July 5, 2013

As part of my post today, I am going to continue to detail my organization in shopping and our food storage. The first year that we were married I had a very strong feeling that we needed to build our years supply of food storage.  So many time as we have been rotating it over the past 6 years I have been super glad that I have been building it slowly over time.  It takes a lot of planning, space and is completely worth it.  As a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have been admonished to slowly store a small amount of savings, food storage for at least three months-year and water.  We have the water barrels and I would like for us to put water in them soon.  We just need to figure out where we are going to put them.  I know that we can live off our food storage for a while since we kind of tried a little last year.  I have our long term food storage of MRE's and #10 cans, but our most valuable storage is what we rotate all the time.

I have bought rotating storage racks from Shelf Reliance.  I added on to them when we moved in here.  We keep the following on those racks:
Cream of Chicken
Cream of Mushroom
Tomato Paste
Mandarin Oranges
Green Beans
Enchilada Sauce
Chiles
Olives
Pears
Peaches
Tomato Sauce
Black Beans
Evaporated Milk
Tuna Fish
Canned Chicken
Pineapple Chunks
Corn
Canned Chili
and
Chicken Broth.

That is the beginning of what we have in our rotating food storage.  It is very helpful when you don't have any money to buy grocery's for a month.  I will be adding to it more and more this summer as we do have work.  I will be canning pears, peaches, green beans, tomato, dehydrating tomatoes and storing bread and such in the deep freezer.

We have lots of other stuff that is stored like cake mixes, noodles, rice, beans of various types, apple juice, salad dressings, extras of all the things I use in the kitchen (oils, sugars, flour, soy sauce, etc).

Sooooooooo, dinner sucked.  I tried to cook zucchini and it burned.  Stuffed mushrooms on the cedar plank and they were the only thing that was ok.  I melted mozzerella cheese inside, and I wish that we had some sausage.  I am going to have to remember to buy some.  However, the grilling on the cedar plank did not go well.  I cut up a lemon into small slices and put it under the fish to cook.  The lemon smell was really really wonderful, but I couldn't figure out when the swai was done and overcooked it and it took twice as long to cook.  I didn't have a spray bottle for the flare ups so the plank burnt to embers.  It was just great.  ya, right. I am glad that that is over.