Step 1 : 3 month food supply

The first things that I want to get together are the ingredients for enough meals for 3 months. On the blog All Things Simple, Kim gives a great idea for beginning. Choose 7 meals that you make regularly. Pick one of these to start with and gather all the ingredients for this meal to cover making it once a week for 3 months. She suggests keeping all the ingredients for the meal in the same place so that they are easy to locate. Another blog suggested keeping all the ingredients together in a gallon freezer bag so that they are easy to label and locate.

This seems easy enough. Here are the 7 recipes I eat regularly (although I mostly make new things from pinterest lately):

1. Haystacks
2. Chicken Curry Divan
3. Beef Stroganoff
4. Tortilla Soup
5. Taco Soup
6. Chicken Enchiladas
7. Chinese Chicken Salad

  I want to add some fish recipes as well to give some lighter meat dinners. I need to adjust some of these recipes so that they are more food storage friendly, but they will all work. I am trying not to use "cream of..." soups and I found a substitution that seems like it would be good.

   There is also a super cute recipe book over at All Things Simple. It is so cute and the perfect size to keep all the recipes I have food storage for. Once I make the book, I will add some pictures. Sorry these posts are so dull so far. Ha, ha.

Along with these ingredients, I am going to be gathering items for my 72 hour kit, my emergency car kit, and my first aid kit. I have many items that will go in these but there is still much to do. I love the idea of having a tackle box first aid kit over at I Did This And You Can Too.

I'm also learning about flour and wheat. There is SO much to learn. See this information on following posts. Have a joyful day!

Prepare for Zombie Apocalypse

     I have been thinking a lot about emergency preparedness and food storage lately. A stake president in Draper, gave a talk with regards to the nearing of the Second Coming, the state our world is in currently and how it will continue to deteriorate. I've been thinking about food storage and emergency preparedness for awhile now, but this talk (along with discussions I've had with friends) really brought it home.

  There is SO much information out there and all of this information has been overwhelming. When I am interested in something, I have a tendency to read and learn EVERYTHING I can on the subject so that I am well informed and can be efficient in making decisions and moving forward.  There are numerous websites, books and talks the supply information but I struggled to find just a simple list to help me. Even the information that was simple for one family didn't seem right for me or it was broken up into different blog posts. I needed one place to go with all the information in a succinct document, so of course I have to create my own. Luckily, with the help of Pinterest and the LDS food storage website, I have gathered some wonderful sources to get me going. I figure that since I am interested in getting prepared, my friends and family might be as well, so I'm going to post all the information I've gathered on here. Basically, it will be a compilation of links to other bloggers who are amazing in food storage and emergency preparation.


Current state of my home:

 Garage & Water Storage - notice the water containers on the shelf in the upper left corner. 

Yep, they're empty. 

 

Upstairs Closet

Storage Room

Kitchen Pantry

First Aid Kit / Medicines

My plan. I have a binder that includes the following sections:

     3 month food storage

     72 hour kit / Grab & Go kit

     Food Storage Recipe Book

     Emergency Plan

     Eliminating excess - see garage pictures above :-)