After
your food is preserved, it's always a good idea to label what's in your buckets.
You don't want a bunch of buckets with no clue what's inside or when they were
packed. You should date each container so you can rotate foods in and out of
your food storage. As a minimum, you should at least place the date and the
food on the label.
You
should store your food as cool and dry as possible. A cool basement is ideal.
But several people have built underground storage rooms for this purpose. See
our Root
Cellar pages
for
related information about this. Your preserved food should last a long time
in cool conditions. Please see our Storage
Life of Foods Page
for
more information on this.
Many
people are concerned about how long their food will stay fresh after they open
their buckets or cans that have been preserved. They feel they should have
some extra absorbers around so they can re-preserve their food. The truth is
this just isn't a big deal unless you are planning on keeping this newly opened
food around for several years. When my family opens up a can or bucket that
has been preserved in this way, we throw away the absorbers, take out whatever
food we need and install the plastic lid. Then we throw the can or bucket in
the pantry. As long as you use it up within a year, just about any kind of
dry food will remain in good condition as long as it is kept dry and out of
the heat.
