A good day.

Today has turned out to be a great storage day.
This morning the youngest man and I headed to the shops to grab some storage items I had spied in the catalogues. As well as my bulk storage of things like rice, flour, potato flakes, oats and sugar I buy extra each shop of food that we eat everyday. The idea is that if we needed to live off our food storage we would have a balanced diet and some variety to make the rice and flour go further.

What I bought

By the end of my shop today I had bought for the storage cupboard:
10 packets of pasta
10 one litre cartons of long life juice
4 one kilo tubs of honey
2 boxes of cereal
10 can spagetti
10 cans baked beans
5 cans soup
4 cartons long life cream

This cost me just over $70 with the honey being the most expensive item.
Now I normally don't buy this much storage at once but since I really feel the time is coming to have it I have stepped up my efforts.
When I look in my storage cupboard now I feel like we could probably survive for 3 months on a healthy varied diet and a lot longer on a survival diet.

I can't tell you how great it felt to put it away in the cupboard and finally see that the small purchases were now adding up.

On a scary note I saw Black and Gold rice for $23.95 for a 10kg bag. Most other rice was sold out and I have the feeling will be that price when it returns. I breathed a sigh of relief that the empty shelf did not panic me as I knew I had enough rice in storage to give us a buffer.

On the bulk storage front I have just purchased 4 very large plastic barrels with the intention of filling them with wheat. I have also started researching manual wheat grinders so that I can turn the wheat into a useful product. When I make my decision I will let you know.

Although I have no idea if any one is reading this it is so helpful to write it down for my own motivation and hopefully one day it will help someone out.