Glad I stocked over the past two years.
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.
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.