Plan Your Work: Part One

If you're ready to get more serious about food storage than just buying extra stuff all willy-nilly, I'll give you a place to start. But if you feel yourself getting overwhelmed, promise me you'll just go buy an extra case of green beans and try again another time...OK?

I like lists.

In order to have a list, you have to make a list. Clear as mud? Great!

There are a couple of ways to approach this. You can plan every meal down to the last teaspoon of salt that you'll need like Wendy Dewitt, or you can create an in home grocery store. Most people I know do something somewhere in between. No matter what you do, you need to know what you are starting with. You need to do an inventory of what you have on hand. Go count up your cans, write down what you have in the freezer, leave no stone un-turned. Count it all and make a list. It doesn't have to be fancy. You can DO it!