Preparedness Quick Tip: Frozen Multi-Purpose Water Storage

By Angela

We like to use emptied soda and juice jugs for water storage.  They are cheap (sometimes free if you clean up after a party!) and we can usually find a place to stash them because they’re much smaller than 55 gallon barrels.  One place we put a few of the juice jugs of water for storage is in the freezer.  Simply wash your jug out really well (you could do a rinse with a bit of bleach to get them super clean), then fill a bit down from the top with water to give the water room to expand as it freezes.  Screw the lid on nice and tight, put it in the freezer and it’s good to go.

We use the juice jugs because they’re a freezer friendly rectangular shape.  This shape also makes them cooler friendly, so even though they are classified as water storage, they make perfect ice blocks for camping trips that DO NOT melt all over your food in the cooler or cost you any extra money or hassle.  (And hey, you can drink them when they’re melted.)

These ice blocks could also be transferred to your refrigerator to keep it cooler longer in the event of a power outage.  And the less air space there is in your freezer, the longer things will stay frozen without power, so filling up the empty space in your freezer with juice jugs of water is a win-win-win situation all around.

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