplies.

How do y'all feel about stock piling salt? I have no idea what keeps or how to do so. Although I know salting fish and meats are an ages old reliable preservation method. Who has salt in their survival stores? What kind and how much?

I have 400lbs of pool salt, plus about 50lbs of other forms. Oddly, the need for salt rarely gets mentioned in post-apocalyptic fiction. Good on you for thinking ahead!

 

[striker55]

Say it isn't so, another ammo shortage for my bug-a-salt gun.

 

[baboon]

Not sure how much you'd need to stockpile, but it's pretty cheap. I usually have a couple 40lb. bags around to keep the pool salinity in range, which would definitely get transitioned to curing meats if the proverbial poop hit the air handler.

Not all salt is equal. When I wanted to make corned beef I needed Curing Salt.

 

[Brains]

You perhaps wouldn't "need" it in an apocalypse scenario. The added sodium nitrite helps give you the color and speeds up the curing though. Oh and apparently prevents botulism, but not sure how big of a worry that really is.

 

[TexMex247]

Well it sounds like a bag or two of sea salt is a worthy investment. I have container of pink curing salt that recommends a meager 4 oz per 100 pounds of meat. The bottle I have would probably already last me a lifetime but I may get an extra to store away.

 

[Grumps21]

Sea salt lasts pretty much forever. Regular iodinized table salt not so much

 

[no2gates]

Sea salt lasts pretty much forever. Regular iodinized table salt not so much

Curious why sea salt would last longer than the regular cheap salt. Is it because of the addition of iodide?

 

[Grumps21]

Curious why sea salt would last longer than the regular cheap salt. Is it because of the addition of iodide?

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[toddnjoyce]

Well it sounds like a bag or two of sea salt is a worthy investment. I have container of pink curing salt that recommends a meager 4 oz per 100 pounds of meat. The bottle I have would probably already last me a lifetime but I may get an extra to store away.

Something I forgot to mention last night. How you purify water does play a role in salt & trace mineral requirements. Reverse Osmosis systems will generally give 100% mineral free water. When we used ROWPUs, we had to add electrolytes to the water buffalos as a preventative measure for hyponatremia. Not a huge amount concentration wise it was about what pedialyte came out to but the quantity of water we would go through in a two-week field ex increased the risk substantially, especially in the summer heat.

 

[pronstar]

So once iodized salt expires, it becomes regular salt that never expires?

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[TexasRedneck]

Go to your local grocery/hardware store, buy a couple of 40 lb bags of solar salt per person. When the supply gets to about half, dispose of some of the excess personnel.......

 

[lightflyer1]

Bags and bags of salt for the water softener. That should do. About 400lbs of it around all the time. If needed, no soft water and more salt on food.