Beginning a food storage can be a daunting task, especially if you have never done it before. Fortunately, if you take the time to learn a few techniques you will soon become an expert on choosing and successfully storing food for your family. Having food on hand during emergencies or an economic crisis can be a great blessing to your family. Just remember, during times of stress, your family will be grateful to have familiar foods to eat. Therefore, a successful food storage program follows the simple guideline: Store what you eat and eat what you store. Check out the slide presentation below as well as the other documents for guidelines and tools that will help you build your family's food storage.
Your food storage can easily become your convenience foods by setting aside one or two days a month to spend in the kitchen, completing many tasks ahead of time. Check out the task list below for a list of ideas of things you can do on a Food Prep Day.
We have provided inventory sheets to help you determine your family needs. You can download the "Family Inventory - Blank" and save the file to your own computer. Customize the document by deleting and adding the foods of your choice. You can look at the "Final Inventory Sheets" attachment as an example. After I have decided my inventory, then I can think about shelf space to store that amount. It takes a little work to create an inventory sheet, but once you build up your food supply, you can use the FIRST IN FIRST OUT method of rotating and maintaining your inventory
Your food storage can easily become your convenience foods by setting aside one or two days a month to spend in the kitchen, completing many tasks ahead of time. Check out the task list below for a list of ideas of things you can do on a Food Prep Day.
We have provided inventory sheets to help you determine your family needs. You can download the "Family Inventory - Blank" and save the file to your own computer. Customize the document by deleting and adding the foods of your choice. You can look at the "Final Inventory Sheets" attachment as an example. After I have decided my inventory, then I can think about shelf space to store that amount. It takes a little work to create an inventory sheet, but once you build up your food supply, you can use the FIRST IN FIRST OUT method of rotating and maintaining your inventory
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