As I've been attending our food storage meetings, talking with friends about food storage, and surfing the web, I keep coming across people who are using Wendy's system for food storage. So I thought I'd go ahead and post a little segment on it, and then put a little note back on my 3 month supply post.
Wendy's philosophy is basically the same that I've been saying, "Store what you eat." So it's basically what I posted in the "Three month supply", but she's doing it for a year. So she doesn't have the "short term" and "long term". She tries not to store anything that doesn't have a shelf life of at least 3 years. At first when I heard her plan, she talked about 7 dinners and 7 breakfasts. I couldn't eat the same meal each week for 52 weeks! But like she said in her YouTube videos, she can't either! So she's doing 14 dinners and 7 breakfasts.
If you're interested in learning more about her method, She has a series of 9 short YouTube videos that talk about compiling your meal cards, shopping list, rotation, solar oven, canning meat, vacuum sealing, etc. I found them very informative and they are short so you can work them in to your schedule easily. She also has a blog http://everythingunderthesunblog.blogspot.com/. During the seminars that she gives, she hands out booklets with all the information in them. You can find it on her blog, under the Nov 2008 post I believe. But I've copied it into a Word document and you can find it here (don't worry, she says we can post, copy, handout to whomever). Download EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN (click on this blue link).
For her videos, here is the first. Then you can access the next ones on the right hand bar on YouTube.
There are a couple things that she points out that are great. First, she talks about how food storage costs about $1 a day, per person. She's quick to point out that we spend that much on our cell phones. So what's more important to you? A fancy phone/phone plan or food?
Second, she says that a year's supply for one person will store under a twin bed. So you really have no excuse for not storing it. Most people have one bed for each person in their home, or a larger bed for two. So clean out whatever is under beds, if you have no other space to store it, and do it!
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