Weekly Food Storage Plan

Having 3 weeks of food will not be enough for survival for the long term.

Weekly food storage plan. To reconstitute 1 egg add 4 tablespoons of water. Gather a three month supply of food emergency drinking water and a financial reserve see the post from last saturday on short term food storage. When i started my food storage plan years ago i had powdered milk pinto beans flour and sugar. It s step 1 of the lds home storage plan.

I try to make at least 2 meals out of my food storage a week so my food storage will be rotated every 3 years. Use a 52 week inventory schedule to count food storage weekly counting my food storage used to be so time consuming until i came up with a 52 week food storage inventory schedule. 78 tablespoons x 11 cans 858 tablespoons. Here is a list of what you will end up with by the time the year is over.

Determine what you eat this sounds silly but in your food stash you don t really want things you don t eat. Even a 3 month supply won t be easy for some of you to gather but it s a place to start. Most people panic when they hear a year s supply of food. 15 lbs flour 4 42 oz containers oatmeal 12 lbs rice 10 lbs pasta 20 lbs sugar 6 lbs brown sugar 6 lbs powdered sugar 2 boxes baking soda 2 cans baking powder 4 lbs honey a little over 6 1 2 pounds peanut butter 6 bags.

Work on the first three steps. Food is power in a long term disaster situation. Determine how much you need. It might sound like a huge undertaking but this will make all the difference.

Remember it is perfectly okay to start out by picking up just 2 or 3 extra cans of meats fruits or vegetables during your weekly trip to the supermarket. Well things have changed in the last 20 years as far as food storage items that are available to purchase. Before i share my food storage plan with you please think about the foods you eat most of the time. All of the ingredients i store have a minimum 3 year shelf life most have much more and so rotating the food this way ensures that hopefully nothing will go bad.

You need a week by week food storage plan which tells you all about the food the nutritional values and even what recipes you can make from it. So be realistic and create a plan with items that can be stored. After that add to your emergency food supply week by week until pretty soon you have three months of food stored away for you and your family. After studying how various restaurants take their inventories it became clear to me that they don t count food once a year like many of us do.

Then gather long term foods home storage supplies and emergency equipment. I always suggest starting with a 3 month supply of food your family eats right now.