Brown rice?
Organic short-grain Brown rice, I hope, for your family's sake.

White rice has -0- nutrition. Brown rice is the King of nutrition.

Beans and rice do combine to make a complete protein, not white rice though. Good for you on the Quinoa purchase! It is another superfood.

Variety of beans is a good idea. You will learn they have different taste characteristics, some are actually "meaty". If you can find organic, non-gmo, Soy beans they are very versatile.

Need recipes for your whole grains, beans and lentils? These foods are the mainstay of Macrobiotics. Lots of recipes there which will be tasty and build your immune system.

500lbs of beans may seem like a lot, but it isn't, not for more than 2 persons. Lots of reasons to grind beans into flour, to sprout them, maybe use some for planting...

Got hard red Winter Wheat? Got a grain mill to crack grain for cereal and make flour in different consistencies? Hand grinding is long and tedious. Electric mill takes, power...


Got a generator, battery charger, storage battery and inverter you can tie-in to your breaker box so you have power whenever you want?

Got the clean/new 5gal food storage or even paint buckets w/gasket lids to store your rice, beans, and grains? Ea bucket will hold almost 35lbs. You wipe out each bucket with hydrogen peroxide or mild bleach solution, let dry. Get bricks of Dry Ice from the grocer's. Fill ea bucket about 1/3. Break the dry ice into chips about fingernail size. Layer-in about 8-9 chips, fill next 1/3 add more chips, fill to top leaving room for gasket lid to be closed, add last layer of chips and leave lid on Loosely for 45mins to allow chips to gassify. CO2 drives out the oxygen and kills any bug larvae or eggs that might hatch. Hammer down the lid, after marking the date and contents w/label or paper tape.

Easier to carry in a bucket w/handle. Bags will absorb moisture, rip/tear in normal use. Buckets stack easily and can be buried if need be to assure all your food isn't looted or stolen...

Got a pressure cooker? An Ohsawa Pot? Ohsawa Pot cooks rice in pressure cooker to perfection. Macrobiotic thing. Try your library or real-deal healthfood store to look through a Macro cookbook or two. If you want to get the most out of your food it is worth checking Macrobiotics out.