Debunking Food Storage Myths

Don’t be afraid to replace certain foods with foods you use more often. For example, the typical calculator may tell you to store way more, or less, of a certain ingredient then you would ever use. For example, you might like to use your grain mill to grind corn for cornbread, so you don't have to take the cornmeal recommendation literally and can store corn kernels instead.


You don't have to cook your meals with only shelf-stable ingredients. While these recipes can be useful and are good to know about in case of a severe emergency situation, they are NOT the be all/end all of food storage. The idea is that you will be learning to cook with your food storage and constantly rotating it. It’s okay to mix and match “food storage” items with “non-food storage” items.


TOTAL LIE! Your house is never to small to start working on your food storage. Get creative!  Put stuff under your bed or in a closet.  Anywhere you can think of.


NOT! Let’s be honest, unless you have tons of cash lying around, this isn’t going to happen. Start small. Commit yourself to buying food, little by little. Decide you will gather small amounts of a variety of long term food storage items. Once you discover which items you use most often, re-adjust and keep on buying when you can.


FALSE. I hardly consider myself a health food freak.  I like to feed my family healthy food, but I'm not opposed to yummy desserts!


Daily food storage means using your food storage in meals YOU would typically make. It’s surprising how you can adapt and start using your food storage even if you don’t cook the standard meals “everyone” else seems to be making.


While this is the reason a lot of people think you should get into food storage, it is one of the very last reasons why we LOVE having food storage. We have found that we use food storage for health reasons, self-reliance reasons, to weather against economic storms, and so much more. While it’s good to eventually make plans for how to survive without things like gas and electricity, there is no need to let that get in the way of you starting to use and rotate through your food storage TODAY!

*Info from FoodStorageMadeEasy