Salt.
For all the prepping threads I see and advice for what to store as far as quality foods and medicines, I see salt mentioned very seldom.
Salt is critical for survival and will probably be worth its weight in gold.
It stores very well in canning jars although it can be corrosive. I don’t know what else to do with it to keep it from caking.
Maybe vacuum sealer bags and then in a canning jar.
Anyway, aside from its use for survival, it would be very useful for bartering.
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Sea salt doesn’t “cake.”
I have several 25 pound bags of it and they show no evidence of caking.
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Salt!
Why is it I keep forgetting to talk about salt? I have a ton of it stored but I forget to mention it.
Since we wouldn’t be eating processed foods, adding salt to our diets becomes vitally important. Not to mention the taste Factor.
I buy just plain old iodized table salt, pour it into zip-top bags (the good brand, not Ziploc!), then put it into a food grade super pail. I didn’t want to waste my vacuum sealer bags since it doesn’t matter if the salt is exposed to oxygen. That stuff doesn’t go bad! It just needs to stay clean. And I figured a mason jar would be a bad idea because of the metal lid. Although Tattler Lids would be okay. But if the salt gets hard it would be difficult to get out. I could just take the zip top bag and slam it on the floor and the salt would break up just fine. Plus again there is no need to waste expensive mason jars .
Thanks for the reminder met mom. I think I’ll go buy some more. It’s one of those things I don’t think we could have enough of.