Food Storage State of Mind

You know how every once in a while you get an itch to get your food storage into order?

You're just going along, living your life. You make yourself feel a little better because your pantry is stocked with a bunch of tomato sauce. "Cotton Swabs--sure.,I got a year supply of those." You buy extra cans of tuna and Chef Boyardee, but never really have a plan.

Then out of nowhere--BAM!!!

A feeling from seemingly nowhere: You must get your year supply.

Right now!

Well, that is the urge that I am dealing with this week. In past residences I have done alot better at stocking the pantry than I have done since we moved here. But where to start? I decided that to better appreciate how vital our food storage would be, we would try a little experiment this week.

This week has been: "The Great Food Storage Experiment". Catchy title, huh?

We started the week by telling the kids (Sunday night) that we would spend the week living only with the food in the cupboards and fridge. If we ran out of bread--we'd make more bread. If we ran out of cereal-- we'd eat oatmeal. We'd make our meals from scratch-- and love it, too!

We'd work on our sewing skills and we'd spend an entire evening with no lights on so that we could better appreciate having electricity.

The kids were more excited than I'd ever seen them. Hannah was practically salivating at the thought of living by candle light. She wanted to have lights out every night this week. I had to say no, though, because how would I get caught up on "Lost" otherwise? If you miss even 12 seconds of that show, you are toast.

Hallie said "It'll be easy to live on the food we have for a week. We need to do it for like a month. Then we'd really know what we need to get stocked up on."

We declined that suggestion.

So it was with great anticipation we set out to experience an unknown (though we've lived off our food storage before, so it wasn't totally unknown, just never with this many people needing sustenance on a daily basis.).

How did we do?

Find out soon...