Stocking your pantry isn’t that difficult. Store what you eat, eat what you store. Rotate your food, eating the oldest first.
We mark the month and year of purchase on the cans, boxes and jars.
You don’t need to buy freeze dried food from a supplier. Stock up on the things you actually use when it is on sale.
And learning to can, dry and freeze your own is a very good thing to do. Here is a link to an article by Jackie Clay from Backwoods Home magazine, about building and stocking your own pantry. http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/clay125.html
It was by reading Jackie’s articles that I got the courage and knowledge to use a pressure canner, to can low acid foods like vegetables and meats. High acid foods are canned in a water bath, and I had been doing that for years.
That’s a great magazine, been reading it for the past couple of years. I bought all the supplies and books for canning but I have not had the courage to do it yet.
Can I mail you when I’m ready to try this next summer if I have questions?
We have done exactly as you say. We took money from investment profits and bought cases of canned goods, big bags of flour, sugar and brown rice. We bought what we normally consume.
We have very good cost records and are treating it as an investment rather than emergency stock. Given the anticipated inflation, the investment yield should be significant. It is portfolio allocation diversification
One of my favorite magazines.
I have been going through my canned goods, marking the outdate-best used by date- in marker on the side of the label so it is easy to read.