How To Hide Food Storage

‍Now that you have accomplished the hard part and built your food storage, it’s time to hide it properly. We have compiled the best ways to hide food storage.

We have put together hiding places of all types for your food storage. Remember that many foods rely on cool temperatures to avoid spoiling. The three best places to hide food storage are your kitchen cabinets, inside the walls, and under your bed. Try these today to get started.

As we saw in the past, during riots and other emergencies, instances of looting can occur. Hiding your food is an excellent way to protect your food from any potential break-ins after all the hard work you spent building an impressive long-term food storage supply. Luckily, your home has many more hidden places than you know about, and we are here to help you make them work for you.

We have helped families craft creative strategies for their food storage and turned tiny homes into mini-army bases loaded with hidden food. We have learned many techniques to perfectly store food for better spacing and longevity through many different experiments. Keep reading this guide to learn more about how to hide food storage.

‍Where to Hide Food Storage

As you build up more food and your storage starts to get too crowded, it’s critical to think about other places you can hide food storage. There are a few reasons you should hide food storage, like state of emergencies and burglary. When you have some food hidden, it can act as a safety net for your home and provides added peace of mind.

We have created a list of the 11 best places to hide food storage in your home. Some of these solutions may seem more obvious than others. Some may require some hard work to get started. And others are really just creative solutions to ensure you always have food storage in your home.

We have listed these in order of efficiency and what we believe to be the best options. We have kept budget in mind, too, as we try and include options that are low cost and can be accomplished by anybody. Let’s take a look at the 11 best places to hide food storage today.  

Best Places to Hide Food Storage

Food storage items should ideally be kept in places that remain dark and cool. When constantly exposed to heat or light, food can tend to spoil much quicker than the shelf life would indicate. Not all hiding spaces can be in this type of space, but specific ingredients can last longer than others in warm weather.

Break your food storage into groups. Be sure to place those items that spoil easier in the basement or in the darker hiding places.

1. Kitchen Cabinets

This may seem a bit obvious, but I assume you misunderstand the strategy and exactly how we would approach it initially. In your cabinets, there are spaces in the corners and in the back that can be hollowed out where extra food can be hidden.

You can build an additional shelf in the back to hide other foods. It remains in an easy place for you to access, but only the person who built the storage would have any idea where it is.

2. Inside the Wall

The best place to hide food in the walls would be in an unfinished basement where only wood framing is exposed. You can place sheetrock or plywood over these areas where you store the food to hide it completely. The wooden beams can act as shelves to hold your items.

The best foods to hide in the walls would be canned goods, boxed pasta, grains, and other items in boxes that would fit well. You can even put other essentials like tissues and salt here too.

3. Under the Bed

The best part about hiding food under your bed is how perfectly it aligns with our requirements to place foods in cool, dark areas to preserve them better. If you have multiple beds in your home, you can maximize storage by placing items under there neatly.

This works best for beds that are already raised above the ground with enough space to hide them in an area that is unseen when passing by. If you have low beds, trying adding raisers underneath to increase your space and fit more food.

4. Inside Your Box Spring

If you think under the bed is a bit too obvious, try putting food directly in the middle of your box spring. You can fit various canned goods, boxed pasta, grains, and other similar items without adding too much weight. Keep the items low enough, so you don’t feel a difference when sleeping, though.

Because a box spring is mostly hollow, you can fit a large number of items in a perfectly hidden place that requires no cost and very minimal work to accomplish.

5. Below the Stairs

If you have empty areas underneath your stairs at home, try fitting some food storage in these areas. They are hard to reach and don’t come to mind right away when rummaging through a person’s home during a burglary. This could also work for outside stairs, but the types of food you could keep there would be more limited.

6. Inside Cardboard Boxes

Take old boxes from electronics or similar items. You can store a bunch of food items in these boxes and palace them somewhere in your basement. They act as a decoy, but really they are holding food storage that nobody would think to check.

Examples of the best types of cardboard boxes include TV boxes, computer boxes, and old stereo boxes.

7. Bookshelves

For those avid readers prepping properly with food storage, have you ever considered putting food on your shelves first and then covering them up with books? It’s the perfect way to maximize all of the space on your shelves while keeping essential items safe.

Stack items like canned goods or small boxes on the shelves first and cover them with books. If you have a big enough shelf, it should fit nicely.

8. Inside Hidden Crawl Spaces

Almost every home has a few hidden crawl spaces that nobody would dare try and enter. These serve as dark, cool places that can hold a hefty amount of food storage. They would be nearly impossible to find for someone who’s never been in your home before too.

Take one day to crawl up there and neatly stash away your goods.

9. Empty Suitcases

Another place to hide food storage in plain sight is in empty suitcases. These are already stored away empty in our basements or closets. Now imagine loading them up with some essential food items you want to keep hidden. This is the last place anybody would dare check.

10. Put Food Inside the Vents

In your home, you probably use vents for air conditioning and other needs. You may run the risk of blocking airflow, but keeping the amounts to a minimum will be fine. Just remove one of the air vents’ side panels and place your food next to the duct.

By spacing food out inside the vents, you don’t run much of a risk from blocking ventilation, and it keeps your food in many areas for added safety.

11. Floor spaces

There is a good chance you have seen this at least a few times in the movies before. If you use wooden floors in your home, you actually have many places to store small amounts of food. Putting food underneath wooden floor spaces is an excellent hiding spot that is easy to conceal.

After you get your food in the right place, you can even find an area rug to place over your hidden storage to conceal it further.