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As my nym might suggest, I am only getting started. My family consumes a lot of rice and lentils as a matter of course (wife from South America). It occurred to me that at the very least, we should be storing those two items in bulk, as a starter, and rotation would be easy because we use them regularly anyway.
so I started to try to calculate volumes and the translation of same into "days" of service. Let me share my calculations for rice, and ask more experienced folk if this sounds about right.
Assume my family/group needs a total of 10,000 Calories a day (call this five adults). Naturally, I will want to store a variety of foods and eat a mixed diet everyday, but I'm thinking it might be a useful unit in measuring storage quantities of any food in "stand-alone service days" as if we were eating only that item.
So, after referencing a variety of nutrition websites and cooking websites, I seem to run into the following calculations, which strike me as wrong, but that's why I'm asking.
Calories per cup white rice, cooked = 242
Daily cups, cooked, for 10,000 calories = 41 cups
Dry rice for 1 cup, cooked = 74g
Dry rice for 41 cups, cooked = 3.03 KG (6.7 lbs!?)
Volume of 3.03 KG, dry = 15 dry cups
In other words, 3.75 dry quarts
SOOOOO, a six-gallon plastic sealed bucket of rice would contain 24 quarts, or only 6.4 service days of food. To store enough for a year (yes, i know I need other foods, but this is my unit of measure), I would need 57 6-gallon buckets of rice.
Does this sound right to more experienced folks?
It is material because I figure my first step on a long journey should be to get 3 months' supply in event of pandemic-type situations where we don't want to leave the house or something.
so I started to try to calculate volumes and the translation of same into "days" of service. Let me share my calculations for rice, and ask more experienced folk if this sounds about right.
Assume my family/group needs a total of 10,000 Calories a day (call this five adults). Naturally, I will want to store a variety of foods and eat a mixed diet everyday, but I'm thinking it might be a useful unit in measuring storage quantities of any food in "stand-alone service days" as if we were eating only that item.
So, after referencing a variety of nutrition websites and cooking websites, I seem to run into the following calculations, which strike me as wrong, but that's why I'm asking.
Calories per cup white rice, cooked = 242
Daily cups, cooked, for 10,000 calories = 41 cups
Dry rice for 1 cup, cooked = 74g
Dry rice for 41 cups, cooked = 3.03 KG (6.7 lbs!?)
Volume of 3.03 KG, dry = 15 dry cups
In other words, 3.75 dry quarts
SOOOOO, a six-gallon plastic sealed bucket of rice would contain 24 quarts, or only 6.4 service days of food. To store enough for a year (yes, i know I need other foods, but this is my unit of measure), I would need 57 6-gallon buckets of rice.
Does this sound right to more experienced folks?
It is material because I figure my first step on a long journey should be to get 3 months' supply in event of pandemic-type situations where we don't want to leave the house or something.
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