Comments on: Sharing Your Food Storage Preparedness Success Stories

By: Tammara Asay

Tammara Asay — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:43:23 +0000

We had a sister come to our Relief Society and tell us how she had organized her food storage. One of the hardest things is to rotate the food so it does not get too old. I thought it was a great presentation and would like to share her ideas.

She made menus for one month then calculated three times for each item to get the amount for a quarter of a year. She had an empty wall in her basement. She built shelves along the wall and divided them into four sections; one for each quarter of the year.

She had one quarter’s worth of food in her kitchen cabinets. Then worked on filling each section of shelves in the basement. Each quarter she takes the oldest section of food in the basement and transfers it to her kitchen cabinets. That leaves an opening in the basement cabinet where the new food can be stored. This automatically rotates your food as you empty the oldest section and fill it with new food.

By: LDSResources

LDSResources — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:22:38 +0000

You may want to start with foods that the family eats on a regular basis and build up a 3-month supply of those foods. Each family will typically have different needs due to likes/dislikes, allergies, et cetera. Long-term storage would be more broad. Most people do not have a long-term food storage. If they do have long-term storage, most of them do not know how to use it, and it has no value in times of emergency.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:11:23 +0000

I am glad about your website to share about food storage preparedness. I have recently receive my calling as a Food Storage Specialist in my ward, although, I am totally new about my calling. To begin serving in my calling: I am trying to do a personal survey visit to my ward families, and I do not have a list of catagory of all the names of food product to be a check mark list prepared, so I can give to the adult members in families to fill out so we can help them provide a sufficient food storage preparedness, as we know what are they eating to educate them in food storage. Meaning I am trying to find out what they eat first, and a catagory of list of food products I can printout on paper and easily give as visiting with families in my ward. Do you know where I can get such a list of all food products in my state in Ohio. Looking as searching for needed Answers….