How Not to Manage Your Food Storage

One topic you'll see me talk about at length is food storage. I believe it's vitally important to have at least some extra food on hand in the event of an emergency. The extent to which you store food depends on your unique situation. In upcoming posts, I'll share with you how I do it and offer my suggestions on how to start. Each Friday, I'll post something about food storage.

This, however, is the absolute worst thing you can do when it comes to having extra food on hand.

While we were house hunting, we saw this in the garage of one of the homes we walked through.  Based on the price stickers on the items, all of this came from a place in Colorado Springs called Bargain Mart. It's a discount grocery store that tends to have things that are nearing their expiration date.



Most everything was piled in boxes with no catagorization whatsoever.

How would you know what you have? How would you find something specific? How do you even get to the stuff?

This is a good idea gone very wrong.  I'm guessing the prices were so attractive that the person just loaded up on everything and anything. I saw about a dozen jars of different types of caviar. The price was $1.00 per jar. 

Don't make this mistake. Make a plan, make a space with shelves or other organization system, then make your shopping list. Store what you use and eat, not just what's on sale.

Unless you really, REALLY love Coleman's Dry Mustard, don't buy two dozen tins of it simply because it's an awesome price. You won't use it before it goes bad which means you've thrown your money away.



There's a right way and a wrong way to go about laying in supplies. Please don't get all excited about some "case lot" sale or something you find at a discount grocer and load your trunk up with a bunch of stuff like this person did. 



Who here has some food stored up for a rainy day? If not, have you thought about it? Feel free to share your thoughts on the matter.