What to Store

A good place to start is with a few basics.  The more you learn, the more you will add to your supplies.  You also need to consider your family's eating habits.  You need to start with items they will eat!  Eventually, you may add more nutritious foods to your menu.  By the way, this lifestyle is infectious!!!!  You have been duly warned! :D

There is nothing more nutritious and money saving than making things from scratch.  Processed boxed mixes that have questionable ingredients to give them longer shelf life are the things you first want to replace.

      Here's a rabbit trail . . . Did you know that in the event of a crises it would take only three days to empty the shelves of most supermarket chains!

So your basic starting blocks would be:

     Flour - preferably unbleached, can be bread flour or all purpose

     Sugar - if you haven't heard of it, now's a great time to replace your white sugar with evaporated cane juice! 

     Yeast

     Aluminum Free baking powder & baking soda

     Salt - try storing Celtic sea salt or some type of mineral salt like REAL salt

Now bear in mind that eventually - Lord willing - you will be storing whole grains that you will grind or mill yourself . . . this is just a starting point.

With your basic blocks you can create -

     homemade bread

     muffins

     pancakes

     pizza dough

     biscuits

     cakes

     brownies

     tortillas

     and much, much more!!!

These are items you can serve with almost every meal . . . muffins or pancakes with breakfast, sandwiches or wraps with lunch, biscuits or dinner rolls with supper.  I hope that you are catching the vision . . .

Coming up next . . . how to store and how much??