Emergency Preparedness: July 2008 Archives

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE? DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED?

 

You'd be surprised how doing a little bit of preparing each week adds up. And, you'd be surprised how easy it is to forget what you have collected. I spent most of last weekend making an inventory of what I had. What a great sense of accomplishment that was. It gave me an idea of what still needs to be done, and made me realize I need better guidelines.

Regarding food, I was doing a chicken-scratch kind of thing. I haven't really looked at the charts that say how much one person/two persons.....should have, for how long, etc. But that's a wise thing to do, otherwise you'll just have a bunch of this and that without any kind of plan. Which leads me to an invaluable resource.

Thank you to the folks at Simply Living Smart for the time they spent creating a user friendly chart that does all the work for you. They've created an Excel spreadsheet with pages for all the foods including dairy, oils, canned goods, sweeteners, and more. All you have to do is enter your family size, the items you have, and calculations are automatically done for you. You can see what you have and what the requirements are for different periods of time, such as one month, two months, 1 year, etc. You can easily keep track of what you have on hand, and what you'd prefer to have.

Here's the link to the chart.

http://simplylivingsmart.com/images/Resources/Food-Storage-Master-Plan.xls

Make sure you visit their site. It's outstanding. Link Here