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There are lots of online resources and calculators. What to store and how much depends on your needs and goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by O2HeN2
We(my family) look at food storage in 3 different groupings.
1) 3 days
2) week to 3 months
3) longer than 3 months
What you store and how you store it is very important.
https://www.learnreligions.com/calcu...-needs-3876040
I have found links to some good info on above site.
Can you check if they are carrying the 25# bags of white beans again, please. TIAQuote:
Originally Posted by 00tec
I wont be able to until at least Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by crays
That's racist. [Sarcasm2]Quote:
Originally Posted by crays
I'd be interested to know if there's a significant difference in price and availability between the LDS stores and Sam's or Costco. Sam's carries many foods in #10 cans, and smaller sizes too. They also have a good stock of various bulk foods like beans, rice, flours, in 10 to 50 lb. bags.
Occasionally I buy large bags of pinto beans or rice, then vacuum pack in serving quantities. A 2 cup package of pinto beans reconstituted will make a full crock pot or dutch oven pot of beans. A little goes a long ways. We'll get several meals from one crock pot and it's a great accompaniment to pork shoulder, game meats or most anything. Vacuum sealed then bagged in freezer zips and stored in plastic tubs or buckets in a cool dark space prevents oxidation and pests. Last year we finished the pintos that I vacuum packed in 2009, and they were perfectly good.
We used to store about 4 years worth of food but in our current living space we probably have only 2-2.5 years of food stored. Same with other necessities such as TP, toiletries, soaps and cleaning products, disinfectants, etc. It doesn't take any special purchases, just buy a little more than you normally use every time you go to the store, then repackage as necessary and rotate the goods.
It's easy to be complacent with the abundance we see in the grocery stores and their seemingly endless supply chain. Apparently many Americans have only a few days to a few weeks of food on hand. My dear cousin is one of them. To me that's like playing Russian roulette, and every bit as short sighted.
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I just dumped out about 50 gallons of water I've been storing for about a decade. We've really fallen off of the food storage band wagon.
I hope you didn?t dump that on your lawn.
Being that far past the expiration date it might not be good for the grass.
Agreed with what buffalobo was saying. The mormons have a ton of information available for getting started with preparedness, esp. food storage.Quote:
Originally Posted by O2HeN2
https://providentliving.churchofjesu...orage?lang=eng
When most of the canneries closed up the self-canning, the LDS church put some extra effort into their website. You can find a lot of the same stuff listed there, either for direct ship to you or to at least price compare what might be at the local stores.
https://store.churchofjesuschrist.or...345616678849-1
Fun note, the dried refried beans are actually kinda good as snacky-type food eaten dry. I found the carrots odd tasting myself though. Kinda a weird sweet taste that I can't identify.
All that being said, like many I'm a big fan of "buy what you eat" as the first thing you should be thinking about. Having a ton of rice and beans is quick and cheap insurance, but I'm a big fan of rotating things like canned chili and costco canned meats, etc. that you might actually enjoy eating too. Water should usually be your first prep but you don't need fancy containers, etc. for all of that. Start with more "realistic" prepping challenges and go from there. You're much more likely to need to have food / water /etc. for a week stuck in a blizzard without electricity than you are to be stuck hiding in your house from coronavirus for 6 months, etc. Get in the habit of buying food you like and putting it in the basement/back of pantry and then rotating the same stuff you bought 3-6 months ago or whatever to the front and eat it next. Pick a weekend and for fun try to make a couple meals out of whatever you have stored and see if you actually like it / know how to cook it. A lot of the commercial prepper-marketed stuff is not amazing and overpriced. Mountain House food is often considered on the "better" end, and you can find individual bags at walmart for not too much, or costco/sams often have packs of them. Not a horrible option, but I wouldn't go crazy buying a lot of that sort of stuff.
Not sure if it's still out there, but Costco did used to have an 80lb tub of bulk prepper mac and cheese you could buy if you were nuts. :)
Great advice. However, I'm now curious what a 4 year supply of TP looks like... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
I'm pretty sure we used that much when we TP'd a schoolmate's house in Lakewood back in the 80s...allegedly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian