Long Term Emergency Food Storage

[Reynard]

(6 October 2011, 12:52)boy scout Wrote: Guys, what's the best way to store rice. I currently have 5 milk cartons, the 2 litre type with the screw on lid filled with dried rice. I'm concerned that this may not be the best storage method. Any suggestion?

I have been using plastic 2 litre ginger beer bottles, the plastic does not degrade like the milk cartons and is also dark brown in colour providing an extra degree of protection from sunlight -not that I store them in sunlight! They are easy to fill if you use a funnel - one can easily be made using the top third of another bottle.

The rice pours very easily from the bottle. I just have one bottle in the kitchen cupboard for current use and the rest are in longer term storage.

The mylar liner and buckets route is better for longer term,greater quantities and bigger budgets.