Freeze Dried Food Storage

Freeze Dried Food Storage is Easy -- Buy It and Keep It

In today's increasingly troubled and uncertain world, we need freeze dried food storage more than ever.

Our ancestors had to can foods, dry foods in the sun, store them in salt and make fruits into jellies.

Freeze Dried Food Storage is High Tech

Today we can buy high quality, durable food dehydrators, including models that use solar power instead of electricity, in case there's no electricity when you most need to store food for a disaster.

Also, comapnies can freeze dry foods, flush the packaging with nitrogen and remove 98% of the oxygen so they can keep for up to twenty or thirty years. Storing freeze dried foods for disaster preparedness is no longer a problem.

One source of this and regular dehydrated food is Your Food Storage. They cook, freeze dry and package their own foods. They also carry some Mountain House products.

Although many places sell 72 hour kits or three day kits, they carry packages designed to provide food for an entire year. You can buy one-year packages for one person, on up to ten.

These are filled with a wide variety of entrees, desserts, condiments, fruits, vegetables, cereals, snacks, drinks, soups and cooking aids.

The good thing about freeze dried foods is that the air is removed, so the food retains its orginal size, shape and food -- it doesn't shrivel like foods that are dehydrated (think grapes instead of raisins). After being flash frozen, they're placed in a vacuum chamber.

The ice is evaporated by the temperatures that go down to minus fifty degrees Fahrenheit. This removes 98% of the moisture.

It's then placed into moisture and air-proof sealed packaging and flushed with nitrogen. This can be stored at room temperatures for up to thirty years. When you're ready to eat, just add water. The food retains its flavor, freshness and nutritional value. Obviously, hot water is best for foods you want to eat hot, but you can use cold water if that's all you've got.

For home storage, they're in a #10 1 gallon triple coated enamel can

Use Freeze Dried Food Storage to Prepare for Emergencies

The storage of these foods while in their packaging is simple. Any box or shelf will do. The important thing is to have enough disaster food stored away in your home, car or workplace to get your through any kind of catastrophe.

Thirty years from now, if you haven't had to eat it, take it on a camp out. Supplying hikers and backpackers was the main purpose for freeze drying food.

You can buy special food storage shelves: The Harvest #10 - Food Storage Rack, The Harvest -- Food Storage Rack, The Harvest 51",The Pantry 72", The Reserve #10, The Reserve 27", Cansolidator Track, Extra Magnetic Food Labels, Side Tracks(4), Single Side Track, and Small Can Track.

You'll also need water, and so can use their 55 Gallon Water Storage Barrell, Ion Stabilized Oxygen, Water Siphon Pump, British Berkefeld® 4x4 Stainless Steel Water Filter, 7-Inch Super Sterasyl filter elements for British Berkefeld, The Berkey MP Solar Charger, Black Berkey Replacement Filter, 250 Gallon Water Super Tanker, The Berkey MP Solar Charger, and Black Berkey Replacement Filter.

Again, the most important trick to freeze dried food storage is to have some in your house, car and workplace. Only the freeze dried disaster foods you buy now will feed you in the event of an emergency.

Next: Freeze Dried Fruit -- fruit are great foods to freeze dry.