Getting started with food storage basics

FYI: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/FACTSheets/High_Altitude_Cooking_and_Food_Safety/index.asp

 

I just searched pasta storage and this thread seems like a good place to ask.

Pasta. Charts say 1-2 years pasta lasts in storage. One place I read said if you keep it in the original package it last the longest. I don't trust those boxes to be as air tight as I would like. How do my fellow monkeys store their pasta? For my family I should have 100 lbs of pasta. By my calculations I do not go through 100 lbs of pasta in one year but it is good, family likes it and you can get creative.

This is a great chart- put in the number for your family members, calculate and tweak from there. Food Storage Calculator

I could do pasta in mylar bags but that would be many bags. I currently am storing in a tote but I do not think that the tote is as air tight as it should be. I know if I stored just spaghetti it would take up less room but variety is something that I try to do. Barilla has veggie pasta it does not have more fiber but it does have a bit more vitamin A. Barilla also has a white fiber pasta, which is higher in fiber.

I am looking for suggestions on pasta storage that would make stock rotation easy without wasting lots of mylar bags.

 

I think the gallons of water estimate is low. Pretty neat to see this!