So it's that time of year again. I don't know why, but for me October is the month of rebuilding my food storage. Maybe I'm really just a squirrel and have to put nuts away for the winter. Someday I'll find a shrink who can psychoanalyze me and tell me exactly what is wrong with me.
In the mean time, I'm tired. I'm a grasshopper, not an ant. Let me explain. Ants are people who can work on things a little at a time and get things accomplished over time. Me, well I'm a grasshopper. Fortunately, so is my husband. I can't do things a little at a time. I have to make a big jump, get it all done, and then rest.
So last week Peter and I came up with a plan. Then I came up with menus. Then I came up with to do lists and shopping lists. Then we bought everything, and got it all done. Saturday night at 4 AM (I guess by that time it was Sunday morning, but it sure felt like Saturday night!) I finally finished all of my stuff. Peter finished at 7 AM.
After a nice nap on Sunday followed by a fun family dinner, I crashed Monday. I don't even know how many naps I took, or what the kids did all day, but I slept. I only woke up to pick up kids from school or drop someone off and then went back to bed. I even went out of the house and drove in my jammies! But today I'm actually feeling human again, so it was worth it.
I've been doing food storage ever since we got married. With a variable income, we have to have it. When times are good we build our food storage, and when times aren't so good we eat from it. If anyone has ever seen my food storage room, it's like a grocery store. I keep everything I ever use down there that isn't perishable. So when I cook, I'm running down there for things I ran out of instead of to the grocery store. Saves time as well.
So with the recession and everything, we had eaten a lot of the canned foods, and the more fun foods. We do have a few thousands of pounds of food left though: rice, beans, oatmeal, wheat, flour, sugar, etc. So I added some to the "fun foods" category and also added food to make the basics more palatable.
This time though I felt a strange urgency to get it done quick. So I gave myself a week and just did it. I also felt to add things to my list that I would never have thought of. I added portable toilets and chemicals (they're cool! It's a lid that snaps on a bucket. Just hope I never have to use it!), shampoo, combs, toothpaste and toothbrushes, soap, hand sanitizer, water bottles, more 5 gallon water jugs, gasoline and propane, and really went all out on my medical supplies. It took a slightly different turn that I usually take. Normally my money would have gone into canned chicken and other meats, canned vegetables and fruits, and those types of things. This time, it was more emergency supply. Hope that doesn't mean anything! I mean those portable toilets are nice and all, but I'd sure hate to have to use them!
So now I have enough food to last our family a year, or the neighborhood a few weeks depending on what happens. I have a neighbor that jokes that his food storage resides in my basement. If anything ever happens, he's invited the entire Catholic population of Utah to come to my house for food. Just hope nothing happens! That's a lot of people!
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