A Good Idea For Food Rotation

The author of Le Survivaliste describes his experiences on using various shelves and racks to keep his food rotated so he was using his oldest foods first. To be brief, it was more complicated than it was worth. So he came up with a different idea--rather than split food out by the type, and then rotating each type, he devoted sections of his pantry to different years representing the expiration date for those foods. So, all his food with an expiration date of 2017, for example, would go into one section of his food storage area whether it was canned soups or vegetables, boxed goods, canned fruit, etc.

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