Suggestions for using your food storage in an emergency
What if something really bad happens and I can’t go to the grocery store? How can I use my 30 recipes then?
The recipes get modified, but they’re still familiar. We won’t have every single ingredient, but we’ll have more than a clue of what to do with our food storage because we’ve been practicing with it. Plus, the combination of both types of storage, long-term and three-month, will give any emergency meals less “manna-in-the-wilderness” motif. (Remember the Children of Israel? They had food but they hated not having any variety.)
We’ll be better prepared to comfort our children. I believe that the preparation of a parent greatly alters the experience of a child.
And we’re better prepared to “serve in the church”. Maybe that will look like holding a large spoon, instead of a manual, and we’ll be dishing up wheat and rice with a dab of BBQ sauce or cream-of-something soup for the people in our neighborhood. Maybe the “calling” from the bishop will be for food?
The first paragraph from the “All Is Safely Gathered In” pamphlet states:
Our Heavenly Father created this beautiful earth, with all its abundance, for our benefit and use. His purpose is to provide for our needs as we walk in faith and obedience. He has lovingly commanded us to “prepare every needful thing” (see D&C 109:8) so that, should adversity come, we may care for ourselves and our neighbors and support bishops as they care for others.
Our food storage can be about stewardship and charity. Food storage not only provides the opportunity for an easier life but the opportunity to participate in the Lord’s saving work that applies to all His children. If we choose to follow the prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, we can learn from the past, prepare for the future, and live in the present.
