The Plan
- Choose 10 menu ideas for each meal – breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is nice to include at least 5 treat or dessert ideas as well. * I have a sample list for ideas you can use.
- Make sure that each meal is all made of things that are shelf stable or adapt it so that you can make it with canned and dried ingredients.
- Make a list of all the ingredients you will need to make these meals. This is your shopping list.
- Multiply this list by 10. This actually gives you 100 days which leaves a little bit of room for restocking to keep your supply current.
- Purchase the things on your list. You can do this all at once or as your budget will afford. If needed, you can purchase what you will need each week in double (one to use and one to store) until your supply is built up.
- Put the food away in preplanned locations and properly stored to avoid infestation. Don’t store in boxes and bags, including unprotected Mylar bags. *There is a demo to follow this presentation on proper storage.
- Rotate through the meals you have planned in order so that you don’t just pick the favorites all the time and have the least favorites left or expiring.
- If you want the least impact possible to the way your family likes to eat integrate a storage meal an average of two times a week.
- Plan ahead (maybe on Sunday) what days you will use food storage because it can take a little forethought to fix even if it isn’t hard.
- Put the items you used on your shopping list so that you keep the supply restocked as you rotate through your list.
*You will only be eating the same meal about every six weeks. This way of fixing a set meal is a nice way to work on family eating together.
I have a list of menus, recipes, instructions, and shopping lists. These are samples of what you can do. You can take my list and follow it or build your own. This allows you to adapt for dietary needs.
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