Category Home Storage

Food storage and non-food storage for short-term and long-term home storage.

Tired sick face

Appetite Fatigue

In Our Heritage: A Brief History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is a brief recounting of the Winter Quarters experience of those who fled Nauvoo. Some of the experiences of Brigham Young’s son John are…

Can opener and permanent markers in a food storage closet

Storage Closet Tools

One day when my youngest daughter was still at home, she asked me why we didn’t keep a can opener in the closet where most of the canned goods were stored. I didn’t have an answer for that one, so…

Good and bad tasting pecans

Dry Packing Nuts

In the process of reorganizing my food storage in 2018, I found a hidden jar of pecans that had been dry packed in December 2011. (They had been stored for 7 years.) I opened them to see if I could…

Key home storage principles - food storage, water, other necessities

Key Home Storage Principles

“Key home storage principles include the storage of food, the storage of water, and the storage of other necessities based on individual and family needs, all because “the best storehouse” is the home, which becomes the “most accessible reserve in…

Dollar Tree canned fruits and vegetables

Dollar Tree as a Food Storage Source

I decided to visit my closest Dollar Tree to see what shelf stable foods they had available for food storage. Then I went to my HEB across the street to compare prices. Here’s what I found: Name brand items are…

Pints jars of home canned chili

Canning Chili

Canned chili has been getting increasingly expensive. So much so that I began to wonder if home canned chili was less. I can chili using the chili recipe in Ball Blue Book: guide to preserving but I use less salt…

Old Tang affected by air and humidity and new Tang

Plastic, Humidity, and Air

Humidity (moisture) and air eventually move through most plastics. These Tang containers are made of HDPE (high density polyethylene) plastic, the same plastic that buckets are made of. The one on the left has been stored unopened but was stored…

Labeled seed storage boxes in the freezer

Saving Leftover Seeds

In late 2021, when I found out a mild winter was predicted, I decided to plant some cool weather vegetables the first weekend of November. I went to my refrigerator and freezer to see what I had left over from…