An excellent point since you can see by looking at our basement walls that we do have moisture issues. Fortunately I addressed that today by taking anything that isn't sealed in plastic and putting it into a vacuum sealed bag (commercial grade thick plastic).
If you look at section 2, 4th shelf down you will see some Barrilla pasta that formerly lived in a paper box and if you look at the bottom container on the right closely you will see that every 1kg bag of flour has also been similarly sealed. It took about an hour to do it but was well worth it, I grabbed a bag of sugar last month that felt like a rock from not being in a watertight container.
Being able to make your own food for your shelves is the absolute best, I gave it a go last year but since I didn't have any curing salt it only lasted about 6 months. Still some of the best damned jerky I have ever had. https://poal.co/s/BBQ/156515
That jerky looks delicious. I'm going to give your marinade a try as it's different from mine. I buy my meat and eggs directly from farmers. I have two large chest freezers and I buy half cows, and whole pigs and chickens. It's nice and they will butcher it any way that I like. When I do have to go to the store, I do the same as you do, I buy in bulk on sale.
Damn it, I really want some homemade jerky now. lol
For my BBQ I also have a direct line to a butcher who works at the farm to part out the animals to retail butchers. Farm direct is the best. Period. Freaks the Mrs. out though sometimes since I generally get the goods in plastic trash bags rather than hygienic vacuum sealed cuck bags. Lots of blood around too, I like it.
For my smoker I don't generally ever use a marinade or even inject, good beef really just needs salt, pepper and IMHO a bit of paprika on occasion.
Pork and chicken on the other hand are a different story.
Hell yeah, It's awesome. I live in a small village that is pretty tight and we all look out for each other. Just the other day my neighbor gave me some venison, ox and some black bear roasts. I gave him canned apple pie filling, apple butter and spaghetti sauce for it. I think I might use one of the bear roasts to make some jerky this weekend. I've never had black bear, so I'm not sure if that would be any good or not. I just might do half bear and half beef, so I'm not disappointed if I don't like the bear.
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