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I cleaned out all of the non-food items from my pantry and I have started buying cases of canned goods from Costco. It is a slow but steady process. The next step is to start making food that uses what I am buying. Wish me luck!
The week following Michelle's lesson we had a lesson on FHE and then we went to our kitchen, got rid of things, moved things around, and found more space. We have also bought a few extra things to add. Wanting to rush to Costco to buy a ton but am trying to use prudence. Looking for more space. My husband got into the plan and Miranda is looking it over and we have made our first step. I feel good!
one cool thing that we learned from elder's quorum is how to store powdered milk without it going bad.
nobody likes powdered milk, but if you had nothing else you'd be glad you had it. so how do you buy it and use it without enduring its awful taste? dan allen gave us an idea, when you cook just replace the milk it calls for with powdered milk. you'll never taste the difference but you'll be using inexpensive powdered milk and slowly be using up your supply at the same time so it won't go bad.
the same can be done for flour, just use half of your ground wheat and half real flour when something calls for flour.
so when we go shopping now we are buying extra rice or milk or spices little by little until we've got our 3 month supply. it feels really good to be actually doing something
Another thought on using powdered milk. If you are making a yeast dough and the recipe says to scald the milk you don't have to do that step if you are using powdered milk. The enzymes in milk that kill the yeast are destroyed when milk is turned into powder.
We have had our mountain of long term storage wheat and beans and rice for some time, hoping that we would never have to really use it since it contains food we rarely eat every day. We were really excited, therefore, about the recent counsel to build up a three months supply of stuff we regularyly use and then rely on our old "year's" supply in the event of an emergency. This just made sense to us relative to our urban lifestyle.
One of the hardest things for us was trying to decide "how much" of each thing is required for a 3 months' supply. So after clearing some garage space and building an extended pantry, we decided to do 2 things. First, we just guessed how much we might need and allocated a certain amount of shelf space to those things we routinely use in the kitchen. Now, we label every new purchase that goes into the pantry with the month/year we buy it. As we use food from the pantry every day, we use the oldest stuff first. If we find that we are cycling through stuff that is less than 3 months old, then we increase the amount of shelf space we allocate to it. If we are using things with dates much older than 3 months old, then we decrease thye amount of shelf space going forward.
The second thing we decided to do was to go "shopping from our pantry". Once we have a bona fide 3 months supply, we should be able to "buy" nearly staple that we need from our own pantry. Our main shopping list now is located in the pantry and we write down things we couldn't find in the pantry or items where there are gaps appearing on the shelves. Now,when we go to the grocery store, the primary focus is starting to be on replenishing the pantry and not buying for the next few meals. Hopefully, we'll cut down on the number of trips to the store and be able to do more bargain shopping to replenish the pantry when good stuff goes on sale.
One new thing we are working on right now is to include frozen foods in our 3 month "pantry". We have re-organized the freezer and are using clear large rectangular freezer containers like to help us visualize how much gound beef, chicken, vegetables, etc. we need for our 3 months' supply.
Putting this principle to work of a 3 month supply of the food we usually eat has been a challenge, but it has been fun because it has required the skills of both Estella to work. We're feeling like we finally have caught the vision of making home storage a part of our daily lives.
We finally bought shelves to put in our front closet, which expanded our space dramatically. Hooray! Now we're able to keep 4 extra 6-gallon buckets of food storage. IKEA is awesome for cheap storage solutions.
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