Options for prepping and storing food? (3 of 3)

In addition to storing MRE's, canned food, supermarket food or dehydrated foods,
you could also store away 5 gallon buckets of dry wheat, grains, rice, beans,quinoa and a ton of other dry foods. A few words of caution on this. 
Plastic buckets are permeable to oxygen. Because of this, you will lose nutritional value, absorb odors from the surrounding area.
 Rats can and will chew threw these buckets.
Do not store the buckets directly on concrete (find and old wooden palate) Storing the buckets directly on the floor could make them brittle over time, wick more air and moisture inside and over all deteriorate your investment.  Keeping them off the floor in general will help keep temperatures around the buckets nice and even. 
There are a few companies who sell oxygen absorbers and mylar bags to help you keep the moisture out of your dry foods.  Don't forget to label and date each one you pack.   It helps to do this in 2 locations of each bucket in case one date gets rubbed off or damaged. Plus is can save you the hassle of having to turn each heavy bucket around and around looking for the info.   You might have a grain mill right in your town where you could purchase buckets already full and ready to hoard.