Last night we completed our Relief Society "Living Off Your Food Storage" Enrichment Activity with a potluck at our house. For the past eleven days (is that really all it was???) we have lived completely off our food storage, with no trips to the grocery story. (We were also challenged to not eat out during that time, but as we took a quick trip to Utah we did eat breakfast and dinner out that day. ) It was a very interesting experience. I figured we would be fine, and we were, but we didn't enjoy it much. We have lots of things in our freezer, a very complete year's supply of canned and dried food and many other items, cases of bottled water, medical and sanitary supplies - and 11 days was not very long. Jeff said he didn't mind the experience at all and had hardly noticed a difference. Maddie and I can't WAIT to grow grocery shopping today!!! Things I learned:
1. After two weeks, my fresh items are GONE!
2. I need toothpaste in my food storage.
3. I need to find a better tasting powdered milk. Church cannery milk, ten years old-yech.
4. We really miss dairy foods-sour cream, yogurt, fresh milk. Should we get a cow in Utah??
5. I waste a LOT of food. I was much better about that when conserving.
6. I spend a LOT of money on food. I can do much better than that.
7. Powdered cheese is not too bad. (Believe it or not.)
8. You can't even tell when you use powdered eggs in cake mix cookies.
9. People are extremely creative when options are limited.
10. It takes 3 hours from start to finish to grind wheat and bake bread.
11. If you take four loaves of bread out of the oven when you have a house full of people, you will only end up with 2 or 3 loaves of bread left...
12. Woodbury Wheat Bread IS the best wheat bread...
13. We eat out way too much.
14. Some of my food storage is REALLY old. (Notice dates on cans. Still worked though!)
15. We COULD live on our food storage if we had too...
It was an interesting and enlightening experience.
8 comments:
Your post actually made me hungry! (But only when I read about the wheat bread fresh out of the oven! Yum!)
Sounds like an interesting experience. I want some of this famous bread! ;)
So - did you eat "food storage" food at the potluck or regular food?
I am impressed that you did this & it does make you think. We have a bunch of freeze-dried food we bought in 1999 (pre-2000 hmmmm) that has never even been out of the boxes. I've always thought that I would need lots of water stored to even use that food & we don't have much. I am definitely with you on points 4,5,6,11 & 13!
It was all food storage at the potluck, LaRae, and very good! I don't know how it would have been if we'd had to go another week or two...
Linda - Now I thought the potluck may have been regular food in celebration of completing the task of having the "food storage" food.
I told a few of my friends @ church today about your little enrichment challenge. We all talked about how much we hate powdered milk! I have horrible memories of it because I had a friend who lived across the street from me when I was a little girl & they used powdered milk all the time (which I could never figure out). I always hated when I would spend the night & we had to have cereal for breakfast. Oh that milk was nasty!
Way to go! We can sympathize a little with you here...as this year has been one where we've had to 'rotate' through a lot of our food storage...I can truly say, though, that I have a testimony of it!
Wow! I think Kelly and I would have died. We really need to get cracking on that. I would however love to have the Recipe for the "Best ever Woodbury wheat bread." It made me hungry just reading about it.
Good for you!
You said something about buying a cow in Utah. Are you moving back to Utah, or did you just mean buying one while you were up there visiting?
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