Ah yes, food storage.
Like a bullet to a werewolf, so is food storage to the Latter-Day Saint. It can single-handedly topple even the stoutest of frame, limberest of body, and largest of pantries. We have been counseled to have varying amounts of food storage (typically a year's worth) since the beginning of time - or maybe the seventies.
But you know, we're young. Might as well be, right?
I grew up knowing we had a bazillion number 105 cans (http://www.sizes.com/home/cans.htm) in our garage that had been there since the height of the Cold War. We knew that in the event of post-apolocalyptic nuclear fallout, our thirty year old red wheat would get us through! Never mind that we only had .0125 acres of property and our house took up half of that -- we'd be farmers! And while we didn't have wheat grinders, we had teeth!
Actually, that sort of logic was what turned me off to food storage. But we've been reading all sorts of things that indicated you should not change your current diet when it comes to storing food. That broadened all sorts of possibilities, opened all sorts of doors, and made a lot more sense, too. We have a lot more space in our new place, and so with the repayment of an interest-free government loan in the form of a tax refund, we decided to take advantage of the local case lot sales and stock up. We bought 6 grocery carts FULL to the brim of any kind of non-perishable items that we regularly use whether it was foil, spaghetti sauce or toilet bowl cleaner. So if you ever have the leisure of staying in one of our spare bedrooms we have dubbed “the pantry” (and rightly so, if you ask me) take a look around and it won't be hard to find a snack.
Once we get a bed frame, all these boxes
will be stored underneath coverd by a bed skirt.
For now, they're in the smaller spare room.
And still waiting for some
air-tight buckets and a home:
There are more cans than you can shake a stick at. Seriously, I bet your arm would get tired.
We're still figuring out the details of how we'll do the rotations, but we're pretty excited about having it. Hard times or not, the fact that we have the option regardless of whether it's needed is pretty comforting.
Plus it adds a little color to the room!
2 comments:
Wow! That's awesome! Scott and I need to get food storage like that. We really have nowhere to store it, though. It's great that you guys have so much extra room to put it all. If there's a catastrophe in Utah, can we come to your house:)
BRAVO! Wow you guys did awesome! I don't even have food storage like that! We got a hundred bucks for Christmas that we are suposed to spend on food storage but we haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm with you as far as getting stuff that you will actually use. Bryce isn't too fond of the rotation idea so he wants to 1st stock up on 500 pounds of food that will store for 50 years or so and never have to worry about again. I forsee a few problems with that such as if you aren't used to eating that kind of stuff it will put your body into shock and make you sick. He thinks that's a bunch of bull crap and that in the event of an emergency you can cope and eat it if you have to. Hmmm...me thinks it's time for more food storage education.
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