Posted on 01/14/2011 8:59:56 AM PST by Doctor Prepper
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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?
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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.
“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.
“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.
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.
Yes, of course you do, our point is that you need to have ‘Buffer’ of stored food for when supermarket food is unavailable.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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