Food Storage Planner Spreadsheet

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Thank you! Very useful.

 

I have been trying to dream this up......thanks!

 

Only FEMA is allowed to stockpile food:

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Just kidding, BTPost. Read the link I posted. Our current administration is watching us. You'd be surprised how ultra prepared our home front is. Ric Douglas, USMC Retired

 

Thank you. This is a helpful tool and is very much appreciated.

 

So, @melbo, with the switch in lifestyle and diet, how would you suggest modifying this spreadsheet to exclude grains, rice and cereals as well as the legumes?

Just curious as I'm starting down that road (although his book can be just a tiny bit tedious as he repeats himself many, many times).

 

Good question DL- I also would like to know what people with special diet do when putting away food. I know some gluten free people and their food consumption is so limited. When they eat food with gluten they get really sick. It is kind of scary to think of what will happen to these people.

 

We don't get them very often but I really like the potato rolls that a couple of the stores around here have. Of course, it would be better to make them myself, but...

I wonder what the insulin response for potato flour is (because it's pretty high for just potatoes).

 

The gluten free issue is a very real one for our family, along with dairy and egg free. It makes prepping challenging, especially when we thought we had it all together with our grains and beans!

I was going to do a series of posts about this under Back to Basics. Will post as we figure each items out and if I get to make a new spreadsheet for our new staples, I will post it here, too.
Edited, because I CAN spell

Potsto based breads, like many gluten free items, are high glycemic, making it difficult for those with blood sugar issues.

Oops! It looks like I already started a thread on this with eggs, to be continued with dairy and moving on to gluten. So here's the link to the start of what we're doing.
Food & Health in a Survival Situation | Survival Monkey Forums

 

So how about this has anyone upgraded, tweeked or improved this spreadsheet

 

Regarding the comments about not having "enough" space for storage;
One would be surprised at how easy it is to put up enough preps for anywhere from several months to well over a year's supply of essential items (Not just food) once you start thinking outside the box. Convert a closet, use spaces underneath and behind furniture. Stack cases in place of end tables, cover with a nice cloth and use as an end table. Put your mind to it and don't forget to store what you eat and eat what you store.

The important thing is you start prepping.

 

This is a discussion that we had yesterday. It is no problem sticking preps throughout the house and places all over. What was the concern is the temperature of where we were storing, this coming from a discussion on another thread. Heat and cold reduce shelf life. We went through and listed the coolest places in the house. I noticed I was storing some of my resources (books and binders) in my cooler areas plus my comms, first aid stuff and lighting (categories) were in place that foods should be. We went through an re-organizing time 6-9 months. We are back to discussing how/ what we can do to maximize our cooler areas.

 

One thing I did was take the Mormon food guidelines chart- HERE: http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...uploads/2012/05/Mormon-1-year-storage-min.xls this gave me the amount that I would need. Then I took the chart on page one and tailored things from there.

Here is the basic Mormon Food Storage Calculator but the one I linked is more in depth. Combining the one on here gave me shelf life.

 

@melbo did you ever post a copy of drombo 's updated spreadsheet? inquiring minds want to know...

 

Ditto