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Set aside $5 a week to buy the specific items each week. You will have a kitty set aside that you put the $5 in and you can't touch it for any reason but to buy the food storage item for that week. Put in the remaining change back into the kitty. Some things in the beginning are going to be cheap and then later will be more expensive. In order to pay for the expensive stuff later you need to keep the leftover money in the kitty. Weeks 38 and 44 you will have "off" to replenish the kitty.
Week 1: 2 cans tuna fish, 2 boxes salt
Week 2: 5 boxes of Macaroni and Cheese, 4 cans tomato soup
Week 3: 3 cans mushroom soup, 1 2.5 lb peanut butter
Week 4: one bottle 365 count multi-vitamins
Week 5: 4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 6: 1 bottle aspirin (500 tablets)
Week 7: 1 100 lb container wheat
Week 8: 1 5 lb powdered milk
Week 9: 1 5 lb honey
Week 10: 4 cans tuna, 4 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 11: 1 10 lb sugar, 1 box salt
Week 12: 4 cans mushroom soup
Week 13: 1 bottle 365 count multi-vitamins
Week 14: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 15: 1 box macaroni and cheese
Week 16: 1 5 lb honey
Week 17: 2 cans tuna, 4 can tomato soup
Week 18: 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 19: 1 100 lbs of wheat
Week 20: 2 10lbs of sugar
Week 21: 1 10lb powdered milk
Week 22: 1 can mushroom soup, 1 10 lb sugar
Week 23: 1 can tuna, 4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 24: 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 25: 2 cans tuna, 2 cans mushroom soup
Week 26: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 27: 3 10 lbs sugar
Week 28: 1 10 lb sugar
Week 29: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 30: 2 10 lb sugar
Week 31: 1 can tuna, 3 cans mushroom soup
Week 32: 1 can tuna, 4 cans tomato soup
Week 33: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 34: 2 cans tuna, 1 box salt
Week 35: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 36: 2 10 lb sugar
Week 37: 4 cans tomato soup, 2 boxes salt
Week 38: Stash $5 in the kitty
Week 39: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 40: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 41: 3 10 lb sugar
Week 42: 2 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb sugar
Week 43: 2 cans tomato soup, 2 cans mushroom soup
Week 44: Stash $5 in the kitty
Week 45: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 46: 4 cans tomato soup, 4 cans mushroom soup
Week 47: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 48: 4 cans mushroom soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 49: 7 cans of tomato soup
Week 50: 7 cans of mushroom soup
Week 51: 2 10 lbs sugar, 1 box salt
By the end of the 52 weeks, you should have:
700lbs of wheat,
240 lbs sugar,
40 lbs of powdered milk,
13 lbs of salt,
10 lbs of honey,
5 lbs of peanut butter,
45 cans of tomato soup,
32 cans mushroom soup,
15 cans tuna fish,
10 macaroni and cheese dinners,
500 aspirin, and
730 multiple vitamins
They suggest adding 6 lbs of dried yeast and 6 lbs of shortening and this should be enough to sustain 2 people for a year. For every 2 people you have in your family add $5 more and double or triple the amount of whatever you are buying that week.
By Christi from Paducah, KY
Editor's Note: I searched and there is another version of this. Prices may be a lot higher for some items now (I know that honey costs a lot more.)
There is also a Morman version which is slightly different:
http://www.themormonchannel.net/tmc/1yrfor5.html
In any case it is always good to have food stores for lean times or emergencies. You may want to change what you buy but it's a good guide.
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RE: Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
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Post By Grandma Margie (Guest Post)
(10/10/2006)
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I think it is a wise person who stocks up for an emergency. It may only be a matter of time before some of us experience some type of catastrophe and will be grateful to have some basic food to eat. Although they don't want to scare people, the emergency management people on a federal and state level are working on plans to deal with various types of disasters we may encounter in the future. In our state we deal with tornadoes and floods and there is a very strong possibility that we could have another earthquake along the New Madrid fault! If that happens we could have broken water lines, electrical lines, gas lines and a whole host of other problems. I'm not a worry wart or a doomsayer but I'm glad I have a well stocked pantry that could feed us for quite some time, should the need arise.
RE: Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
For heavens sake!!!! what are you going to do with 700 pounds of wheat, and 240 pounds of sugar and 13 pounds of salt. I'd say take the $5.00 a week and buy an extra one of something ON SALE that you will be using later. All these items can be bought on sale and with coupons at one time or other. Buy them when on sale and not when they come up on your list. You have spent $250.00 here, and don't have one single meal except mac and cheese, and maybe bowl of tomatoe soup.
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Post By Michelle (Guest Post)
(10/08/2006)
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I live in the country and think this is a great idea. I will start with a smaller version at first. I would love to have some ideas on how to search this on the web as well as easy recipes that use these items
RE: Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
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Post By (Guest Post)
(10/07/2006)
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i dont think i would want to eat powdered this and tinned that i would rather starve than eat bags and bags of salt etc
i grow my own fruit and veg and keep some chickens for meat and eggs however pasta and rice can be stored indefinitely and it would be better for your health to freeze orange juice and fresh butter i think the multivitamins with iron would be a good idea
RE: Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
Hm-m-m-m-m, there are lots of good ideas out there and this sounds a lot like the Y2K (2000)suggestions, which seem good, but do present a huge storage problem, even for me. I also am concerned that if FOOD is ever a problem, so will the
WATER be, and when I tried calculating/saving water in bottles, I ran into a HUGE loss, learning it's almost impossible to store enough for even a small
family's short term needs, drinkable and potable.
There is a govt. warning out about a small bacterium that begins to grow in stored water that NOTHING can kill, which is deadly to humans.
I think I'll place my trust in the Creator of Heaven and Earth, and perhaps a modified scaled down version of all this wonderful list.
Thank you for reminding me of those days, and of the left-overs I still have/had to toss when expired. God bless you and those who follow
the ant, wisely storing for times of shortages. : )
RE: Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
I would love a scaled down version of this. I am not doing this yet cause we are living in a small apt for now. When we move we will hopefully have a deep freezer and I am wanting a food pantry and maybe a sub shed where produce will keep longer.
RE: Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
Actually I do store flour in the freezer but for this much, you'd have to have a whole freezer dedicated to just this plan!
RE: Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
Whow! That is all startling! However, storage for me would be a huge problem. I live in a 4 room shared apartment, no outside storage.
Also I have no car so couldn't pick up a 100 lbs of anything!
A really modified down scale might work well for small households and dwellings though.
Ellie.
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Post By ANNE (Guest Post)
(10/06/2006)
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FLOUR CAN BE STORED IN A FREEZER OR REFRIGERATOR
RE: Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
In this day and age of pandemic threats, this is probably not a bad idea at all. My question is where and how do you store all this? How do you keep the flour and such from going rancid or getting buggy? There's so much of it!
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