The first item you should have is a suitcase. It should be compact and easily transportable. Some people prefer rolling suitcases. Ours is just a small, over-the-shoulder, duffle type bag. Remember, we are gradually building these, so we will add one to two items per week.
Next on the list is long term storage (1 year or so). This month it's rice! Unlike 72-hour kits, the long term storage will change each month, so you have a little more time to acquire the items. Feel free to email me with recipes including food storage items for the month, and i'll test them out and post them on the blog!
Now I'll talk a little about 3-month supply. This contains food that we might normally eat regularly, such as boxed food [mac and cheese, hamburger helper, cake mix], spices, etc. It also contains all the long-term storage items, but only in 3-month amounts. It's easier than I make it sound, I promise.
The easiest way to start building the 3-month supply is to just buy a little more than your regular grocery amount (only of non frozen or fridge items, of course). Each time i go to the grocery store, I might buy an extra box of pasta or a few extra cans of tuna. If you do that, you hardly have to think about it, and its helpful because you'll run out of things less quickly.
Do you have any methods for building food storage? Would anyone be interested in arranging a monthly trip to the storehouse to pick up the different food storage items for the sisters in the ward?
What a cute bag!!
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