At our Food Storage Part II Relief Society meeting last Thursday night, we took a virtual tour of Julianne Price's and and Kyrsten Crawford's food storage. They each stored their food in a varitey of places threw out their home, i.e. hall closets, bedroom closets, behind beds pulled forward from the wall and in kitchen pantries and cabinets. Sister Price also stores some food in her garage. She knows that, being outside, the food's self life decreases dramatically, but she plans on using her food more frequently than the 20+ or 30+ year self life.
One thing that I noticed in both Sister Price's and Kyrsten Crawford's food storages was dried fruits and vegetables. Although fruits and vegetables are not one of the basic staples of a longer-term storage, they would provide necessary vitamins, minerals and variety to your diet if you ever needed to live on your food storage.
Both Sister Price and Sister Crawford mentioned the necessity of having a plan when building and maintaining a food storage. Although neither went into specific detail about their plans, Sister Price mentioned how much easier it is to run a food storage with a plan, and Sister Crawford said that she is making a detailed monthly menu based on her food storage to help her know how to best use her food storage when crisis comes.
Thank you Sister Price and Sister Crawford for sharing your food storage with everyone. What great examples you guys are!
One thought that I had while watching the videos was how important it is for our food storages to emulate what we normally eat on a daily basis. For example, it's easier to store and rotate wheat when it's something we naturally use daily or weekly. If you don't use wheat in your cooking, either have different grains in your storage or learn how to use it and gradually make it a part of your family's diet. The same goes for rice, pasta, potato flakes/pearls, oats, pinto beans, black beans, dry milk, and other common items found in a food storage.
We also had an awesome dehydrating food demo, but I'll go into that in a new post.
Happy Food Storage Planning!
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