Deep Pantry Food Storage
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- When you’re setting up a deep pantry system, make sure you have a good way to store what you’ve purchased and know how to break down your bolt purchases to make them efficient for you and your family. #food #prepper #cook #cooking
Your comment nailed it regarding rodents. Glass and metal are rodent proof. Keep sharing this message!
Thank you very much a lot of people tell me that the glass charge are just too expensive now and I remind them that a dozen jars cost about as much as it does to eat at McDonald’s for one person for one meal about 16 bucks. The nice thing about the glass jars is, you’ll always have them pretty much I know every now and then one will break during canning or something like that but they just last forever. I bought 100 quart jars this past summer at a yard sale for $20 and they just needed washing out still in the boxes With the recipes printed on the bottom
Yes, absolutely right. Rodents destroy almost everything.
They ate into my plastic jars of peanut butter, spaghetti sauce, jelly, and mayo.
They ate the tops out of my cardboard containers of milk, red pepper soup and molé sauce.
Here’s an unbelievable one for ya. I had Lorna Doone cookies (in original wrapper), shoved inside a big mason canning jar. Lid was vacuum sealed, but no ring.
At some point, the seal failed and the rodent got inside, ate the cookies, without leaving any trace that it had been there. The jar looked normal, the wrappers were normal, but the cookies were gone.
I always put the ring (lid band) on every jar I vacuum seal from now on. I also went back, checked every jar, then put a ring on it.
It’s a lot of work, and I’m tired. But I learned my lesson the hard way.
They can be really hard to control. Sorry you had such a problem with them. I’ve been slowly converting everything over into mason jars and other large glass storage containers or the really hard plastic stuff. I’ve heard stories of people who kept all of their bulk paper stored up in their attic, and then they would come back and find most of it ruined and nothing but mouse nest in it
@@Mayhemcountryliving I have to admit, I did watch pantry videos when I was first starting into food preps. But I didn’t believe what people were saying about mice. At that time, I didn’t have rodents.
I just want to let people know the exact damage that can happen. I want to spell it out, loud & clear in the hopes that it saves even one person’s preps.
It’s super nice to have a beautiful pantry, but be practical folks. I’m taking safety over pretty every single time and it has cost me time & money to figure this out.
Btw, mice can/do eat into Mylar bags. But, Mylar bagged food in a big 5 gallon bucket is fairly safe…but Mylar inside a metal file cabinet or trash can is best. I now have a dozen file cabinets and I feel great about storing my preps.
@@kiddlesnmore2 I recall, reading a story about a guy who prepped using metal filing cabinets and he started out by buying 12 filing cabinets used, and he started putting in things like a bar of soap, A tube of toothpaste, deodorant, for however, many people he had in his family and he did that in each filing cabinet for all of his basic hygiene needs, and then went and did cans of food in each one and so on so on and as he duplicated it he began to get everything stored a year. I’m not explaining it well but you see what he was getting at he had one years worth of hygiene and basic food staples and then just rotated every cabinet. He had labeled the cabinets one through 12 for each month of the year. It’s a good way to do it. A lot of people do fuel storage that way as well with 5 gallon fuel containers that have stabilized fuel. I look at those pretty videos of like the pantries with the white walls and the crown molding and the nice wooden shelves and all the containers match, etc. etc. and you have to admit that is a beautiful way to do it. It’s not ideal or cost-effective for everyone. That’s why I opted for grocery store shelving. It’s fairly cheap modular and it works for our needs. People actually tell me it looks like a grocery store in my basement and as a joke I bought one of those little bitty grocery cart. Now we do have a couple of pallets of long-term food storage in 5 gallon buckets with mylar containers but for our everyday use and the foods we preserve and the canned goods we buy the grocery store shelves work pretty well for us.
@@Mayhemcountryliving Yes, your set-up looks exactly like a grocery store, I love it.
I do have the totes of long term food, not a lot, but some. I labeled them “table cloths” and “old rags”.
I’m one of those folks who stocked up years worth of non-food in my file cabinets. My daughter & grandkids moved in with me for a while (moved out a few months ago). And the boys were complaining so much because I wouldn’t move all my preps out of the 2 back rooms so they wouldn’t have to share a room (ungrateful). Now that they’ve moved out, both of them have told me how much they miss just going in the back room for food. Of course while they were here, I made them watch videos on preparedness. Hopefully some of that info stuck with them.
Thanks for the detail of your post. Of course, “I don’t have any rodents in my house” - I sure wanna believe that! I’ve got a bag of traps sitting in the garage, so dang, I better set ‘em up. So sorry….i did have to chuckle at one point in your tale of woe….i could hear Beyoncé singing, “if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it”. 🤣 Seriously tho, I had no idea those lil rodents could be so clever. Good luck to you and thanks for the heads-up.
Speaking of salt. I am headed to the feed store today and thanks for reminding me. I’m gonna get 50lbs of salt today
It is one of the easiest and cheapest preps you can ever do if you’ve got the space to store it and keep it dry a couple of hundred pounds of salt will last you the rest of your life lol and you don’t have to use it for your table you can still use whatever you want, but just know when you have that Plus it’s good to have some for your critters too
I’m on a very tight budget but I just bought 2 food grade buckets with lids. I think I’ll fill one with salt and the other with flour maybe.
That’s interesting and that’s a good way to start a pantry. Have you considered doing dried beans and maybe pasta instead as your first string item that way you can go back and readily eat from those
@@Mayhemcountryliving ya I actually have loads of beans, rice, and oats. I used to prep but I’ve depleted a lot of my stockpile of pretty much everything else.
@@mamadoom9724 good stuff. I’m glad to hear that. I just didn’t wanna steer you in the wrong direction. Yes, the nice thing about having all the salt is you’re never going to have to get it again unless something really bad happens. I keep a few hundred pounds stored on a pallet and I don’t imagine I’ll be using it all up in my lifetime.
Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching
Ok peppermint and clove oils - those will keep ALL buggies OUT
Yes. And there are multiple uses for those oils
Yeast lasts many years in the freezer. I also find that if it's old, as long as you can smell some normal yeast scent, use a little sugar in the warm water and let it sit a little longer. I also prefer to store whole bean coffee in the freezer and only grind what I need the day I make some. By double grinding the coffee I can use between 1/2 and 2/3 the suggested amount.
A word for some, bulk spices can be purchased from Azure Standard in a variety of sizes.
Good information
We have been selling custom seasonings to prep pets for years now. I buy all of my ingredients by the pound.
Best way to do it. Send me some information about your business and I will give you a shout out
New subscriber here from Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Thank you for subscribing # I appreciate it!!
SALT MINES - that is how the romans lived…..
A man was paid his salt wage
Thanks
You’re very welcome thank you for watching
So much would expire with my needs. Why so much on hand?
That is a really good point. You need to cater your food storage to your needs for example, if you don’t like mushrooms, there’s really no need for you to store or set aside mushrooms in the canned variety or the dried variety. We set aside and plan for natural disasters which occur frequently as we live in the deep south and have Tornadoes and hurricanes. This is what I have set aside and stored for my family and extended family. during 2020 for example during the Covid scare, we didn’t go buy anything because we already had what we needed. Cater your food storage and you’re buying for your specific needs. That was a really good question and it Segway nicely into a complete video. Thank you for the suggestion.
Absolutely you’ve got it exactly right for example, if someone is on a low sodium diet and lifestyle, they would adjust their food storage to cater to that certain health need. We try to keep food for six people for six months adults with three meals a day at around 2000 cal for most meals so depending on the season of the year and the harvest we can extend that out.
Do you remember what the shelves and freezers in many of the stores looked like in mid 2020? Also by buying when things are on sale you can save money. Some sale cycles are at 3 month loops in the USA, some are annual. Expiration dates vary and are often a couple years out, just check the dates when you buy then mark the can or jar with the month and year in large numbers to make rotation easier.
I live alone but I keep enough jarred and tinned meats, and shelf stable foods for several months.
@happygardener28 that is a great way to do it and it’s like having a food bank with the amount of inflation from 2020 just on the prices of food you cannot get that kind of a return on the New York Stock Exchange