Once you begin assembling items into your food storage, a great way to keep track of what you have is to label your jars/containers with what recipe it is for, and also how many other containers you have of that same thing. I got my chocolate chips and freeze dried raspberries ready for storage today, so here's a good example of what I mean:
I got a 72 oz bag of chocolate chips from Costco. The whole bag filled 3 of my 5 needed jars, leaving about 1/2 cup left over in the bag. I used my FoodSaver jar attachment to vacuum seal my jars.
On the top of each jar I included these little stickies with important info:
I included the recipe these are used for, how many jars there should be along with this one (1 of 5, 2 of 5 etc), the month and year I packaged it, and how many cups are in it.
Now these chocolate chips are ready to store for 2-3 years. : )
This is a can of the freeze dried raspberries. Again I included a sticky with the recipe, how many this can is of how many I need total (there are 5 cups in here and I need 13 cups for my year storage, so I'm rounding up to needing 3 cans), and the date I bought it.
Doesn't organization feel GREAT?!
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