Food Storage Today
Yesterday was shopping day so you should have bags, or at least one bag of groceries ready to put into your food storage area. Get out your permanent marker. You need to decide if you want to mark your cans with purchase dates or expiration dates. I prefer to use the date I purchase foods.
Every manufacturer has a different method of dating their products. Some date them as they are produced, some with a pull date, some with an expiration date and some with a best if used by date. All mean something different. Therefore, I prefer to use the date I purchase an item and I use the foods in that order, oldest first. Because I rotate my storage I never have a problem with foods spoiling.
When I bring an item home I note the month and year on the packaging. For example, if you look in my storage areas you will see cans with a 48 on the lid. Translated that means I purchased it in April of 2008. Decide on a method that works for you and mark those packages of food you purchased yesterday. Then place them in the storage area you prepared on Saturday.
That’s it! We’ll take another step tomorrow.
