20 "Poor Man's" Pantry Tricks That Cut Grocery Bills in Half

Why did America stop storing food in root cellars? Learn how the old root cellar kept potatoes, carrots, apples and squash fresh all winter without electricity, and where to store vegetables in your own home today. For generations, families kept the harvest "asleep" underground until spring. Then, within about one generation, the root cellar almost disappeared. In this documentary, we go back down the cellar steps to see how it worked, why the refrigerator, the home freezer, refrigerated trucks, supermarkets and the basement-less postwar house left it behind, and why the old habit of storing food a season ahead still makes good sense for your grocery budget, food waste and power outages. You don't need to dig anything. You'll learn the three groups of storage vegetables (cold and damp, cool and dry, warmer and dry), the temperatures each one likes, which corners of a modern house can do the job, and a simple thermometer test that finds your own "root cellar" in a day or two. #rootcellar #foodstorage #oldways #poormanstory