CHAPTER 32 - LABELING & MONITORING
No matter what food your store and how long you plan on storing it, you should always take care to label with the date and inventory everything that is a part of your food storage if it isn’t regularly and automatically consumed by normal daily nutritional habits.
Not only is this important in order to simply keep track of your storage food, it also helps to rotate your pantry items making sure the oldest items are always consumed first which helps eliminate wasting food and thereby money.
One of the easiest and most efficient ways to keep up with your food storage easily while making sure you have the appropriate amounts of food stored to care for all of your household in an emergency is by keeping a spread sheet of inventory that you check monthly or every other month at the same time you are inspecting the area where your food is stored in order to look for signs of rodent destruction or other details that might be ruin your food if not noticed in a timely fashion.