How do you know what you should store away in your Food Storage? How much should you store away? Where should you store it? These are some things we are going to be discussing here in this article to help generate ideas that can be implemented at home for the benefit of you and your family.
What to store in your Food Storage
Ask yourself what variety of foods do you or your family like to eat and then ask if it can be stored in a fashion that will keep for a while. How long will it keep for or how can I store it in a way that will keep for longer. Foods that keep for a very long time are usually dehydrated foods like beans and rice. Freeze dried foods can keep for a very long time as well. Canned foods can keep for, sometimes, a year or two after the Best by **/** date. But you might not be the kind of person that takes that kind of risk.
Beans and rice alone are not very nutritious but are needed to be the ‘filler’. You will need things that are nutritious. I suggest having some multivitamins, herbs and spices as well as having a variety of other storable foods. Canned vegetables and fruits of various kinds will be beneficial.
Learn how to can or jar. By doing home projects like this you can teach yourself a very valuable skill. Pickling vegetables will keep in a sealed jar for a couple years.
There are companies who do the packaging for you and sell you their products with guarantees, sometimes for 25 years. These products are usually freeze-dried or dehydrated and are sold in 1 week, 1 month, 6 months or 1 year supplies and measured in servings.
My patriot supply has the best and highest quality storable foods on the market and I can attest to that because I have their food stored in my own food storage. I have tried their storable foods and they taste really good, and keep for a very long time.
How to store in your Food Storage
Some people store their food in their basement or what’s called a ‘cold storage’. A pantry is a closet or room where beverages, food household items or provisions of various kinds are kept. More often than not it is used for foods, whether stored or currently in use depends on the person.
Vacuum seal, canning or jarring are preferred methods of packaging. Ziploc is basically a no-go for storing foods for long periods of time. All of these preferred methods have tamper evident and spoil evident features to their packaging.
Why a balance between quality and quantity
There needs to be a balance between these two things. You can eat empty carbs all day but not be nourished, which will lead to all sorts of deficiencies in vitamins and minerals and is very bad for your health. Storing foods for emergencies is not a complicated idea when you can stay conscious of it. A focus on quantity can give you a bunch of cheap junk which will not be good for health and, in reverse, focusing on quality can give you a lot of really good food but may not keep as long or you may not have as much as needed for prolonged emergencies. Keeping up on the rotation so older foods get eaten is important as well as watching the tamper and spoil features. Keeping these things in mind, it really is up to the individual, to have their food storage as well as what they want to store and where they store it.
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