I store the basics such as rice, beans, wheat, pasta, corn, oatmeal, salt and sugar. If properly stored this food can last several years. You should pack your long term storage food into 5 or 6 gallon buckets using mylar bags and oxygen absorbers
Below are some great videos I found about 2 years ago on YouTube which showed me how to store my food into mylar bags and buckets:
The below video shows you how to seal the mylar bags using a regular clothes iron.
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I do not use mylar bags. I store dry foods in white food grade buckets. I got most of them from bakeries. I stored 500 pounds of hard winter wheat about 30 years ago. The buckets are stored outside in a shed and are subject to below freezing temperatures every winter. I put a walnut size piece of dry ice in each bucket of wheat. I opened a bucket a few months ago and the wheat was in perfect shape. It made good bread.
ReplyDeleteI fill 5 gallon buckets with flour, cornmeal, rice, dry beans of all kinds, and sugar. I do not put anything in the bucket except the food. I have baked good bread with flour that is 20 years old. The stuff keeps just fine. I have never had a bucket of anything go bad. While I rotate the buckets for use, they are all many years old. All of the buckets have rings in the lids.
Stack 'em high.
Mountain rifleman
I use that wonderful, all purpose tool, my vacuum sealer, to seal and to get most of the air out of the mylar bags.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, we also use oxygen absorbers.
Our goal is to have food storage for seven years for ourselves and at least 10 other people. Ya just never who will come into your life.
Bob
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