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Real Food Storage III: Pitfalls and Sources

May 23, 2011 by KerryAnn 5 Comments

This Thursday, May 26th at 7 pm central, I will be LIVE on The 21st Century Homekeeper Radio Show on the Be Prepared Radio Network discussing the whys and hows of real food storage.  Stay tuned for details.

Also on Thursday, our eBook on food storage will debut.  This book will contain a general overview of Food Storage and over 200 recipes.  Check the blog on Thursday for more information.

Our Real Food Storage series continues today with part three.  Today we discuss the main pitfall people encounter when they being setting up a food storage program, sources for bulk buys and more on what to store.

Variety is Paramount

Why don’t I recommend you rush out and buy 100 pounds of rice and 100 pounds of pinto beans at one time?  I often hear people new to food storage say, “Well, if anything happens, at least we’ll have beans and rice for a few months.”  If you have a job loss in the household or the death of the family’s main income earner, going from your normal diet to nothing but beans and rice will be a very difficult and demoralizing problem.  It will also likely cause digestive complaints and lack of appetite.

Hungry People Can Have No Appetite

That lack of appetite can be devastating on a child’s growth and an adult’s ability to work and think clearly.  Appetite fatigue often leads to weight loss, physical exhaustion, foggy thinking and low morale.  It strikes children and the elderly before adults.  It is better to have a little of everything your family considers normal, with plenty of spices for interest.  This will allow you to make varied meals instead of having the same meal repeatedly or with little variety for a long period of time. [Read more…] about Real Food Storage III: Pitfalls and Sources

Filed Under: Bug-In, Dairy, Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Seasonal Eating Tagged With: appetite, food storage, variety

Real Food Storage- Deep Pantry Principles for Traditional Foodists

March 7, 2011 by KerryAnn 4 Comments

Our Food Storage 101 article on our website was so popular, we decided to expand it into a blog series! Over the next several weeks, we will walk you through the whys and hows of food storage, whether you wish to have a week or a year of food on hand.

Why Should I Store Food?

There are many reasons why people choose to practice some form of food storage, and none of them are wrong. So many people are concerned right now. Since I began working with food storage in 2007, I have seen many reasons to choose to stock a deep pantry.

  • You wish to be prepared for a hurricane, a snow storm or an extended power outage.
  • While you might currently have a stable job, you know that unemployment is over 10% nationally, topping 15% in some areas. A recent Gallup poll showed that under-employment was at 19%. You aren’t currently dealing with unemployment, but you’re concerned it might be around the corner.
  • You’re looking to wisely invest your tax refund, knowing that currently the rising price of food is outpacing the interest rate, so the purchase of bulk food at a discounted price is a doubly wise investment of your funds.
  • You are a family facing unemployment or struggling through under-employment, or you are facing the end of your unemployment checks.
  • You don’t wish to have to purchase food on a credit card if you’re unemployed.
  • You currently know a family who is forced to choose between food and housing or food and heat due to a limited income.
  • You’re not particularly interested in food storage, but you’ve decided that buying in bulk is the best way to cut your whole-foods based budget.
  • You have food allergies, and you know that you would not be able to sustain your family between the offerings of a food bank and food stamps should something happen to your income.
  • You have food allergies, and you desperately need to bring down the grocery bill.
  • Due to being self-employed, you would not qualify for food stamps in an emergency.
  • You hate shopping and would rather shop less, or you live miles from convenient shopping locations.
  • You wish to leave the food at the food bank for those who are less fortunate than you.
  • You’ve read about the potential looming food shortages from the floods in many countries and droughts this year. Multiple countries have suffered flooding or freak snow and freezing weather in the last few months, and their effects on the price of food has been in the news.
  • You’ve met a family who sustained themselves with their food storage after a job loss or other tragedy. If you are a forum member, you know that last year we sustained ourselves for eleven months on food storage while my husband went through unemployment.
  • You see the need to not be a burden on others should an emergency occur, so that those who are less fortunate or can not prepare can utilize the food banks without you also needing to go there. This creates less of a burden on the safety nets meant to help families through a crisis.
  • You are trying to return to a more sustainable food production cycle in your own family, beginning a homestead or a hobby farm.
  • You are looking to unplug from a modern life-style.
  • You wish to save money by only purchasing fresh and in-season.

In 2009, our family sustained a major hit in the form of income loss when my husband, along with 90% of his co-workers, were laid off. Three months prior, everyone in the company had taken a salary reduction in a move to delay those lay-offs. We knew it was coming, we just didn’t know the day. Thankfully, we had one year of food storage in place when the lay-off happened. [Read more…] about Real Food Storage- Deep Pantry Principles for Traditional Foodists

Filed Under: Bug-In, Emergency Preparedness, Food Allergies, Food Storage, Real Food Storage Tagged With: breakfast, budget, bulk buys, dessert, earthquake, economy, eggs, emergency, emergency preparedness, family, food, food allergies, food storage, homesteading, hurricane, unemployment

Real Food Storage II: Getting Organized

May 5, 2011 by KerryAnn 6 Comments

Our first post on Real Food Storage got a good response from many of you.  In the second part of this series, we’re going to look at what to buy as part of your real foods storage.

Get Organized

In deciding what to purchase, there are two ways of going about the decision making process.  You can compile your own list or you can rely on a pre-made worksheet we created that you can customize to your families needs.  The easiest option is to use a pre-made worksheet to compile the information for you. [Read more…] about Real Food Storage II: Getting Organized

Filed Under: Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Real Food Storage Tagged With: bulk buys, food storage, organization

Real Food Storage Q&A

May 20, 2011 by KerryAnn 11 Comments

I’ve had folks e-mail and post on the forum, asking questions about the specifics of my food storage. I’d like to take a chance to answer those questions before the next installment of the Real Food Storage series comes out on Monday morning and my radio interview on Thursday night with The 21st Century Homekeeper.

These questions came up because we actually LIVED on our food storage while my husband was unemployed for 11 months.  We had one year of food stored and when he found a new job, we had two weeks of food left.  So my year’s worth of storage made for 11.5 months of food, it would have gone longer had our garden not drowned that summer.  So I’d say we hit our mark pretty well. [Read more…] about Real Food Storage Q&A

Filed Under: Bug-In, Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Real Food Storage Tagged With: beef, dairy, food storage, lay-off, personal care, unemployment

What’s in Season- December

December 1, 2010 by KerryAnn Leave a Comment

Produce is always cheapest when you buy it in season for your location. While I can not list every single area of the country and what is in season, this is a general over-view of what is currently in season for most of the United States. If you only buy local produce, not all of this will be available to you, but if you do purchase from stores, this is what should be the least expensive and the most fresh right now, even if it’s being trucked in from another state. Use this as a guide for purchasing large amounts from non-local farmer’s markets for canning, freezing, lacto-fermenting, dehydrating and preserving. If you can purchase locally and it is within your budget, please do. However, if you are new to eating seasonally or don’t have a local farmer, this list will help you make the best purchasing decisions.

Apples (end of season)
Avocado- Haas and Fuerte
Beets [Read more…] about What’s in Season- December

Filed Under: Food Storage, Seasonal Eating Tagged With: budget, December, food storage, fruits, seasonal eating, Spinach Sunchoke Sweet, United States, vegetables

What’s in Season- January

January 1, 2011 by KerryAnn Leave a Comment

Produce is always cheapest when you buy it in season for your location.  While I can not list every single area of the country and what is in season, this is a general over-view of what is currently in season for most of the United States. If you only buy local produce, not all of this will be available to you, but if you do purchase from stores, this is what should be the least expensive and the most fresh right now, even if it’s being trucked in from another state. Use this as a guide for purchasing large amounts from non-local farmer’s markets for canning, freezing, lacto-fermenting, dehydrating and preserving. If you can purchase locally and it is within your budget, please do. However,  if you are new to eating seasonally or don’t have a local farmer, this list will help you make the best purchasing decisions.

Avocado
Beet
Blood Oranges
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Carrot
Cauliflower
Celery
Chard
Grapefruit
Green onions
Kale
Kiwi
Leeks
Lemon
Mandarin oranges
Mustard Greens
Navel oranges
Pears, Anjou
Potato
Rutabaga (end)
Spinach
Sunchoke
Sweet potatoes
Tangerines
Turnips (end)
Walnuts
Winter squash

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KerryAnn Foster runs Cooking Traditional Foods, the longest running Traditional Foods Menu Mailer on the internet. KerryAnn has over nine years of traditional foods experience and is a former Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader. Founded in 2005, CTF helps you feed your family nourishing foods they will love. Each mailer contains one soup, five dinners, one breakfast, on dessert and extras. You can learn more about our Menu Mailers at the CTF website. For a free sample Menu Mailer, join our mailing list. You can also join our forum to chat with other traditional foodists and learn more.

Filed Under: Food Storage, Seasonal Eating Tagged With: budget, food storage, fruits, January, seasonal eating, Spinach Sunchoke Sweet, United States, vegetables

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