Food Storage on as little as $5 per week

[hancocs]

http://offthegridnews.com/2010/08/02/how-to-create-a-food-storage-supply-for-you-and-your-spouse-for-as-little-as-5-per-week/

I not sure about $5 a week in my neck of the woods but I thought this was a good starting list for those that need to get a food storage started.

[opsec]

Here is the BEST NEWS of all: the nutritional value for all of this food is, believe it or not, a whopping 1,249,329 calories (give or take a few calories).  And, based on a daily diet in which you and your spouse each consume 2000 calories, the food listed above can sustain the two of you for about 312 days. That’s the better part of a full year.

At a cost of just $5 per day – just $260 for a full year – this is a bargain you can’t afford to pass up. In fact, it would still be a bargain if you doubled the cost because even if you were to spend $10 a week … the cost to you would still be a very, very modest $40 a month.

I would want the $15 a week plan so I could have a bare minimum of 3000 calories per day. This is really a very good article.

[Beeherder]

The comments are just a valuable as the article, imo.

[Ozark Lady]

I would store the salt and sugar, not the rest!

We don't use store bought soups, nor macaroni and cheese.

I agree with one poster, I would much rather have beans and rice.

I might store some wheat, but not in those huge quantities, we just don't eat it that much.

And I would want corn for corn meal.

Shortening, yuck!

And why on earth 6 pounds of yeast.  Yeast occurs naturally, just make your sponge and catch some!

Also, I only use canned (homecanned goat milk) or dried milk for about 2 months out of the year... I surely wouldn't need much of that.  Much better to run to the spring house with the freshest milking!

It all comes back to:

STORE WHAT YOU EAT!  AND EAT WHAT YOU STORE!

[Dame]

If you have your own milk then you would need to have storage for animal feed.  And you would need to keep a certain amount of animal feed on hand.  Would also likely need to have some land available for pasture and/or producing the animal feed.  Production of animal feed would require storage for machinery to actually grow, and harvest the feed or fence the pasture.

Otherwise you would need someone working full time tending the animals.

[Ryder]

Storage food is for when you can't leave your place for a long period of time. Try six months with no trips to the feed store or the people food store or any fuel from outside. Wheat would look pretty good when hunger comes knocking. Store what you eat and drink, store anything you can eat or drink, store something for others to eat and drink. Then be able to protect you and yours.

[Beeherder]

eye recently learned that the number one meat consumed on the planet is goat. I like goat cheese don't drink milk but cheese is very good stuff for the independent living minded. Less feed needed for goats because they can subsist on almost anything. The folks i know who milk goats spend significant time and effort in cleanup and sterilization so those products would be required but goat looks like an excellent homesteading animal. Others around here use them to to keep the grass/weeds mowed to reduce fire danger.

[Lady Lilya]

My friend in Alaska has a goat dairy farm. 

Here is her blog:
http://arctichomesteader.squarespace.com/

She also services the market for allergen-free food.  So, she sells eggs from chickens that were not fed any corn or soy or wheat, for example. 

[Ozark Lady]

Actually, I have seen many goats raised just on pasture, with very little grains.
Chickens can forage and find their own grains, greens, and bugs.

For a goat, or chicken, grains are dessert, not the main meal.
Dogs would do better on more meat and less grains as well.  Read your label, most dogfood is mostly corn.

I am making plans to increase legumes for the household use, and dry the plants for the animals.
Herbs will be increased, and dried for animals as well.
Blackberries, once they are done fruiting, will never fruit on that cane again, they only fruit on the previous years cane, so I will cut out the canes, and dry the prickly critters, bundle them, and have them to augment the animals diets.  Blackberry leaves, make great tea for humans, and are medicine and food to goats.

Grains are far less important than well dried vegetation for my animals.  I don't have hayfields, so I must rethink saving some garden wastes for goat food.  The pasture will feed them pretty well all season, but in winter, they will need added roughage.  No more weed-eating, it will have to be...scythe and let dry then homemade haybales!  Most of these weeds will have more than enough grains in them.