Week 13 Challenge

This week it calls for 10 pounds of powdered milk for every 2 adults in the family. Walmart has morning moo's milk and chocolate milk in 4 pound cans. They have a 25 year shelf life so it will stay good for a long time. The cannery also has instant milk and we will be canning it in April if you are wanting to get it there.


Extra Challenge: Buy Bleach! Bleach is a great thing to have on hand because you use it to keep your water fresh in your barrels and it is important to have for disinfecting purposes. It is good in case of flu epidemics or worse happening and you not being able to get to the stores to buy other cleaning products to help prevent your family from getting sick.

Week 12 challenge

Try and obtain 10 pounds of rice for every 2 adults in your family. Costco has giant bags of rice that you can purchase for good prices or the cannery always has extra things of rice that are already canned. Either way it's an easy thing to stock up on.

Extra challenge: Try and stock up on medications for your family. Buy tylenol, or ibuprofen or things that your family could use in case of an emergency and in case the stores don't have them so that if someone in your family gets sick you will be prepared.

Sun Ovens

Sun Ovens are a great thing to have out here in the valley of the sun in cases of emergency or just for saving money on your electric bills. :) They are on sale through April 12th and are normally $399 but are $284.99 right now. Go to http://www.solarcooker-at-cantinawest.com/Global_Sun_Oven_Special_Deal.html to view the deal. If anyone would be interested in learning more about them then I can set up a time for someone to come teach a class on how to use them so that you can decide on if you want to buy one or not. If you are interested in a class then email or call me and I will get a group of us together since the lady lives in Peoria I want to make it worth her trip. :)

Chicken anyone???

Zaycon foods has their chicken for sale right now. They are all hormone free and cage free and taste delicious! I only buy my chicken from them now. It is on sale for $1.89 lb and the chicken breasts are HUGE. They come in 40lb boxes and have a pick up site where they load it straight into your car. You just drive up. It's great! Go to www.zayconfoods.com to order or find more information.

Cannery this saturday!!!

In case you didn't receive the email with all of the information for this month's canning items then here it is. Remember it starts at 9:00 am and you order when you arrive. Wear close toed shoes! You can also can any of the items that the cannery sells after we are done canning the assigned items for the month.

Black Beans $4.55 The suggested amount of beans for a year supply is 75lbs of any variety of beans per person. A #10 can has 5.5 lbs in it and they have a 30 year shelf life.

 

Regular Oats $2.50 The suggested amount of oats for a year supply is 50lbs per person. A #10 can has 2.7lbs in it and they have a 30 year shelf life.

Dry Onions $6.90 There isn't a suggested amount, it's just an extra to add flavor to anything that you will be cooking with. A #10 can has 2.4lbs in it and they have a 30 year shelf life.

Potato Flakes $3.25 There isn't a suggested amount, again it's whatever you think your family would like. It's a great thing to have in your food storage because it adds a good filler to meals that you will be cooking. There are 1.8lbs in a #10 can and they have a 30 year shelf life.

Granulated Sugar $4.50 The suggested amount is 40lbs per person for a year supply. It also suggests having brown sugar (8lbs), honey(5lbs) and jams (4lbs) in your storage for a total of 65lbs per person of sugars. A #10 can has 6.1lbs in it and it also has a 30 year shelf life.

Week 11 Challenge

This week try and obtain 8 cans of tomato soup or soup of your choice. This is for every 2 adults in your family.

Extra challenge: Try and obtain a month supply of toilet paper for your family. It's currently on sale at Fry's for 5.99 for a 12 pack of toilet paper.

Water Water Water!!

Don't forget to be adding to your water supply. You need a MINIMUM of 28 gallons per person for a total of 2 gallons per person per day for a two week supply. Living here in Arizona you aren't going to want to be short on that! You can store water in plastic soda bottles, your water barrels and you can buy them bottled at the store. If you have questions contact me. I am hoping to be able to do some more research on this area and find a good place to get water barrels at soon.

Week 10 Challenge

This weeks challenge is to get 50lbs of wheat for every two adults in your family. You can purchase one box of wheat that contains six #10 cans at the cannery for $21.00. It is just around 35 pounds in one box. They have hard red wheat and hard white wheat available. If you follow these weekly challenges then you will end up with a year supply for two adults or if you are adjusting it according to your families needs you will have your years supply!