Comments on: Food Storage – Explained

By: Food Insurance

Food Insurance — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:24:24 +0000

I second the comment about “Store what you eat and rotate rotate rotate”. My mom always made way more canned goods than we’d ever eat. I finally had to go through the food storage to clean up the house after she passed away. Oh man what a task. There were jars that once were peaches (I don’t know what they morphed to), that were about 20 years old. Yikes.

By: Ama

Ama — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:41:20 +0000

So inspiring! Thanks for sharing – in more ways than one! ; )

By: Budget Nazi

Budget Nazi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:05:58 +0000

I’m such a blog-lurker. I don’t usually comment, but I’m a food storage addict…LOL. You mention storing like items together. Usually that works, but if your food storage is all over the place, one thing that’s worked for us is to make a list (kind of a master menu)of all of the storage foods you’ll need for one month (ie, 10 cans beans, 8 cans stewed tomatoes, 10 cans cream of chicken soup…etc.) Then get 12 large boxes and start dividing out the food by month. You can even label the boxes November, December, January, etc. Then each month you just pull out a full box of food and stack the cans in your pantry. With the empty box, you can start filling it again with the food on your list. Oh, and it also helps to have a master list of where you put each box. Seven years ago we moved from a house to a tiny apartment. My sister let us store our “food storage” at her house for a while. It was so convenient to just grab a new box of food once a month rather than have to rumage around through 20 different boxes to get what we needed.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:07:31 +0000

Since I’ve started couponing (and even slightly before that when I was just keeping my BOGO cabinet), I have acquired a nice stash. I thought I was acquiring too much. But now I can’t wait to visit those links & learn more about how to store a year’s worth of food.

In addition to the growing stockpile, we have a hurricane box (or 2 or 3 etc). Guess what we can eat when the power goes out? MREs.

By: amoore

amoore — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:40:18 +0000

i’ve done this in various forms for a number of years as we have lived in some rather volatile countries. My staples that I would never walk by in the market: milk powder, sugar, flour, oil. Those seemed to come and go in our living situation and when they were gone they could be gone for years. Then I started in on tomatoes and eggs. Tomatoes can be stewed up and put in the freezer/ canned. Eggs, if they haven’t been refrigerated can be kept at room temp for quite a while. When we are in the states, i find it hard to walk past milk powder and flour in the store aisle. Our first month in the states, i brought home 10lbs of each. my husband knew i had gone round the bend:)But we used it.

In our current situation we are vulnerable to floods. Last rainy season we were in the house for 10 days- and our neighbors house had 2feet of water. I was thankful for my food supply because I was able to gladly invite in the neighbors and whoever else.

By: Ranee @ Arabian Knits

Ranee @ Arabian Knits — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:31:20 +0000

It would only take a day or so of no deliveries to local grocery stores for people to run out. People forget that because we see the full shelves all the time, but the stores have deliveries every day. We used to live across a bridge and we knew if the big earthquake came and that bridge went down, we’d be stuck for a long time without replenished supplies in the store. Even our small town would have used up that food and the supplies fairly quickly.

By: Ranee @ Arabian Knits

Ranee @ Arabian Knits — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:29:44 +0000

One more thing, if you are so down on your luck that the money saved has to pay the mortgage/rent and power bill with precious little left over, it is good to have food in the house. We keep a supply of food, water, toilet paper/diapers/wipes and blankets in the car along with flashlights and lighters or matches and a first aid kit in case we are stranded somewhere also.

By: Ranee @ Arabian Knits

Ranee @ Arabian Knits — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:27:59 +0000

I agree that people should be saving money, but storing food is smart. If you couldn’t get to your money (we had power out for a week after a wind storm with power POLES and phone POLES down, not just the lines, and icy roads, so we couldn’t use the internet, drive anywhere, go shopping for a while), or if the market crashed so that there was a run or if the value of the dollar was so bad it wouldn’t get you much, you would still have food to eat and water to drink. I also store diapers, wipes, pull ups, pads, toilet paper, etc. If we were snowed in, it wouldn’t matter how much money we had if we couldn’t get to the store.

By: Denise@TogetherWeSave

Denise@TogetherWeSave — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:14:24 +0000

I have only been stockpile for about a year now and I do it with the cycles of sales and my abaility to buy at the grocery store. I have been trying to build up a good supply.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:15:56 +0000

Ok. I am replying to my own post- Sorry! I didn’t realize there was such a price difference in organic and just some plain old wheat with pesticides! Guess I am just picky.
Love your blog!