Category: food storage

Why Preserved Lemons Belong in Your Pantry

It is hard to think of an ingredient that is more useful than a preserved lemon. It can be the finishing touch on all manner of soups and stews, or that magic ingredient in a salad dressing or pasta. Adding preserved lemons to anything takes its flavor to the next level. Lemon’s bright sour taste…


Bulking Up the Pantry: How to Add Protein to Your Emergency Food Storage Plan

A food storage pantry stocked with rice and canned vegetables is still incomplete if it doesn’t contain enough protein to maintain your health and the health of your loved ones. Unfortunately, it’s possible to become malnourished on the typical food storage checklist found on many survival and prepper websites if it doesn’t contain enough essential…


The Best Way to Freeze Blueberries, Plus How to Use Them

Technically, there is no wrong way to freeze blueberries. This is especially true if your goal is simply to keep the blueberries from going bad. Some people recommend just throwing a pint container into the freezer and leaving it at that, and while that is certainly the fastest way to freeze blueberries, it is not…


Food Storage Smarts: Tips to Protect, Prolong Your Family’s Long-Term Supply

An emergency food supply is no longer something unusual. More families across the country are filling cupboards, closets, and under-the-bed spaces with canned food, buckets of wheat, and more, literally grocery shopping for the future. A food storage pantry customized to your family’s tastes and needs is worth the effort. Keep track of your family’s…


Saving Summer: 3 Ways to Preserve Blueberries

Blueberry season is in full force across the country. These sweet—yet not too sweet—and tart—yet not too tart—berries are one of our household favorites. We love them so dearly that we finally added blueberry bushes to our front yard gardens this year, so that we can have them at our fingertips just as soon as…


How to Stock Up Your Food Pantry in a Time of Shortages, Inflation

Grocery shopping is a chore or a fun adventure, depending on your viewpoint, but rising prices and shortages have added a lot of stress to this unavoidable task. Due to inflation and shortages, millions of Americans are quietly building their own food storage pantries to sustain their families in a time of growing uncertainty. How…


4 Foods You Should Never Store in the Refrigerator Door

After a trip to the grocery store, unloading food into the refrigerator might seem like a simple process, but it’s not as straightforward as you may think. From the shelves to the drawers and the refrigerator door, where things go in the fridge matters for proper food safety and storage. Before you store anything, make…


What Is Shelf-Stable Milk?

You’ve probably woken up a few mornings ready for a big bowl of your favorite cereal only to open the fridge and realize you had no milk left. Or that your 2% had soured because it’s one of those groceries you’ve been storing incorrectly in the door. To enjoy your breakfast, now you’ll have to get out…


Everything You Need to Know About How to Select, Store and Freeze Avocados

Avocados are fickle. Sometimes they seem to be ready for consumption but then hard as a rock when cut into. Other times avocados look like they’ll be rotten before you get them home. This unpredictability isn’t just expensive ($1.25 each for medium, $2.50 each for large at my local supermarket, as I write); it also…


How to Store Bread to Keep It Fresher Longer

Bread has a certain shelf life, beyond which it can go stale, become moldy, and, in a short time, become inedible. It’s possible to extend its delicious lifespan, once you understand the ins and outs of how to store bread. It’s the starch in any baked goods that makes them become stale. Exposure to air…