Sunday, May 10, 2009

Two good websites to buy long storage food

I often stop by the store Emergency Essentials in Salt Lake. They also have a website www.beprepared.com I would recommend signing up for their mailings. They also have good rates for shipping items to you if you live out of the area.

I also have recently found another website called www.shelfreliance.com They have a program where you enter in your family size and how much food storage you want. Then it calculates all the items you would need. You can setup with them so you are charged each month whatever amount you want and they will ship you the food items you can afford each month to slowly build up your storage.

Most of their items last a very long time if stored properly. The disadvantage is you pay more for food that can store for 30 years! We are working on a blended plan. We are trying to have the majority of our food storage items what we will use regularly and buy freeze dried items for some of our food items that don't store long at all. For example we like to have freeze dried meats stored because we don't have any other way to store that type of item, eggs, sour cream, butter, cheese, and some complete meals are some of the items we have as freeze dried.

We are learning how to use these in everyday meals so we are familiar with them and how to make them into good tasting meals!