Getting Started with Food Storage

Welcome to the Oak Hills Ward food storage blog. The purpose of this blog to assist members with information, ideas and motivation for working on their food storage. We hope it will also be a forum for members to share ideas, tips and good deals that they come across. We'd would also love to post your favorite recipes that feature items from your food storage - got a great bread recipe? Please share!

To submit information to the blog just email Leigh Anne Wilkes at leighanne.wilkes@gmail.com and she will post the information.

The best place to start with building your food storage is with the church's own website - www.providentliving.org Click on the food storage link on the left hand side Lots of information on recommendations for amounts of various food/water etc. Check it out!

The March 2009 Ensign has a great article on Food Storage with 4 simple recommendations:

"In the spirit of President Hinckley’s remarks, Church leaders decided to closely reexamine their approach to self-reliance, looking for ways to reinforce the concepts of home storage and financial preparedness. As a result, the Church published the pamphlet All Is Safely Gathered In: Family Home Storage, outlining new guidelines for home preparedness that give 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.”

Please read the rest of the article online at www.lds.org or from your Ensign.