With modern canning and packaging, and local retail sales events weekly, building a pantry could never be easier.
We ain’t our grandparents.
Buy what you buy, just buy some more when it’s on a particularly good sale. Build it over time, no need to go whole hog and buy all at once.
and Date Tag & Rotate, Rotate, Rotate.
** Airtight, moisture proof, critter proof and stable temperature storage is most important.
Had an LDS friend that kept a 40 gallon drum (food-safe, bagged and sealed) of red wheat. He dumped it after 6 months as it got rancid.
“and Date Tag & Rotate, Rotate, Rotate.”
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Worth repeating.
and Date Tag & Rotate, Rotate, Rotate.