Food Storage January 02, 2005, 01:38:25 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48571Have you had any concerns about the shelf life of foods stored in your LD? If so, do you rotate it out of the LD every X number of months? Or tried dehydrated or freeze dried versions? Have any tips/tricks for getting the most food storage out of cabinet space available?Thanks again, Shirl
Re: Food Storage Reply #1 – January 02, 2005, 05:32:03 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48580This is a topic I have not seen before on this site, however, it is something I think about often. It is a pa
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Food Storage Reply #2 – January 05, 2005, 09:01:27 am Yahoo Message Number: 48703Shirl wrote: (snip) . . . Have any tips/tricks for getting the most food storage out of cabinet space available? . . . One little tip is to take stuff like cereal, raisins, most anything in a box, out of the box and just keep it in the bag. I roll down the top of the bag and put a clothes pin on it to keep it closed. If it's something that I might not remember what the heck it is, I put a label on it. Usually not necessary. Oh yeah, here's another little tip I picked up from some fishermen last summer. Save those plastic bags that the cereal comes in, and put smelly stuff like a cut onion, in them. The smell doesn't come through. I tested this one out, and it's true! (Just like a Hint from Helose, isn't it?)Sarah[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Food Storage Reply #3 – January 05, 2005, 10:18:25 am Yahoo Message Number: 48708"Have any tips/tricks for getting the most food storage out of cabinet space available?" If you haven't already, see the kitchen page of my "Improving Gertie" website for many tips:http://www.andybaird.com/travels/gertie/improv_kitchen.htm> In particular, the best thing you can do (by far!) is to add a pantry closet. If your floorplan allows it--and most do--this will give you ten or twelve additional shelf feet of storage space for food items *without* significantly intruding upon your living space. Seehttp://www.andybaird.com/travels/gertie/pantry.htm>for complete details and construction plans.Andy Baird
Food Storage Reply #4 – January 02, 2005, 07:39:14 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48588It is a pain in the neck, but between trips we do bring food back into the house. We do the same thing...no food is ever left in the LD after we return home. Of course, most of the food we carry is perishable food, not canned. As for storage, we keep most things in storage containers in the cupboards. This keeps stuff from moving around or tipping over, and perhaps falling out when a cupboard door is open.Linda & Earl 2004 23.5' Red TK From Quartzsite, AZ
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: Food Storage Reply #5 – January 02, 2005, 08:02:48 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48589QuoteWe do the same thing...no food is ever left in the LD after we return home.Oooops, sorry, I meant during long trips or full timing.
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: Food Storage Reply #6 – January 02, 2005, 09:21:21 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48591Quote from: Linda & Earl Hylton "It is a pain in the neck, but between trips we do bring food back into the house."One of our major motivators in getting an RV here in So. Calif. was to provide us with shelter should "The Big One" occur. We therefore keep basic food items in the rig all the time (bottles of water, canned foods, dried food, stuff in unopened jars, etc.).We do rotate from time to time but with no particular timetable. So far none of the items we have rotated to the house was spoiled in any way and that's after at least a year or two.Maybe we're taking a chance, but that's how we do it.Anne
Re: Food Storage Reply #7 – January 03, 2005, 09:16:43 am Yahoo Message Number: 48598"One of our major motivators in getting an RV here in So. Calif. was to provide us with shelter should 'The Big One' occur. We therefore keep basic food items in the rig all the time (bottles of water, canned foods, dried food, stuff in unopened jars, etc.). We do rotate from time to time but with no particular timetable. So far none of the items we have rotated to the house was spoiled in any way and that's after at least a year or two." That's about how I handle it, only in my case it's "NYC" and "dirty bomb" instead of "SoCal" and "The Big One." ;-) I keep as much nonperishable food in Gertie as I can at all times, ready to jump in and go. (And of course I keep full gas, water and propane tanks.) I rotate it out every year or so, and the only problem I've run so far into was a bag of corn chips that were beginning to go rancid. I'll replace some of the less-used items (like bread flour) before I get on the road full time this summer; from then on, of course, I won't have this problem! :-)Andy Baird
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