I am curious as to what others have done in the way of food storage. And since I am asking for pictures I will put up my own first.
I haven't been working on food storage very long and consequently I don't have a tremendous amount of stuff. I am thinking, though, that by the end of the year I will have my shelves full. Or mostly full. And other than just kind of grouping like stuff together I don't have much in the way of "organization." I think that after the shelves become a bit more full the organization thing will begin to firm up and sort of sort itself out. What can I say? I make this stuff up as I go.
My food storage room is located below grade so it stays cool most of the year. Pretty good for wine storage and it probably helps with the longevity of the food stuffs, too. It is about fourteen feet wide, about twelve feet deep and eight feet high. Not huge but not small, either. I like to think of it as a good start. I have a lot of room at my commercial building and I guess that I will work on that after this room is completed.
So...this is the rear wall, the one I see when I walk into the room:
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There are quite a few 2-liter bottles that I need to fill with stuff whether that is beans, macaroni, rice, potato flakes, sugar, water, etc. I will need to pick up some oxygen absorbing things and stuff one into each of the bottles as they fill. I can double stack 5-gallon buckets on the bottom shelf. I used 2x3 treated lumber to keep the bottom shelf off of the floor because every once in a while I will get some ground water seepage. If it happened more often I would jack hammer the floor and put a sump pump in but so far it's merely an annoyance. Need to put some mouse traps and bait down soon...we have four cats guarding against vermin but you can't be too careful.
Next is the wall to my left as I walk into the room:
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Right now I have some non-food items on it (plus some carpentry tools). The cardboard boxes are some hotel items I acquired: bar soap, shampoo, conditioner and mouthwash. I figured that the small sizes would come in handy at some point for something. There is also a Coleman propane camp stove and a Food Saver vacuum packer there. Bleach. Batteries. Matches. Insect repellant. Butane lighters. Duct tape. I have a list I'm working on.
Looking the other way is this wall:
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This is where I have been stacking most of the food that I have so far collected. I have a nice little wine rack that I salvaged from a liquor store that went out of business and there is also a vintage candy shelf from an old grocery store. A few 2-liter bottles that I have filled with rice, beans and sugar are on the top shelf. The wine rack is about a quarter of the way full...mostly with wine but lately I have been picking up liquor, instead. Several bottles now of high quality liquor (I hate cheap liquor). Sure wish I could store beer long term. Lots of soup. Lots of canned meat. Lots of canned veggies. And lots of room for lots more.
And a bit further to the left (adjacent to the door) is the long term food storage:
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I started out the freeze dried stuff by picking up a few cans at a time from Walmart. Recently I have added a couple of cases of the Mountain House stuff. I am trying to budget around $250 or so a month for freeze dried and/or dehydrated food. Above that is propane canisters for use with the Coleman camp stove and some toiletry items.
When these shelves fill up I am going to add another floor to ceiling shelf unit that comes off of one of the walls and goes about four to six feet into the center of the room.
There is also quite a bit of room in the garage for storing non-food preps so there's that, too.
Anyway, that's all I have for now. I would be interested to see what others have going on in this area.