1. What did we store:
- 3 month supply of foods we normally eat. I buy alot when it's on sale and this is what we use in the kitchen, so it is rotated. I include the things I can (bottle) myself: applesauce, peaches, jam; in this category.
- 6 month supply: our ward put together packages of food that equaled 3 month supply, so we bought 2. It had long term stuff: rice, wheat, macaroni, oatmeal, beans, etc, and some things that we need to rotate through that won't last as long: crisco, oil, yeast.
- The last 3 months I wanted just basic rice and beans. But there were some sales, so we got some wheat too. I went to www.providentliving.org to see that we would need 25lbs of grains/person/month and 5 lbs of beans/legumes/person/month. This website tells how long the long-term storage stuff is good for too. Since this stuff is good for 30 years, I'm not planning on touching it (unless we need it because of unemployment, lack of food, etc) until 2035.
- As you can see if we had to live solely on our foodstorage, we would be eating the best at the beginning and eating blandly or creatively towards the end.
- 50 lb white wheat (I heard it digests better than red) $12
- 20 lb long grain white rice $9
- 25 lb flour $7
- 25 lb sugar $10
4. Tips: Buy a little at a time when things are on sale. Start by getting one weeks worth of food, then two, then build up to a month, then three months. Then buy your other nine month stuff a bag at a time, when you can.
5. Stuff I still want to get: baking soda and vinegar for cleaning &/or cooking...since it is so useful and cheap, I want to get alot. And spices...I need to restock that. I guess we are never really done, are we.
4 comments:
As far as the white wheat goes, I don't think digestion has much to do with it. It tastes better and has a texture similar to white flour.
Oh, and YAY for you for getting your food storage! Right now we have about a two week supply but when our house is finished I can go food storage crazy.
We've been slowly building up our food storage, too. We could eat really well for 3 months, and survive for 6, but I'm still working on getting more of our staples that I wouldn't need to rotate through as much. As far as your long-term storage, do you have a year's supply of everything you'd need, not just wheat, rice, oats, beans, and sugar? I'm not even close on some things, like powdered milk (since it's expensive and we don't rotate through it that frequently). What about things like canned meat, fruit and vegetables, other baking supplies, spices, etc.? Good for you for making food storage a priority, especially with moving, a pregnancy, having a new baby in the house, and doing preschool. You are one awesome woman!
Suzanne, we would eat normal for 3 months(using our canned meat, veggies, and fruit), ok for the next 6, and survive for the last 3. We have some powdered milk, but I would just give it to the kids in a situation like that. (plus I can't stand the taste.) The sugar I bought was to use to can things and make jam...maybe I should get more lids too. We can't can w/o lids. I guess I won't know for sure how long everything will last unless we had to use it, just going off the information we have of how much of everything we need. (how much would the kids or husband eat? I didn't find info on how much they used per day.)
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