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[seals_fate]

Maybe I should have looked at these things earlier, i'm not even completely sure what this was meant to be.

Beyond keeping things in cool and relatively dry places, what's the best way to keep food in a place like this?

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[xiyue]

That depends! What are you trying to keep from going bad?

[seals_fate]

At this point in time, everything. So, ideas on any type of food would be good.

[xiyue]

Ahh, well with the canned food you can just leave it in the cupboards until you open it, but once you do it's best to eat it all at once. If you have anything like sugar or flour you should try to keep it dry and in something air tight, like a plastic baggie or box.

I'm not sure how you can store something like bread or fruit, if you find any, but if you have salt you can keep meat and vegetables for a while before they go bad.

[seals_fate]

A bag or a box. Wouldn't that work for canned things too?

Hm... How long does salt usually keep them for?

[xiyue]

It probably would, yes.

If you use salt -- either by rubbing it on whatever you need to preserve, or by soaking whatever you're preserving in really salty water -- it should last about three or four weeks. Maybe not as long in this city, though.

[seals_fate]

I'll have to try it.

Rubbing and soaking...okay. I'll keep that in mind, any time is better than letting it rot out.