The beginning

Alright. I am basically telling no one about this blog. Who would really want to follow a food storage blog anyways? But this is my new years resolution so I need to keep myself in check. Well I am 30 and finally starting to gather food storage. I really should have done it before now. The prophet has been asking us to do it for years...actually I remember hearing about it as a kid...so that makes it A LOT of years. It has always seemed so overwhelming...enough food to feed 6 people for one whole year? Holy crap!

So I decided to start small...baby steps, right? I got a book right after New Years titled "Not Your Mother's Food Storage." Love it. It is sooooo simple. It helps you gather a 3 month supply of food storage but not just the disgusting food in the #10 cans...you know the freeze dried fruits and veggies that you pray you never have to eat? You gather only foods that you actually already consume on a daily basis. My budget is NOT big...like $50 a month. I wanted to ask Bret to throw an extra $50 in but then I went to the dentist today and realized that my teeth are crap and then remembered that Halle just had her tonsils out so I think me asking for a raise is out of the question:). So this blog could pretty much last forever because it may take me that long to get my food storage together!

But in the past week I have accumulated a few things...24 cans of pinto beans($11.99), a giant bag of pancake mix($5.99), 12 cans of spaghetti sauce(9.60), dried eggs(13.99), and 100 oatmeal pouches($12.50). Yep it will take a while but it feels good to be going!