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Eat Healthy and Help Your Food Budget!
Top Tips to Make Your Food Last as Long as Possible
Most folks today are looking for ways to save money in their daily lives. Today, long-term food storage options can be good both for your health and for your budget. This article has helpful tips on how food storage can help anyone eat healthier and cut their food bills.
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Long-term food storage options can be good for your health and for your budget. Keeping food long-term may require you to remove air from the packaging. It’s also critical that you monitor the time the food has been stored to use it within its expiration date.
Storage Tips
The first step to successfully putting away food for long-term use is to carefully monitor the purchase and use-by date. Once you’ve marked that on the storage container, consider investing in a vacuum sealing tool to make it easy to protect the food against insects, bacterial growth and ice crystal formation. Rice sealed in an airtight canning jar can last up to six years with no sign of insect growth. Bugs are fond of rice…
