Food Storage Plan

Getting a long term food storage can be overwhelming. But here is a plan, that if followed, can make it much simpler and doable. Hooray for simple and doable! Check it out, and implement what you think will help your family.
Do you have any food storage tips that have been helpful for your family? Please share with us by commenting below, or emailing me.


What is a year supply of food? Once you have a year supply, what does it look like in the form of meals
that must be spread throughout the year? Now you can choose your family's favorite dishes and create a
year supply of MEALS.
Steps to plan your Year Supply of MEALS
1. Choose:
7 Breakfasts
7 Dinners
A Daily loaf of bread
7 Various desserts and snacks.
If you ever needed to solely live on your food storage, the meals you choose would be
rotated weekly for an entire year. Sound boring? Possibly! However, you wouldn't
have to wonder what you were going to eat, you would be healthy and you would be
ALIVE. If you have special dietary needs due to medical issues or personal preferences,
this plan is definitely for you because you plan the meals that you can eat.

2. Use one index card per recipe and list each ingredient needed along with its
measurement on the left side of an index card.

3. Determine how many months of meals you want and how much to get of each
ingredient:

                        3 mos. supply 6 mos. supply 12 mos. supply
How do I figure out X 13 weeks
my total amount of                 X 26 weeks
needed ingredients?                                  X 52 weeks

For a year supply of meals you will multiply your ingredient measurements by 52. (The
ingredients for your daily loaf of bread will need to be multiplied by 365.) Write these
totals on the right side of your index cards. You now know how much of EVERY
INGREDIENT you will need in order to make your family a year supply of meals. You
will finally feel like you have enough.

4. Create your Food Storage Binder
Alphabetize your master list of ingredients.
Create a chart for these ingredients to help in shopping, inventory, rotation,
expiration dates and food location.
Include all recipes that are used in your meal planning.
Example:

Items Meals Need Have Buy
Alfredo Sauce 9 26 jars 9 jars 17 jars
MB exp.4/12
Almonds 7 (09) 104 cups 0 104 cups
Apples, dry 31 11- #10's 10- #10's 0
~B 5 (09), #10's expo (104 c.) 128 c. (jar)
Apple Pie 129 126 qts 56 qts 0
Filling MB 21 (08), B2 35 (09)
Items- Alphabetize all of the ingredients from your recipes.
Meals- Which meals need this ingredient, where is it stored in your home &
when does it expire.
Need- According to your food storage goal, how much of this ingredient do you
need?
Have - Take inventory of your current storage.
Buv - What is the difference between what I need and what I already have? This
is what I need to get.

5. Can Meat (You don't have to live on wheat & beans. How about Chicken Alfredo,
Spaghetti & Meatballs, Beef Stew, Sausage & Eggs .. etc.?)
· 1 pint (1 Ib) of meat per day = 365 pints of meat
Put all but 50 pints in your long term storage .
· Put the 50 pints in your pantry to use.
3 jars/week = 4 months = rotates every 2 years
2 jars/week = 6 months = rotates every 3 years
· When meat is gone, take 50 more pints out of your storage and can 50 new pints to put into storage.

6. Can, Dehydrate & Bargain hunt to save money.
· Glean fields and orchards (with permission).
· Grow your needed ingredients-in-your-garden-
Check for sales, and buy a lot when it is cheap.
· Can fruits and vegetables that are not on your list of ingredients. These are your
"extras. "

7. Use a Foodsaver to seal foods in glass jars for long term freshness.
· This is great for foods that cannot be stored in a # 10 can (chocolate chips, brown
rice, dried fruits and veggies ... etc.).
· You can seal foods in used jars from the store. (peanut butter jars, salsa ... etc.)
· Check seal 2X year, use and rotate.

8. Don't become frustrated and quit. Anything worth working for is always
challenging at first. Become a master at this program and share it with others.
Wendy DeWitt is the woman I learned this system from. You can find her blog at
http://everythingunderthesunblog.blogspot.com  She is amazing, so please take time to look her
up.
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact LeAnn Castor at
leanncastorreismail.com.
Happy Planning!!!