A Wealth of calories
Stored food is like money in the bank, only better.
Money is a medium of exchange, but true wealth actually enriches your life with time, options, experiences, freedom, flexibility, and sustenance.
Like gold in a safe, stored food is hard wealth over which you have complete control. Burglars seldom come looking for buckets of rice, and unlike money in the bank, your stored food is effectively beyond the depredations of the IRS, fee-happy fine-print, or, worse, the machinations of economic policy makers.
Even if the commodity value of your food stockpile declines – a highly unlikely prospect, considering rising prices over the last few decades – your food is still just that: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Conservative estimates set food price inflation at around 2-3% per year. Anyone who has actually been buying groceries over the last couple of decades will probably laugh at single digits like these. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the increase in food prices far outstripped wage growth in the five years between 2009 and 2014.
In light of this, we believe that stocking up on foods which you are going to eat anyway is a respectable hedge against rising food prices. And regardless, your stored food is likely to appreciate in value faster than your savings account.
Everyone knows that you can save money by purchasing in quantity. This course will help you ensure that in three years you don’t find yourself throwing away money, feeding unused, expired, poorly stored ingredients to your chickens.
Stored food resembles money in another important respect as well: It’s easily convertible to social capital. Whether you end up with too much money or too much food, both can be given away, generating good will, treasure in heaven, or brownie points – call it what you will.
Most of us who enjoy eating, enjoy eating out. But some people make eating out an avocation, and eat out, or eat takeout, more often than they eat in. If this is you, and you are looking for ways to reduce your expenses and live a more sustainable lifestyle, learning to cook gourmet meals from simple, inexpensive ingredients can help you on that path.
Food Storage Feast will help you select the foods to store to make the meals you love, while also introducing you to new and tasty ways to use the ingredients that keep the longest.