As Autumn approaches, I am reflecting on how we've emptied the freezer and how I should check in with the small cattle ranch down the road. We've been trying to work our way through our food stores so we don't have a bunch of old food sitting in the back of the cupboards and bottom of the freezer, but with winter coming, now is the time to restock.
There are plenty of websites that will sell you survival kits and all kinds of special food, but that just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. You can save more money and eat better food by just adjusting your diet and purchasing habits to eat healthy, nutritious foods that store well—and you actually enjoy. You don't want that stuff sitting in a cupboard forever.
If there really is a crisis though, you might want to have a deeper understanding of what to do, and what not to do. Lisa Bedford breaks down some common food storage myths for the potential prepper and offers up some great tips on how to build up food stores without it going to waste. That can mean repacking food and making sure you stock up on foods you will actually eat. You can find all of her articles here.
And Mary Hunt has plenty of articles about how to store food and pack your pantry without breaking the bank. Part of the benefit of thinking ahead and buying in bulk is that you can save money and time, so long as you buy foods you enjoy—or learn to enjoy foods you can buy cheaply and that last.
Maybe that whole "crazy prepper" stereotype needs to be revisited. I've been looking into these preppers a bit and most of them are just people that like to be ready for whatever life throws at them. As for me, I'd like my catcher's mitt to be a little bigger still.
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