Food Storage Step 2
The second suggestion for building food storage you can use makes life easier, because shorter-term storage is based on meals your family eats.
All you have to do is design meals, with normal recipes, that suit your family’s preferences, and use a portion of your long-term storage ingredients in combination with short-term storage ingredients. When you purchase specific recipe ingredients in groups of three you’ll automatically be building a three-month supply of everyday meals.
Design your custom plan for using your food storage a few meals at a time. Select your recipes and buy the ingredients in groups of three, building up gradually to the goal of 30 meals—picture one month of meals, to be repeated three times. A family that needs more variety than that probably needs therapy. If you work on designing only a few meals at a time, the planning and financing don’t become overwhelming.
Consider all the recipes you normally use. Store the dried, canned, or bottled ingredients that are called for. And remember that fresh ingredients are okay.
One of my easy food storage dinners is Sloppy Joes. I cook wheat, from my longer-term supply, in a slow cooker on low, overnight. Next I add a bottle of chili sauce and a can of tomato soup from my three-month supply. And then I add ground beef and hamburger buns from the grocery store: that’s where I get my immediate supply. This dinner is healthy, quick to prepare, and a meal I know my family will enjoy.
