storing dried foods

Hello Survivors! Quick question for anyone with more food storage experience than myself. I am preparing 4-8 servings of "soup mix" consisting of beans,lentils, barley split peas and the likes. The Mrs has the recipe perfected which includes various scoops of curry, spices and powdered chicken...

How are you folks storing your beans and rice and the like? Would like to store a good bit of each but want to make sure I do it right. Don't want them going bad. The big bags of dried beans you can purchase at Walmart or Sam's club. Do you just place them in a water proof plastic bin or...

Ok, I just received my oxygen absorbers yesterday. I have my white containers for long term storage. What kind of rice should I get for survival? I was thinking of getting instant rice because it would take less fuel to cook it. However I haven't seen any instant rice sold in bulk. What is...