Saturday, October 18, 2008
Eek! Help!
So now that the insurance company has given us an estimate we are pleased to find out that this once thought earth shattering nightmare of a leak is very much manageable. Yeah! So now i have this pressing desire to start on my food storage and since we might have just a little left over from repairs i'm thinking there is no time like the present to get this done. My dilemna is i have NO CLUE how to go about doing this. SO, my question of the day/week (depends on when i can get back on here, lol) is if you were starting from scratch and were handed $250 to begin your food storage for 2 adults and a newborn, how would you go about doing this? What would you buy? Looking for all the suggestions i can get! :) Oh and preferrabley this would be something(s) i could go to Walmart in a couple weeks with a list and just buy and feel better!
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Powdered Milk, flour, rice, diapers, batteries, candles, flashlights. Or...I would start by getting 72 hour kits ready.
Water storage, extra diapers that you rotate through so you don't end up storing stuff that will never fit Ike again. I think it is a good idea to prepare your 72 hour kits first.
Mostly when I go to Costco I just buy a little extra. If I am getting mac & cheese, I get two, one for us and one for the garage. I buy some canned chicken and Progressive soup. Ramen, pasta, whatever y'all will eat, just more of it. Then instead of just depleting your supply, You continue to grocery shop and add a few extra items each week to the cart for your food storage. If you do it $10-15 at a time it isn't overwhelming and it really starts to accumulate.
DO NOT BUY WHAT YOU DON'T EAT. Your motto should be store what you eat and eat what you store.
I once taught a class and had them with the family pick out 7 meals they love. Now write down all the ingredients you need to make them. Go to the store with that list. That would be one week food storage. Now just keep doubling or tripling and you would soon have 1 month storeage. The toughest part is rotating so everything is fresh. Also it's not food storage unless you have some sort of inventory. If you don't know what you have you can't use it wisely.
Once you have accumulated a month or two of food you find that you only need to shop for the bargains and sales. If peas are on sale this week you get peas, when corn comes on sale you get corn. You don't need to buy things full price anymore. I have lots of stuff from years of homemaking classes I'll send you. You can gear it to your likings.
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