Start stockpilng food now!

You have precious little time left. Start gathering your supplies NOW. If not it will be too late. Check out the article below which highlights 10 steps to take now in order to prepare for the coming crises.

10 Steps For Starting Your Food Storage
By Jodi Moore

Building up a food storage supply can feel like a daunting task. What do you store? How much of it? How the heck do you use wheat? Where do you buy these items? And how do you store it all? All of these questions come to mind when you try to get started. I have split the process up into ten simple baby steps which will hopefully make the task feel less overwhelming.

Getting Started: Put together 72 hour kits for you whole family, have an emergency plan in place, organize your space to ensure you have a large, clean storage area.

Step 1: Determine which type of shelf system you want to use and purchase them. You can do anything from building your own wooden shelves, buying inexpensive plastic or metal shelves from Wal-Mart, or buy a fancy can rotation system from Shelf Reliance.

Step 2: Store a 2 week's supply of water (1 gallon per person per day). You can buy 55 gallon barrels, get several 5-6 gallon jugs, or fill up empty soda/juice bottles. Just make sure it is food grade plastic, and milk jugs don't count!

Step 3: Purchase a three month's of foods you normally eat. You can come up with meal plans for the whole 90 days, or simply buy extras of the things you use a lot. Don't deplete these stores even though it will be tempting.

Step 4: Educate yourself on long term food storage and determine the types of foods, recipes, etc. your family will want to make. Use an online tool or spreadsheet to figure out the actual amounts of each food you are planning to store for a year supply of food. (can start with 3 month and move up to 1 year eventually). I highly recommend trackmyfoodstorage.com and everydayfoodstorage.blogspot.com for help on this step.

Step 5: Purchase your grains and learn how to use them: wheat, corn, barley, rice, pasta, etc.

Step 6: Purchase your legumes and learn how to use them: dried beans, bean soup mixes, lentils, soy beans, etc.

Step 7: Purchase items necessary for baking such as oil, sugar, etc.

Step 8: Purchase or preserve fruits and vegetables to supplement your core foods.

Step 9: Purchase any comfort foods that would be pleasant to have should you be forced to live off your food storage for a long time. This could be things such as hot chocolate, pickles, jell-o, salsa, spices, etc.

Step 10: Purchase non-food item necessities such as toothpaste, deodorant, female products, diapers, etc. Also paper plates, plastic utensils, etc. are nice to avoid wasting precious water in an emergency.

Once you have finished these steps you can move on to more complex survival issues such as heat/cooking sources, long term water solutions, growing your own foods, etc. But just remember, even accomplishing up to step 3 will put you in a far better position than most of the country should an emergency arise. Get that much done immediately and then take your time to truly figure out the more difficult long term food storage concepts.

To learn more about setting up your family's food storage program please visit our blog at http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/ and we will walk you through the Baby Steps in greater detail.

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