There are many ways to build up your food storage without putting yourself in debt. This is one idea of how to buy one or two items a week for your family!!!

"A Year's Supply In A Year"

Special Notes:
1.  Remember: do not store items that you or your family do not like.
2.  If you think your budget cannot afford to do this you are wrong. Stop impulse buying. Make shoppping lists and stick to it. Cut out junk food and expensive processed foods. Buy smart. Remember, sacrifice brings forth the blessings of Heaven.
3.  "A Year Supply" is from the Lord. He will help you to acomplish this. I Nephi 3:7
4.  Be sure to buy your wheat and other grains and beans first, as they store well and you can survive off of them if you had to.  Start learning to cook with these items right away.

The plan

1. Each week by the item(s) listed and store it away.
2. With a marker, mark the date purchased to aid in rotation.
3. Buy the largest amount you can afford.
4. Replace items as you use them.
5. Remember, grocery stores do not always have the best buys.  Shop around.
6. If you miss a week, skip to the next week. Do not get behind.
7. Share your "hot" buys with other sisters.
8. Buy your wheat first -- Pres. Kimbell has said that you can survive on this if necessary.
9.  This plan starts about the end of December/the first week of January, so find the approximate week of the year you are currently in and begin from there.

Week1 Drug store have Christmas sales - Get Nuts. Dry roasted ones store the best. Freeze bagged ones.

Week 2 Detergent, Bleach, Cleanser.

Week 3 Medicine Chest - Feminine Products, Pepto Bismol, Vicks, Cough Drops, etc.

Week 4 First Aid Supplies: Bandaids, neosporin,Calamine, etc.

Week 5 Personal Products: Soap, Deodorant, toilet paper, Shampoo, lotion etc.

Week 6 Peanut butter ( stores for a year or so)

Week 7 Solid Shortening - less expensive than oil, buy oil if you prefer. Be sure and rotate. Will last several years.

Week 8 Juices: Avoid watered products. Get 100% lemon,orange,pineapple, etc.

Week 9 Toothpaste, floss, razors, shaving cream. Consider your family needs.

Week 10 Mixes: Cake, pancake muffin, Bisquick. Bisquick stores best in the freezer or it gets bugs. Purchase or make your own.

Week 11 Spices and herbs you use most often: Salt (Not "plain", you need the idozided kind) pepper, cinnamon, bay leaves, oregano, etc.

Week 12 Rice:  Buy 10, 15, 20 lbs.or even more.  White stores best but is not as nutrticious.

Week 13 First Aid: Gauze patches, swabs, cotton balls, first aid tape, etc.

Week 14 Pasta: 5 lbs.

Week 15 Dry Milk - 40 oz. will make 5 gallons . Get what you family needs.  Stores well.

Week 16 Assemble an Emergency Sewing Kit: Thread, pins, needles, buttons(cut off of old clothes) snaps, zippers, tape measure, scissors.

Week 17 Ready Dinners: Ravoli, Pasta, Oriental, Boxed, Frozen. Buy what your family will eat. Remember buy and rotate.

Week 18 10 lbs. flour - 25 lbs. for bigger family (put in freezer to avoid getting bugs) Be sure and rotate.

Week 19 Dry Soups and a box of crackers.

Week 20 Jell-O gelatin and Pudding Mixes

Week 21 Garden Seeds - Consider contacting seed companies for free seed catalogs. There are several sites listed on the web, such as Burpee.

Week 22 Safety Week: A length of cord or twine. Flashlight and bateries (dated).

Week 23 Cheese:  Freeze a whole 5lbs, or grate and freeze for casseroles or soup.

Week 24 Paper towels, Aluminum foil, garbage bags, freezer bags, etc.

Week 25 Condiments: Mustard, catsup, mayo, relish, Worchestershire.

Week 26 White Sales: Buy a new thermo blanket.

Week 27 Sure-Jell, Certo, Parafin, etc. Or buy the jams and jellies. Be sure you have supply of canning jars. Not large mouth, and lids and seals.

Week 28 Fill jugs or 2-liter bottles with water.  Add a drop or two of bleach.

Week 29 Canned Milk:  Look in Dec. 1989 Ensign for ideas for use.

Week 30 Canned goods: Be sure and rotate.

Week 31 Back to School Sales: Paper , pencils, journals, envelopes, postage stamps, etc.

Week 32 Baking powder, soda, corn starch, . Be sure and check dates, as they do expire.

Week 33 Tomato Week: Juice, whole, sauce, paste, Salsa.

Week 34 Can some fruit or buy some canned.

Week 35 Buy an extra 25 lbs. of sugar.

Week 36 Can or freeze lots of vegies. Or buy some canned or frozen.

Week 37 Get those dry bean, peas, legumes.

Week 38 Sweetners: Honey, Karo, Molasses, etc.

Week 39 Canned meats: Tuna, Spam, dried beef  -- go for about 10 cans.Be sure and rotate.

Week 40 Iodized Salt -10canisters. It seasons & preserves. In a pinch it can be used as a toothpaste or de-icer.

Week 41  One (or more) gallons of vinegar. It is a great cleaner too, but you must white vinegar.

Week 43 Do something with all those apples. Pie, applesauce, juice, canned apples, etc.

Week 42 Canned soup and box of crackers.

Week 44 Hard candy on sale after Halloween.

Week 45 Vitamins- Get extra C and calcium with Vit. D

Week 46 Treats for baking: Cocoa, coconut, nuts (store in fridge or freezer), chocolate chips.

Week 47 Rolled Oats, Corn Meal (store in fridge), Cream of wheat. Rotate!

Week 48 Sugars: Brown and white, powdered.

Week 49 Vegetable oil. Get a good quality.

Week 50 Candles, matches. Put in a sturdy box you can locate in dark.

Week 51 Popcorn: Good for big twelve pound bags .

Week 52 Merry Christmas! You have given yourself a great gift security.  

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