My suggestion is to buy rice, beans, wheat, and sugar either precanned with oxygen absorbers, or in bulk and can it yourself with oxygen absorbers. Add a multivatimin and some Walmart or Aldi imitation SPAM and never think about food storage again. Hard white winter wheat is $1.30 a pound precanned and shipped to your door from the LDS online cannery.

Drought, flooding, other forms of bad weather, and pests can all destroy anything you are trying to grow. Physical injury may prevent you from being able to harvest it. Loss of power can make some of it have very short shelf lives.

In sealed steel cans in your basement, nothing short of a massive fire is going to hurt it. It will sit at 65 F for decades with little loss of flavor or nutrition. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend a couple extra days working overtime in the air conditioning and buy my food than spend it outside rooting around in the dirt or feeding animals everyday of the year and cleaning up chicken shit.

My suggestion is to buy rice, beans, wheat, and sugar either precanned with oxygen absorbers, or in bulk and can it yourself with oxygen absorbers. Add a multivatimin and some Walmart or Aldi imitation SPAM and never think about food storage again.

Drought, flooding, other forms of bad weather, and pests can all destroy anything you are trying to grow. Physical injury may prevent you from being able to harvest it. Loss of power can make some of it have very short shelf lives.

In sealed steel cans in your basement, nothing short of a massive fire is going to hurt it. It will sit at 65 F for decades with little loss of flavor or nutrition. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend a couple extra days working overtime in the air conditioning and buy my food than spend it outside rooting around in the dirt or feeding animals everyday of the year and cleaning up chicken shit.