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Sequential food storage Part 4 Cycling through your supplies.
N/A | Jan 14, 2011 | Doctor Prepper

Posted on 01/14/2011 8:59:56 AM PST by Doctor Prepper

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1 posted on 01/14/2011 8:59:58 AM PST by Doctor Prepper
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To: Doctor Prepper

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2 posted on 01/14/2011 9:03:00 AM PST by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: Doctor Prepper

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3 posted on 01/14/2011 9:04:41 AM PST by StaffiT (New Year, New Name)
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To: Doctor Prepper

bump,,,later on the links


4 posted on 01/14/2011 9:04:56 AM PST by piroque (Southern born and Raised,Love "G R I T S")
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To: Doctor Prepper
"FIFO". Learn it. Live it. Love it.

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5 posted on 01/14/2011 9:05:35 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Doctor Prepper
"Bottled water only seems to have a shelf Life of a few months."
Canned water will last for decades. Of course, it's not cheap...
6 posted on 01/14/2011 9:07:43 AM PST by astyanax (Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
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To: StaffiT

I have food storage. However, we normally eat only fresh foods so I have been trying to figure out the best way to handle food storage in this circumstance.

Any others out there with this problem?


7 posted on 01/14/2011 9:11:36 AM PST by Chickensoup (Protecting US interests ONLY if US interests move back into the States and give US citizens jobs.)
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To: ChocChipCookie

PING!

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8 posted on 01/14/2011 9:13:50 AM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Doctor Prepper

Prepper Ping!


9 posted on 01/14/2011 9:17:46 AM PST by Zffrtuyiy
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To: Doctor Prepper

Cycling through one’s supplies is fine, except for those people that eat mostly fresh foods. It forces those people to eat foods, that would not normally eat, ie emergency rations.


10 posted on 01/14/2011 9:18:21 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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To: Doctor Prepper

“regular use and replenishment (‘Cycling’)”

My family has been doing this for years. Without fail we find that eventually we’ve
almost eaten all the `food’, so we go to a `supermarket’ and buy more food.


11 posted on 01/14/2011 9:26:02 AM PST by tumblindice (yes, I do pretty much just blurt out whatever comes to mind)
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To: Chickensoup

“I have food storage. However, we normally eat only fresh foods so I have been trying to figure out the best way to handle food storage in this circumstance.”

If you don’t want to eat it and it is still within the experation date then how about donating it to a food pantry? For OPSEC reasons I wouldn’t metion why I was donating it and I would rotate to whom I donated it.


12 posted on 01/14/2011 9:31:02 AM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Chickensoup
I have food storage. However, we normally eat only fresh foods so I have been trying to figure out the best way to handle food storage in this circumstance. Any others out there with this problem?

Store what you eat. Eat what you store. Keep it rotating. Simple as that. Augment with fresh.
13 posted on 01/14/2011 9:32:24 AM PST by rickomatic
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To: Doctor Prepper

Many GOYA fruit juice cans have very long codes - I have GOYA cans in my pantry that go to 2015 that I bought last year.

I don’t know of another ‘regular grocery’ item like these that stamp code out to 5 years.

Check out the Spanish sections in your grocery stores.


14 posted on 01/14/2011 9:33:11 AM PST by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: tumblindice

Yes, of course you do, our point is that you need to have ‘Buffer’ of stored food for when supermarket food is unavailable.


15 posted on 01/14/2011 9:33:59 AM PST by Doctor Prepper (Dig a well Before you are thirsty - Chinese proverb)
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To: astyanax

I seem to recall from the 50’s that adding bleach to stored water kept it indefinitely. I suppose you could not store it in plastic...need a tank of some kind. Has this been debunked?


16 posted on 01/14/2011 9:34:42 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: astyanax

I seem to recall from the 50’s that adding bleach to stored water kept it indefinitely. I suppose you could not store it in plastic...need a tank of some kind. Has this been debunked?


17 posted on 01/14/2011 9:36:18 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: stuartcr; Chickensoup

Fresh foods are always better – the foods that generally ring the inside wall of a supermarket.

But there may be times when it is unavailable and your only choice may be what you have stockpiled. You may need to eat the canned or dried versions of your normal fresh foods.

Having a “Fresh” supply of food that you have already tried will better than the alternative.


18 posted on 01/14/2011 9:43:26 AM PST by Doctor Prepper (Dig a well Before you are thirsty - Chinese proverb)
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To: Doctor Prepper

I use a permanent marker to mark the last 2 digits of the ‘best by’ year on the labels of canned goods. That makes it easy to recognize which ones should be cycled for more immediate use.


19 posted on 01/14/2011 9:44:58 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Doctor Prepper

Yes, when the fresh food is unavailable, one has to eat what they have saved. Fortunately that day has not come. I give my stored food to the food bank when it nears expiration and buy new.


20 posted on 01/14/2011 9:49:09 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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