Storing away food for desperate times

@Modestah (11177)
United States
February 24, 2008 4:44pm CST
Have you wondered how much food you would need to store away in order to feed your family for a year ? It is good to have a store of food for times of famine, or loss of employment - or disasters. Here is a great calculator for determining how much food of different varieties is required to support your family for a year. pretty cool tool! http://www.thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html
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ellie333
@ellie333 (21016)
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24 Feb 08
Whoah! I only calculated for myself and my 4 year old son as the girls away at uni or at boyfrineds most of time. That is a massive amount of food. Some of my frineds laugh at me because I do have an emergency cupboard supply, just in case, which comprises of boxes of matches, dried egg, dried potato, tinned produce just to mention a few, but mainly tinned and dried. We are electric only hence matches and firelighters. It is also great for those 5 week months where the normal cupboards get low, but I always replace, now I think maybe I am not so crazy LOL. Ellie :D
Modestah
@Modestah (11177)
• United States
24 Feb 08
you are right, that is a LOT of food. my eyes bulged when I considered the amount of grain we would need alone... but you figure in such times as that - the stores would be empty, you would be providing the very basics... you would be needing that grain for breads, cereals, pottage etc...
zeloguy
@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
3 Mar 08
Cool calculator but no we don't store away food here at our household. If need-be we could probably get away with three months with what we have but that is with dry ingredients that we have in the pantry... not a prepared plan. Thanks for the site Zelo