3 Month Supply - Menu Planning Helps (repost)

Dinner? It's in the Bag!

**This is a repost from March of 2009, but contains a lot of great information!**

Rachelle planned a months worth of meals using Pantry & Food Storage items. Here are some of her forms to share with you! Decide how many times a year you will serve each recipe. To avoid appetite fatigue, choose at least 2 weeks of different main dish options. Input your options on the options page. Then use your options page to complete your monthly menu page.

• Monthly Menu - Food Storage Rotation (Sample)
• Monthly Menu - Food Storage Rotation (Blank)
• Meal Options (Sample)
• Meal Options (Blank)

Meal Planning and Food Storage Recipe Books:

• Emergency Food In A Nutshell
  By Leslie D. Probert and Lisa L. Harkness
  Amazon.com
• Pantry Cooking by Laura Robins
  Amazon.com
• Dinner? It’s in the Bag! ($12.00)
  By Christine J. VanWagenen
  Printed by: Help U Mail
  10291 South 1300 East
  Sandy, Utah 84094
  (801) 571-1441
  *There are a few fresh ingredients in these recipes that must be converted to food storage items.
• Menus At A Glance (Downloadable book)
  By Shanna L. Christ
  1 - Dividers
  2 - Menus
  3 - Grocery List
  4 - Canning
  5 - Sprouting
  6 - Cooking Helps
  7 - Entrees
  8 - Supplemental Foods
• Bee Prepared ($10.00)
  By Christine J. VanWagenen
  Printed by: Help U Mail
  10291 South 1300 East
  Sandy, Utah 84094
  (801) 571-1441

Meal Planning and Food Storage Recipe Websites:

• The Prudent Homemaker - Brandy features recipes for each season of the year.
• Everyday Food Storage
  
• Food Storage Made Easy - Decide how many times a year you will serve each recipe. To avoid appetite fatigue, choose at least 2 weeks of different main dish options. Input your options on the options page. Then use your options page to complete your monthly menu page. You can use the forms included or reference forms found here. This website also features forms you can print out, or an excel spreadsheet that helps you inventory your ingredients and multiplies it and computes your shopping list for one to three months.

FHE Idea - Beginning Your Family Home Storage

photo from Peace of Preparedness

Start Your 3 Month's Supply!!

Beginning Your Family Home Storage

by Peace of Preparedness

Activities & Reading Programs for Summer 2011

Jenny S. from the Shadow Canyon Ward updated the "Fun Summer Activities" handout!!  Thank you I know many who are extremely grateful for your time and effort!

3 Month Supply - Stephanie's Plan

Photo courtesy Stephanie J. 

Stephanie shared with us on Tuesday night her 3 month supply plan.  She planed out recipes for 3 months that are shelf stable and wrote them down in an Excel spreadsheet (Master Recipe Inventory).  These are recipes that she picked based on what her family likes to eat.  Then she figured out how many cans/jars/bags of each item she would need.  Using the Food Storage on $5.00 a Week as a guideline, she made a plan to purchase all of her items for her 3 month supply in one year.  Each week she checks her "Food Storage Shopping Plan" and adds those items to her normal grocery shopping list.  Costing her only about $5.00 a week she is building up her pantry with her 3 months supply!

• Master Recipe Inventory (Excel Format)
• Master Recipe Inventory (PDF Format)
• Food Storage Shopping Plan (Word Format)
• Food Storage Shopping Plan (PDF Format)

Here is what Stephanie says about her 3 month supply

"Here is my shelf and all of my 3-month supply of meals (with just a few weeks left to go). My 3-month supply of other items like TP and things are spread throughout the house. This Shelf Reliance unit (bought at 40% off) fits perfectly in the tiny space I have in my kitchen. The industrial shelving was just too big. My dad spray painted a piece of wood black and we popped it on top to add another solid shelf. My odd shaped stuff is on the floor until I figure out what I want to do with it. I've just stacked everything I could into every available space."

Photo courtesy Stephanie J. 

Stephanie also made available "Mix and Food Storage Recipes" that you can print out and keep as a reference.

Thank you so much Stephanie for presenting this to us on Tuesday night!  

Powerless Cooking Class (Highland, Utah)

This is from an email I received from Food Storage Made Easy.  Don't worry, for those of us NOT in Utah, they will record the event and upload for viewing later.

"This summer we are going to be practicing cooking without power at least once a week. To kick start this project we are going to be holding a FREE LIVE EVENT: Powerless Cooking Tools

Powerless Cooking Class Will include:

• SUN OVEN Cooking Essentials Seminar - taught by Paul Munsen, President of Sun Ovens International
• Overview of different cooking fuel options including InstaFire
• Learn how to make a free outdoor stove out of a #10 can
• Volcano Grill demonstration
• Q and A sessions
• Special coupons/discounts for all attendees!

Class Details:

Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Location: Hollow Crest Church Building: 6400 W. 11000 North -Highland, Utah (about 5 minutes East of I15 on the Alpine Hwy)
RSVP to info@foodstoragemadeeasy.net and let us know how many will be attending. We will email out a reminder."

3 Month Supply - 120 Shelf Stable Recipe Book

Food Storage Made Easy has compiled a list of 120 shelf stable recipes!

• 4 Recipes to a page version
• Full Page Version

We are not affiliated with FoodStorageMadeEasy.net, but just love their site and what they do!

Wendy Dewitt -- Food Storage Seminar "Food Saver"

Here is Wendy with her presentation of the Food Saver.  She does a much better job than I do :)

To watch the rest of her presentation click here.

Jamie from "Self-Reliance by Jamie" also uses the Foodsaver.