[pct-l] Dehydrated food

[wpsnotebook at charter.net (Richard Woods)]

You can freeze it for many months too. I had (past tense intentional) 
some dried pasta sauce I made a year ago that was still fine. No need 
to thaw it out either. Story your resupply boxes somewhere cool and 
they should be good as long as you're on the trail.
Mo Jo

On Friday, October 21, 2005, at 04:56  PM, 
pct-l-request@mailman.backcountry.net wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:32:17 -0700, "Aaron Doss" <AaronD@Cadwell.com> 
> had this
> to say:
>
>> I know that any foods which have any fat or oil in
>> them will go rancid after a few weeks.
>
>
> True fat can go rancid but I've not had it go rancid that fast..  I 
> keep some of
> my dehydrated food in the refrigerator until I am ready to use it 
> hiking.  I've
> not actually had any food go rancid yet.