Comments on: How to Build Your Food Storage On Only $5 a Week http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm Intelligent Know-How for the Concerned Citizen Fri, 24 May 2013 16:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pat http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-40906 Pat Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:05:42 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-40906 Went out this morning as it was finally sort of warm and picked some chickweed. Cooked it up for part of my lunch. Delish! Kind of like spinach and is everywhere. I plan to keep harvesting it. Par boil and freeze or dehydrate. Either way great source of Vitamins and Calcium.

]]> By: Pat http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-40905 Pat Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:01:05 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-40905 Oh my goodness, you make it so complicated. Food storage can be very simple. Go to Dyhydrate2store.com You will save hundreds of dollars. One of the stores that I love in my area is Stop&Shop. They put produce in a reduced sales area. Everything there is the perfect ripeness to dehydrate and vacuum seal. I just did fifty pounds of ripe bananas into chips. Vacuum sealed them, they take as much room as a shoe box and my great grand children will enjoy them. They also had lots of strawberries as it is the strawberry season in FL. I picked up forty packages of strawberries that were perfect for the dehydrator that I paid fifty cents per lb rather than $4 or $5 per lb. Dehydration is the way to go. Once processed and stored there is no other energy needed to keep them forever. I was telling the little old lady that I take care of that I had no need to go to a grocery store for at least five years and she was stunned. Any fruit or veggie you can name, I can dehydrate and store with a shelf life of 25 years. Grow your own and store your own.

]]> By: Joe http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-40593 Joe Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:48:44 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-40593 Thank you so much! Money is soo tight and getting worse. This gives me some hope that I can head in the right direction.

]]> By: C http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-40366 C Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:40:34 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-40366 Great list…a little overwhelming for the clueless…which would be me.
You need a part 2 to this post.
How does one store all this food? Any chance you calculated the space needed to store it? I’d be afraid pest would get into it as well.

thanks

]]> By: Jacob http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-38830 Jacob Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:13:56 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-38830 Even if you are buying wheat at $18 dollars for 50lbs, that is $180 for the whole year (500lbs.) when your whole budget is $260. That leaves you with $80 for everything else. How does that work?

I’m not trying to be critical, I started using this list a couple of months ago and am a huge believer in both storing food and saving money.

]]> By: Jacob http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-38829 Jacob Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:55:05 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-38829 Where are you buying 50lbs of wheat for $5?

]]> By: k http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-38601 k Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:35:27 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-38601 While we all know prices have increased (this list has been around for a while) you keep a “kitty.” For example, say your first week you get your salt for $3.98, you take the $1.02 and apply it to larger purchases later. By the way, two of my local supermarkets sell 50 lbs of wheat and twice a year it goes on sale for $18.

]]> By: Annie Savidge http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-38115 Annie Savidge Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:05:41 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-38115 If you have wheat (and a grinder, or flour), fat, water, and salt you can make bread. yeast is a good addition, but not necessary if you learn how to make sourdough start. If you have bread ingredients, you can also make noodles, pita, tortillas, biscuits, pancakes, etc. Wheat is the staff of life after all.

I don’t believe this list was ever meant to be the end-all of food storage, just a good way to get started. I first saw this list in the 70s, so its probably a good deal more than $5.00 a week now, but I’ve been using it for the last couple of years of years as a basis for my food storage shopping and its still a viable option for getting rolling again.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-38009 Lisa Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:05:30 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-38009 Yes Walmart – near the flour, on the bottom shelf pushed in the back. Especially if you have a Super Walmart. You can also find it online, but then you have to pay for shipping. Here in So. Cal. we have Winco that sells it in 25 pound bags, also the Loma Linda Market sells it. For great prices (like 50¢ each) for cans of food we also have Western Eagle. For free food grade containers with lids, start asking at restaurants, fast food places or the grocery store bakery. They usually toss their lids at the grocery first thing in the morning, so get there early.

]]> By: Tactical Intelligence http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-build-your-food-storage-for-only-5-a-week.htm/comment-page-1#comment-34290 Tactical Intelligence Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:41:25 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1004#comment-34290 Betsy,

The wheat from the LDS church (Mormons) is definitely intended for long term storage (30+ years). Just be sure you are packing/storing it correctly (in an air-tight container with some oxygen absorbers placed inside).

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