Winter Inspiration
Well the cold is upon us and I am very happy with our food stores. I love to go and pull out a jar of tomatoes for spaghetti or some salsa for a snack. The dried food is also great for snacks and it is easy to make more even in the winter time.
I do regret not having more frozen blueberries for my oatmeal in the morning but next summer I will make sure to get more for freezing, my 2 year old loves blueberries and knows how to open the freezer and get out a bag to eat (bottom freezer). I have never really liked winter because back on the farm all of the trees produced no more fruit and the fresh food had to come from the store. We all know that fresh produce from the store never compares to the stuff straight out of the field and garden. So the winter meant going without unless we made preparations and canned some food. I remember the damp smell in the pantry located in the basement of our farm-house. The walls were cement and the shelves were full as we started into winter months. It was a good feeling but to be honest I do not think I had much appreciation for it at the time. I had always had a full pantry growing up and so I did not know there was any other way.
When my wife and I lived in little apartments during our college years there was not much in the way of food storage and no pantry. I felt a loss and a lack of comfort as we went into winter. A dependency on stores and grocery outlets to get me the food we needed. I survived mostly because I was young and the belief that I was immortal still lingered in the back of my brain. Then the day came when we had kids and all of that changed. I knew we needed to start to do more preparing for the future in many ways and one of those was through food storage. Not only to save money for the two tons of diapers per child but to have that feeling of security and comfort while starting into the winter months. My appreciation for food stores has increased greatly now that I have gone many years without.
I am not saying that we have mastered food storage yet but we are working toward that goal. To get started I had to think on a quote that I really like it goes like this “Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise”. So I got out there and got my storage going and I will continue to work at it until I am long gone from this world. If I can do it so can you!
Rhett out
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