Emergency Prep

We also got to hear from Mandy Pinneo that night teaching us about food storage.  Again it was a great lesson designed to get you motivated at whatever level you are.  There are two types of emergency prep.:  short term and long term.  Short term is an emergency, out of work and it has a time limit.  Long term is chaos, breakdown of everything, no stores, bartering.  Mandy told us to make a plan, whether that's going to your parents house and eating their food (that was our plan when we lived in Utah as students!) or gathering your own.  The same quote Cindy used in her lesson can be used with food storage.

 "We should prepared ourselves one step at a time as the Lord so inspires us." 

So little by little gather your food storage.  Don't jump ahead and think you need to get everything at once.  Most importantly, store what you eat, eat what you store.  Mandy used the good (1), better (2), best (3) system with preparation. 

Produce--Garden

1. grow something

--stick something edible in the ground or container!

2. grow enough

--enough food for your family

3. preserve it

--can it, dehydrate, freeze, etc.

 

Seeds

1. grow from transplants

--buy plants from already growing

2. grow from seeds

--stick seeds in the ground!

3. save the seeds

--after the growing season, save the seeds for next year

 

Trees

1. glean

--pick fruit from other people's trees (with permission of course!)

2. grow

--plant a tree!

3. preserve it

--can it, dehydrate, freeze it, etc

 

Store--Quick, easy and filling

1. recipe

--figure out what you want to eat

2. get the ingredients

--gather enough ingredients to make your recipe for a year

3. cook

--cook the food!

 

Remember, crisis is not the time to change you family's diet.  Practice what you will do.  Planned menus eliminate panic.  “The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah” Ezra Taft Benson (Ensign, Jan. 1974, pp. 69, 80).