Help please

[airotciv]

Many years ago, I got the Good Food Prep Guide, I think that is what it was called. It was a week by week guide to buying food and other things, how much you should have on hand per person for a year. I lost my copy and need help finding a link to it. I have searched here, but nothing is coming up. Thanks.

[aunt fannie]

Try half.com for the booklet. Here is the food storage calculator site I found.

http://www.thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html

[mnn2501]

I always dislike books that tell me what to stock
They usually say to have so many pounds of xxx, well my family doesn't eat xxx, we eat yyy.
Figure out what you use in a month and multiply it by 12. (keep your grocery sales slips as a good starting point). Don't forget if TSHTF you will probably need double or even triple the calorie intake to deal with extremely physical situations unless you are extremly physical now. Don't forget comfort food.

[Callieslamb]

I think the lists are a great place to get started. Especially on items that store for a long time and have a lot of nutrients, even if you don't use very much of them now. I'm one of the ones that stored first, then learned to use. Whatever the charts told us we we added another 50% to the amounts of most of the items. My thought was that we would be working harder if we had to live only off our storage items - so we'd need more calories. We don't eat many dried beans now...so we store the dehydrated refried beans. We will eat those. We substituted other items for the beans.