We have an awesome food storage coordinator in our ward. She divided everything up and gave us two things a month to purchase. By next June we will have one year of food storage for our families if we follow this. Each month we purchase a year supply of each item. Here is her plan:
July: Peanut Butter & Toilet paper
10 lbs of peanut butter per person for a year supply
August: Flour & Needles/Thread
Flour 80-100 lbs per person for a year supply
Needles: 6 packages for a year Thread: 10 spools
September: Salt and Laundry Detergent
Salt: 8 lbs per person for a year
October: Canned Meat/Tuna and Razor blades
Canned meat: 100-200 cans per person for a year
razor blades: 5 blades per person per month for a year
November: Sugar and or Honey
100 lbs per person for a year
December: Cooking oil/shortening and disinfectant cleaner
cooking oil: 10-15 lbs per person for a year
cleaner: 5 bottles per person for a year
January: Beans and Personal Toiletries
Dried beans: 35-70 lbs per person for a year
February: Powdered milk and shampoo
powdered milk: 100 lbs per person for a year
March: Canned fruit and flashlight batteries
canned fruit: 75-100 cans per person for a year
batteries: if your flashlight takes 2 batteries , then multiply 12x2=24 batteries for the year
April: Baking products and vitamins
baking powder and baking soda: 3 lbs per person for a year
yeast: 1 lb per person for a year
May: Water
minimum of 14 gallons of water per person
June: Canned vegtables and hand soap
canned vegtables: 150 cans per person for the year
hand soap 20 bars of soap per person for a year
**If you complete this plan, you will have a good basic food storage.
Be sure to add items that your family cannot live without and personalize your plan
for your family. Don't forget to add a few comfort foods that your children love. Also add items for desserts (cake, brownie mixes, etc.) and other foods to add variety to your meals.
Being in the military and moving so often is hard to keep moving your food storage. I have found a great way to do it. Once we get orders to PCS (move to next station) then I basically stop buying food a month or two before we leave. We eat everything in our food storage. Not the stuff in the superpails, just the foods in the freezer and the canned foods. Then I take the grocery budget money that I am not spending and save it to replace our food storage once we get to our new place. It works well and also solves the problem of rotating our food storage. It isn't that big of a deal to dump out our big blue water tanks every time we move either. I love the security of knowing that if something happened like in Killeen when the rush of Hurricane Katrina evacuees cleaned out the walmart entirely. There was no water, no canned foods, nothing! I have never seen anything like it. Since then I have realized how easy it is to disrupt the system, and how unsettling it was to be in a grocery store that had NO FOOD. I enjoy the security that food storage gives me, knowing that if something happens again I can still feed my family.
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What are the razor blades for?
I like your system of using it up/saving the money before you move! smart!
I have been amazed at how many guys my husband has inspired to do food storage (and they aren't even members) - He's just given them a few scenerios and he says he just sees it click in their heads about how important it is to be prepared for the worst. These guys have actually started food storages for their families! Jess will joke with them and say - good, now you won't be knocking down my door! :)
Really is a great missionary tool, food storage. Good job Jess! See and my husband was teasing saying stop telling everyone about our food storage. When something goes wrong everyone is going to run to our house! Whatever. I have first started with getting all my surrounding neighbors to store water. I bought the boxes with mylar looking bags in them and handed them out to neighbors. I like the big blue barrels for myself.
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