The past year I've been busy growing something other than food storage. Maybe many of you can sympathize with me that when I'm pregnant, I lose focus on a lot of goals and just try to survive. So now that I am out of the pregnancy-induced daze, I'm ready to jump back into life, especially into food storage! And there's no better time than the new year.
Here are my food storage/emergency preparedness goals for this year:
1. Go through and "revitalize" the following:
- Car kit
- 72 hour kits
- 3 month supply menu plan
2. Eat up current food storage
Like Hannah, I'm *hopefully* moving this summer and I've decided to follow her plan and eat up our food storage (especially our 3 month supply). I will try to save the grocery money I would have spent and restock our food storage when we move. I am planning on saving and moving a lot of our long term supply (beans and wheat that has been canned and is good for 30+ years) but I'd like to eat through our three month supply and several bags of wheat I've got stashed in my guest room closet. To help with this goal, I have mini goals:
- Make bread often (eat only homemade bread)
- Keep ground wheat flour in freezer for any cooking/baking
- Eat the pantry and freezers clean
- Make a 3 Month Supply Menu plan and grocery list (catered to our family) so that when we move into our new home I'll know exactly what to buy
- Buy as much of our food storage as budget allows when we move into our new home
Here's to a New Year and new goals!
5 comments:
What a precious addition to your family. God's blessings on you all. RE: your move to Florida, most homes do not have basements so food storage is definitely a project in creativity.
Congratulations! Your baby is gorgeous!
All the best with your restocking and baby supplies.:)
Congratulations! Good luck on your goals. They seem reasonable, and really important.
Oh, such a precious baby...
I'm glad you're out of your pregnancy haze. I wanted to mention that beans do NOT last 30 years. I believed this, also until I put those stored beans to the test. After pressure cooking, and all day cooking, the beans just wouldn't absorb the water and soften. There are a few hundred pounds of dried beans in our city dump.
Congratulations!!! She is such a beautiful baby!!! Remember what Cindy Lerch taught us about old beans. She said that those beans are too hard to cook as regular beans, but she made a delicious Pinto Bean Pie out of them. As I recall, they tasted just like Pecan Pie. Her Pinto Bean Pie is delicious!!! I haven't made one yet because I haven't ran across any hard old beans. Anyway, I just thought that would save on being wasteful because it is a terrible feeling to put all that time and money into something that you have to throw into the garbage.
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