Post by tomatoes on Mar 14, 2018 7:30:22 GMT 10
Almost everything that I store has to fit into our regular food rotation so that almost nothing is stored for more than 1.5 years. In general I don’t have stuff packed away that I expect to last 10 or 20 years - packing in such a way that I expect to ignore the use by date. If something is in my storage that I don’t think we’d use in “regular times” then it doesn’t have a place there. Stuff gets rotated through.
Sometimes I miss using a packet of something in time and it goes past the use by date. I know myself well enough to know that even though the food is still likely to be fine to eat, as long as there is food available that is within its use by, I will not use the out of date stuff and it will just sit there getting more out of date (I’m not just talking about a few days past). So once it’s past I figure I may as well just throw it out.
But every time I do that I consider that if the SHTF tomorrow, or next week, or whenever, I’d be very happy to have and use that food. I often gather up a small bag at a time as I find it when I do a checks of stuff - and it would feed us for several days or more sometimes. And I know that really the food is probably fine.
So I’d be interested to hear how others deal with this.
Any thoughts of this?
Sometimes I miss using a packet of something in time and it goes past the use by date. I know myself well enough to know that even though the food is still likely to be fine to eat, as long as there is food available that is within its use by, I will not use the out of date stuff and it will just sit there getting more out of date (I’m not just talking about a few days past). So once it’s past I figure I may as well just throw it out.
But every time I do that I consider that if the SHTF tomorrow, or next week, or whenever, I’d be very happy to have and use that food. I often gather up a small bag at a time as I find it when I do a checks of stuff - and it would feed us for several days or more sometimes. And I know that really the food is probably fine.
So I’d be interested to hear how others deal with this.
Any thoughts of this?
