Long Term Storage is Easy -- How about 5 steps?!

Start your Long Term Food Storage the simplest way:

Don't hesitate, just START!

• FIRST: Store Water = 14 gallons per person in house. (start with 3 gallons per person, then build up)

• NEXT:

How many people in family that you feed? (generally, 1 adult = 2 child amount)
What does your current budget have available?
Decide how many months worth you can afford to buy NOW. (current prices)
Here is how you decide how much of the basic dry:
Link: http://www.providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,7498-1-4070-1,00.html
(a second link for a more detailed by category breakdown calculator)

• NEXT: Take a check to Mesa and buy it.

(Call in advance to assure that it is currently available.)
Make sure you either can it from the bags or buy it in the cans or pouches so that it is sealed.
Bring in your home and stash it somewhere out of the direct sun.
Determine and set a goal for your next purchase(s).

• NEXT, add in foods to make sure that you can use the grain & legumes.

Such as yeast, Baking soda, Salt, Oil and palatable additions; recipes.
(Soaking the wheat and then letting it sprout gives you a raw food with high vitamin C content and other vital nutrients. A wheat grinder is something that you can set a goal for, not instantly necessary for actual survival. Wheat in chili is easy to get used to. :)
However, you still need animal fats such as butter or Cod liver oil for the fat soluble -and very vital- A and D vitamins)

• NEXT start reading the other posts :) as you continue to build up month by month of the above.

Here's a recent article in the Ensign.

• ALWAYS record what you have. Put a paper in cupboard on a door or file on the computer, that is always updated and dated with a current count.