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Uh, lets think --- if you stock for the year and it's the end of the world hopefully you know how to garden? Hope you saved some seeds. Nice to see how many people might starve to death on these forums, jeepers creepers people!

I WISH I could find some glass jars with lids at the thrift store so I could clear the clutter. I've just purchased a few jars in the hopes I'll be able to do this. It's so clean and funky looking. It'd be easy to buy in bulk or recycle the cardboard and plastic bags. The pictures are fantastic!

Rotating your food is super easy and of course it's all about checking your exp./use by dates before purchasing ANY product. Everything I have is stored in a spare closet, and has a giant neon sticker with the expiration date marked in giant numbers(some products last more than a year) set up where the items that need to be used first are organized in the cabinet. I actually utilized everything I learned as a restaurant manager to keep the food rotated and set up a list for foods that I use the most in my household. Instead of purchasing more bread flour for making bread, I'd use everything out of the bucket, when I my stock dropped to less than ½ full – it was time to call Bob’s Red Mill for a refill. The catch with purchasing in bulk is that this isn’t something you lock in a closet and 3 years later it’s still going to be fresh – the items you purchase need to be indicative of stock you will use on a daily basis. I can’t say this is *easy* … it’s labor intensive, but if you’re in an uncertain job market – pinching pennies for a birth, move, or college expenses or you live in an area where you might be stuck for a bit – it’s great to do this. ALSO, if you’re a gardener and live in an area where you can build a root cellar, you can stockpile there too! I can’t remember who asked why I didn’t just leave after the hurricanes, but to answer your question – we lived in a rural area and we were actually trapped in by the debris, the car worked, but between the trees, houses and various other large objects that were tossed into the yard by the wind we really were stuck, and back after hurricane Charley –everyone remembers how poorly FEMA handled that, there wasn’t anywhere for us to go.

Yes. Yes. Yes.