Long Term Emergency Food Storage

[Brian]

(6 October 2011, 20:39)boy scout Wrote: Mylar is so expensive...

Bottles it is, for now at least.

boy scout,

I read in James Wesley Rawles book on survival techniques that used milk containers are no good for storing food as the milk contaminates the plastic and then the bacteria leaches back into the food. He suggests new plastic seal-lid or glass if practical for you.

For rice I'm using the original 2kg plastic bags inside metal drums. I buy a few extra every now and again and then apply the FIFO principle to keep them fresh although I think they'd be OK for years like that.

Brian