After I make a batch of beef jerky, I always put a bag of it aside and keep it in a cabinet with my wood pucks and other Bradley accessories. This way, the following week or two when I'm dying because the ribs/chicken/turkey/etc... is taking so long to smoke, I dip into that jerky and somehow I don't seem to mind so much anymore.
I do something similar but am never too sure how long it will last without freezing so vac-pack each batch into small quantities and freeze it. Each vac-pack has about three days supply, depending on demand, and I can time it so as to pretty well have some available all the time and smoke up a new batch when the vac-pack supply gets low, works for me.
Waltz.