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A Most Important Rule Of Food Storage

Label......Rotate.....Replace

That means you are using it in daily meals, then rotating it and replacing it.

“Noah heeded God’s command to build an ark...that they might be saved from the floodwaters…Yet there was no evidence of rain and flood…His actions were considered irrational…The sun was shining and life moved forward as usual. But time ran out…The floods came, the disobedient were drowned… When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.”

NOTE: it can be a challenge to decide what category to put recipes in when they often contain multiple storage items, I try my best. But please....do study through each of the

categories to familiarize yourself with where recipes you may want to try are listed.

when possible, recipes in each category are listed in this order:

breakfast, breads, mains, soups, sides, desserts

Important to know: in my recipes I use unbleached flour and sea salt (personal preference), but white flour and table salt would work also.

Our food storage journey started out years ago with a few 50# bags of wheat that were $3.50 each. So my journey with food storage was not centered on the wonderful blessing we now have with the Home Storage Center and all they do to help us. If someone asked me where they could start, I'd say go get a few items every month at the LDS Home Storage Center! (They even provide monthly sales). Thus, I will be sharing recipes and education with you usually based on items found at the Home Storage Center.

Food Storage and Planning

What do you already have in your current food supply that will allow you to make some of the recipes on this site?

Have you decided what your next purchase of food storage items will be?

What are we striving to accomplish with this entire site??

Learning how to store and use basic food storage items to make recipes that have

.....taste.....fiber.....nutrition.....

Smart planning on our part..... The list we are building recipes around consists mainly of basic foods from the LDS Home Storage Center. Their prices are reasonable and the food is already sealed for storage.

Stores up to 30 years:
Quick oatmeal

Rolled oats
Rice, white long grain
Wheat, both red and white
Black beans
Pinto beans
White beans

Macaroni

Spaghetti bites

Potato flakes
Dried apple slices
Dried chopped onions
Sugar

Honey (in plastic, do not buy in metal cans for storing)

Popcorn (not available at LDS Home Storage Center)

Red beans (not available at LDS Home Storage Center)

Lentils (not available at LDS Home Storage Center)

Powdered sugar (not available at LDS Home Storage Center)

Salt or sea salt (not available at LDS Home Storage Center)

Stores up to 20 years:

Nonfat dry milk powder

Stores up to 10 years:

Dried carrots

White flour

Other Items and >years they can be stored:

Peanut butter >3

***Pancake mix >2

Hot cocoa mix >2

***Personally, I make my own pancake mix with whole wheat flour

OIL for cooking: (not sold at the LDS Home Centers but do try

to get the best you can afford). Most oils last only ONE year in

storage. The exceptions: Olive Oil, which can be stored up to

10 years in a cool, DARK place (just wrap in a brown paper bag).

And coconut oil, which will last more than 10 years. Do your own

research.

WATER: THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM TO STORE FIRST!!!!!!!

Then we add items to basic list that will help us in making meals that TASTE good, contain FIBER, and have NUTRITIONAL value. We experiment with ways that can enhance the flavors of what we can make with our basics. Some of the storage foods we choose will not be the best fresh foods we are blessed with on a daily basis right now, but we will want to have some kind of a version of them available. Plus the all important 'knowing how' to use basic foods and integrate them into meals

NOW, not only in an emergency. Our bodies need to be used to basic food storage items.

Think about this....

So, I repeat....the all important 'knowing how' to use basic foods and integrate them into meals....

Let's do a "for instance".....we have wheat stored but we are not using it.... O.K. ....time to change that! A very easy way is to start with blender wheat pancakes. What will we need? Wheat, dry milk, eggs or dried whole eggs, water, salt, baking powder, oil, plus syrup or applesauce, and butter.

So what items will you need to store up on from these ingredients?

Whole wheat blender pancakes are filling (because of the fiber) so you'll most likely eat less.

The longer term storage items in this recipe are: wheat, dry milk, salt, baking powder, syrup.

The shorter term storage items are: eggs or dried whole eggs, oil, applesauce, butter.

What do you need to add to your storage and supplies to make this recipe? How many times a month will you make this recipe?

Let's say we decided to make batch of blender wheat pancakes 2 times a week, which is 8 times a month. We would need:

8 cups of wheat

1 and 1/2 cups of dry milk powder

water

16 eggs

8 T. oil, plus more for cooking

20 teaspoons of Rumford's baking powder, not quite 1/2 cup

8+ teaspoons sea salt or salt

Plus choice of toppings

Congratulations!! You are on your way, one recipe/needed ingredients, at a time. Me being of a frugal nature, I like that these healthy pancakes cost around $.08 each*. Way to go food storage!!!!

*price for pancake, not toppings; but still a great deal in more ways than the frugal low cost.

Bonus: the extra fiber will sweep system like a broom, which in turn, the fiber adds to health, which for my family means less doctor visits and medicines. Very rarely do I need go to the doctor and I take no medications; have been eating frugally from basic foods most of my adult life (as a child we didn't eat this way, but we did have a huge garden).

Spice Up Your Meals [spices/herbs/flavorings, etc]

See idea list under More/Miscellaneous

Added spices, etc. can enhance basic foods in big ways. I use and store a lot of spices, herbs, flavorings, and the like. For example: take plain white rice, water, a tad of salt and make rice milk; or take plain white rice, water, a tad of salt, cinnamon stick, a bit of sugar and make deeelishous Horchata. That's what I'm talking about....enhance those basics!! How about taking cooked lentils/onions, add salt n' pepper and put on a taco? Or instead take cooked lentils/onions, mix in chili powder, paprika, oregano, cumin, salt n' pepper. Now those tiny additions have made a big difference that is very tasty and more satisfying. Yet the basics were at the framework of the recipe.

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