Food Storage Friday

Harmon's had a case lot sale this week! You should have seen my cart. Kylie had no room and it was stacked so high and so precariously balanced that they had to load it into 2 carts once I had gone through the check out stands. Thank goodness for Harmon's Drive & Load service because there was no way I was going to get 2 carts and Kylie to the car safely. We were completely out of canned corn and kidney beans. I refuse to pay regular price for food so we'd been out for a while. We are now restocked.

Food Storage Friday

This week we refilled out propane tanks. We have 4 small tanks and 3 of them were empty so yesterday Brian & I went down to the Flying J to fill them up. Today our power went out... for about an hour for no reason. Well I'm sure there was a reason but I don't know what it was. Made me grateful we'd filled our propane tanks up because if the power hadn't come back on at least we could have BBQed.

Food Storage Friday - Protein

For food storage this week I purchased 4 containers of protien powder. I have a protein drink for breakfast the majority of mornings and we just opened our last 5 lb. container of it. I also bought 2 20 lb. turkeys to go in the freezer for future meals. Can't beat the price!

Food Storage Friday - Emergency Bucket

Other than getting my food storage rooms organized the only other things I did towards food storage/emergency preparedness this past week was to purchase one of these emergency buckets that are on sale at costco.com this week. It's something I hope I never have to open and that it will just sit on a shelf in the basement for 20 years.

Food Storage Friday

Food Storage Report -
Water - Our water filter arrived and is safely stored downstairs. I also ordered a package of water purification tablets for an emergency and bought 8 cases of water from Costco. Still on the list is to empty out and refill all the water containers in the shed... I'm procrastinating that one.

I bought several bags of clearance Halloween candy to store with our food storage. Why candy you ask? Brian found a great article HERE. about the 7 mistakes of food storage:

Quick and easy foods help you through times when you are psychologically or physically unable to prepare your basic storage items. “No cook” foods such as freeze-dried are wonderful since they require little preparation, MREs (Meal Ready to Eat), such as many preparedness outlets carry, canned goods, etc. are also very good. “Psychological foods” are the goodies—Jello, pudding, candy, etc.—you should add to your storage. These may sound frivolous, but through the years I've talked with many people who have lived entirely on their storage for extended periods of time. Nearly all of them say these were the most helpful items in their storage to “normalize” their situations and make it more bearable. These are especially important if you have children.

Wal-Mart had sugar on sale for $10 for a 25 lb bag so I bought 3 bags. Smith's has evaporated milk for .50 cents a can so I bought 10 cans. The other thing we stocked up on this week is jelly. I bought 8 jars of jelly. Again it was one of those comfort foods. If we are going to be living on food storage Brian thought it would sure help to have jelly for our bread or pancakes.

I'm headed to the cannery with the ward today. I'm not planning on canning much. I put most of our food in 5 gallon buckets but I like to have a few things in #10 cans. The last time I did a lot of #10 canning was in 1999. I did a little while we lived in Cedar City in 2003 so it's now past time to update dry milk and a few other items.

I'm trying to remember: Slow & Steady Wins the Race!