Food Storage-Thoughts by Julie Hymas (Jesse's Grandma)

I got an email from Jesse's Grandma the other day and it talked about food storage. Something that some of us may be working on, and some of us may not. It had some great thoughts that I wanted to share, and then some that I wanted to add.

She talked about making sure that you could survive if there was a local disaster and you couldn't go outside for 30 days. She talked about having reading material, candles, lanterns, matches, etc to light your way. She also talked about reading materials and making sure that you have activities and such for you and your family to read and do while you are stuck inside. Another thing that she suggested which is something that Jesse and I do, is putting water in your empty juice bottles to keep in your food storage. She had so many wonderful tips and thoughts on how to better prepare yourself and your family. If you are interested in reading the email, please let me know and I will forward it to you. I am grateful to have family that worry about us and want to be sure that we are prepared just in case we ever need it.

My additional thoughts on this subject are that you need to be sure that you have healthy things in your food storage as well. Things such as beans, they are good for protein, powder milk, dried fruit, if possible dried veggies. Try to put things in your food storage that you and your family already enjoy and like to eat so that you have things you are already used. Just be sure that they are able to be stored for a long period of time. Also, on occasion, try to cook with the items from your food storage so that you and your family are used to the things you have and so that your food storage items don't go bad. Do research to make sure you know the shelf life of the items you are putting in food storage, and label the date that you put it in storage and the date that it needs to be out of storage so that it won't go bad and waste your money. There are so many wonderful tips on food storage, I just think it's important to be sure that you can get the most healthy food possible in your food storage and to be sure that you know how to use it when the time comes for you to use it.

Thanks for all the tips from Jesse's Grandma, we are so grateful to her and her constant love and concern. She is a wonderful woman and we don't get to see her and his Grandpa very often, so we miss them a lot!