Comments on: Long Term Food Storage Calculator

By: greggandshandy

greggandshandy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:37:27 +0000

Excellent worksheet. Just what I was looking for. You ROCK!

By: Jodi - Food Storage Made Easy

Jodi - Food Storage Made Easy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:51:33 +0000

The recommendation is 1 gallon per person per day. Getting a full year supply is not very feasible. We recommend 2 week supply at a minimum.

By: Jodi - Food Storage Made Easy

Jodi - Food Storage Made Easy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:51:31 +0000

The recommendation is 1 gallon per person per day. Getting a full year supply is not very feasible. We recommend 2 week supply at a minimum.

By: Toolip12

Toolip12 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:53:20 +0000

How much water should you have stored for a year for a family of 4

By: Garry Stutz

Garry Stutz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:42 +0000

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By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:25:03 +0000

Good luck with your business ventures. You are great. Love to chat with you sometime, about food storage, rotation and meal preparation. I am starting a website to share my idea. Not read for prime time.

By: curataetindustria

curataetindustria — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:19:04 +0000

I suggest that you also include information (or links to ) seed saving. If there is a “incident” in the future that interupts food supply, the people to survive will be the ones with Horticultural knowledge, not food knowledge (LDS notwithstanding).
Saving seeds has been an important tradition (and survival necessity) until the Post WWII generation. The under 30 crowd is very ignorant about saving and maintaining a strong seed base of grains, vegetables, fruits.
Additionaly, very few people know how to keep Bees, or alternative insects, to pollinate crops.
I am literate in both areas, and will never fear going hungry because of an incident.

By: Kathy D

Kathy D — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:58:07 +0000

Alissa, does your family eat cheese and yogurt, or do you use evaporated milk and condensed milk for cooking or baking? The extra dry milk powder can be used to make any of these. We aren't big milk drinkers but we do eat a lot of other dairy products.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:36:53 +0000

I have the same question as Leigh. Do you have a 3 month supply and a 12 month supply (which is really a 15 month supply)? Also, can you just substitute lb for lb items on the worksheet that you don’t use? For example, we don’t use evaporated milk so can I just add the recommended amt (lbs) to the nonfat milk that I do use? I love the site and feel FANTASTIC because I am finally tackling my food storage!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:44:27 +0000

Can I ask you for the download for the font you used on this page. I LOVE it, but don’t have it installed on my computer. Mine is coming up in Ariel and I can’t stand it. Silly I know, but that’s my request. Thanks for all your hard work!!!

By: jweiss08

jweiss08 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:30:45 +0000

Alissa and Sarah
We’re going to do a post shortly on this question – along with a way for you to customize the calculator to store foods to better fit the way your family uses and eats it.

By: Alissa

Alissa — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:36:29 +0000

This is really cool. I tried making my own and it didn’t turn out quite as awesome as yours. I am curious how you came up with some of the yearly amounts. For example your milk is 60 lbs per adult…the LDS church says 16 lbs per adult for one glass a day. Do you really need 44 more lbs for cooking? Just curious where you got your numbers from so I can compare and decide what my family should store/do from that and what the church says.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:42:28 +0000

I’m curious where these numbers came from, because the milk seems really high compared to other calculators I’ve seen. They usually say 16 lbs. per person as opposed to 60! Quite a difference.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:53:18 +0000

Aah! I see that you have a couple of recipes here for using corn meal! Yay! Thanks!!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:50:52 +0000

Thanks!! I input all my stuff and can see how far behind I am! Julie, for your next challenge for Crystal please ask her to figure out what to do with all that corn meal!! I only have 2 pounds in storage and it will expire years before I even open it. Thanks again ladies! Also, I just watched Crystal’s videos about bread and wondered if you can store wheat gluten long term…?

By: Jamie A.

Jamie A. — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:47:50 +0000

Awesome job! Thanks for putting that together for all to use.

By: Rachel Johnson

Rachel Johnson — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:03:56 +0000

3 month food supply- Does this include freezer goods like meat? We only eat fresh produce and meat. I have a challenge in that my husband won’t eated canned food or casserole dishes. I feel that if I do buy all this ’stuff’, it will go to waste. Help, I’m already overwhelmed!

By: Tara B.

Tara B. — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:15:52 +0000

This is incredible!! wow! wow! wow!!

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:58:59 +0000

This is amazing! I love it, thanks!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:44:54 +0000

I LOVE this! It is so easy to use and everything is right there. Thanks for doing all the hard work so I don’t have to. The best thing is that it is free!! I have come across tools like this but you always have to pay. You are awesome!

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:24:10 +0000

Thank you so much for putting this together — I am a big fan of excel but never would have come up with something this great on my own. One question…if you have a 3-month supply of foods that you regularly eat, do you still recommend to have a full year of long term food storage? I had been calculating my food storage based on 3 months short term plus 9 months long term. I’m curious about your opinion on this. Thanks!

By: Shreela

Shreela — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:04:18 +0000

Woo, thanks for the K column. And also for telling me how to work the H column with Cost/Unit — it took me a few to figure out I had to include the EQUAL sign in the cell.

The last time I worked with spreadsheets a lot was when I took it at college, back when it was in DOS, if that tells you anything LOL

By: jweiss08

jweiss08 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:39:24 +0000

That’s great that you tweaked it. I didn’t lock this one so people could alter it based on their own needs (hopefully people don’t play around too much that the important formulas disappear . That’s the whole point, its a reference that helps you with what your family needs.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:09:25 +0000

Thanks girls! I love that I don’t have to have Excel to get a copy of the form.:)

Joyce

By: Shauna

Shauna — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:43:20 +0000

I love this. I tweaked it a little to serve my needs better but I really appreciated the big job of preparing it done by someone else. Thank you so much for sharing this with us…

By: jweiss08

jweiss08 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:16:07 +0000

Shreela – I did this too late last night. I forgot I had deleted the formula in the K column. It’s fixed on there now.
FOR COLUMN H
MY BAD! I accidentally took that formula out… it’s in there now. It’s fixed on the site now.

For this one you do 11/50, to get the cost for 50 pounds and put that number in there- We did this because everyone will probably be purchasing things for different prices. You can do these costs/unit numbers on a calculator OR simply enter =11/50 in the cell.

By: Shreela

Shreela — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:32:13 +0000

I entered what I had stored into J column, but nothing automatically happened in the K column, like I was hoping it might autofill/calculate. I guess we’re to do our own math, then enter it into column ourselves.

Also, I don’t understand column H — cost/unit. I paid $11 for 50lbs of wheat, so I entered in 11.00 into h5, which then returned 3300 for total cost in i5. Yea, I’m new at doing this, sorry. What am I supposed to enter there?

Thanks!

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