What is everyone doing about fats and oils post collapse?

[LadyLocust]

I think the main topic of the discussion is what is a good, long storing fat/oil to have stored and what foods post event would be helpful in keeping us healthy.
But, post event we will all have our own different specialty diets we prepared for and what we are able to harvest from our homestead and the wild.
Some will be eating a lot of fish, others deer or moose or bear, others wild birds and squirrels, and some will be living off their storage and homestead critters. Here in the desert maybe scorpions and jackrabbits, I suspect the deer and elk will be harvested away real quick. But I have a shotgun for pigeons and other wild birds in the area. It is almost impossible to eradicate pigeons.

On that note but not specifically on the topic of fats: native Americans and many other countries ate/eat dogs and cats which there are lots of.

 

[Aerindel]

It is almost impossible to eradicate pigeons.

I mean....its happened before....

 

[Magus]

OK guys, chew on this a minute, we used to can our own beef stew, sausage, chicken, and even hot dogs and fish, each of these contains animal fat, most would keep up to five years except the fish. could one not just render down the fat and can it?

 

[joel]

OK guys, chew on this a minute, we used to can our own beef stew, sausage, chicken, and even hot dogs and fish, each of these contains animal fat, most would keep up to five years except the fish. could one not just render down the fat and can it?

 

[DrHenley]

Made Duck à l’orange to impress my girlfriend. She married me anyway. The vet put our dog on a duck and potato diet. The wife cooks her duck for treats. The amount of grease produced is surprising.

Duck fat is one of the healthiest fats there is. Very high in monounsaturated fat.
When I was in college, I cooked wild duck for some of my college buddies. One of them was from Syria. He said that when a married couple needed some help (problems with getting it up) the herbalists told the men to take duck fat.

 

[DrHenley]

i use coconut oil both solid and liqud--very very long shelf life--i think the longest of all and no back flavor if you get the right brand.

Make sure to only use organic virgin cold pressed (expeller pressed). All other coconut oil is suspect due to the way they process it.

 

[Caribou]

OK guys, chew on this a minute, we used to can our own beef stew, sausage, chicken, and even hot dogs and fish, each of these contains animal fat, most would keep up to five years except the fish. could one not just render down the fat and can it?

I have eaten canned salmon that I put up 20 year previously. I ate a jar of salmon from ’08 a couple months ago. Some 70 year old canned lard was opened and tested as edible.