We’ve come a long way since then. You may or may not be familiar with the LDS church’s teachings on Food Storage. You can learn far more than I could teach you by clicking here.However, I am going to attempt to teach you a few things. Not all in one post, mind you; you can’t establish a food storage all in one fell swoop… so why try to learn about it like that?
If you think storing food is a practice for religious zealots awaiting the 2nd coming of Christ, maybe you should rethink. When I first got divorced, I worked at Bath and Body Works making $6.00 an hour. It took me 3 months to find a teaching job. In that time, I lived off of my food storage. The kids and I weren’t eating steaks every night, but we had a balanced meal on the table three times a day. In this day and age, with poor job security, financial strain, and plenty of natural disasters, it only makes sense to me to be prepared to take care of your family. And personally, government programs are great, but I prefer to take care of my family myself. I know I’ll do a better job.
We’ve been advised that a good place to start is with 3 month’s worth of food. Take a look at where I stand on that:
You can see I have some work to do. We could live for about a week or two off of what we have now.
Call it pride, but if it came down to lining up at the soup kitchen with my children in tow, or sliding open my pantry door and fixing something myself- I'd take the latter in a heartbeat. And I'm not foolish enough to think that it could never happen to me. So to all you naysayers who don't want to hear about food storage... I'm not sharing my rice OR my pasta with you.
Next up: I tackle the beast.
14 comments:
I like bat girl all lined up to guard the food. Where can I get one of those?
I have zero food storage. Does that make me a terrible Mormon? ;)
Andrea, I've missed you and your posts. I am also working on my food stroage. We have a whole lot of beans and tampons, I guess tampons are not really food storage but I am not going without. Really, I wasn't being all prepared by having tampons in the cellar, it's just because I have only had 5 periods in the last 6.5 years so I've kind of saved up.
Way to go Sista!! Keep up the good work. Our year's supply of food is safely organized in our basement storage room. I hope we never have a need to break into it.
Oh my gosh, you weren't kidding. this is my refusal to comment comment.
Thanks for coming out of the closet about food storage.
Love the masked girl.
I thought you were kidding too. But I did enjoy this post. We are beefing up our food storage too. Mostly because we had some major fear struck in us at our last stake conference.
Yes... this comment is to remind you that I am out of town. ;)
(love the Batgirl- too bad we can't get a pic of our two Batgirls together!)
I like the crock pot and the bread maker, and the lack of anything you can cook in a crock pot, or use to make bread.
Pour the half bottle of maple syrup into the crock pot with the box of cheezits. mmmmm, then call me over for dinner......
food storage is daunting -- and we mostly have to opt out because of our lifestyle but I do have 3 months and I am proud of that -- good luck to you and add some potato pearls, I love those things!
This is your comment monitor. Comments are down. Hmmm... don't let it hurt your self-esteem. Consider yourself brilliant if you get more than 5 comments on a food storage post.
You just gave me a big push, keep doing it, I need to get moving on this!
Great testimonial about food storage.
Please make a list of things your family enjoyed eating during that time so I can go out and buy it for my food storage. I'm always at a loss on what to get besides the basics.
Don't be too hard on yourself. It does no good to buy stuff you would never eat, so just by more of what you already have!
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