In April 2018, Bishop Parkinson asked Brother LeBlanc and I to do a 5th Sunday lesson on preparedness. In this meeting, I challenged members of our ward to have a year's supply of food by May 1, 2019. Did you do it? (Does anyone remember that I gave this challenge?). I am a little slow I the follow-up department, but I want to encourage you again to be prepared! The reasons are many. We have dug into our long term storage these last few months just in the sheer fact that Mom is not doing the grocery shopping, and we simply are not buying quite as much food as we usually do.
Every month last year, I gave ideas on what to get to incrementally store the basics. I hope that you did it...and even if you did not, here are the posts I did to help you. It is never too late to start!
May: Salt (http://byesboos.blogspot.com/2018/04/long-term-storage-month-1.html?m=1
June: Fats (http://byesboos.blogspot.com/2018/05/long-term-storage-month-2.html?m=1)
July: Containers (http://byesboos.blogspot.com/2018/06/july-long-term-storage-goal.html?m=1)
August: Grains (http://byesboos.blogspot.com/2018/08/long-term-storage-goal-month-4-grains.html?)
September: Beans (http://byesboos.blogspot.com/2018/09/long-term-storage-month-4-beans.html?m=1)
October: Sugar & Honey (http://byesboos.blogspot.com/2018/10/making-life-sweet.html?m=1)
November: Milk (http://byesboos.blogspot.com/2018/10/long-term-storage-milk.html?m=1)
These few items make up the building blocks of a good home storage. Of course, it is important that you learn how to use these items so that when the time comes to rotate or live off the stores you will be able to do it. Our family constantly eats off of our food storage, so I try to do at least an annual inventory.
I challenge you to build your home storage. Get it to a state where you feel prepared to feed your family if you need to. I promise you will not regret it.
