Now here is the heartbreaking part:  As we started cleaning out this room we found that over 75% of it had to be thrown away.  There was food that was bottled in 1960.  There were 5 gallon metal buckets of honey that had rusted through the bottoms and leaked all over the floor.  Can goods that were bulging and ready to burst.

As an organization that prides our selves as saving food and not letting it go to waste, it was a sad week.  But as I told my wife, this stuff in these bottles ceased being food long ago.  Yes, they have found food stored by the Egyptians that is still edible, but this wasn’t.  Bottled food is best if used within three years.  Fpur years should be the max.  I don’t see this as a problem because we should be eating the food that we are storing. Many experts have said that storing whole wheat for the future is a grave mistake unless we start using whole wheat today to make our bread.

Now why does that make sense?  I’ll tell you why: we need to change our diet slowly starting today so that when we have to rely solely on our food storage, our bodies are used to processing it.  Otherwise, we are going to bloat up and have serious health issues when we try to force our bodies to process only whole grains.  We have conditioned ourselves to use processed garbage foods for fuel.  It’s foolishness to think we will be able to instantly convert to a higher food source without serious injury, when our systems are not acclimatized!  These whole grains are great for our bodies but it will shock our systems if we don’t change over time.

It would be my suggestion that people store what they eat and then rotate what they have stored.  And of course learn to eat good whole foods.