Ways to
add to your food storage this month: There are several
ways to continually add to your food storage each month.
1. Buy a few extra items that are on sale while
doing your regular shopping. Always buy
things you already eat regularly.
2. Buy a couple basic dry goods in bulk
and store for long-term storage.
3. Buy a few #10 cans at your local LDS
Home Storage Center. You can buy
everything already in the cans now.
Order forms are there or you can print one out at www.providentliving.org under food storage.
4. Do some dry pack canning in your own
home using the Stake Dry Pack Canner.
Copper Hills Stake owns one.
Contact Wendy Driggs at driggs20@comcast.net to schedule to use it.
Food Storage Organization Ideas
One concern
for many people once they start to build up their storage is where to keep
everything. There are many different
ways and you will probably end up using more than one storage system depending
on how much food you have and the space you have to work with. I will highlight
just a few this month. This is to help
you get ideas and get you headed in the right direction. I found many ideas by doing an internet
search.
Search for
“Rotating canned food system DIY” and
“small space food storage ideas” or “homemade rotating can racks”. You can also check Youtube, Google and Pinterest.
www.wikihow.com/build-a-rotating-canned-food-shelf
www.youtube.com/user/laquerandlace
(she has a tutorial on building a rotating can rack).
Pictured
below are a few of the shelving units you can buy that you assemble
yourself. We have used and are still
using all of them. Pictured top to
bottom and left to right are:
Heavy Duty
shelving from Sams’s Club/Costco or any hardware store, Thrive Brand Food
Rotating shelves. These come in many
styles and sizes to fit your space. The
Seville Brand commercial grade metal shelving found at Sam’s Club and some at
Target. They come in 2,3,4 or 5 shelves
tall and even have one made for putting in a corner. It can stand alone or be placed up against
the straight shelves that match. No wasted space at all!
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| Seville corner shelf |
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| heavy duty shelving from hardware store |
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| Seville large shelf |
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| Thrive rotating can shelves |
If you are
not handy, or want to be able to take your shelves with you when you move these
ready-made shelves are great! If you are
somewhat handy and you have the time, you can
build your own shelving units. Some people have built their own rotating
can shelves from wood. See recommended
websites mentioned on page one.
Someone I know recently made use of the space under a set of stairs for some of
their food storage. This set of stairs
just happens to be next to the garage and kitchen, but you can do this with
stairs just about anywhere. He is a
carpenter and had most of the materials already. They wanted to be able to load their shelves
with the small cans in the back (by the garage, after shopping), and take the
cans out the front on the kitchen-side of the stairs. As you can see, part of this space also holds
5 gallon buckets of food too. Those are
on rolling carts that can be bought or made.
Cover the holes with your choice of building materials.
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| Making use of wasted space. Home made cart. |
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| Home made rotating can shelf. |
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| Side ways view of rotating can shelf. |
Notes from this friend who made the shelves shown above:
The rolling
can shelves at the bottom-left of the previous page (shown behind the
refrigerator), were made from plywood and plastic drywall corner strips placed
along the sides. And a little piece of trim as a stop across the front.
He MADE the
food carts out of left-over construction materials he already had. The carts can be made from either metal or
wood. His are made of metal. If using metal, he had to use a welder, chop
saw and a grinder. He used 2x2 1/8”angle
steel and 2”x 1/8” thick flat strap and some plywood for the base and he
painted the metal. These can also be
made using 2x4’s.
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