Lembas Bread in your 72 Hour Kit

Don't you sometimes wish you could hijack some Lembas Bread from Rivendale and put it in your 72 hour kit? What?! You don't!? What's your problem?! Well, I do and I've found some at Sunflower. I've taken to putting Odwalla bars in my 72 hour kit. Since it's Stake Conference time, and I am a good doobie and just went through my 72 hour kit to update it, I have taken out my soon-to-be-expired bars and have eaten one. It is in fact, Lembas Bread. I'm sure I will not have to eat again until elevensies tomorrow.

Food Storage

A few years ago I attended a RS event put on by a ward in our stake on food storage. Wendy DeWitt was the speaker and she was amazing. She set up her food storage on a worst case scenario. She purchased a solar over and began experimenting. Then she began her food storage and made it as simple as possible. She chose seven meals and multiplied each ingredient by 52, so that her family could eat each meal once each week for a whole year. Sounds easy, right? It is.

I got excited after that meeting and began my own food storage. I have yet to buy a solar oven but have been trying to get Ryan to make one for several years. I'm sure in the end we will just buy one, because my life works that way. Anyway, I tweeked her plan a bit and made it work for my family. I first tried to obtain a 1 month food storage so I planned 7 meals and multiplied everything by 4. After that I moved on to a 2nd month of food storage and chose 7 more recipes. I am currently working on my 3rd month of food storage, but I have posted here my recipes and spreadsheets from the aforementioned. Hopefully, they will help to give you an idea of what to do, or you can simply use it as a template for your own recipes and plans.

Good Luck,
April

This is Wendy's Blog.

This is the booklet she passed out EverythingUnderTheSun.

These are my personal food storage plans
1st month plans

1st month recipes

2nd month plans

2nd month recipes

72 Hour Kits the April Lady Way

I was really excited when I jpined a class to put together 72 hour kit food storage containers. Then I obtained the list of what was to be included and realized that it just wasn't for me, or anyone in my family for that matter. Ryan and I began discussing what items we would prefer to have available to us if we were asked to leave our home quickly with little notice. This is what we have come up with, although it has yet to be boxed. Those containers are only 3.00 which is nice. I will have to get a few. Anyway, instead of making individual kits we have chosen to just put everything together.

Okay, actually here is our list:
Breakfast
granola and apple/blueberry cereal
rice milk (small juice box sized containers)
Snacks
applesauce, small containers (9 - 1/day/person)
peanut/cashew container
pepperoni
Odwalla bars (1/person)
Dinner
bear creek dehydrated soups (3 kinds)

I may swap out some soup for a dehydrated meal or two from REI. I also hope to add jerky, tuna packets, crackers and water of course. I believe the magic number is one gallon per person per day. They say you need to have comfort foods, so I will eventually add something chocolate I'm sure! I plan to replace items regularly in June and January. Hooray for me!

The other items included in our 72 hour kit, which will someday be packed into a hiking pack ready to leave at a moment's notice, are: first aid kit, clothing, basic toiletries, mess kit, crank flashlight and lantern, cards, phone card, and cash.