10 Places Anyone Can Store Food

Personal Liberty Digest ^ | October 15, 2012 | Thomas Miller

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Tom Miller lives with his wife and three sons in the Northeastern quadrant of the United States. He has completed countless hours of advanced training in both clinical and trauma medicine and is a Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician. Tom has also completed several courses in disaster and emergency planning/management as well as hazardous materials handler and transport certification. He graduated with honors from American Military University with an Associate of Arts in Real Estate Studies. Tom is a U.S. Army combat veteran who served with honor as a combat medic on his multiple overseas tours during the Global War on Terror. During his time in the Army, Tom became an expert in the use of several weapons (including long guns, sidearms and improvised weaponry) and obtained competence with many other weapon systems, including foreign firearms. The Army also afforded Tom the opportunity to become proficienct in the driving and operation of several different vehicles from Humvees to heavy trucks and tracked vehicles. If there happens to be any free time available, Tom can be found sharing his passion for fishing with his sons, working on a project in the wood shop, tending to the garden or trying to maintain some resemblance of physical fitness. Tom's other writings can be viewed on his blog, The Prepared Ninja, at www.thepreparedninja.com. If you are on Twitter, Tom can be followed on the handle @preparedninja.

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee, I thought one of the answers would have involved a hollow tree (cf. Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London:Frederick Warne & Co., 1911)

[redfreedom]

Canned food if properly stored will last over 20 years. I know this from experience. In Vietnam I was eating C Rations from the 40’s. I’d take them any day over LRP’s or MRE’s.

[KittenClaws]

Ping!

[KarlInOhio]

11. Internally (burp).

Unfortunately I have stored too many that way :-(.

[Buckeye McFrog]

11: Between your rib cage and your knees
(see: Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore)

[Vigilanteman]

Food canning was developed circa 1810. There is a true story about a museum in Great Britain who found some sealed tinned meat from the Napoleonic Wars in the late 1930's and fed it to the museum's cat. The cat enjoyed the historic treat and did just fine. It would have been at least 125 years old at the time. The museum staff, of course, were not willing to lend themselves to such an experiment.

[bgill]

Thanks for the post though some make fun of preps. They’ll be the first ones whining knocking at your door. Hope they don’t lose their jobs or worse when a supply of food would give them a buffer and they don’t have to explain to their kids why mommy and daddy didn’t care enough to provide a little insurance.

Remember not to store food where the temperature is too extreme. A hot garage or attic will ruin your supplies.

[PUGACHEV]

It's a good thing they didn't eat it. As it is today, the British military aggressively sought the lowest bidder for canned food, but, unlike today. there was apparently no quality control. As a result, some suspect that the Franklin expedition, which disappeared in the Arctic, suffered from lead poisoning as a result of too much solder used in sealing the cans.

[R. Scott]

Too bad prescriptions can’t be stockpiled.

[PUGACHEV]

I would think that the biggest problem in storing food would not be finding a place to put it, but finding some way to keep insects out of it. For instance, I know that if I put a bag of flour in the cabinet sealed inside of a plastic container with a silicone seal, somehow moths and weevils will grow inside of it. How they get past the seal is a mystery, but they do every time.

[Loud Mime]

When in the field one night I opened a can of CRat Chili. I pulled out an 5 inch long vein from some animal. I then started bargaining for fruitcake.

[OldMagazine]

They were in the bag when you bought it. Next time put the bag in the freezer for a few days before putting it on the shelf.

[goodnesswins]

Why can’t prescriptions be stockpiled? You don’t believe those USE BY dates do you?

[goodnesswins]

There’s one other place you can store things....if you have a house with space underneath it that is dry....we have probably 800sq ft of space under our house...it’s dry and cool and the ground is covered in black plastic.

[MamaTexan]

How they get past the seal is a mystery, but they do every time.

With the risk of grossing everyone out, it could be that they were already there. Industry standards allow for a certain amount of insect eggs, parts and excrement in food articles like flour, cornmeal and the like. You also have the added issue of contamination during transport.

Foodstuffs should be rotated on a regular basis, particularly if one is planning on long-term storage. Any eggs will hatch, and the rotation allows you to weed it out of your supplies.

Out of curiosity, has this happened with a single type and brand of food item, or does it happen in everything?

[ViLaLuz]

the food has their eggs in it. They hatch out after sealing. I’ve had success freezing pasta and flour first before long storage. This kills the eggs.

[PUGACHEV]

I’ve noticeed it happening with stored flour and nuts. I’ve always assumed that the crafty insects wiggled through the seals as if their life depended on it. I never considered the possibilty that they were there already.

[MamaTexan]

I never considered the possibilty that they were there already.

Neither had I until someone pointed it out to me. Like I said....gross. LOL!

[darth]

Try #10 cans of food from:

www.waltonfeed.com

You can keep enough cases of cans under your bed to feed you for a year. I keep to basics like oatmeal, rice, potato flakes, barley, powdered milk, etc.

The food is good as long as the cans don’t rust through. You can paint the outside with clear shellac, candle wax, etc. to keep them about 100 years.

Buy food from Walton by the pallet to save on freight. For about $1000 you can buy enough to feed a family for a year.

That’s a lot cheaper than freeze dried.

A small pressure cooker will save on fuel and cooking time. With a grain grinder, you can bake bread using fresh flour forever. The whole grains in sealed in mylar bags inside 6 gal. pails will keep for at least 20 years.