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The Importance of Food Storage

How long could you last without a trip to the grocery store? What if you didn’t count buying fresh milk? If there was a particular reason that you couldn’t travel would you and your family be okay? As winter weather comes, you may not be able to make it to the store for two or three days and they may be low on food due to an ice storm and a run on the groceries. In addition to surviving an ice storm or a blizzard do you have enough food to last you longer than that? If you do have … Continue reading →

Utilizing Your Stored Wheat

You may want to consider utilizing the wheat you have in your food storage. Wheat is an excellent source of protein and other important nutrients. If you do not eat whole-wheat items on a regular basis, it can upset your stomach, as you become use to the added fiber. This is one reason to use your wheat on a regular basis. Another is to keep it as fresh as possible. A third is that you can save money if you buy whole wheat, and grind it into flour yourself. Here are five ways you can use wheat in your everyday … Continue reading →

Try a Food Storage Potluck!

One great way to find new ways to utilize your food storage is to have a food storage potluck. This may be a little more difficult, if you do not have any friends that have and use food storage, but you can still try to have one anyway. The point of your potluck should be to try new dishes that use food storage, and to gather recipes together. If this goes successfully you may try to have a potluck once every few months, so you can continue to gather new recipes. Here are five tips for a successful potluck: 1) … Continue reading →

Get Creative With Your Food Storage

If you are tired of having the same type of meals every night you can utilize your food storage to change things up. You should have a lot of food on hand, and you may want to try something different and unique. You can do a recipe search online to find a variety of different recipes for the ingredients that you have on hand. This can save you a trip to the grocery store, as well as some time. If you do this once a month, it will help your family become accustomed to trying new foods. If you are … Continue reading →

Using Food Storage to Make Comfort Foods

As the weather begins to grow colder, many people begin to turn to the comfort foods that they love to eat. The hearty soups and stews, as well as heavier meals that keep us warm in the fall and winter. Many comfort foods are made from scratch or basic ingredients, so it is a great time to utilize your food storage. Many items also go on sale in the fall and winter, and it is a great time to stock up on them. Flour and sugar usually go on sale in the late fall, and canned vegetables will go on … Continue reading →

Five Items to Rotate in Your Emergency Kit

It is important to remember to rotate the supplies in your emergency kit. You should also make sure that you have enough food for your family, since children tend to eat more the older they are. Here is a list of five things to check when rotating the supplies in your emergency kit. 1) Check your food to see if it has expired. If it is going to expire within the next six months, you need to replace it. You may need to add supplies if your children are now teenagers, or if you recently had a baby. 2) Check … Continue reading →

Have a Food Storage Meal Once a Week

Rotating your food storage may be challenging to you, especially if you are not used to using the food you have on hand. It is important that you rotate the food so that it doesn’t go to waste. It is also important that your family becomes accustomed to eating the food you have in food storage. The simplest way to begin doing this is to have a food storage night once a week or once a month. You simply cook items from your food storage supplies. If you plan a different meal every week and then replenish the supplies the … Continue reading →

Using Your Food Storage

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Sooner or later as you learn more about long term storage of food you’ll run into the acronym SWYE and EWYS. Yeah, I know. Alphabet soup. So before you get too frustrated, what it means is “Store What You Eat and Eat What You Store”, and it’s a very important principle in food storage. Here’s the idea: Your family is used to a certain way of eating. Think about breakfast. Over the last month, what has everyone had? Probably the same thing 90% of the time, huh? Oh, sure, you might get different types of cereal, but it’s still mostly … Continue reading →