We figure we have no excuse to put off food storage any longer. We can't blame it on a little apartment with no space, for instance. In fact we have built-in shelves and cabinets that are half empty. Imagine.
Then, in the March Ensign we read the article, "Family Home Storage: A New Message." We like their approach--skip all the plastic barrels of wheat and instead build up a store of what you always eat anyway, first a month's worth, then three months, and so on. As Uchenna said, food storage has now become like the Word of Wisdom, "adapted to the weak and the weakest of Saints." That's us.
A couple of weeks ago when we had a doctor's appointment in Oklahoma City, we also scheduled a trip to Sam's Club to start our food storage officially. I've tried buying extra food from time to time, but we always end up eating it. This time, though, we made a list. Actually, we went to the Sam's Club website and made a huge master list of all the store-able food we wanted, which would have cost huge amounts. But then we remembered we were doing this in easy stages, so we pared it way back.
Then I forgot the list.
There's a reason for that. The weather forecast was scary, and we wondered if we should make the trip at all. We hate being caught on the road with big wind and rain and possibly hail and tornadoes. But these appointments can take months to get, so we figured we'd run down and run back as quickly as possible. No stop-offs. That's why I didn't bring the list.
Once we were done with the doctor, though, the forecasted storm had been pushed back. As we stopped for lunch, we called a couple of friends from our ward and asked them to check the radar on weather.com, one of our most visited sites. They said we probably had a couple of hours, so we dashed around Sam's Club grabbing the things we thought were on our list. We ended up spending more than we'd intended after all our careful planning, but it's all good. And less than an hour after we got home, places along our road--like Marlan and Perry--got hit with tornado warnings and hail. Shwew!
The next weekend we labled and organized. We put little stickers on all our food items with the date that we bought it. We also added to our list (which we still had, right where I had left it) important information like quantities on hand and expiration dates. I'm glad we took note of that, because some expirations come up pretty quickly; besides building up our small store of food, we're going to have to do some rapid rotating.
And finally, today we received our order of wheat from the cannery. Yes, really--wheat. Just six #10 cans, but hey, it's a start.
3 comments:
Go Jen! I loved that article too. I've always thought "what's the point of storing something that we never eat?" I suppose our excuse for little food storage is about to come to an end too. Maybe I should finally look into storing wheat.
Also, I found a powdered milk that actually tastes like milk--Morning Moos. I think you can order it online. Try Morning Moos or the Blue Chip Group. They have other food storage stuff too. I think Emily got powdered eggs from them.
I am so impressed with how organized you are. I mean, labels and a master list!?! I now have a goal.
You guys are awesome, Jen! Go Jen and Uche! Ours is small and I definitely see it getting bigger in the future!
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