Natural Family Blog Archive 🌹 The First 20 Years

For years I have been trying to find an easy way to rotate our food. I have used a variety of food containers, and after much trial and error, have finally come up with the system that seems to work best.
I purchsed Restaurant Quality containers that stack and are see through at Sam’s Club. These containers will hold ten to fifteen pounds of food. Which translates into holding the wheat from two and a half number 10 cans. I love being able to put so much food into the containers, and being able to see how much is left, as it helps me to know which foods need to be replaced when I am lugging cans up from the basement.
Here is a photo of my kitchen Food Storage Shelves. (And I do have additional Foods in bins at various locations around the kitchen)

The bins contain a variety of foods:
White Wheat
Red Wheat
Black Beans
Brown Basmati Rice
Kamut
White Flour
Spelt
Whole Oat Groats
Brown Sugar
Quinoa
Flax Seed
Powdered Milk
White Sugar
Refried Bean mix
Yellow Corn
Pasta
Oatmeal
Pinto Beans etc..

Here are the shelves from a different perspective:

And the same picture blown up even bigger.
I know this may seem like a huge amount of food on these shelves, but I can easily use up all of the wheat from both the red and white wheat bins in one week! I am constantly refilling these bins, and this is the most user friendly system I have yet come up with.
Jenny Hatch
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