Week 38

FOOD STORAGE TIP OF THE WEEK

Food Storage:  30 Lbs. of Wheat

Extra Item:  11 Lbs. of Macaroni or Spaghetti


Here are the Cannery prices for this week's items:

Wheat, Hard Red - #10 Can (5.8 lbs.) @ $2.80 (48.3 cents/lb.)
Wheat, White - #10 Can (5.8 lbs.) @ $2.80 (48.3 cents/lb.)
Macaroni - #10 Can (3.4 lbs.) @ $3.85 ($1.13/lb.)
Spaghetti - #10 Can (4.3 lbs.) @ $4.50 ($1.05/lb.)

Family Gear Box:  Mirror, magnesium fire starter, books to read.  Be sure to include the scriptures.

Family Preparation:  Purchase and install emergency ladders for upper floor window.

Spiritual Preparation:  Read "Wherefore, Settle This in Your Hearts", by Elder Larry W. Gibbons, Ensign, November 2006, p. 102.  We cannot keep one foot in the Church and one foot in the world.  Stay on the straight and narrow path.  No, stay in the middle of the straight and narrow path.  Don't drift, don't wander, don't dabble, be careful.

Food For Thought:

During this evening's General Women's Conference, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf gave us five "forget-me-nots" to remember in our life's journey.  So this week, we'd like to give you our own five "forget-me-nots" as you go through this year's Food Storage Program:

1.  Store according to your family's particular needs and preferences (so that you have a year's worth of food your family likes and will enjoy even in difficult circumstances).  Remember that if everyone was stressed they would want food they were familiar with.

2.  If you're buying what your family likes and eats regularly, you should be able to rotate it through your daily pantry and keep everything relatively current.

3.  Store a variety so that if you had to live on your food storage you would have more to serve your family than just wheat and milk.

4.  Don't forget to include the extras that add so much flavor and nutrition to meals such as spices, condiments, honey and molasses (did you know that one tablespoon of unsulphured Blackstrap Molasses contains 20% RDA of both calcium and iron?) ingredients for side dishes, vitamin tablets, and extra things that can be used for trading like sugar, salt, etc.

5.  Keep in mind that temperature extremes can drastically affect the shelf life of your food storage items.

Sister Julie White has a year or more supply of wheat that she is looking to trade with someone for an equivalent amount of canned 30-year-shelf-life rice (either from the Cannery or someone like Provident Pantry).  If you are interested, please contact her at (435) 267-1002.