Comments on: Step 4: Long Term Food Storage Planning

By: Shoe Storage Solutions

Shoe Storage Solutions — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:46:00 +0000

When you need to keep your shoes neat and organized, a shoe storage cabinet is what you need. It is not difficult to find a shoe cabinet that fits your needs. You can choose the shoe cabinet with open storage or with doors on them. There are loads of options for you to select in furniture outlets.

By: Jodi and Julie

Jodi and Julie — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:17:00 +0000

Ours is based off of 2300 calories per day for one adult. You can view this link http://www.simplyprepared.com/basic%20food%20storage.htm for more details.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:52:00 +0000

Okay ladies, I have a question. The amounts that you have in the Food Storage Calculator…what daily calorie amount do they equate to? So you know? I was asked by someone that I recommended your site to.

By: Jodi and Julie

Jodi and Julie — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:56:00 +0000

I don’t see that there would be any problem with it in terms of preservation. However, it would be really hard to use them, especially whatever foods were on the lower layers. I would probably put them in food saver bags or mylar bags separately inside the buckets so you could easily pull out one bag of food without exposing the rest of the foods to the oxygen again. And you can pick and choose what food you want to use. Hope that helps!

By: Numbrcruntchr

Numbrcruntchr — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:13:00 +0000

I wanted to know about combining different products in the 5 gal buckets to reduce waste. Can you separate rice, oats and beans in the same bucket with rice paper or wax paper if I add the bay leaves and water evaporative packs?

By: HillaryM

HillaryM — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:40:00 +0000

Bisquick would not have as long of a life due to the baking powder in it. I have recently been using some AP (all purpose) flour that my parents had stashed in 1998. They did not include any O2 absorbers, etc. just the flour. The flour definitely has on “old” taste to it, but not bad/rancid/spoiled. I use it in cookies/muffins that have a strong flavor of their own. We don’t care for the taste of it in our sandwich bread (it performed well though). This is 13+ years old and still usable.

HTH

By: Sam Mecham

Sam Mecham — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:34:00 +0000

I have the same heat and space problem (Phx area). I picked the best solution for us, bad as it is, by using space in a closet inside the house. I know it is not ideal but its better than my garage because of the somewhat lower average temperature. We, my wife and I, just learned to live with the loss of the space, this is more important than shoes and clothes storage. I store only long term survival food here that is canned dry like wheat, rice, beans, potatoes, fruit and veggies. One of my additional problems is finding long term storage food in small quanities for just the two of us. I can’t see opening a five gal can of anything due to the potential for waste. I know our diet, although balanced, might be boring if we have to rely on this food, but I am retired military and have experienced areas in the world where the people would love a boring diet just to have something to eat. I know we can put up with it. Water is stored in the garage as heat is no problem for water storage. Our small pantry serves as our short term (90 day) food supply and is rotated through our daily meals. 1st in 1st out as this food has a much shorter life span, usually just 2-3 years. I included a quanity of dehydrated camper food and MREs as a grab and go solution that is also rotated through our regular diet. Not a perfect solution but I think it will work if it is ever needed. Heat will decrease the quality of stored food over time, this is understood by all. I don’t know of a solution to this except to build a space with cooling capibilites. I don’t have the money or space for this so I use the simple solution of rotation (into daily meals). This keeps me involved in the inventory and allows replacement of older items with better quality stuff. I figure at least 8 year average storage for the long term items before rotation and continious rotation of short term and grab and go items. If I used the garage, 110 in summer, for long term food storage I would develop a plan to continiously rotate the food through the daily meals. I think you could average the storage time down to 3-4 years for each item this way. Short term stuff would remain in the house pantry. I replace the water every year. I wouldn’t trust storing food for too long here in Southern Az due to the heat problem. I hope this helps you some and is not just blather. Good luck, Sam

By: Jodi and Julie

Jodi and Julie — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:59:00 +0000

Each cannery has different policies. Some ARE available to everyone

By: kindredmamma

kindredmamma — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:15:00 +0000

The canneries aren’t available to non LDS members. But perhaps your LDS friends would be willing to do it for you. You could perhaps trade another act of service for them?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:49:00 +0000

I’d definitely recommend doing some canning for long term food storage… both the pressure canning in jars kind but also dry goods canning. You can purchase food grade “paint” cans for this purpose, or check out your local LDS folks to see if they have either a cannery where you can sign up to do some of your own canning, or perhaps they will loan you a canning machine. I’m not a member but I’ve been able to participate in several canning sessions and now have a bunch of stuff like beans, dry milk, etc. stored up in cans that might last as long as 30 years in good conditions.