NOTE: The following was based on 1999 prices - You will need to increase the plan to $10.00 now to come close to meeting the goal. Also note that this is an absolute minimal diet to last one year - rationing would be extreme, and you may want to substitute other items. Cream of Mushroom and Tomato Soup is not really a great diet, I would make some changes. DW
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$5.00 Dollar a week Food Storage Plan
**As a heads up, you may want to make the kitty $7 as there were times
that not even the weekly rollover was enough to make that weeks
purchase.
Set aside $5 a week to buy the specific items each week. You will have
a kitty set aside that you put the $5 in and you can’t touch it for any
reason but to buy the food storage item for that week. Put in the
remaining change back into the kitty. Some things in the beginning are
going to be cheap and then later will be more expensive. In order to
pay for the expensive stuff later you need to keep the leftover money
in the kitty. Weeks 38 and 44 you will have “off” to replenish the
kitty.
Week 1: 2 cans tuna fish, 2 boxes salt
Week 2: 5 boxes of Macaroni and Cheese
4 cans tomato soup
Week 3: 3 cans mushroom soup,
1 2.5 lb peanut butter
Week 4: one bottle 365 count multi-vitamins
Week 5: 4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 6: 1 bottle aspirin (500 tablets)
Week 7: 1 100 lb container wheat
Week 8: 1 5 lb powdered milk
Week 9: 1 5 lb honey
Week 10: 4 cans tuna, 4 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 11: 1 10 lb sugar, 1 box salt
Week 12: 4 cans mushroom soup
Week 13: 1 bottle 365 count multi-vitamins
Week 14: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 15: 1 box macaroni and cheese
Week 16: 1 5 lb honey
Week 17: 2 cans tuna, 4 can tomato soup
Week 18: 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 19: 1 100 lbs of wheat
Week 20: 2 10lbs of sugar
Week 21: 1 10lb powdered milk
Week 22: 1 can mushroom soup, 1 10 lb sugar
Week 23: 1 can tuna, 4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 24: 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 25: 2 cans tuna, 2 cans mushroom soup
Week 26: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 27: 3 10 lbs sugar
Week 28: 1 10 lb sugar
Week 29: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 30: 2 10 lb sugar
Week 31: 1 can tuna, 3 cans mushroom soup
Week 32: 1 can tuna, 4 cans tomato soup
Week 33: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 34: 2 cans tuna, 1 box salt
Week 35: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 36: 2 10 lb sugar
Week 37: 4 cans tomato soup, 2 boxes salt
Week 38: Stash $5 in the kitty
Week 39: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 40: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 41: 3 10 lb sugar
Week 42: 2 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb sugar
Week 43: 2 cans tomato soup, 2 cans mushroom soup
Week 44: Stash $5 in the kitty
Week 45: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 46: 4 cans tomato soup, 4 cans mushroom soup
Week 47: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 48: 4 cans mushroom soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 49: 7 cans of tomato soup
Week 50: 7 cans of mushroom soup
Week 51: 2 10 lbs sugar, 1 box salt
By the end of the 52 weeks, you should have:
700lbs of wheat,
240 lbs sugar,
40 lbs of powdered milk,
13 lbs of salt,
10 lbs of honey,
5 lbs of peanut butter,
45 cans of tomato soup,
32 cans mushroom soup,
15 cans tuna fish,
10 macaroni and cheese dinners,
500 aspirin, and
730 multiple vitamins
They suggest adding 6lbs of dried yeast and 6 lbs of shortening and
this should be enough to sustain 2 people for a year. For every 2
people you have in your family add $5 more and double or triple the
amount of whatever you are buying that week.
http://www.survival-training.info/downloads/5_dollar_a_week_food_storage_plan.pdf
>>> $5.00 Dollar a week Food Storage Plan <<<
Thank you for this post,, I encourage everyone to read this and plan accordingly..
GLOBAL WARMING ALERT == Snow in WNC Saturday night & Sunday.. even here in the southern mtn received from .5 - 2.0 + of snow,, on OCT 17th... early snow and cold.. but what about the North snow storms...from poconos- north.. wow..
Here is something that goes along with the food storage..
Jim Rogers likes rice, sees food catastrophe looming
Posted: Sat October 17, 2009 4:44 pm
(Excerpt)
INTERNATIONAL. Legendary global investor and chairman of Singapore- based Rogers Holdings, Jim Rogers said the lack of supply in agricultural products is especially concerning.
This cycle may last for many years as no one is bringing new supply on stream, Rogers said.
In a Yahoo Finance video clip Rogers explains the reasons he is bullish on agricultural commodities. As he sees it, “most agricultural products are still depressed on a historic basis.”
“The story is not over, not for a while,” he said.
“I don’t see any reason it’s going to be over for a few years because no one is bringing new supply on stream.”
“A catastrophe is looming,” he says. “The world is going to have a period when we cannot get food at any price in some parts of the world.”
Full Article:
http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=41114&t=1&c=35&cg=4&mset=1011
Thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365963/posts
NOTE: The following was based on 1999 prices - You will need to increase the plan to $10.00 now to come close to meeting the goal. Also note that this is an absolute minimal diet to last one year - rationing would be extreme, and you may want to substitute other items. Cream of Mushroom and Tomato Soup is not really a great diet, I would make some changes. DW<<<
Better make that $20. a week in Arizona, we are getting to the breaking point on everything.
My presciptions are now up another hundred dollars a month and that is my breaking point, meds? food? cat food? or live under a tree and carry on.
I can’t even imagine what the jobless are thinking, being homeless is a small part of the problem.
And the cities run them off, for their tents do not make the town look good.
Scary times, indeed.
This is a great plan - thanks, DW.
Loss Leaders are items offered by grocery stores to entice customers into the store where hopefully they'll also purchase many more groceries.
Let's say the loss leader for the week is Tuna Fish, and it is priced at six cans for $2.77.
Simply purchase twice the amount you normally would of any inexpensive loss leader -- but of course only items your family will use.
Be sure to clearly DATE any item you bring in the house, so that you always use the oldest first.
The fastest way to start having extra cash to spend on storage supplies is threefold:
:::start eating plain oatmeal several times a week
:::serve a couple different homemade vegetable bean soups at least twice a week
:::make a large batch of cornbread each week
Many inexpensive homemade items are very nutritious and very filling, and extremely kind to the food budget. A surprise batch of gingerbread - adding blackstrap molasses and plenty of ginger can be a healthy type of "dessert" that can be very filling, yet gentle on the pocketbook. There are dozens of similar types of quickbreads.
Whenever you see anything in the grocery store which is greatly reduced from its original price and you know you will actually use it, be sure to purchase it in quantity.