Why is Food Storage Important?

It’s as simple as the normal food your family eats on a consistent basis. If you do it correctly it can be:

An emergency fund you can eat

A great way to make sure you’re stocked up all the time

A variety of options for meal making

An Emergency Fund You Can Eat: In addition to setting aside money for emergencies, each family should have a supply of food (at least three months worth). After all, when we really get into hard times, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you can’t get enough of it together to burn to keep warm, and you can’t wear it. It’s true! You can’t eat money, but you can eat your supply of food-if you have it and know how to use it. Did you know that stored food provides a much higher return on investment than a savings account? Currently, the average interest rate for a savings account is just 0.41%. With food prices are rising an average of 5.2%, you can clearly get a better return by storing food. Therefore, having a supply of food is a good investment, especially during a time of inflation. Now you can rewind the clock on rising food prices, because the price of a can of wheat can’t change when it’s already in your cupboard. This gives your income time to adjust to the rising cost of living.

A Great Way to Never Run Out of Anything Again: Don’t you hate it when you’re cooking a dish and discover that you don’t have one of the ingredients? It can ruin your day, not to mention your meal! With a supply of food, you never run out of ingredients you regularly use, because you always have extras on hand! Now you can wait to purchase items until they are on sale or until you have a coupon, and the savings will allow you to buy even more extras. You will be able to make any favorite recipe at any time, with no more emergency trips to the store (no more wasted fuel!) and no more overspending for items at regular price. It doesn’t end there. Don’t you hate running out of non-food items like soap, detergent, toothpaste, deoderant, and toilet paper? No doubt you can relate to folding paper towels into napkins for dinner, or trying to squeeze out enough toothpaste to get you through until morning! Now you can stop doing that, because you’ll have a supply of these household items.

The options you need to get dinner done. Preparing dinner can be challenging since every day provides a different amount of time to get dinner on the table. Having options of frozen or canned chicken, or fresh, frozen, or canned vegetables are just a few of the options you have for making something as easy as a chicken vegetable casserole. Each of those items has a different time “price tags” attached and may just be the difference in getting dinner done. Or when you don’t have time to prepare dinner (we all have nights like those!), it is very helpful to have easy meals on hand, i.e. boxed dinners, frozen meals, or canned dinners. These options are easy to clean up and can be ready in less than 30 minutes! But, with all the money you’ll save from not going to a fast food joint, you’ll be grateful you have them on hand!

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