Emergency Food: Salted Eggs
By @acelawrites
@acelawrites (19272)
Philippines
July 2, 2016 12:17am CST
Photo above shows the salted duck eggs I made. I marinated it in so many salt, little water and a little red wine for three weeks. Was so happy with the result.
I called it "emergency food" because you can store it in the refrigerator for so long; can boil and stock again then use/eat when you ran out of food in the ref; or when you can not decide what to cook or is lazy or not in the mood to cook; when you have no time to cook and your family is already
hungry.
In times where there are calamities, it is a very handy food to ease hunger.
What food do you stock for emergency cases?
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24 responses
@DaddyEvil (174699)
• United States
4 Jul 16
And what do you do with sardines, @Lucky15? Are you rescuing them from something? 
uhhh.... you don't 
EAT sardines, do you? 
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Yes, uso na naman dahil tag-bagyo sa atin! (it is timely because of the storm season in our country). We have to stock some food specially when we can not go out if there are floods or storms.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Yes, sofs, you can use it for your sandwhich; can add some veggies too.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Many people usually have canned foods for immediate cooking/ or even no cooking at all.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
I'm a self confessed prepper so i always have things for any emergency whole year round, i love salted eggs with freshly cut tomatoes and onion rings eaten with hot rice hmmm,,, especially when there is a typhoon and we cannot go out
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
@acelawrites welcome, yes you reminded me of mangoes hahaha.. we have a mango tree, the small supsupin variety, hehe, the best
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
What you said made me hungry! I wish I have ripe tomatoes or paho (very small mango) to go with it. Thanks @louievill for your response.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
5 Jul 16
@louievill It is so sweet, though small.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Eggs are very flexible food item; you can make lots of menu out of it or using it.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
2 Jul 16
I have some sardines as emergency food.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
It is common to have canned foods for emergency needs. Thanks, @infatuatedbby for your response.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
2 Jul 16
@acelawrites Yes, we are always stocked of regular eggs also!
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
5 Jul 16
@acelawrites That's good because it has no artificial coloring .
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
5 Jul 16
I don't like artificial coloring; I made it so it has no color.
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@eliza_godinez12 (5783)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
That salted eggs sounds yummy. I prefer to have canned goods in case of emergency. 
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
It only happened that someone who owns a duck farm gave my husband a tray of duck eggs. So I Don't know what to do with it and decided to have it preserved with salt. I searched the net how to do it. The result was good.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
So easy to prepare them too! Yes they last so long and can be stored for emergency cases.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
5 Jul 16
@acelawrites It sure does and is delicious!
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
3 Jul 16
I like peanut butter too! It eases hunger fast.
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@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
@acelawrites And it is better if it has the easy open tab so you don't have to look for a can opener.
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Yes, canned goods last for so long! Just select those without dents.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
2 Jul 16
I didn't know about this.
This is what I like..learning so many new things I usually see that there is enough stock of rice.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Rice is also your staple food? Just the same here in our country, there should always be rice on the table.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
2 Jul 16
@acelawrites Twice a day..but in other parts Western and Northern parts it is wheat...'rotis' .
do you use a rice cooker?
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
5 Jul 16
@responsiveme sometimes, but often we use iron cooking pot. Do you mean rotis like roti paratha.? I like it plain just heated in a pan.
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@mariekomontealto (179)
• Quezon City, Philippines
2 Jul 16
Sardines and noodles!!!
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Always the combination for relief efforts! ha ha ha! But we always have it in our pantry for emergency cases.
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@mariekomontealto (179)
• Quezon City, Philippines
2 Jul 16
Exactly. Typical on Filipino pantry.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
2 Jul 16
My pantry is full of canned and packaged food that would feed us for many weeks.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
5 Jul 16
It is so good to have some stocks at home for emergency needs.
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@DaddyEvil (174699)
• United States
4 Jul 16
Uhm... no, we really don't stock up on emergency foods. Not in the same sense that you would need to, at least....
The emergencies we stock for are longer term than a flood or a blizzard. I'm afraid the salted eggs would not last long enough to bother putting into our emergency cache. Our cache is forty miles from our home.
We always have a month of food in cans and frozen in the house, but our emergency stock has food for two years. We slowly work the foods there back into what we have at home, to make sure everything in storage is still in date and nothing has bothered or damaged anything there.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
5 Jul 16
Yes, you can not stock salted eggs for so long unlike canned foods. It has shorter shelf life.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Banana chips too can be stored for so long; and jack ruit really tastes nice.
@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
I have century tuna, sardines, pork and beans, and pure foods corned beef.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
So good to have those food items at home, example is when you have a surprise guest, you have something to offer.
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
Yes, Betty, you can also do it using ordinary eggs, but maybe shorter time for marinating because chicken eggs have thinner shells than duck eggs. But for shelf life, I think duck eggs can last longer.
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
2 Jul 16
So nice, drinking water is the most important item to have for emergency cases. It is pays to be always ready.
