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How to Store Food
If you’ve ever visited a
supermarket the day after a major holiday or a snowstorm, you’ve seen
the empty shelves and asked yourself, “What if?” That’s a good question
to ask when the shelves are fully stocked. Most supermarkets these days
have about three days’ worth of food on hand. Even a minor disruption in
our distribution system would result in food shortages within a
relatively short time.
A lot of people think about storing some additional food “just in case”
but never really do anything about it. “Oh, it costs too much money to
do that, and besides, I don’t have any extra room for storing it.”
It’s true that you could spend a lot of money for food storage,
especially if you tried to buy three months’ worth all at the same time.
It is truly mind boggling if you have teenagers still at home.
The good news is, you don’t have to do it all in one fell swoop. There’s
an old saying: The easiest way to eat an elephant is one bite at a
time. That’s actually the best way to stock up on food around your
house.
Your best friends are those annoying sales fliers in the Sunday paper
and usually in the Wednesday edition as well. When you see an incredibly
good deal on steaks, buy enough to feed your family for the upcoming
week and pick up an extra pack for the freezer. If you notice any
buy-one, get-one, or BOGO, deals, that’s your signal to double up on the
items your family normally eats. That’s of primary importance, storing
what you normally eat. That’s what your digestive tract is accustomed
to.
If you’re in the rut of heading straight to your favorite grocery store
when you go food shopping, consider visiting that dollar store that’s in
the same shopping plaza. You’ll often find name-brand food items on its
shelves that are several cents cheaper than at the supermarket.
Now that you have a few tools for building up your food supply
gradually, you’ll reach the point of thinking you have too much food.
The freezer is crammed to the lid with frozen meat and waffles. Your
kitchen cabinets are groaning and overloaded with canned spaghetti sauce
and tins of tuna. There’s no more room, right?
Actually, you have plenty of space. You just have to think about it
differently. There are probably several cubic feet of unused space under
the beds in your house. If you don’t need the room for storing
out-of-season clothing, why not invest in a few plastic containers
designed to fit that space and store canned goods and packaged pasta in
them? Think about some other wasted space in your home. You have more
room than you think.
Wherever you store it, a cool and dry area that doesn’t receive direct
sunlight is the ideal place to stack those boxes, bags and bottles. The
food inside them will retain its freshness and nutrient content a lot
longer.
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