salt prepper pantry long term food storage
why store salt
how to store salt so it lasts
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper if you're concerned
with long-term food storage prepper pantry one of the basic food
ingredients you may want to make sure
that you are stockpiling is salt salt is
something that we're always hearing in
the American diet we have too much of it
but that's because a lot of the foods
that we eat are processed we go out to eat
we buy things that are already pre-made
and they're loaded with sodium if you
intend to do most of your cooking from
scratch and preparing your own food that
you grow or raise or hunt then one of
the things you need to make sure that
you include in your diet is some salt
because salt is something that our
bodies require for survival if you do
any kind of pickling brining drying salt
is especially something that you want to
make sure that you have more of than
somebody who doesn't do any of that kind of food storage or food
of preparation it's recommended that we
store seven pounds of salt per person
for our family members which seems like
an awful lot of salt when you consider
that each package of salt is about 26
ounces which is a little more than a
pound and a half you need about five of
these packages or boxes of salt per person I purchased these boxes of salt at the
store for 67 cents each
so it's a very little amount of money to
store a necessary food supplement in our
diet one reason I decided to store more
salt was I was reading about the
contamination of the water inKachemak
Bay which is in Alaska which is not far
from where I live there are discovering
that there are many of the creatures
that live in the sea in that area are
dying they're coming up with unusual
diseases
unusual algae blooms and they're concerned
that perhaps there's a contamination in
the sea
well then I was reading then in the
Vietnam area they are also finding that
there is contamination in the sea and
people there are stockpiling salt most
of the salt comes from the sea and
people are concerned that if the sea is
contaminated then the salt will also be
contaminated so it seemed to me like it
was a proper time to stockpile something
to make sure that I have enough so that
no matter what happens I'm going to have
enough salt for my family
it's cheap and easy to store some people
say you can store the salt in its
original container and that nothing can
happen to it
well I'd be the first one to tell you
that that is not very good advice
the packages are cardboard if any moisture
gets in it your salt will be ruined I
also had a friend who had their pantry
infested with pantry bugs now you would
think the bugs are not interested in the
salt but they got into everything
including the salt and it was all ruined
and needed to be thrown away I don't
think you want to stockpile food and
find then after all of your expense and
effort that it is not usable so one of
the things that you can do is take a
canning jar pour in the salt and simply
put on a lid you don't need to do
anything else you're trying to seal off
the air
the other thing that I did was I found
that I could get a free 5 gallon bucket
at the grocery store and I could put 10
of these small containers right into the
five-gallon bucket put on a lid
it's sealed up from critters and it's
also free from moisture I don't have to
do anything else if you are concerned
with having enough and making sure that
your family will be ok this might be a
prudent time
to gather some salt and stick it away
just to make sure that you have the
things you need no matter what comes along
why stockpile salt how much salt to store for long term food storage
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