take a tip from the "pros"... LDS recommends that a years worth of vacuum sealed or canned food can be stored under your bed... after watching the Wendy DeWitt LDS video, I started vacuum sealing staples (with jar adapter to my food vacuum sealer) in quart large mouth Mason/Ball jars, and storing in their original packing containers under my bed... I do maintain a month's worth of canned supplies (I try to donate to food banks as their best by date approaches)