[pct-l] time before peanut butter goes bad

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Zoli,

If I receive a resupply box it will have been packed about two to three
weeks before I use it.  When I call home from a trail town my next box will
already be at, or on the way to, the next stop.  What I then do is specify
where my stop-after-next box should be sent, the number of trail-days
projected, and the number of Calories per day that it should contain.  That
way the food is in transit and stored for two weeks, and it could be in my
pack for another week.  Peanut butter, and most hard cheeses and salami,
will tolerate that OK.



At home I much prefer the taste of the all-natural, no-preventives, PB, but
for resupply boxes I use the name-brand stuff that’s chock full of
preventives to keep it from going funky.  Yummy.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT -- 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Zoli Bassoff <zolish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reading the post of ideas for storing peanut butter. I was considering the
> idea. If one has to pack up the food boxes months in advance how does one
> pack peanut butter in seperate packages and not have it go bad. Does the
> person mailing the boxes give a hand with the fresh peanut butter and
> cheese items in the food boxes.
>
> thanks
> zoli
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