Comments on: Building Our Food Storage

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:46:16 +0000

I am so glad to have found your website! For over a year now, I have felt the need to have a large food storage. My husband is in the building trade and it has certainly benefitted us. I continue adding as I am able and feel that we are only beginning to see the need to prepare for an uncertain future as a country.

I also shop with Aldi’s and am surprised at their higher prices. Have you ever gotten into coupons. I can shop the ads and use coupons to save so much money and get many items free. It takes a little time to get started, but saves my family a great deal of money. I still manage to do this and work full-time, can from a large garden and spend a lot of time with family and grandkids. My favorite coupon site is http://www.thekrazycouponlady.com

By: Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:26:34 +0000

The 2 most forgotten items in home food storage.

http://www.sanfranciscograpevine.com/forums/display_topic/id_124/

By: Regina in TX

Regina in TX — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:28:33 +0000

Kendra, A post on how to keep track with a spreadsheet would be a big help. Tightwad Gazette says to keep a “price book”, which I have tried but haven’t had much success keeping up with it. But a spreadsheet, would be in one place all the time and could keep it calculated, etc in a snap. How do you keep track of each date’s purchases and prices and compare them to last week or last month or last year? Each “tab” is a new shopping trip or ??? Thanks and I really enjoy your blog!

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:23:48 +0000

Kendra, I’ve been following your blog a few months and really enjoy your self sufficiency posts. Our family is trying to do the same thing and recently raised our own beef for the first time. I too feel like the prices at Aldi have increased every time I go there. A clerk there once told me they change their prices on Saturday nights. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

By: Kendra at New Life On A Homestead

Kendra at New Life On A Homestead — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:31:28 +0000

Rebecca- Great idea, thanks!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:03:18 +0000

I love that you keep yours in the flats. We do that too. As a small tip, if you mark the expiration date of the cans on the side of the box, you can make sure you rotate the food easily. For the items that don’t come listed with expiration dates, mark the date purchased. It works for us.