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From: chatillion, [DNS_Address]
Subject: How To Buy and Store 260 Pounds of Food for just $83
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This post was gladly contributed by Kathy Matthews. We bought a lot of food and brought it home. Then I needed to figure out what to do with it all. The dry foods are the easiest to figure out, if you have a lot of canning jars or other good airtight containers that mice or bugs cannot get into. I have been planning on canning, but that is still a bit intimidating for some reason. Still, I am good at buying canning jars. Bi-Mart keeps them in stock year round now, so I try to pick up a box full of one size or another every week or couple of weeks, especially when they are on sale. The average price is $8.99; sometimes less and sometimes more. I am partial to the quart jars because I like to use them for my cookie mixes, but have been buying other sizes too. If I do want to use all of these jars for canning, I’ll just dump out the popcorn and rice and put them into something else. Even big Rubbermaid totes will do fine, if you have the room for those. The food on this table (not counting the containers) was only $82.83. continued at link |
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From: shatterbrain, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Buy and Store 260 Pounds of Food for just $83
| Fifty pounds of popcorn ?? Now you're talking ! |
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From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Buy and Store 260 Pounds of Food for just $83
| great....dang, I gave so many boxes of my canning jars away to a friend when we moved here, haven't canned in a long time so just let them go...now, shoot, would have to buy them if I wanted to do this...lol....but I kept my dehydrator....:-) |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Buy and Store 260 Pounds of Food for just $83
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Since it's a dry stash maybe you can just clean out regular glass containers other foods may come in and use those. It looks as if in the image some of them were regular reused clean glass jars to me. |
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From: long timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Buy and Store 260 Pounds of Food for just $83
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I appreciate the information, but where in the heck does on store all this stuff if one either doesn't have a basement or if one lives in an apartment? |
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From: At the ready, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Buy and Store 260 Pounds of Food for just $83
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You must get creative, I have it under the couch for stuff i don't rotate often. under tables, have taken apart cabinets to make room. I have 100's of cans {i know they are good for years past exp} only stuff me and the family eat. Rotated every week, plenty of rice, thankfully no mice. Pasta and 5 gal containers of water that are rotated as well. Etc... |
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