Plan Your Work: Part 2

Got your list? Good. See? It wasn't that bad. The next step is actually a fork in the road and you have to decide what fits your style the best.

If you are going to plan each meal and emulate Wendy Dewitt, you need to sit down and write out 14 breakfast, lunch and dinner menu's. Now, before you go including all your fancy company dishes, I want you to remember to think SIMPLE. You may be cooking over a camp stove. Like spaghetti? Can of sauce+handful of noodles+maybe some cheese and a nice loaf of bread= perfect food storage fare. Look at Wendy's recipe's for ideas but KEEP IT SIMPLE. If you can only bring yourself to think of 7 menus, do 7. So what if you end up eating spaghetti once a week for a year? We are talking SURVIVAL here people! You don't have my permission to get any fancier than 14 different menus until you have enough to survive for ONE YEAR. If you just know you would not like living this way, you must pick the other method. Once you have your menus, you must write down what you need to prepare each dish on those menus. Then you must take a break, prop your feet up and eat some chocolate. No more for you today. Tomorrow, you can multiply everything out by 26, create a master list of what you need, and see how what you have fits into that.

If you are going to create an in home grocery store, you must go run the calculator, you must print it out, and you must write down what you do have that will count toward your needs. And then you can take a break. And eat some chocolate. And ponder what a domestic goddess you are for taking the biggest, hardest step in beginning your food storage. It's all downhill coasting from here.