Food Storage

There are a few sites that can help personalize and evaluate your food storage. Check out these sites to help your family out with your personal food storage.

http://www.stockupfood.com/

www.providentliving.com/food/food-storage-calculator.html

www.thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html

www.geocities.com/rameumptom/fs.html

As you see in my previous post, I have done a real basic one year food supply list. These other sites will help you to be a little more thorough with your food storage. It is nice to be able to customize your food storage, which these sites will really help you do. If it is a little overwhelming to start working on a whole one year supply, start with a couple weeks, then a month, then a couple months, and work your way up to where you feel most comfortable. Most families should have at least a 3 month supply on hand.
Don't spend a lot of money by running out and buying up all your food storage at once. Wait and look for deals on what you need for your food storage and buy a little at a time. Keep inventory of what you have on hand and what you need. It helps to make a meal list so you know what you can cook with what you have in storage. Also, collect recipes that use what you have in storage so it will be easier to cook. Buy for your needs, and remember to rotate your food storage. Use what you have, and it will help to cut costs at the grocery store as well.

One quote I like about preparedness and food storage...

H.L. Hunt

Decide what you want,

decide what you are willing to exchange for it.

Establish your priorities,

and go to work.

One Year Food Supply for Two People

Here is a Complete Year's Supply for two purchased within one year on $10-$15 a week. Some weeks you will have leftover change. Save the change each week to be used for the weeks you may exceed $15. You can mix it up a little and instead of all wheat, buy some flour. Instead of all macaroni, buy some rice. Change or add variety according to your likes and dislikes. You will want to store food that you will want to eat in times of need.

Week 1: 6 lbs. salt
Week 2: 5 cans cream of chicken soup
Week 3: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 4: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 5: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 6: 6 lbs. macaroni
Week 7: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 8: 8 cans tuna
Week 9: 6 lbs. yeast
Week 10: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 11: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 12: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 13: 10 lbs. powdered milk
Week 14: 7 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 15: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 16: 5 cans cream of chicken soup
Week 17: 1 bottle 500 multi-vitamins
Week 18: 10 lbs. powdered milk
Week 19: 5 cans cream of mushroom soup
Week 20: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 21: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 22: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 23: 8 cans tuna
Week 24: 6 lbs. shortening
Week 25: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 26: 5 lbs. honey
Week 27: 10 lbs. powdered milk
Week 28: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 29: 5 lbs. peanut butter
Week 30: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 31: 7 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 32: 10 lbs. powdered sugar
Week 33: 1 bottle 500 Aspirin
Week 34: 5 cans cream of chicken soup
Week 35: 50 Lbs. wheat
Week 36: 7 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 37: 6 lbs. salt
Week 38: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 39: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 40: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 41: 5 cans cream of chicken soup
Week 42: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 43: 1 bottle 500 multi-vitamins
Week 44: 8 cans tuna
Week 45: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 46: 6 lbs. macaroni
Week 47: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 48: 5 cans cream of mushroom soup
Week 49: 5 lbs. honey
Week 50: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 51: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 52: 50 lbs. wheat

You will end up with:
500 lbs. wheat, 180 lbs. sugar, 40 lbs. powdered milk, 12 lbs. salt, 10 lbs. honey, 5 lbs. peanut butter, 45 cans tomato soup, 15 cans cream of mushroom soup, 15 cans cream of chicken soup, 24 cans tuna, 21 boxes macaroni and cheese, 500 aspirin, 1000 multi-vitamins, 6 lbs. yeast, 6 lbs. shortening, and 12 lbs. macaroni.

Introduction

Hello! I am Ted and I am doing this blog to fulfill my master's project. I am a student at University of Idaho, and I am interested in Emergency Preparedness. Seeing how the world is going into a frenzy with all the changes going on, I have decided to bring together some comprehensive information to help prepare families and individuals for the future. I will be posting information and activities that can help you get started with your own personal preparedness. What I will be posting are different areas of preparedness that can be done at your own pace. I will post them as weekly activities, but you can do them monthly, or even daily if you have the means and time. As a family ourselves, we set a day aside each week (usually Mondays work best for us), and take a couple hours to sit down and work over preparedness information, and our current situation to figure out and make goals for our preparedness plan for the week. This helps so we are all on the same page, and we can all work together towards a common goal. I hope that this information will be beneficial and willingly accepted. Remember that as you prepare, you will not fear for the future. Also, I will be searching the Internet for good websites to get more preparedness information and posting them on the sidebar. I hope that this blog will help many to find peace and security in the present and future years.
-Ted