A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 27:12
Remember having a deep pantry isn’t just about having extra food on hand. It is also about having the means to survive in an emergency situation, having all the extra food isn’t going to do you much good if you can’t cook it when the power is out.
Don’t forget to share what you were able to do this past week to have a deep pantry/food storage. Let’s encourage each other. And if you have a question feel free to ask or if you have the answer to a question feel free to answer. If you have a tip or idea you can share that also. As I said let’s make this a place where we can share and encourage others to get that deep pantry.
5 Pounds Honey / Oats
5 pounds honey, if you can get local honey all the better, I don’t have a price on honey. You can also get honey powder it tastes just like honey, but it is made from sugar, not honey.
Oats, I get mine at IFA (our local feed store) 30 dollars for 50 pounds. Wal-Mart price is 13.58 for ten pounds in the food storage area or 2 LBs 10 oz for 1.68. Watch case lot sales they usually have oats marked down.
The extra item for this month is Kids Clothes. If you have small kids look at second-hand stores and yard sales for clothes that are larger sizes than what they are in now. If your kids are grown still get children’s clothes when you find a good buy on them, this way you have some put back for grandkids or someone who may need them. I look for baby clothes and things now even though neither of my girls have kids yet. I know how hard it is for young families, so I want to be able to help them out when the time comes for that. I also put back kid’s clothes just to have them on hand. If you sew, crochet, or knit you might also want to put back patterns for children’s clothes
The Action item this month is to get all your information off the computer. If you are like me you find things on the internet then save them on your computer. It is a good idea to get in the habit of printing or at least putting on a flash drive (if on a flash drive be sure to have a protected computer) all that information just in case your computer crashes or you have no power at least you will have all the information that you need (when my computer got a virus a few years back I had a ton of stuff on it that I couldn’t get off). Get some notebooks and store the information by subject then when you need it you will be able to find it. eg. all cooking in one notebook all medical in another.
Put back some more water. Store-bought or containers that you fill yourself.
Put back some more money in your stash. Try to set a weekly or monthly goal of how much you want to try and put back. You might even have a goal for every six months of how much you would like to have set back.
Inexpensive Honey at Wally World is $12.48 for 5 pounds, this is NOT the best in the world, but it’s better than Sugar. The good stuff will run you right at $45 for 5 pounds, OR, if you can find a Bee Keeper that’s the very best.
I use 15 pounds in a special Brew I make, so it’s the cheap stuff for that, BUT I get from a Bee Keeper for the Home Honey.
Honey is a GREAT thing to put into your Deep Pantry for several reasons.
First, it will store for a very VERY long time (we’re talking YEARS and YEARS), if it crystalizes you simply need to heat it a little and it will re-solidify, do NOT heat above 120 degrees, it would ruin the values of Honey.
Next, look up the benefits of Honey as far as Health and Feeling.
AND, it’s a lot Lot LOT better than processed sugar’s.
Oats:
Personally I like the Steal Cut Oats, BUT, we’re talking Deep Pantry, go to the Feed Store and get a bag or three, store them in five gallon buckets, prep and seal the buckets as you would Wheat or most grains.