It keeps forever from what I've heard.  Several people from the zero carb
site have ordered it and keep it in their pantry.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Belinda Lawson <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> On Aug 25, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Kim Kline wrote:
>
> You can buy a 5 gal. bucket of tallow at US Wellness.  I know several
>> people
>> that have used it to make pemmican and love the convenience and they like
>> the taste of it.  Some people just warm it up in their dehydrator to
>> liquify
>> it when making their pemmican.  i've seen pictures and it looks really
>> nice.
>>
>
> Ah, that sounds like the ticket!   If you didn't use the entire 5 gal., do
> you suppose that it would keep okay without being refrigerated?  Apologies
> if that's a dumb question.
>
> The pemmican with cherries would not be considered zero carb.
>>
>
> Yes, good point.  I got some of both kinds, and I only got the cherry kind
> as a "stepping stone" in case I couldn't stand the taste of the ones
> without.  But frankly, the cherries and honey don't seem all that necessary.
>  I like it fine without them.  So I'm planning on letting my hubby eat the
> cherry ones and I was going to hog all the ones without.  He isn't a
> believer in the zero carb thing yet, and so he's not trying the experiment
> with me.  But he could still benefit from the good pemmican nevertheless.
>  :-)
>
> -Belinda
>