We are two hundred pounds of rice closer to being completely finished with our long-term food storage plan. Of course this plan will only be thwarted by another baby, but that's not happening soon so I can smile and pretend like this will be enough. Over the weekend we finally filled our five gallon buckets. It was a joint venture with family which makes any food storage project better. So here's the dirt.
Our Supplies:
Buckets: USplastic corp- An Ohio based company (big plus for us) whose prices were reasonable, plus the more you bought the cheaper it was (we did a huge bulk order with family). Also, you can find used food grade buckets at your local bakery or at Meijer like Kristen did.
CO2: Continental Carbonics- CO2 was in pellet form, so no major handling of CO2, plus not a chain convenience store. We purchased 10 lbs for 10$ (4$ for cooler as well)
Rice: Costco (ours), Sam's Club (theirs)- Interesting result: 200 lbs rice from Costco will fill 6, five gallon buckets, 200 lbs rice from Sam's Club will fill 5, five gallon buckets. So not all rice is created equal.
Pasta: Meijer had one wicked sale on pasta (50 cents a lb) and Kristen took full advantage to this. So they were able to store about 70 lbs of pasta.
Things not to be repeated are:
1. don't start this process late at night as it take the dry ice several hours to fully sublimate and you might actually begin to think that unpacking little boxes of pasta is super fun.
2. don't under-estimate how many buckets you need, we didn't even touch our 75 lbs of wheat
3. you must include an individual who weighs more than 130 lbs because those lids are really hard to snap into place (Kristen and I couldn't do the new lids and bucket combos ourselves).
Overall there is nothing more comforting than a full food pantry and the knowledge that no matter what, I can feed my family.
(There are instructions on how to store food using buckets posted here, just go to How-Tos and scroll down)
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