Building Your Long Term FS

In the month of April we talked about building your Long Term  Food Storage and to only store the items that your family will eat.    
In class Thursday night we started introducing the lesson with a small game. I don’t want all of you that weren’t able to attend class to miss out on our game so I set it up for you here at my house, took pictures and have it all set for you to try and figure out as well. The only unfortunate part is that you won’t be able to touch and taste like the class did last night.

Here is the picture below. Can you guess what each item is? There is a total of 28 in all. 

Happy Hunting and I hope you have fun!!!!

I started talking to the class and going over only storing what your family will eat. Right now I am not really good at cooking dried beans so for now we are storing canned beans and only a few dried. My goal is to continue to experiment with dried beans and then to store them instead.

The other food item that our family has decided to store instead of it’s counterpart is dried corn instead of cornmeal. Our wheat grinder can grind many foods including corn and so my thoughts were why not store something that will last longer. We are talking about a difference of months to years here.

Otherwise the basic Long Term Food Storage recommended foods are as follows:

Grains

Wheat

Flour

Corn (Cornmeal)

Oats

Rice

Pasta

Fats and Oils

Shortening

Canola Oil/Olive Oil

Mayonnaise

Salad Dressing

Peanut Butter

Legumes

Pinto

Black

Kidney

Split Peas

Lentils

Dry Soup Mix

Sugars

Honey

Sugar

Brown Sugar

Molasses

Corn Syrup?

Jams

Fruit drink powdered

Flavored Gelatin

Milk

Dry Milk

Evaporated Milk

Powdered Eggs

Cooking Essentials

Baking Powder

Baking Soda

Yeast

Salt

Vinegar

As a quick overview here it is all together:

Understanding Long Term Food Storage

• Understand the basic recommended long‐term foods and how they are used to help you determine what to store.

Determining What to Purchase

• Determine the quantities you will need by using our Long Term Food Storage Calculator (see tools section below)

• Start small. Work on a full 3 month supply, then move onto 6 months, then a full year

· Follow the BabySteps Checklists to help spread out your purchases over time

Learning to Use Long Term Food Storage

• Use food storage recipe books and websites on how to use your long term food storage

• Help your family become accustomed to eating your Long Term Food Storage. This will ease the transition in case of an emergency

· Talk to your friends and family members about how they use their food storage.

For homework read Checklist #4, Create a space for your food storage, and purchase a shelf for your food storage. Read Food Storage Lies…….Debunked (Step #4)

And once again the great girls over at Food Storage Made Easy made a spreadsheet to help you figure out what your family needs to put in their Long Term Food Storage.

Answers to the game:

1. wheat 2. flour 3. corn 4. oats 5. rice 6. shortening 7A. olive oil 7B. canola oil 8. mayonnaise 9. salad dressing (rand) 10. peanut butter 11. pinto beans 12. kidney beans 13. split peas 14. honey 15. sugar 16 brown sugar 17. jell-0 18. pudding 19. dry milk 20. fruit drink powdered 21. baking powder 22. baking soda 23. yeast 24. salt 25. vinegar 26. gluten 27. bisquick  28. buttermilk

Class handouts:
Class Assignment Sheet (where you will find what needs to be done, to be purchased and to be read.)
The last four are just informational sheets for you to look at and get ideas from: Food Storage Recipes, One Year Supply Guide, Bean Cooking Chart and Ezekiel Bread.

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