It can be expensive to purchase a year’s supply of food. It is difficult to think of the amount of money that you would have to spend in order to acquire all that food at once. If you are planning your food storage on the pantry principle, then you will not need to purchase the food in one go, but can acquire the items slowly. Here are some other tips you can use to obtain your food storage.
1) Shop the sales. Grocery sales run specials or sales on most items that you would need to include your food storage. If you look at the list of what you need and look at the sales which the stores in your area are offering you can purchase one or two items per week to go into your food storage with very little added expense.
2) You can also use coupons to reduce the amount that you spend on products you need. There are a lot of great tips in the forums on how to save money with coupons.
3) Make sure that you purchase a little bit of food storage each week. This will help make sure that you are slowly building up the supply that you need. You will be surprised at how much you can build up if you consistently buy five to ten dollars worth of food each week.
4) Make sure that you are purchasing according to what you need. You may find a great deal on peanut butter and stock up, but it will do you little good if that is all you have bought. You may be purchasing green beans every week because they are inexpensive, but you will need a more balanced diet.
As you purchase your food storage make sure that you rotate it, and store it properly. You do not want this extra food to go to waste. It will not help you if you are not able to eat it.