Worrier King
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There's a bit of extra-value in having food stores that are already sealed, canned, etc. with additional shelf life - non-rotation doesn't apply to foods that your not prepping yourself and buying in bulk elsewhere ex: Freeze Dried
If you go thru a lot of certain longer lasting prep foods (rice, beans, etc) in your weekly diet, sometimes it's better to not rotate stocks and just to direct consume your newly acquired , fresher foods; as long as your prepped food stores have semi-distant expiration dates, and remain in a long term, storable condition with good remaining shelf life.
$20 not spent on rotating plastic/mylar/jars/buckets/O2 absorbers means more $$$ for food in your pantry. Although that doesn't mean you would cease trying to increase prep stock and building your food storage. But, without the expense of the constant rotation of your longer term, main dietary supplements, you may have more money to buy and store new consumables that would extend you a week or two, albeit they will not be "longer term". Must be done without doing attrition to the stores of your favorites, as the more you consume of a certain foodstuff is also the stuff you want to have stored for TSHTF.
If I've got 10 years life left on something, it has more value to it (as long as its edible yet), as it does if its consumed now in a rotation, and then having to expend extra $$$ and energy prepping the rotation by replacing what was already good to go.
If you go thru a lot of certain longer lasting prep foods (rice, beans, etc) in your weekly diet, sometimes it's better to not rotate stocks and just to direct consume your newly acquired , fresher foods; as long as your prepped food stores have semi-distant expiration dates, and remain in a long term, storable condition with good remaining shelf life.
$20 not spent on rotating plastic/mylar/jars/buckets/O2 absorbers means more $$$ for food in your pantry. Although that doesn't mean you would cease trying to increase prep stock and building your food storage. But, without the expense of the constant rotation of your longer term, main dietary supplements, you may have more money to buy and store new consumables that would extend you a week or two, albeit they will not be "longer term". Must be done without doing attrition to the stores of your favorites, as the more you consume of a certain foodstuff is also the stuff you want to have stored for TSHTF.
If I've got 10 years life left on something, it has more value to it (as long as its edible yet), as it does if its consumed now in a rotation, and then having to expend extra $$$ and energy prepping the rotation by replacing what was already good to go.
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