Simple Plan to start your Years Supply

How do you accumulate a Year's supply of food?

 

Besides grabbing a little extra when doing your grocery shopping. Another way to accumulate  some extra food storage, is to try this...

 

 

Here is a brilliant idea prepared by Wendy DeWitt:

 

Take 14 note cards and write down 7 breakfasts and 7 dinners that you would like to have once a week for a year. There are 52 weeks in a year, so you will be having these meals 52 times.

 

Write on the left side of the card everything it takes to make the meal on the right side, everything multiplied by 52. Don't forget to add water you will need for cooking.

 

My food storage has 14 dinners (x26 weeks) 7 breakfasts (x52 weeks) a daily loaf of bread (x 365 days) and a variety of desserts. This is a very simple system that saves time and money because you only store what you need and will eat.

 

Here are a few samples of meals, just to give you an idea...

 

Chicken and Rice (makes 6 cups, once a week)

1 pint chicken x 52=..............................................................52 pints chicken

1 can cream of chicken soup or mushroom soup x 52=........52 cans soup

1 1/2 c rice (makes 4 1/2 c cooked) x 52 = 78 cups...............6 1/2 #10 cans of rice

3 cups water x 52 = 156 cups = .............................................9 3/4 gal. water

1 T. onion x 52 = 52 T =.........................................................3 1/2 c. dry onion

Cook the rice in the water. Add the rice, chicken, soup, onion and bake. Opt. top with cheese.

 

Parmesan Chicken (makes 7-8 cups, once a week)

1 pint chicken x 52 =............................................................52 pints chicken

1/2 pound spaghetti (4 c. cooked) x 52 = 26 pounds =..........6 #10 cans spaghetti

1 jar spaghetti sauce x 52=....................................................52 jars sauce

1/2 c. Parmesan cheese x 52 = 26 c. =..................................5 # Parmesan cheese

3 c. water x 52 = 156 c. =......................................................9 3/4 gal. water

Cook the spaghetti in the water. Layer spaghetti, chicken, sauce, (bread crumbs) cheese and bake.

 

Hamburger Pie (makes 5-6 cups, once a week)

1 pint bottled beef or hamburger x 52 =...............................52 pints beef

1 can corn x 52 =...................................................................52 can corn

1 can green beans x 52 =........................................................52 cans green beans

1 can tomato soup x 52 =........................................................52 cans tomato soup

2 T. dried onions x 52 =..........................................................7 cups dry onion

1 1/2 c. potato flakes x 52 = 78 c. = ........................................6 1/2 #10 cans potato flakes

3 c. water x 52 = 156 c. =........................................................9 3/4 gal. water

Place everything except the water and potato's in a casserole dish and heat in the solar oven. Heat the water at the same time. When the mixture is hot and the water is hot, add the potato's to the hot water and mix. Top casserole with potatoes and (cheese, opt.)

 

Taco soup (makes 9-10 cups, once a week)

1 pint ground beef or sausage x 52 =......................................52 pints meat

1 can kidney beans x 52 = ......................................................52 cans kidney beans

1 can corn x 52 = ....................................................................52 cans corn

1 29 oz. can strewed tomatoes x 52 = .....................................52 cans

2 c. water x 52 = 104 c. = .........................................................6 1/2 gal. water

3 T. taco seasoning x 52 = 156 T. = 9 3/4 c.= ..........................2 1/2 # taco seasoning

 

 

OK, you get the idea.

So what do you think?

Easy enough?!!

See, it's really not just wheat, rice and beans after all.

It's just what you are use to eating all the time.

So get busy already and start your menu's.