Why is it important to store food in a convenient and accessible location?

Storing food conveniently and accessibly ensures you can regularly use and check your supplies, maintaining their freshness and keeping your cooking skills sharp.

How does regular access to stored food benefit me?

Regular access helps you monitor food quality, prevents waste, and keeps your cooking skills active, making it easier to use your supplies effectively during emergencies.

What is the advantage of developing cooking skills with stored ingredients?

Cooking from scratch with basic ingredients enhances your self-reliance and ensures you can prepare nutritious meals even if your stored food runs low or becomes unusable.

Locating Your Food Storage: Criteria 2 - Convenient & Accessible

One of my biggest ‘beefs’ with some food storage plans is that the items are stored and ignored for an undetermined amount of time. This not only is poor stewardship of eventually perishable recourses you want to have a eye on, but also omits the one resource you will need in the event of using the stored food – skill. If you keep your food storage in a convenient and accessible place where you can get into it often and use it on a regular basis, you not only know that the contents are in good condition but more importantly you know how to use them all.

Anyone who has cooked from scratch knows the difference between using basic ingredients and an mix that requires ‘just add water’ as the instructions. The skill is an added bonus to keeping your food storage in a convenient and accessible place.

Of course the closer you can locate your food storage to your kitchen, the easier and more convenient it will be, but that is not always the case. Many people who store food will choose an alternative area for the bulk and ‘shop’ there for the replenishing of their smaller kitchen/pantry area. It doesn’t ALL have to be in the kitchen or pantry.

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Here is a short list of ideas that I will expound upon in the next blog: