“The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary.
“We can begin with a one week’s food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs”
-President Gordon B. Hinckley
“The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah”
-President Ezra Taft Benson
In the last few months, our home teacher has left us a message about food storage. Everytime we go to the store, I think about it and David and I have talked about it...but we never do anything. (All talk I guess!) Well, today we finally went out and bought some food! We purchased about 350 canned food items! Holy Cow! That sounds like so many when I write it. If also feels like so many when you carry it!
It seems like now is as good a time as any. With gas prices, food may be going up up up. Who knows about the economy and jobs? David is going to make some shelves to hold all this stuff on Saturday. That should be fun! All I know is that I feel some much better already, and we still have a long way to go. It feels so nice to be more prepared! You should try it!!
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Good post. It's weighing heavily on my mind right now which is driving me crazy cuz so is Emily's wedding. A while back I told Tim I wanted to change the water in our water storage. He emptied it but he hasn't filled it yet. Aaagh! I am continuing to bug him about it. We need to get one of the hoses for drinking water so that it won't be "contaminated" and also so it can be siphoned out as needed... I hate thinking about that though. We had a very enlightening fireside about preparedness a month or two ago and it was stuff I hadn't heard about before. We really DO need at least three months of food. With gas the way it is and with the possibility of nasty epidemics (pandemics?) it is important to be ready. I also got an email yesterday by Boyd K Packer that I haven't read yet cuz it's just more for me to deal with at a time that I'm drowning. Aaagh again. Hey, this should be a post, not a comment! Did you get your invite to Em's wedding? I hope your parents got theirs--Sis Kohler was going to deliver it for me...(Long story) Anyway, good beginning on your storage. Definitely get WATER!
Food storage always concerns me too! If a disaster happened, Dave and I would be in SOOOO much trouble!
I didn't know that you could by canned food from a store though. I thought that stuff still goes bad after a while.
That's awesome that you got it done though! Your my inspiration!
Our ward has really started encouraging food storage. I've never seen a ward approach it the way they have. Every week we get a little handout with more info about it, and a little assignment (determine how much you need, cost, what containers you'll use, how much you will budget....) Then each month we have a meeting highlighting a specific item, last month was beans, this month sweetners, and how we can use those items everyday and get used to using those things. It's made the whole idea of food storage very reasonable and useful. So just remember, slow and steady wins the race. Good job at starting!
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