Category: Long-Term Food Storage

Having a deep stockpile of food can protect you if an emergency strikes. But creating a long-term food storage plan and finding places to store everything can be difficult. And if you are thinking about creating an emergency supply of food to ensure you are prepared, it can be hard to know where to start.…

I know I haven’t been posting much lately, and that includes freeze-dryer posts, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been using the Harvest Right. Rather, I’ve done two more batches of tomatoes since my last post: I started with at least twenty-five pounds of cut, chunky tomatoes as shown above and got it down to…

Yup. You read the title right; I freeze-dried beets this week. Look, it wasn’t my first choice…or my tenth choice, but my wife though we needed some freeze-dried beets to use over the winter for our veggie smoothies. And since I didn’t have anything better to freeze-dry (the tomatoes and most other vegetables aren’t quite…

I’ve been waiting for strawberries to come down in price, and while they’re not as cheap as I’d have preferred, I went ahead anyway because…who wouldn’t like some tasty strawberries during the apocalypse? So, I bought six two-pound containers of strawberries at Sam’s Club for $3.77 each: But, because I never really know how much…

I know this post is a day late because it should’ve been posted on Friday, but better late than never, I guess. Anyway, while I was at Sam’s Club this week, I figured it would be fun to try freeze-drying watermelon, something I hadn’t seen before. So, I picked up three watermelons for $6.98 each:…

I decided to freeze-dry some leftovers again this week, specifically leftover vegetable soup and what I thought was, at a glance, also leftover ham and bean soup, but which turned out to be chicken chili, and our dinner that night. Oops. Although I didn’t weigh either, I’d say each soup started off at a few…

When I was at the vet’s office last month, she mentioned how she likes to feed her dogs freeze-dried dog treats, and I thought that was a brilliant idea! So, while I was at Sam’s Club the other day, I picked up three packages of pink salmon (a total of six pounds) for $41.94: I…

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted about my freeze-drying adventures, but I haven’t been totally lazy with it since I’ve freeze-dried: Today I do have something new: freeze-dried spinach. We like to put spinach in our smoothies sometimes and, although we often freeze the spinach to keep it from going bad before…

Good points in the video below regarding long-term food storage foods. The takeaways: storage conditions really do matter! Temperature is crucial (especially avoiding heat), along with how the food is stored (e.g., loose rice in a bag versus stored in a #10 can.) Last, pay attention to myth #10 about Millennium Bars if you’re interested…