#2 Presentation at MV Ward- Old Way and New Way

Part 2- Presentation given by Amy at the Morrisville Ward, North Carolina, combined RS/Priesthood, Aug. 29, 2010. I will post the rest of the presentation in the next few days.


THE OLD WAY
I grew up in the church, and my mother bought SamAndy #10 cans of dehydrated food, and buckets of wheat, and hid them in all the closets in our house. I don’t remember her ever using any of those cans of food. She didn’t even own a wheat grinder.

I’m sure most of you think of food storage that looks like this (showed picture of lots of big buckets of grain), and you don’t know where to put it and you also don’t know how to eat it.

I can remember in the 1980’s, we were told it was crucial to store these 5 things: wheat, honey, powdered milk, salt, water. We were told these were the bare necessities, they would sustain life. They are the most compact foods, (Photo of one year supply will be on tomorrow's post) But if you have this amount of food, this is how much food you could eat each day (Photo of one loaf of bread and one bowl of beans will be on tomorrow's post). And appetite fatigue would set in very quickly. So we are going to look at some other food storage plans and see if they look more appetizing.

Quote: "Check the expiration date on your ideas about home storage. You may need to throw some of them out." “Family Home Storage: A New Message,” Ensign, Mar 2009, 56–60

The New Approach

...The Church published the pamphlet All Is Safely Gathered In: Family Home Storage, outlining new guidelines for home preparedness that gives Church members a simplified, four-step approach to building their home storage.

They are as follows:

1. Gradually build a small supply of food that is part of your normal, daily diet until it is sufficient for three months.

2. Store drinking water.

3. Establish a financial reserve by setting aside a little money each week, and gradually increase it to a reasonable amount.

4. Once families have achieved the first three objectives, they are counseled to expand their efforts, as circumstances allow, into a supply of long-term basic foods such as grains, legumes, and other staples.

Of the new guidelines, Presiding Bishop H. David Burton says, “Our objective was to establish a simple, inexpensive, and achievable program that would help people become self-reliant. We are confident that by introducing these few, simple steps we can, over time, have more success.”
“Family Home Storage: A New Message,” Ensign, Mar 2009, 56–60

Notice that it says ONCE YOU HAVE ACHIEVED the first three objectives, THEN you should get the long-term basics such as grains, etc. So be sure and do the first three things FIRST.

(Presentation to be continued in later posts.)