Storing Up!

During Spring Break last week, my dear son Zach went with me to the Garden City Cannery. I've felt such a great need to finally get more food storage. I haven't been to the cannery for almost 10 years and another 10 years before that. I'm so grateful for the new guidelines that have shown properly stored products are now good for 30+ years so that all of the old stuff I have is still good! That means I have a ton of wheat (which I don't know what to do with) that is still good and can be used for trading! (haha)

Anyway, Zach wasn't too excited but he didn't complain - not even once! We did dry packing - flour and sugar. The nice part is that after you do some work, you are able to by anything else that is on the shelves. So we purchased flour, sugar, oats, spaghetti, rice, apricots, pears, peaches and apple slices. I think Zach enjoyed running the can sealer....it is kind of fun. He was also able to help a couple of other older ladies with their dry packing. Thanks Zach for being such a great help!

Kevin has also helped me in purchasing other things that we currently eat - like soup, canned veggies, tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce, tuna, canned chicken and other things.

It does take some money to get a large initial start but if you did a little each week, you wouldn't notice the cost at all. The hard part will be rotating everything and paying attention to which things are only good for a year or so. I'll have to work on that - but, I feel so much better knowing that I've made a start in doing what the Prophets have asked us to do and it's comforting to know we won't starve in the event of a catastrophe!