How much do you need to store? Suggested Amts. & Calculators

NOTE: This is a highly recommended planner! You can alter the excel sheet to add/delete items for your own personal household. Definately a must-see.== there are two link options for the actual download. They are in the first paragraph. This is the planner that I use. I've HEAVILY reformatted it for my own use (colors, deleted columns I don't want and added a lot of products that we use in our house. I even learned how to put in subcategories!) There's so much you can do with this!

DEYO FOOD STORAGE PLANNER
https://www.standeyo.com/News_Files/LTAH_Food_Store5.html

The Deyo Food Storage Planner program works in Excel for either Macintosh or Windows and is a straightforward, easy-to-use spreadsheet. You will also need the latest version of Unzip to decompress the program. All you need to do is fill in the number of family members and how many weeks you want to store; the worksheet will calculate the quantities needed.

We have also provided the Minimum Shelf Life listed for each item. If you would like the Metric Measures version, click here. For our friends in America, click US Measures. These are copyrighted but freeware programs.

When you open the program, there are 12 columns of helpful data. The first column lists over 375 Food and Household Items with places for you to add 2 additional items in each category without having to make any changes to the sheet. (In Excel, it is very easy to add extra rows should the lines provided not be enough.) With the stroke of a button, you may delete any item not used by your family or leave it blank. Foods are organized by USDA food groups.

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BASIC FOOD STORAGE
http://www.simplyprepared.com/basic_food_storage.htm

Basic storage is the foundation of any good food storage program. It is composed of life-sustaining foods that store well for long periods. A year's supply of garden seeds for planting should be stored so that the diet may be supplemented with fresh vegetables. Where garden space is limited, a multiple vitamin pill should also be stored for daily use by each person during long periods of emergency. Vitamins deteriorate over time and must be replaced by the expiration date on the container.

The following recommendations are estimated for an average adult. The amounts in the left-hand column1 supply about 2300 calories per day for 1 year. The amounts in the right-hand column2 supply about 2400 calories per day for 1 year. Amounts for children are a percentage of the adult portion and can be estimated as follows: age 3 and under - 50%; ages 4 to 6 - 70%; ages 7 to 10 - 90%; ages 11 and up - 100%.3 Families with young children should consider using the amounts in the left-hand column because of the milk recommendations. Sixteen pounds of milk supplies only 1 cup of milk per day and is not enough for growing children or pregnant/nursing mothers.

Go here for PDF File of Recommended Amounts: http://www.simplyprepared.com/basic_food_storage.htm

A MONTH'S SUPPLY
http://www.simplyprepared.com/a_month%27s_supply.htm

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Based on suggested amounts in "Essentials of Home Production and Storage", a month's supply of food for one person would consist of the following:

Grains:
Powdered milk:
Sugar or honey:
Salt:
Fats and oils:
Legumes:

A suggested month's supply of food for one person could consist of the following foods:

--- See full list and suggested amounts and link, above ---

ESTIMATED COST: less than $25

How to Calculate Food Storage
http://www.ehow.com/how_7495215_calculate-food-storage.html

Ranging from job loss to natural disasters, emergency situations strike without warning and may leave your family short on food and water. Calculating your food and water requirements before hand ensures you and your family have the basic items you need to stay healthy. It only takes a few minutes to calculate how much food you need to save up, but those few minutes make all the difference if a crisis strikes.

Instructions

1. Write down the number of . . . .
2. Multiply the total number of people by the number of . . . .
3. Multiply the number of people by the total number of . . . .
4. Add 28 gallons of . . . .
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Putting the Foods You Love Into Food Storage
http://everythingunderthesunblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-2.html

What’s for dinner? An age old question. But in times of crisis, that question becomes even more significant. Experience has shown that when disasters hit, having a supply of food and water can be life saving. But it doesn’t take a natural disaster to need food storage. Personal economic disasters happen every day and the choice to pay the mortgage or buy food becomes a reality. It is essential for every family to have food storage in order to survive whatever crisis may be ahead.

There are many questions and concerns about food storage. What should you buy? What will it cost? Where do you store it? How do you cook it? What about rotation? The following information answers all of these questions and more. It will give you the knowledge you need to put the foods you love into your food storage.

THE SYSTEM

This system is based on a worst case scenario, meaning there would be no running water or electricity. This scenario also assumes that families will be on their own and will not be banding together at churches or schools. There are many circumstances that would require isolation from other people, not banding together. Don’t put your family at risk by assuming that you will be eating someone else’s food.

Organization: How much food do you need? This system answers that question down to the last teaspoon of salt. Take 14 ... ---CONTINUED---

Food Storage Inventory
http://www.thrivelifeconsultant.com/2012/06/food-storage-inventory.html#.W-zlxidRd-U

Set a goal. Multiply the number of people in your household to find the number of pounds you will need for a 12 month supply. For a 3 month supply, simply divide the total pounds by 4.

The recommended amounts are the absolute minimum amounts of food needed for one adult for one year. If you only store
this much, you will be eating very small meals. Think about storing more. Remember that children grow up to be adults. Consider storing an adult supply for them.

On each page you will find a column for can size and weight. Put either the exact weight in this column, or an approximate weight. It is easy to count the number of cans or buckets and multiply to find out how many pounds you currently have. ---CONTINUED---

Food Storage Calculator
http://www.family-survival-planning.com/food-storage-calculator.html

This form should give you an idea of the volume of food you may need. You will need to use your own judgment when making decisions as to how much food to buy. Fifty pounds of oats can work wonders in the right hands, but if your limited to making oatmeal it will seem silly to buy so much. As many experts say: Buy and store the kind of food that you will eat.

Use the following calculator to figure the minimum food storage amounts for your family for a year. These are only recommendations. You will need to determine the needs of your own family.
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How Much Food Should You Store?
http://codegreenprep.com/2013/07/how-much-food-should-you-store/

This question is a bit like asking ‘How high is up?’. Clearly, the more food you store, the better you will be able to withstand a Level 1 or 2 event (Level 3 events assume, more or less by definition, that the problem will last longer than any stores you might have amassed).

There probably is an upper limit to how much food you could/should store, but few of us are going to reach that. In case you wonder, there are two situations where you might end up with ‘too much’ food. The first is if you have so much food that you can’t eat it all (or give it away or trade/sell/exchange it) before such time as it passes both its official and its real expiry dates. The second would be having such a lot that you find yourself with food to last much longer than you have energy or water or other essentials.

In all cases, you need to balance your prepping. Until you can – in all respects – survive a one week event, there is no point adding a second week of food. Who needs food when you no longer have water? When your heat has gone, and it is midwinter and you’re dying of exposure, food is again probably the least of your worries. And so on.

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Food Storage Calculator
http://thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html

The following calculator will help you figure the minimum food storage amounts needed for your family. These amounts are based on the recommendations listed in the LDS Church's Home Production and Storage manual. These figures are recommendations, and are basic year supply minimums only. You will need to choose the best options and foods you should store for your family.

You add info to calculator:
Number of Family Members, Ages 7 and Older..:

Number of Family Members, Ages 0-6................: (LINK, above)

From Brigham Young University:

 This is an update, to a post I originally made back in 2018.

An Approach to Longer-Term Food Storage
https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/b1/4d/75fc449e4ce9843daa701f69faa4/an-approach-to-longer-term-food-storage.SEPT2019.pdf

Revised September 2019

The amounts of food listed belowprovide adequatecalories andprotein foran adultfor one year.However, there are many other possibilities.Adjust the kinds and amounts of food stored based on personal needs and preferences, and by experimenting with recipes.  ---CONTINUED---

Hey ReadyMom, that's pretty/easy way for calculating your food storage for a year.

Geeeeeeeees, you're always thinking outside of the box, that's why you're the head honcho here.

rick1 wrote:Hey ReadyMom, that's pretty/easy way for calculating your food storage for a year.

Geeeeeeeees, you're always thinking outside of the box, that's why you're the head honcho here.

I just search & post, rick! Sometimes I open a good box and sometimes its trash, lol!

*Includes a download for a 3 Month Food Supply Excel Worksheet

Step 3: Three Month Food Supply
http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/babysteps/three-month-food-supply/

Purchase a three month food supply consisting of foods you normally eat. You can come up with meal plans for the full 90 days, or just buy extras of things you use a lot. ---CONTINUED---