Part 3: Plastic Buckets and canned goods

part-3-plastic-buckets-canned-goods<p>You have your raw ingredients and your water taken care of. Now we need to find out how to <a href=https://www.containerandpackaging.com/industry-catalog/food-beverage/24/>store </a>all those veggies, fruits, and pickled pigs feet you need in your diet. While you can find some items from your local grocer, it's always a great idea to try canning your own produce.</p> <p>The staple of all canning projects is the <a href=https://www.containerandpackaging.com/industry-catalog/food-beverage/24/?style=74#0,24&amp;0&amp;0&amp;0&amp;0&amp;0&amp;0&amp;74&amp;0&amp;0&amp;list&amp;0&amp;0,0>mason style jar</a>. Not only does it have the nostalgia of being used for over 150 years but it was designed specifically to preserve food by creating hermetic seals. While plastic buckets are ideal for most dry goods, canning jars live for keeping your produce in an edible state.</p> <p>If you're new to canning (or even if you're experienced), CPS has some <a href=https://www.containerandpackaging.com/blog/?s=canning>great resources for you to check out</a>. We cover just about everything you'd want to know about canning and storing food. Just like with dry goods and plastic pails, or buckets, it's best to store these in a dry cool place as well.</p> <p>Remember that when packing your jars or filling your buckets that you should be packing items you will actually use and eat. For instance, let's say that the nuclear fallout has mutated your taste buds to the point where they can't enjoy the delicious taste of sardine flavored gelatin. This would make putting an item like this in your food storage a pretty silly idea. Save your staples, we all have them, and there is no point in keeping items you will not use as it will just take up valuable storage area.</p> <p><a href=https://www.containerandpackaging.com/blog/?p=486>Continue to Part 4</a></p>