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Foods vary in the temperature and moisture they need to retain quality in storage. Stock only the kind and amount of food you can store properly to retain high quality and nutritive value. This page provides information on safe storage times for a wide variety of refrigerated and frozen foods.

A wealth of free downloadeable reports related to food storage - in PDF format - enjoy!

Here are lots of free publications on home canning, freezing, food preservation, food storage and more!

High-acid foods include fruits - fruit juices - jams - jellies and other fruit spreads - tomatoes with added acid - pickles, relishes and chutneys - sauces - vinegars and condiments. Here is a step by step online guide - with illustrations - to canning high acid foods for home food storage. Also see: Home Canning Basics.

Free current research-based online tutorials on most methods of home food preserving and food storage. Learn How to:
Can Food / Freeze Food / Dry Food / Cure & Smoke Food / Ferment Food / Pickle Food / Make Jam & Jelly / Store Food

How long can you eat from *your* pantry? This group is for people who want to share their experiences with others about frugal cooking. Tips, hints, recipes, food menus, storage tips - planning and more!

Learn the time-saving shortcuts of the pros. Keep up on food safety and food storage ideas. Receive how-to instructions, great baking tips, new product announcements, and special sales. You will find all this and more in our free weekly newsletter. We also offer the American Baking Essentials Course for free. Sign up and receive eight baking lessons by email. Each lesson includes text, practice recipes, and resources. Plus, as an enrollee you receive a discount coupon code that can be used to save money on baking ingredients and materials at The Student Commissary.

What is the Pantry Principle™? In essence, the "Pantry Principle™ " means storing commodities today for use in tomorrow's situations - whatever they may be. Stocking up when the price is right on all the food and non-food items you use on a regular basis is the key. Not only is this the most economical way to shop and live, it provides security as well. When emergencies arise, whether major or minor, you are never found wanting with the Pantry Principle™. You can discover greater details in Barbara SalsBury's outstanding video, Beating the High Cost of Eating.

Here's a simple, affordable month by month plan to help you get started on a home food storage program.

Free monthly newsletter from Homestead Harvest packed with helpful gardening tips, organic pest remedies, food preserving recipes, plant profiles, current sales and more.

Learn about food preserving using solar food drying techniques. Includes a simple plan for a solar food dryer, food drying tips, guidelines and links.

A free preparedness and Food storage newsletter sent out once a month. Each issue contains a spiritual quote or thought, recipes, preparedness tips, how-to's for food storage and more. This is an LDS oriented list, but anyone is welcome to subscribe.

Drying is the oldest method of preserving food. The early American settlers dried foods such as corn, apple slices, currants, grapes, and meat. Compared with other methods, drying is quite simple. In fact, you may already have most of the equipment on hand. Dried foods keep well because the moisture content is so low that spoilage organisms cannot grow. Learn the basics of food drying - preservation and storage in this online tutorial from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Agriculture.