Food Storage and Emergency Preparedness. Those five words make me feel queasy when I hear them. Why? Because admittedly I am unprepared. At church, I'm embrassed to ask questions because I'm so behind. For example, I truly do not know what people do when they go to the cannery. When the sign-up sheet goes by, I want to sign it, but I don't know what I'd be signing up for.
I told myself I'd worry about food storage and emegency preparedness more when I lived somewhere where I actually had some space to store it. Now I do and I have resolved to get started. I just wondered if there were any among us who have any level of expertise in this area (i.e. more knowledge than I do which is probably most of you). If so, can we designate Fridays for the next several weeks as a day to post a tidbit of information that you could share and/or questions that others might be able to answer???
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I nominate Laura :) She knows a lot about this stuff. Also, the cannery is fun-everyone works as a team to fill everyone's orders, so you get an assignment in an assembly line and fill cans, put lids on, etc. I love my cannery stuff!
I definitely had Laura in mind too, but my thought was that anyone could post anything that they want to share each Friday, not just one person.
Wow, this is an area that I need a TON of help in as well. And I too struggle with the space thing, so that makes it hard. This is by no means doctrine, just my opinion, but I feel like it's helpful to work your way up with food storage. Before you start collecting wheat to grind (when in reality I wouldn't even know how to grind wheat), I think it's a good idea to start with collecting extra toilet paper, canned goods when they're on sale, flashlights, etc. Just pick up extras when there are sales. And then, when you have a good stock of that stuff, graduate to the cannery items. Just an idea!
Thank you, Stephanie! I feel totally lost with wheat and grinding and what would I even do with it! Also, you're so right about doing things a little at a time (in my opinion).
Also, I think I've decided that I'm not going to do the traditional food storage. There's so much stuff that you would need and I wouldn't even know what to do with it once I had it! I've decided that I'm going to get MRE's (the vacuum pack military food packages). That way (food-wise) the only other thing I need is water!
I found some things on the LDS church website that I really liked, so I think I'll share.
THREE MONTH SUPPLY-"Build a small supply of food that is part of your normal, daily diet. One way to do this is to purchase a few extra items each week to build a one-week supply of food. Then you can gradually increase your supply until it is sufficient for three months. These items should be rotated regularly to avoid spoilage."
DRINKING WATER-"Store drinking water for circumstances in which the water supply may be polluted or disrupted. If water comes directly from a good, pretreated source then no additional purification is needed; otherwise, pretreat water before use. Store water in sturdy, leak-proof, breakage-resistant containers. Consider suing plastic bottles commonly used for juices and soda. Keep water containters away from sunlight or heat sources."
Anyway, when I read these things, I don't feel so overwhelmed with buying a wheat grinder and different kinds of flour, but actual food that we could eat quick if the situation arouse. I think if you just bought a little here and a little there-you would slowly build your supply and would be surprised with how quick it grew.
Perhaps we won't designate a day for it but if anyone ever wants to share anything in the future, go for it!
duh! sorry for my earlier comment-it was early! :)
I am SO glad Natalie posted what she did. Check out the new food storage pamphlet put out by the Church for more info: http://www.providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,7585-1-4081-1,00.html
As for the cannery, I just went for my first time a few months ago and got wheat and vanilla pudding. It was really fun--everybody was just chatting, and it went really fast. The wheat was fine (of course), but I would NEVER get the vanilla pudding again. It tasted like butterscotch, which none of my family likes (if you like butterscotch, though, go for it!).
We get wheat, macaroni, spaghetti, mashed potatoes, oats, and rice from the canner and loved it all! We have gotten hot cocoa, flour and sugar there as well but didn't like the cocoa and the flour tasted funny but otherwise we've had good luck-but we've never tried the pudding! :)
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