To: Buggman
I don’t have the organizational skills, but if I did I’d try to rotate a year’s worth of food through the house. I figure anything bad that happens, if it isn’t solved in a year, we are screwed anyway.
To: CharlesWayneCT
That's probably about right. I'm in the process of converting the garage into storage. (I have a crawlspace under the house, but in an emergency, I'd rather the neighbors not see me emerging with cans of food.) Once I have the shelving, I'll just start buying a few extra cans of food a trip. I figure if I keep stockpiling the new cans at one end of the shelving and removing them from the other, shifting the ones in the middle over when I'm adding to stock, that'll help keep the food rotating.
It was one of those things that I just thought about while I was single, but never more than in an idle "that would be a good idea" sort of way. Now that I'm contemplating marriage to a young lady who already has a young daughter, I find myself seriously planning.
35 posted on
07/24/2008 7:54:37 AM PDT by
Buggman
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To: CharlesWayneCT
"...Id try to rotate a years worth of food through the house. I figure anything bad that happens, if it isnt solved in a year, we are screwed anyway."
I rotate 60 days worth of canned-goods and water through the house.
It's easy, just buy them on sale (things you would use anyway), date them and put them in plastic bins in the basement. Bring out a few of the oldest ones every month to rotate into kitchen cabinets.
I should be able to secure another source of food within a couple of months - esp. after the Feds have moved everyone out that cannot shelter-in-place.
Am I nuts? A bunch of losers in New Orleans wish they were as nuts as me.
50 posted on
07/24/2008 9:01:42 AM PDT by
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