Good start for food?

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http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2012/08/a-year-of-food-storage-for-300-for-a-family-of-four.html

Would this be a good start for a year's worth of food? How long should it keep?

I currently keep a months worth of canned and dry goods at home but I want to increase my stores.

Also my home is not air-conditioned. But is heavily shaded in the summer. How will this effect the dry goods for long term?

On a side note what's a good way to store dog food? I keep a months worth of dog food on hand at all times but in a bad place they will need to eat as well.

Thanks
 
The best way to store pet food is to buy more than you need and rotate stock before it expires and leave it in the original packaging/cans.

Dry rice and beans are excellent sources of nutrients and will last pretty much for ever in cool dry climates. Do not store brown rice long term.

Remember water...you can only make soup and stuff with water so you need a way to boil/purify water.
 
That's not a bad route to go. It should last pretty much indefinitely. You can get a some bulk packs of freeze-dried beef, chicken, pork, eggs, and cans of tuna to add protein to the mix.

If it's sealed well, your lack of AC shouldn't matter. One thing I would do different is to break it down and spread each item out in different buckets, not each bucket full of one thing. That way you don't have to open every bucket every time you make a meal and the oxygen absorbers and desiccants will do their job better. 12- 3gal buckets beats 6- 5gal buckets too. Easier to move, easier to keep fresh.
 
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I have lots of rice and beans and pasta stored.
I goto bj when they have a sale and put it in gallon 5mil Mylar bags with o2 absorbers and seal it flat.

Combined weight is probably 100+ pounds.

I also have a few cans of beef and veggie soup from mountain house and coffee, tea, cocoa powder, peanut butter powder.

I will definitely try to get more veggies in the rotation
 
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Is there any difference in the different varieties of dry beans in terms of storage? Aka pinto, kidney, etc?

Does the enriched white rice store good? Seems to be the most available.

I plan on buying some stuff this weekend. 50lbs of rice and probably 40lbs of dry beans. Will be storing in 1 gallon mylar bags with O2 eaters as it's just me and I think the smaller storage would last longer as I'm not opening a huge bag.

Also sense I'm storing in mylar does it matter what bucket I use? I was planning on using the Lowes or Walmart buckets that have the sealing lid. Or does it have to be food grade?

Can I use a impulse sealer to seal the bags? Or will a hand iron work?
 
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All my rice and beans are stored in the Mylar bags about 3 lbs each flat so they stack well and keep portions small, portable and if one bag goes bad I don't lose a lot. Those bags are stored in a grey totes with lids.
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I used a curling iron to seal the bags. Didn't need a food saver as I used larger O2 absorbers.

I'm not sure if one kind of bean last longer than the others. I only have red and black and green.

Is there benefit to kidney or pinto?
 
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Beans is beans as far as I know for storage life. I have a mixture. If you use mylar, the bucket doesn't matter.
 
Yeah use good Mylar gen the only thing you have to worry about is heat. Keep it cool
 
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