tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280390706862225283.post5383717896374489597..comments2023-09-28T08:17:39.547-07:00Comments on What if IT is today? - A Survivalist's Blog: Review of Progress - Food Storage What if it's today? - A survivalist's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291866801645327324noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280390706862225283.post-45687374591517940982013-11-25T05:16:12.763-08:002013-11-25T05:16:12.763-08:00For my family's food storage, I started out by...For my family's food storage, I started out by buying a few cases of long term rice and oats from the LDS site. Then I began really paying attention to the best by dates on regular foods in WalMart and other grocery stores. A person can easily store a year's supply of normal grocery store food without using any #10 can products. (I do have many #10 cans, so I'm not saying they're bad or not necessary.) This morning I saw a can of Alaska Salmon that had a best by date of September 2018! Canned Chunky Chicken at Sam's Club has a best by date of June 2016! So, the regular food is out there for your extended food storage, without having to pay terribly high prices for it. <br /><br />With products from the local grocery store for your food storage, expiring best by dates may never become an issue. I created a M.S. Excel spreadsheet to track my food storage by best by date as well as the five main food groups. I've been using it for over a year an it's spectacularly successful! I even use mine as a shopping list for items I've used. If you can use Excel and would like a copy of the spreadsheet, just request it by an email to me with "Spreadsheet" as the subject. I've received help from so many people when it comes to my food storage and prepping, that I'm just trying to pay it forward at this point. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04668356325272491935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280390706862225283.post-2116186192092598442013-11-24T07:02:58.517-08:002013-11-24T07:02:58.517-08:00Monitoring the best-by dates of a well-balanced fo...Monitoring the best-by dates of a well-balanced food supply that can last a few months is an important thing for everyone to do. Using that method, you can easily store over a year's supply of food from a regular grocery store. Keeping track of the dates is the key. My goal is to have enough food to span the time between one planting season and the next harvest time. Everyone should also have sufficient quantities of heirloom vegetable seeds of all types, properly stored. It wouldn't hurt to have a small bag each of organic fertilizer and agricultural lime stored as well. Then you are prepared to plant your garden as soon as the soil conditions will allow. <br />I designed my own Excel spreadsheet to monitor my food storage best-by dates, and I am willing to share it with anyone that requests a copy. You tailor it to suite your own food storage needs. When you enter the number of people you are preparing for in the pink cell, it will calculate all your food supply based on the five main food groups, and tell you how long your supply will last. Visit Bob's Practical Prepping and get my email address and request your copy, with no strings attached, nothing to join or sign up for, and no BS. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04668356325272491935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280390706862225283.post-90981110633911622842012-08-20T10:52:16.203-07:002012-08-20T10:52:16.203-07:00Even though I do have the fruit trees, garden, and...Even though I do have the fruit trees, garden, and animals I don't count them the same as what's stored. This year we had a hail storm in April which ruined the fruit crop. If I added up the fruit harvest from 12 of my 50+ trees, I picked about 5 pounds of fruit total. If I normally get 20-50 pounds of fruit per tree we should have had somewhere around 300 pounds of food from those 12 trees. 5 pounds compared to 300! We'd have starved to death if I didn't have food in hard storage.What if it's today? - A survivalist's bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06291866801645327324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280390706862225283.post-38755597256589090872012-08-20T09:50:31.562-07:002012-08-20T09:50:31.562-07:00I also feel the need to hurry and do/add more.
Yo...I also feel the need to hurry and do/add more.<br /><br />You have a lot of stuff outside the storage so you could count that as well (I think, maybe it's not supposed to be that way).Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04551818740965932334noreply@blogger.com