Thinking again :) of doing like a 52 buckets not for the sake of putting a week's worth food in each one. Maybe enough flour to make couple loaves fresh bread per week, develop a routine stay in practice of making fresh bread once a week, alternate grains every fourth bucket (fourth week) have Rice and beans, keep a good variety try to keep some healthy options. Endless possibilities and eating better, I am Guy and cooking cleanup etc is work, would rather dig a hole than do laundry and kitchen cleanup but the reward is feel better eating what I call real food. For people new to long term storage like myself it will help keep a check on using food and keeping a nice consistent rotation, and it will become like healthy routine. Add your garden food your producing saving money buying in bulk and eating healthy fresh raw foods more often. Keeping long term storage in consistent rotation. I assume most with experience already have a their own system in place. Any tips?? Ideas?? Consistently refilling the buckets using them weekly, not focused on 7 days worth just some meals snacks and using fresh foods, even if you have dogs maybe put three cans dog food per bucket, I have four dogs so I sometimes add few spoons of wet food to their dry, so you keep their extra food in rotation as well. Thanks for reading my post maybe it will inspire someone to perfect or share their system they use currently.
Rick
You could put like recipe kits like a kit to make pizza dough one week, a kit to make cornbread in another, a kit to make hard candy one week, like once week you make something unique different always make fresh bread weekly, basically then you would eat fresh and keep flour sugar in rotation etc if you can for example make hard candy that is awesome skill to know, you do need a candy thermometer. Being able to learn to make from scratch foods is skills that if things really got bad you could literally make what you are craving if you had the basics in long term storage.
@Rick I think, it would be better to talk over the phone rather than doing a ton of typing. That is a lot of typing to address. LOL
@Rick I also think you are overthinking too much. Remember, the KISS principal will always save you a lot of headaches. Get your basic plan first. How much you want to store? That would be based on the purpose you have for it. What you want to store? Make sure what you store is what you normally consume, so they fit into your normal routines. Consider the storage life of each and the amount you have and factor in your consumption rate to help you determine what your rotation would be like. Only you can answer those questions. Everything else is minute details that is just splitting hair. LOL
Make sure you think things out first, the most important ones. Don't let the cart get ahead of the horses.