What is food storage? How do you store food? How do you know that your food storage will stay fresh? When do you have to throw away storage of food? These are all common questions asked by inexperienced people who are interested in storing food for survival. Unfortunately, no matter how experienced you are (or how experienced you think you are), many of us are prone to the same basic mistakes. We are flawed and we forget the ABC's of food storage, but those kinds of mistakes can still be costly. The most common mistakes people make when learning how to store food are as follows: