Posted: 6/9/2011 4:06:38 AM EDT
Some of you might be familiar with my shooting videos. Well yesterday I was adding some food storage and decided to make a vid of it. |
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Quoted: Outstanding video, thank you for the info. Is jerky storable in that manner? Sorry for the uneducated questions but I have never packaged my own stores, usually bought prepackaged dehydrated or freeze dried goods. I store meats and veggies in cans that I rotate every 3 years or so. (IMO a good supply of canned goods with the rice beans and oats would make for pretty good living and can be done pretty cheap) If you are going to do this, and I recommend it because it is the cheapest way to add serious bulk to your food preps, you should read the tacked thread at the top of this page. |
| I do not understand why people pack long term storage food this way. Why waist all the bucket room with 1 gallon bags and fill the space with suckers. If you are going for long term storage get the mylar bags that fit 5 gallon buckets and fill the sucker up, make the most of your room. So some of you are going to say ya well I have a variety in the buckets and what ever. My question to this is how many buckets are you going to grab, 5 maybe 10? Well I could grab 4 buckets having rice, beans, oats, pasta and have more quantity then 10 buckets packed with 1 gallon bags. In a true SHTF situation you will be using the food fast enough that if kept in the bucket with the mylar folded tight and the lid on the bucket it will be just fine. Now if you are rotating this food into your house hold then the 1 gallon bags would work better but then again this is not long term storage. As for the raisin he packed they are a good idea and since 5 gallons of oats, about 20 pounds, is a lot of oats I save enough room in the oat bucket to put 2 bags of raisins on top. There is also enough room on the top of most buckets for some seasoning if so inclined since room is needed to fold in the mylar but it takes a lot of seasoning to season 30 lbs of beans or 35 pounds of rice so if you are really worried about seasoning pack some up in the 1 gallon bags or smaller and make up a seasoning bucket. For long term storage quantity is going to be more important then anything. |
| For my house holdstuff I prefer to have variety in each bucket, as I said in the vid this is grab and go, if I get one bucket I'm fine, if I get all of them I'm fine too. I'f I have to cache them someplace and live out of one I can. If I need to trade some food I can trade in small quantities. Those four buckets are all the mylar stored stuff that is at my house (I have other food preps as well) I have whole five gallon buckets at various locations as well. Those are primarily designed to fit in my car, with a lot of other stuff. |
