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i thought this article was interesting about food storage...check it out. here are some quotes fromt he article, and this photo is one of her closets of food storage.


Americans, in her words, “sold out to easy” — owning a closetful of clothes but never learning to sew a button; driving everywhere but being unable to change a tire.
but Mrs. Harrison said it is important to cook with your backup supply regularly, as she does — using powdered milk on a daily basis, for example — because “in an emergency you don’t want everything to be strange.”

Mrs. Harrison pulled out bucket after bucket of basic staples like wheat and rice. “I just ordered another hundred pounds of sugar and flour,” she said, explaining that she continually replaces what she has used. It is part of a system she calls OAR: Organize, Acquire, Rotate.

We all need food, water and shelter,” said Kathy Harrison, the author of “Just in Case: How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens.” “But the needs of a family in west Texas in July are vastly different than the needs of a family in western Massachusetts in January. You have to think about what you’re preparing for.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/garden/31disaster.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=garden