Healthy Food Storage Ideas

Pioneers, Native Americans, and other early settlers, who traversed across the country, were very knowledgeable about food and safe food storage. These people all planted, grew, harvested, prepared, and even stored food all year round. Properly harvesting and storing food was a matter of life and death for these people and they had nobody to rely on but each other. In today’s modern society, people have stopped growing the majority of their food and rely heavily on farmers, grocery stores and the distribution system to produce their food for them. There are also easy to use storage containers in every shape and color and proper food storage is often never given a second thought.
Sometimes proper food storage can make the difference between surviving or not, as in cases of natural disasters and other unforeseen emergencies. Companies such as Foodinsurance[->0] and Myfoodstorage have taken the guess work out of healthy and properly stored emergency food and provide nutritional, well balanced foods which will meet the needs of everyone ranging from the vegan to the meat lover to the gluten free diet. With foods such as: freeze dried fruit, jerky, freeze dried ice-cream, egg and milk substitutes and pancakes, the entire family will be eating well, and equally as important, eating healthy. The idea of healthy food and proper food storage, however, needs to extend beyond just when preparing for an emergency.
Besides having the proper supply of emergency food on hand, it is also important to understand and focus on the value of healthy eating habits and proper food storage, both of which can actually save a lot of money each year. It is very alarming how many people, and families, have resorted to eating low-quality, highly processed foods, due to their busy schedules and often are placing food products in their mouths which vaguely