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wanting supplies, equipment, bomb shelters, generators, long term storage foods
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Where to Locate Your Home Food Store?

Before storing food and supplies, you'll need to select a place that will best meet the criteria for appropriate conditions, relative convenience, and sufficient space.

Look around your home and property.

Find a room that you can dedicate as your home food store, or in which you can make space for your store.

Finding the Best Conditions for Food Storage

Store your food in a cool, dry place away from sunlight that stays a constant temperature, between 40 and 60 degrees F. this is important because hot or cold fluctuations in temperature can destroy the nutritive value of the food and shorten its shelf life.

Find the coolest place in your house.

This will usually be in your basement ( if you have one), but preferably away from a furnace room or other heat source.

Freezer, refrigerators,  furnaces, and water heaters should not be located in this room because
they all give off heat, increasing the room temperature.

Other good locations are root cellars, insulated and heated garages ( where the temperature stays constant between 40 and 60 degrees F), spare bedrooms, unfinished rooms, crawl spaces, closets, under stairways, or under beds.

North walls are cooler because they are away from sun exposure.

The room you chose should stay dry at all times.

If your clothes dryer is located inthis room, be sure it is properly ventilated to prevent moisture from gathering on the food.

Choosing Your Most Convenient Space

Remember: The closer you can locate your food storage area to your kitchen, the easier you will find it to rotate the food storage.

The following are some locations you might want to consider in your home food store.

The Basement

If you are lucky enough to have a basement, you will find that the temperature is usually cooler, ideal for storing food. Keep all food away from dryer vents or furnaces, which give off moisture that can rust your cans.

Under the stairways

There is usually a lot of wasted space under a stairway since the sloped ceiling makes it inappropriate for a living area. Shelves can be built that will hold your food storage such as canned goods, large buckets, as well as camping equipment, 72-hour kits, medical supplies, and so on. Hint: Try installing hooks from the ceiling to hold your 72-hour backpacks.

Closets

A pantry can be made out of a closet.

You'll be amazed at how much a closet will hold when the shelving is installed properly.

Be sure to measure all your boxes or cans so you can make the shelving just the right size to hold your food storage items without leaving any more wasted space than necessary.

I like to build the first shelf high enough off the floor (or ground) so several six gallon buckets can be stored underneath.

I keep all my bulk food such as rice, beans, sugar, flour, wheat, pasta, and dried potatoes in buckets so I can easily slide them out, take what I need, and use it.

The Garage

If the temperature in your garage fluctuates between freezing in the winter and hot in the summer, then your garage isn't the best place for food storage.

Food retains it nutritive value approximately 50 percent longer when it stays at a relatively constant temperature than when stored in extremely uneven temperatures.

However, a garage is a great place for all other short-term emergency equipment and kits, as well as nonfood items such as extra toilet paper and paper towels.

If your garage temperature goes below 32 degrees F in the winter, you can store grain
and beans there because the freezing temperatures will kill bugs.

The Attic

Do not store food in your attic if it heats up in the summer (most attics do).

The food will spoil quickly in hot temperatures.

If your attic is vented and insulated and stays a fairly constant temperature, it will be just fine.

Remember, however, that the farther away from the kitchen the food is stored, the harder it will be for you to get to and rotate.

If your attic is fairly close to your kitchen and easily accessible by stairs or a pull-down ladder, it may work just fine for you.

The Utility Room

If large enough, your utility room may well double as a room for food storage.

Shelves can be built above the washer and dryer to store extra laundry soap, bleach,
and other cleaners.

I had two feet of wasted space along one wall in my utility room, so I had shelves built along the entire wall.

The top shelf holds all my canning and sprouting equipment, wheat grinder, juicer and large roasting pans, along with extra blankets, pillows, sleeping bags, and more.

The side shelves were built to hold all my spices, which I buy in bulk and store in
plastic containers, as well as my gallon-sized containers of food.

The center has two rolling self-feeding units that hold twenty cases of canned goods.

They can be pulled in and out to stock the shelves from the back.

I love my utility room now; it is very organized and holds a lot of food and food-preparation equipment.

In addition, it's close to my kitchen, which makes it convenient for me to rotate and use foods stored there.

The Kitchen

My kitchen cupboards are full of clear plastic containers, such as those made by Rubbermaid or Tupperware.

I put the food that I use often in these containers.

The contents of a gallon-size (#10) can will fit just right into these plastic containers and
the containers fit nicely on our kitchen shelves.

Although they're clear and we generally can see what's in them at a glance, I still label the fronts so I know exactly what's in each container and date it so I know precisely when it was opened.

It is best to use darker containers, which block more light than clear or neutral-colored
containers.

You can purchase dark plastic containers for bulk food storage items and spices through Earthlog.

Ideas for Tight Quarters and Apartment Dwellers

If you live in a small house where space is very limited, that doesn't mean you can't prepare for at least short-term emergencies by storing extra food and supplies.

Because you will probably want to disguise your stockpile the best you can, I've included some suggestions that will make your stash practically invisible- and sometimes even practical or decorative!

You can use your own imagination to come up with clever disguises.

Here are a few ideas for food storage when extra space is scarce.

Under the Bed

Because the space under most beds is usually empty, it can be a good place to store cases of food storage, which hold six #10-size cans.

Case goods from the grocery store, such as green beans and corn, fit nicely under beds also.

You can either just slide the cases under the bed frame or put the mattress right on top of the boxes.

Because cases of cans stack nicely, you could create a large stockpile of canned goods under a single mattress.

To disguise, simply cover the boxes with a dust ruffle. Be sure to label each box with what is in it, and keep a master list of what you have and where it is stored.

Only store the items that you won't be using in the near future, as the more out of the way the storage space is, the harder it will be to get to.

In Bookcases

You can also use #10 cans to make bookshelves or shelves to store more cans of food.

Put a board across four cans (two at each end) and stack more cans on top of the boards. ( If the board is long enough to sag under the weight of additional cans, add another #10 can or two in the middle for additional support). Keep doing this until you feel your shelf is tall enough yet still stable.

You can also place food storage items inside a trunk or antique chest that you can then use as a coffee table