Vickie found this yesterday. Well it wasn't really lost, and it was just in the cupboard, but she did notice the date on the container........... (we still had children living at home.......) It's about half used up. Still tastes OK.
We have probably done more with food storage in the last year than we have since early in our marriage. At one time we had a pretty good stock of basics, over a ton of wheat, and other things. We have been getting new wheat, and updating things. Shelf Reliance shelves are great. We have two racks of those, one just for #10 cans, of which we got an assortment of dehydrated and freeze dried stuff (that freeze dried stuff is expensive) and the other for more traditional pantry size cans. We try to keep them pretty full. I've been ordering some things when the Relief Society puts together orders.
I've done a little research trying to figure out the shelf life of the wheat we bought back in the early 70's, best guess is that it's probably still good, although being stored in the garage hasn't been a plus on that. We are making our own bread again, with dough enhancer and extra gluten, you can make a whole wheat bread that is not heavy, and it tastes great.
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yea! the blog is alive again! And yea! for food storage. What's your plan for water storage?
Well, we have this big blue thing in the garage, but it's empty.... One of my ideas, was to buy a second water heater, and put it in front of the actual water heater, but not connect it to power or gas, and just have the water run through it before it gets to the water heater.
My other idea is to move some place where they actually HAVE water.
Wow, that will definitely get the prize for oldest food. I don't think there is any chance we have anythign that old on our shelves.
We recently helped a family move (throw out) their food storage out of a storage unit. They moved overseas, and the people at the storage facility noticed honey leaking out from under the wall. They called the EQ in to help clean it out, and see if anybody in the ward could use their food storage. It was all 20 years old. Most of the stuff was just in plastic bags, and then stored in plastic containers that they apparently got free from the local bakery. The 3 massive tubs of honey were all crystalized (summer, winter, summer in a storage unit in texas). Some of the #10 can didn't weigh anything, and sounded like they were full of dried out weevils.
It all went in the dumpster at the church.
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