Make Your Own Baby Foods in an Emergency

Here are a couple of recipes for making whole-grain baby cereals at home with your stored foods. These are great options for emergencies, but also for good times as well. By making your own baby foods, you have more control over the nutrition your baby is getting, and you can choose to use a variety of grains that cannot be found in your average supermarket. Baby whole grain cereal Use barley, brown rice, oatmeal, or a combination of any of these in this recipe: Grind your whole grain(s) in a blender or food processor until they are a very smooth … Continue reading →

Utilizing Your Stored Wheat

You may want to consider utilizing the wheat you have in your food storage. Wheat is an excellent source of protein and other important nutrients. If you do not eat whole-wheat items on a regular basis, it can upset your stomach, as you become use to the added fiber. This is one reason to use your wheat on a regular basis. Another is to keep it as fresh as possible. A third is that you can save money if you buy whole wheat, and grind it into flour yourself. Here are five ways you can use wheat in your everyday … Continue reading →

Try a Food Storage Potluck!

One great way to find new ways to utilize your food storage is to have a food storage potluck. This may be a little more difficult, if you do not have any friends that have and use food storage, but you can still try to have one anyway. The point of your potluck should be to try new dishes that use food storage, and to gather recipes together. If this goes successfully you may try to have a potluck once every few months, so you can continue to gather new recipes. Here are five tips for a successful potluck: 1) … Continue reading →

Get Creative With Your Food Storage

If you are tired of having the same type of meals every night you can utilize your food storage to change things up. You should have a lot of food on hand, and you may want to try something different and unique. You can do a recipe search online to find a variety of different recipes for the ingredients that you have on hand. This can save you a trip to the grocery store, as well as some time. If you do this once a month, it will help your family become accustomed to trying new foods. If you are … Continue reading →

Using Food Storage to Make Comfort Foods

As the weather begins to grow colder, many people begin to turn to the comfort foods that they love to eat. The hearty soups and stews, as well as heavier meals that keep us warm in the fall and winter. Many comfort foods are made from scratch or basic ingredients, so it is a great time to utilize your food storage. Many items also go on sale in the fall and winter, and it is a great time to stock up on them. Flour and sugar usually go on sale in the late fall, and canned vegetables will go on … Continue reading →

Are You Avoiding Certain Foods in Your Food Storage?

Do you have food item that you rarely find yourself using as you try to rotate your food? It may be wheat because you don’t want to take the time to grind it, or it may be a food that you know that you could never eat, after you had tasted it. There may be a variety of foods and reasons. If you are not rotating one of your primary foods you may need to consider donating it, and replacing it with one you would use. If wheat is one of your staples, and you are not rotating it, you … Continue reading →

Five Organization Tips for Rotating Your Food Storage

If you are having trouble making sure that you rotate your food you may want to reorganize your system. It can be difficult to plan meals around what you have. This can be even more difficult if you have food stashed in various places throughout your house. You may want to consider different ways to stock your food in order to make it easier to find and use. 1) You may consider storing items to make each meal together. If you make homemade chili you may want to consider storing the beans, tomatoes and other ingredients on the same shelf. … Continue reading →

Five Tips for Rotating Your Food Storage

Rotating the food that you store can be a difficult task if you don’t stay on top of it. While you can buy items for your food storage when they are on sale you need to keep track of food so that do not overstock items and waste food. It is also important to check the dates on your food and make sure that you are using it up on time. Here are five suggestions on easy ways to rotate your food storage: 1) If you have a lot of canned vegetables or fruit begin serving them with lunch as … Continue reading →

Have a Food Storage Meal Once a Week

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 … Continue reading →

Things to Store with Wheat

Wheat has excellent nutritional value, a long shelf life and it comes in a wide variety of grains. If you choose to incorporate wheat into your food storage then you need to make sure that you eat it on a regular basis as a family. This will allow your family become used to the wheat and make the transition to your food storage easier. If you have chosen to include wheat in your food storage supplies you will need to make sure that you have additional items stored as well. 1) If you have chosen to store wheat you need … Continue reading →