Food storage...how we do it









Food storage is something I have been working on for years.  Trying to get a good balance of what we use and what we would use if we had to go to reserve.  Honestly I started storing food, just because I don't like going to the store and with our large family we need a quite a bit of food, if I were to shop once a month.  Used to, there was a food co op that I ordered from once a year, but now there is one that we can pick up from once a month...if we want to.  My goal is to order form there once every 3 months.  It is challenging to keep to the "bulk" food and stay away form the store...my children and me sometimes like "convenience" better then eating healthy.  What my original plan was to eat from what we can make, and buy local produce and fruit from the market...what I can't grow anyway. 
One of our goals on our farm...produce our own fruit and veggies, meat, eggs, milk, then buy the rest from bulk...we are getting there...slowly.
So My wonderful hubby built a "soap" room when we bought this house, for my business.  Well the soap room has turned into a soap room/pantry. :)  He built all these selves for our soap and food and canning stuff, and I guess what ever else I can fit...right now there is plenty of room.  It's not organized yet, but I'm pretty excited. 
Inside the house under my big work table I store buckets of wheat berries, kamut, and oats.  Up on my new shelf I store what I need pretty much daily...almonds, coconut, rice, sucanat, granola, honey.  Out in the outside room I have all kinds of canned goods, soap, honey, maple syrup, dish soap, all my bulk baking goods, herbs, teas, beans more wheat berries, sucanat, rice, pretty much whatever I can get in bulk. :)  We try to purchase 5 gallons of honey at a time, you can see that's what's in the bucket.  We grind our own wheat and corn for cornmeal. 
And of course this is our garden.
We plan on adding...fruit and bees sometime.  We are raising our own beef, pork, eggs and milk.  Well most of the time.  When ours don't produce we purchase from another farm family...thanks Molly. ;)  There's probably tons more I could cover, but here is the "bulk" of it. :) 
Hope you enjoy reading and maybe getting some ideas.

Blessings,
JM

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