Planning your year supply

Getting overwhelmed with the daunting tast of aquiring of a year supply of food? Here is some information that may help. This is a great system a lady used on BYU TV this week. She got 3x5 cards and wrote 7 dinners and 7 breakfasts on them with the ingredients. She multiplies her ingredients by 52 weeks, makes a master list, and whammo- there is what food you need to buy. This way you can look for things on sale and store the food you eat and love and know how to cook.

Food storage calculator

Calculate how much food you need to store for your family.

Safely Gathered

This is a great blog! safelygathered.blogspot.com

Gardening show on BYU-TV

Hillary told me about this great program on BYU-TV check it out: Homegrown
Thanks so much for the info, Hillary!!!!

Production

Home Production is such an important part of Family Preparedness! I have been re-reading Essentials of Home Production and Storage.

“Produce as much as possible…” (page 1 Essentials…)


Excerpts from page 2:

“Let every Latter-day Saint that has land, produce some valuable, essential foodstuff, thereon and then preserve it; or if he cannot produce an essential foodstuff, let him produce some other kind and exchange it for an essential foodstuff…Let those who have land produce enough extra to help their less fortunate brethren.” (Conf Rep, April 1942, p. 89; Messages of the First Presidency, vol. 6)


“We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasible can on your own property….(Spencer W. Kimball, “Family Preparedness,” Ensign, May 1976 p. 124-25, April 1976 p. 170-71)


“….We will see the day when we will live on what we produce.” (Marion G. Romney, Conf. Rep., April 1975. p. 165)