For grains, we just seal them up in what we've got (like a culligan jug full of corn). Weevils can be a problem when buying a 50 lb. sack at the feed mill, but there are a number of ways to snuff weevils. Moisture content is probably a more important concern, since weevils croak in a sealed container for lack of oxygen. Dry beans last about forever. Probably a lot of beans waiting on Y3K. Flour can be ground a little at a time, so it will take a while to go through 50#. Green beans we canned and figure on eating a quart a wk. Tomatoe juice, a qt. every other wk, but it represents stew or soup of some kind. Chicken we canned in pints, as a pint makes a good pot pie for 2. Most of the canned stuff we figure on eating within a year, but it will last a lot longer, but its kind of crazy to put up more than you can eat in a year. Some old boy gave us 5 gal. of glucose 20 yrs ago. Its still good, (for what I ain't got a clue). So is honey. Some honey sugars easily, but liquifies when heated, so no big deal. When I get it, It goes in jars and sits there. Keeps for the long haul. Freezing is about the easiest, so sweet corn goes there, and its whatever we didn't eat off the cob when it was ripe. Don't know how much, but somewhere around a pint and a half a week. Roadkill gets frozen, and whatever I might shoot. Nuts and berries same unless short on space, then canned. Pumpkin got canned last yr and still have a few jars, so we overdid that, but its still good. Still have nuts in the shells, but they stay good if they don't get bugs. We used to make sausage, but after 6 mos it goes bad in the freezer. Canned, it lasts years, but a family needs to figure their current diet and go from there. Watch out for the mice. They'll steal you blind! (That's where sulfur comes in handy.)
