Shame on me for not doing my homework first. Bad Melanie....Bad.
Anyone remember the little Food Storage Project I've posted about...and been working on.....anyone? You know...the One Year Food Storage for $5 (ish) Dollars a Week?....yeah? That one?
Remember me telling you that we had to give a bit of breathing room for skyrocketing food prices (because I wasn't exactly sure how long ago the program had been written), hence the "$5(ish) dollar a week" thing, instead of just plain ol' "$5 dollars a week"? Yeah...well.... the "ish" seems to be quite a stretch of the imagination.
As I've been out....researching this little project....I have come to a conclusion. This little "program" is a lot older than I thought. $5 a week...even $5 (ish) dollars a week just isn't going to cut it. Not even close. $10 dollars a week....maybe. Maybe!
So.....STOP---SCRATCH THIS IDEA---REVERSE!
Time for a new "food storage" plan. I can see it is going to take a little more work on my part. I'll let you know what I come up with....as soon as I come up with it.
Sorry for misleading you...it was not my intention.
Melanie
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Showing posts with label Food Storage $5/week. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Extra savings on this weeks food storage items
If you haven't yet picked up this weeks food storage items, don't forget to pair them up with these coupons for extra Savings.
$1/5 Campbell's Condensed Soups, excluding Great for Cooking Soups 01/05/2012 Campbell's Kitchen (exp 02/10/2012)
and if you still need to pick up last weeks items, try these coupons too
$0.50/4 Campbell's Condensed Great for Cooking Soups 01/05/2012 Campbell's Kitchen (exp 02/10/2012)
$0.25/4 Campbell's Condensed Great for Cooking Soups 11/06/2011 SS Insert (exp 01/15/2012)
also, you may have already been on coupons.com this month and printed out similar coupons. I just printed mine last night but they are no longer available. BUMMER!
Happy Saving!
$1/5 Campbell's Condensed Soups, excluding Great for Cooking Soups 01/05/2012 Campbell's Kitchen (exp 02/10/2012)
$0.40/4 Campbell's Chicken Noodle or Tomato Soup 12/04/2011 SS Insert (exp 02/01/2012)
$040/4 Campbell's Condensed Chicken Noodle & Tomato Soup 01/08/2012 SS Insert (exp 03/15/2012)
and if you still need to pick up last weeks items, try these coupons too
$0.50/4 Campbell's Condensed Great for Cooking Soups 01/05/2012 Campbell's Kitchen (exp 02/10/2012)
$0.25/4 Campbell's Condensed Great for Cooking Soups 11/06/2011 SS Insert (exp 01/15/2012)
also, you may have already been on coupons.com this month and printed out similar coupons. I just printed mine last night but they are no longer available. BUMMER!
Happy Saving!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
One Year Basic Food Storage for $5 (ish) Dollars A Week--January
If you missed reading One Year Basic Food Storage for $5 (ish) dollars a week--Overview, head on over and take a look. Otherwise, none of this will make sense. :)
So...here are January's weekly lists.
Keep in mind that this list is for every 2 people in your family. Adjust the food and $$ amounts according to your needs. Also...remember that some weeks you may have extra....save that change in an envelope or jar for the weeks that you will go over, because it will happen, but it all evens out in the end.
Okay...and one more thing. We do have to cater to inflation. This "go around" is sort of experimental. I'm going to try $6 a week for every 2 people ($18 for my family) and see how that works out. I really have no idea.
Okay....I think that's all the prefaces....
January
WEEK ONE: 5 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
WEEK TWO: 8 cans Tomato Soup (our family is substituting Chicken Noodle)
WEEK THREE: 6 LBS salt
WEEK FOUR: 20 LBS sugar
WEEK FIVE: 50 LBS wheat
So...happy Food Storage-ing this month.
Don't hesitate to report back with your questions or finds.
So...here are January's weekly lists.
Keep in mind that this list is for every 2 people in your family. Adjust the food and $$ amounts according to your needs. Also...remember that some weeks you may have extra....save that change in an envelope or jar for the weeks that you will go over, because it will happen, but it all evens out in the end.
Okay...and one more thing. We do have to cater to inflation. This "go around" is sort of experimental. I'm going to try $6 a week for every 2 people ($18 for my family) and see how that works out. I really have no idea.
Okay....I think that's all the prefaces....
January
WEEK ONE: 5 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
WEEK TWO: 8 cans Tomato Soup (our family is substituting Chicken Noodle)
WEEK THREE: 6 LBS salt
WEEK FOUR: 20 LBS sugar
WEEK FIVE: 50 LBS wheat
So...happy Food Storage-ing this month.
Don't hesitate to report back with your questions or finds.
One Year Basic Food Storage for $5 (ish) Dollars A Week--Overview
I grew up in a home where food storage was taken very seriously. My mother has ALWAYS been good at hording food and it saved our families bellies over and over. When my husband and I had just had our first child, I became a SAHM and he made $7.75 a hour. We relied pretty heavily on the food storage my mother had been building up for us (Christmas presents...he he). Some weeks, I only had $12 or so dollars for fresh groceries. True story! Our food storage definitely saved us too.
One of my "New Years Resolutions", this year, is to get a better hold on my year food storage. It's looking pretty sad right now. Something about dragging 4 kids to the store and pushing around a full cart while trying to wrangle them just doesn't appeal to me....so I have been avoiding it at all costs. And it shows. Like I said...our storage shelves are looking pretty empty and the task of filling them once again seems daunting, to say the least.
Then I remembered I had picked up this "Food Storage for $5 dollars a week" program at a church activity not too long ago. Ta Da! Perfect. I can do that. (I only wish I knew who came up with it so I could give them the credit...but I don't. So...if it was you....thank you.)
The basic idea is that, for every two people in your family, you can build up a basic years food storage on just $5 (ish) dollars a week (because there are 6 of us, that's $15 a week, $60 a month).
The reason I say $5 (ish) dollars is that, as you know, food prices are rising. This program is a few years old, at least, so we'll have to account for inflation. My plan is to keep track of my purchases and report the present day cost to give all y'all a better idea.
By following this plan you should end up with:
500 lbs wheat
180 lbs sugar
12 lbs salt
6 lbs yeast
10 lbs honey
6 lbs shortening
40 lbs powdered milk
5 lbs peanut butter
45 cans tomato soup (we dont eat this so we will be substituting for chicken noodle)
15 can cream of mushroom soup
15 cans cream of chicken soup
21 boxes mac and cheese
12 lbs macaroni
24 cans tuna fish
500 pain reliever pills
1000 multi-vitamins
---for every two people.
Now...if you don't have the room to store this much food (we are going to have to get creative ourselves) you can adjust the amounts as you see fit. The idea is to prepare yourself for whatever may come (unemployment, sudden financial hardship, etc) and to do it little by little so that it doesn't stress you out or strain your food budget. The way I see it...something is better than nothing.
Basic Instructions:
Each week you will take your $5 (for every two people) and purchase the items on the list. Some weeks you will not spend the whole amount. Save the left over in a jar to be used for the weeks you may exceed the $5 (like when purchasing wheat and pwd milk).
These basic staple items should be enough to sustain 2 people for one year.
Remember to add an extra $5 dollars a week and double or triple (or quadruple...or he he) the amount of items being purchased for every two people in your family.
How does that sound?
Happy Hoarding!
One Year Basic Food Storage for $5 (ish) Dollars a Week--JANUARY
One of my "New Years Resolutions", this year, is to get a better hold on my year food storage. It's looking pretty sad right now. Something about dragging 4 kids to the store and pushing around a full cart while trying to wrangle them just doesn't appeal to me....so I have been avoiding it at all costs. And it shows. Like I said...our storage shelves are looking pretty empty and the task of filling them once again seems daunting, to say the least.
Then I remembered I had picked up this "Food Storage for $5 dollars a week" program at a church activity not too long ago. Ta Da! Perfect. I can do that. (I only wish I knew who came up with it so I could give them the credit...but I don't. So...if it was you....thank you.)
The basic idea is that, for every two people in your family, you can build up a basic years food storage on just $5 (ish) dollars a week (because there are 6 of us, that's $15 a week, $60 a month).
The reason I say $5 (ish) dollars is that, as you know, food prices are rising. This program is a few years old, at least, so we'll have to account for inflation. My plan is to keep track of my purchases and report the present day cost to give all y'all a better idea.
By following this plan you should end up with:
500 lbs wheat
180 lbs sugar
12 lbs salt
6 lbs yeast
10 lbs honey
6 lbs shortening
40 lbs powdered milk
5 lbs peanut butter
45 cans tomato soup (we dont eat this so we will be substituting for chicken noodle)
15 can cream of mushroom soup
15 cans cream of chicken soup
21 boxes mac and cheese
12 lbs macaroni
24 cans tuna fish
500 pain reliever pills
1000 multi-vitamins
---for every two people.
Now...if you don't have the room to store this much food (we are going to have to get creative ourselves) you can adjust the amounts as you see fit. The idea is to prepare yourself for whatever may come (unemployment, sudden financial hardship, etc) and to do it little by little so that it doesn't stress you out or strain your food budget. The way I see it...something is better than nothing.
Basic Instructions:
Each week you will take your $5 (for every two people) and purchase the items on the list. Some weeks you will not spend the whole amount. Save the left over in a jar to be used for the weeks you may exceed the $5 (like when purchasing wheat and pwd milk).
These basic staple items should be enough to sustain 2 people for one year.
Remember to add an extra $5 dollars a week and double or triple (or quadruple...or he he) the amount of items being purchased for every two people in your family.
How does that sound?
Happy Hoarding!
One Year Basic Food Storage for $5 (ish) Dollars a Week--JANUARY
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