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hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper are you wondering how much flour to store for long-term
food storage stockpile for in emergency situations food storage prepping survival I read somewhere each person should have
200 pounds of flour stored per person for a year's supply I don't know for sure how they
came up with that average amount of flour to store stockpile but it made me stop and wonder how do you know how much flour
you actually need you can't necessarily take someone's advice on food storage that doesn't know
anything about you or what you eat the best process is to decide how much
baking do you actually do how much flour do you actually use keep track of the foods
things that you make and use flour and then figure out how much that would
actually be for a week for a month for three months and that's how you would
figure out how much flour you would use in a year one of the things to think about
when you're using flour is the products that you actually already buy purchase
and use that have flour in them things like cereal granola bars pancake mixes
muffin mixes stuffing mixes pastas canned meals and soups lots of the
products that we buy already have flour products in them so if those are part of
the foods that you eat within your year's supply you don't need to have
another huge barrel of flour if the foods you're stockpiling besides flour
contain foods that have flour in them I like to store a variety of foods I don't
necessarily want to one day realize there's an emergency and I need to start
baking everything from scratch I can open my pantry and many of the foods
that I normally eat are still in there and so I can continue to have the luxury
of maintain my lifestyle because I planned ahead and
stored the foods that I actually eat and use other grains that maybe you use that
could be included in your flour and grain stockpile that would make up your total
would include things like oatmeal rice couscous things like that there's a
variety of grains besides just storing 200 pounds of flour the flour that you buy at the
grocery store can easily be stored for a year or more what you need to recognize
is that flour needs to be stored cool and dry flour has a slight fat content
in it which will go rancid over time so it's very important that you store it
where it's cool the warmer it is the sooner it will spoil
are you wondering if your flour is still fresh smell it if it smells off it's
probably no good anymore you also need to make sure that you store it so that
it's dry if moisture gets into your flour it can clump it all up it can cause big
problems you want to make sure that you take it flour out of the original packaging
and store it in something to keep it dry store it in a plastic container store it
in a glass jar put it in a food storage bucket an easy way to utilize this is
with a gamma lid Gamma lids screw off and on you can open the 5 gallon food storage bucket take out the amount of flour or food
what you want screw the gamma lid back on and it stays airtight this allows you to store
a lot of flour in one container I like to keep a big bucket of it not in my
kitchen because it takes up too much room so I store a smaller amount in my
pantry you can also store it in extra canning jars it keeps it airtight make
sure that you also store it where it's dark food lasts longer if you store it
out of the light don't store food on open shelving in the kitchen store it in your pantry or your
cabinets with the doors closed another option is to buy flour in long
term food storage containers where it's already packed to last ten or more years
these number 10 cans of flour and food are a small enough size and a cheap enough price it's an easy way to
stockpile flour and food it up you can move it around and then it's easy to rotate just take
one can and use it additional cans can remain in your food
storage prepper pantry long term food storage and you don't need to be as concerned about the time limit of your food spoiling you know
that you have many years left on your stored food in the cans other flour
containing products are also available in this kind of a format you can buy
things like granola all you need to do is open it and eat it it's ready to go
you can buy pancake and muffin mixes some of them are just add water and
they're packed to store and last for ten years lots of the foods that are
packaged this way in the number 10 cans are airtight they have oxygen absorbers in
them and they're going to be fresh far beyond the 10 years flour that's just in
the container in your pantry is not going to last nearly as long as flour
that's packaged to last for a long time long term food storage emergency food one of the concerns with storing flour
is that you can get pantry bugs and weevils in it and the warmer the climate
where you live the more likely you are to encounter bugs in your flour and
crackers and pasta products and cereals take your flour stick it away in the
freezer for a day or two maybe longer if you live in a very warm climate freezing
kills any of the eggs or larvae that are naturally occurring in your flour or
your flour products if there's things like cereal pasta muffin mixes that
you're also storing for long term put those in the freezer for a few days when
you buy them to make sure that those things weevils pantry bugs are killed right inside the food inside the
package and then store the food airtight to keep other pantry bugs or things from
getting into them another way to think about flour is if you want to store
wheat and then you need to have a grinder then in an emergency you can
start grinding the wheat into flour make your own and start cooking from that
that's not something I'm interested in doing in an emergency
I want easier not harder ways to prepare foods so I'm stockpiling things that are
easy to have easy to open and include the variety of foods that I normally
would want figure out how much flour and flour containing products your family
uses build your stockpile while foods are readily available build it a little
at a time make sure you have a few days supply of food then get a week supply a
month supply a few months supply and as large an amount as you feel comfortable
that you have enough so that no matter what happens you'll be okay learn more
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