You may have noticed that I have a new emergency preparedness section (titled e-prep) on my navigation bar! It has great information about 72 hour kits and my favorite different emergency cooking options. I’ll be adding more to it over the summer but in the meantime, check out what I’ve been working on!
I can’t open any of the links at the e-prep site…
It’s all fixed!
Awesome! I’m excited about the e-prep! Just what I’ve been trying to work on lately!
On an unrelated note, I just got your book from the library, and you say I can store my wheat in a five gallon container with 2 oxygen absorbers. Have you ever done this before or know someone who has? I want to make sure it will work before I store 500 lbs of wheat this way….
I haven’t, that is just what my research said.
My local food storage store said to use 1 oxygen packet per gallon in the buckets, so a 5-gallon bucket would need 5 absorbers. They also recommend using a large (5-gallon) mylar bag inside the bucket as that will help the wheat store longer. I used this method for my flour that I sealed last month. I ended up finding 6-gallon buckets of wheat (45-lbs) at Sam’s club for about $16 and bought those instead.
Before the new recommendations…I stored my wheat with 2-3 oxy absorbers. That wheat was stored over 10 yrs ago and is perfectly fine. I am using it today. Recomendations seem to change often as more research is done. If you are rotating your long term storage it really won’t make a difference I would think. You’ll be using it long before can loose nutritional value and holding it’s nutrients and keeping it bug free is the point of storing it properly.
Where do you buy your non-fat dried/instant milk?
Thank you for your help!
the LDS cannery
Tony is really excited about this site. We are excited to learn more!