Rotating your food storage may be challenging to you, especially if you are not used to using the food you have on hand. It is important that you rotate the food so that it doesn’t go to waste. It is also important that your family becomes accustomed to eating the food you have in food storage.
The simplest way to begin doing this is to have a food storage night once a week or once a month. You simply cook items from your food storage supplies. If you plan a different meal every week and then replenish the supplies the following week you will be rotating part of your food storage.
It may be easier to have a whole week where you cook from your food storage every month. This could help you to save on groceries because you can restock the depleted items when they go on sale. It will also guarantee that you are rotating a wider variety of foods, instead of similar food every week.
Another good reason to do this is it may help you realize that you have overlooked an essential item. You may discover that you need more of a certain type of food or that you really don’t think that you will eat all that canned ham that you have stored. You will know if what you have stored will provide you with a diet that you and your family can tolerate.
It may be important to practice preparing the foods you have stored, as you would in emergency situations. You may want to spend some time grinding your wheat that you have stored or cooking out of doors on your grill or camp stove. This will make the transition easier for you, if you ever have to prepare your food in this way.