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genuinegirly · 01-02-2011, 11:21 AM

Resident chick with Mormon upbringing speaking... Eeeek! No!!!!! Don't use just any plastic bucket for your long-term food storage! Buckets from scented clumping kitty litters are especially dangerous. Do you have any idea what crazy chemicals are involved -- and they have unavoidably leached into the plastic! Not to mention the fact that since they're not food-grade their production quality controls did not take into account the toxicity of their components.

We go for the 18 quart food grade buckets which you can find at Smart & Final for fairly cheap. For smaller quantities I especially like the BPA-free plastic snap-top boxes with rubber seals, Lock & Lock brand. When we live in something bigger than this ~300 sq. ft. apartment, we're going to invest in more. That bucket size is big enough for a 20 lb bag of rice, which we typically go through in 6 months. We also have dried pinto beans, chickpeas, split peas, powdered vegetable broth, and a few other things in our wimpy excuse for stores.

I'd also like to have large amounts of flour, sugar, and dehydrated milk on hand, but I'm still warming up my husband to that idea. I make the argument that it's always good having the basics for a meal handy in case we don't want to go shopping. It's especially nice in the wintertime when we don't want to dig out our cars for a trip to the store.

I grew up in a house where we had a garage with huge stores. Buckets of red wheat grains (accompanied by a grinder), buckets of honey from my dad's bee-keeping days, barrels of water, buckets of dried beans, peas, potato flakes, tang, dried milk... We also had seeds, plant hormones and fertilizers for emergency planting, spare bottles of propane, a propane camping stove, and canning supplies which we used for our bumper-crops of Apricots. Oh, and our backyard had a vegetable garden along with a veritable orchard over 20 dwarf and semi-dwarf fruit trees that were carefully planned so something was fruiting no matter what time of the year (1/2 acre lot in California). We would rotate out our stores every few years. I do recall times in my childhood when Dad was out of work, the food banks weren't welcoming, and we were utterly dependent on our stores and garden for survival. It was actually pretty fun coming up with new recipes for the same old stuff...

01-02-2011, 11:21 AM	#8 (permalink)
genuinegirly Eat your vegetables Super Moderator Location: Arabidopsis-ville	Resident chick with Mormon upbringing speaking... Eeeek! No!!!!! Don't use just any plastic bucket for your long-term food storage! Buckets from scented clumping kitty litters are especially dangerous. Do you have any idea what crazy chemicals are involved -- and they have unavoidably leached into the plastic! Not to mention the fact that since they're not food-grade their production quality controls did not take into account the toxicity of their components. We go for the 18 quart food grade buckets which you can find at Smart & Final for fairly cheap. For smaller quantities I especially like the BPA-free plastic snap-top boxes with rubber seals, Lock & Lock brand. When we live in something bigger than this ~300 sq. ft. apartment, we're going to invest in more. That bucket size is big enough for a 20 lb bag of rice, which we typically go through in 6 months. We also have dried pinto beans, chickpeas, split peas, powdered vegetable broth, and a few other things in our wimpy excuse for stores. I'd also like to have large amounts of flour, sugar, and dehydrated milk on hand, but I'm still warming up my husband to that idea. I make the argument that it's always good having the basics for a meal handy in case we don't want to go shopping. It's especially nice in the wintertime when we don't want to dig out our cars for a trip to the store. I grew up in a house where we had a garage with huge stores. Buckets of red wheat grains (accompanied by a grinder), buckets of honey from my dad's bee-keeping days, barrels of water, buckets of dried beans, peas, potato flakes, tang, dried milk... We also had seeds, plant hormones and fertilizers for emergency planting, spare bottles of propane, a propane camping stove, and canning supplies which we used for our bumper-crops of Apricots. Oh, and our backyard had a vegetable garden along with a veritable orchard over 20 dwarf and semi-dwarf fruit trees that were carefully planned so something was fruiting no matter what time of the year (1/2 acre lot in California). We would rotate out our stores every few years. I do recall times in my childhood when Dad was out of work, the food banks weren't welcoming, and we were utterly dependent on our stores and garden for survival. It was actually pretty fun coming up with new recipes for the same old stuff... __________________ "Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq "violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy Last edited by genuinegirly; 01-02-2011 at 11:24 AM..