- Allows you to customize for your individual family (storage amount based on age).
- Excel does all of the math for you (after Joey put in the formula...thanks again Joey!)
- It is easily accessed and can be easily altered to meet your family's needs.
- It easily allows you to add in the food storage you already have, so you will know how much more you need to get.
- IT'S FREE!!!
It doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of the two other planners I have discussed, but it has all that you need. There are two planners you can download, the Basic Planner and the Planner Plus.
The Basic Planner has all of the basic long term food storage items you need as well as a few "extras", this is a great one if you are just starting out as well if you have been at this for awhile. All you need to do is fill in the ages of the members of your family and how much you already have of certain items and it will do the rest. For example, when you start to input your grain storage, you will notice that there is a TOTAL amount of grains needed at the top of that section. This allows you to fulfill the lbs. requirement with whatever grains your family chooses...you are not locked into a specified amount of wheat, rice, etc.
The Planner Plus is bit more extensive and is great for someone who already has stored a lot of the basics and is looking to store additional items such as sauces, canned fruit and veggies, soup, etc. This planner allows you to add items that are specific to your families needs as well as the amount per person that you would like to store. Let's say for example, I want to store canned peaches, pineapples, and mandarin oranges. I would input each variety in the specified cell as well as the PAP (per adult person) amount, which is 12 cans of each variety, and the spreadsheet does the rest. This planner might appear to be a bit overwhelming at first glance, but it is actually very easy once you start doing it.
To download the Basic Planner click HERE.
To download the Planner Plus click HERE.
If you have any questions...please post them in a comment and we will respond asap!
4 comments:
Oooh, so many choices! Now what do I do?? I guess I'll have to try them all and see which one I like best. Thanks for the resources!
OK, so the most challenging item to store for my family is dry milk. We can just barely keep up with expiring milk. But if there came a time where milk was hard to come by, milk is used in everything, so I think you have to keep up on the storage.
So my question to ya'll, I need some ideas on how to use powdered milk as a "daily driver."
Thank you so much! These are awesome and timely because we are going through all our food storage Saturday to figure out what we have and what we need.
i need to catch up on this!! you have done some amazing research that so many can benefit from. i feel like i'm in survival mode and life is overbearing, and thus i have so many excuses to do this later, but by taking baby steps, this can absolutely make a difference! thanks jackie for your helpful blog
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