Food Storage

So on Monday I made a meal with our food storage and was evaluating the amount of food left in our food storage and thought, hmmm I wonder what other young families do for their food storage. Here is what we do, we shop the Macey's caselot sale, the prices and actually quite a bit cheaper than Costco, go figure. Every year I make sure that we start out with 100 lbs of flour, sugar, and rice. We nixed the wheat and oatmeal because really we don't use that much. I also get 50-75 lbs of brown sugar and right now I have about 35 lbs of oatmeal that I bought a few years ago, see we don't use it that much. I also buy 2 cases of green beans, corn, peaches, pears, beats, black beans, italian tomatoes, chicken noodle soup, tomato soup, cream of chicken soup, and cream of mushroom soup. Also on the list is chicken broth, tomato paste and sauce. I also get spaghetti sauce and noodles. From Costco I end up buying cooked chicken in cans, and Bear Creek soup mixes. We also get the instant-just add water to packets-oatmeal and some other cereals. We also have vinegar and oil and spices.

This might sound a little bit of a weird year supply, but I just put together a bunch of recipes that I use reguarly and that my family likes and just bought as much of the canned stuff as I could. I also really like having on hand the just heat and add water type meals because you never know when you will only have water. I am also a firm believer in using your storage, which is why I spend about $400 every year to get almost all new stuff. This has made my grocery bills around $25 every week, and recently $30 due to the higher cost of food. So every week all I usually buy is milk, eggs, fruit and whatever else that is special for the weeks meals like meat. I also usually have on hand about a month's supply of meat, chicken, mostly, and meatballs. Anyway, write a comment and let me know what you all do, maybe I will get a new tip!