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From: Olga Jones [Outlands comments are at the bottom]
{Olga says:]Know anyone who thinks they are too poor to prepare? Help is at hand, from the PREP list...
Ok I finally got the copies of the Food storage for $5 a week. I don't remember where I got it, but it wasn't off the internet. What you are supposed to do is set aside $5 a week and then buy specific items each week. You have a kitty set aside that you put the $5 in and you can't touch it for any reason but to buy the food storage item for that week. You put in whatever remaining change you have back into the kitty. Some things in the beginning are going to be cheap and then later will be more expensive. In order to pay for the expensive stuff later you need to keep the leftover money in the kitty.
| Week 1: | Two cans tuna fish, 2 boxes salt |
| Week 2: | 5 boxes of Macaroni and Cheese, 4 cans tomato soup |
| Week 3: | 3 cans mushroom soup, 1 2.5 lb peanut butter |
| Week 4: | 1 bottle vitamins |
| Week 5: | 4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk |
| Week 6: | 1 bottle aspirin (500 tablets) |
| Week 7: | 1 100 lb container wheat |
| Week 8: | 1 5 lb powdered milk |
| Week 9: | 1 5 lb honey |
| Week 10: | 4 cans tuna, 4 boxes macaroni and cheese |
| Week 11: | 1 10 lb sugar, 1 box salt |
| Week 12: | 4 cans mushroom soup |
| Week 13: | 1 bottle vitamins |
| Week 14: | 1 100 lb wheat |
| Week 15: | 1 box macaroni and cheese |
| Week 16: | 1 5 lb honey |
| Week 17: | 2 cans tuna, 4 can tomato soup |
| Week 18: | 1 10 lbs sugar |
| Week 19: | 1 100 lbs of wheat |
| Week 20: | 2 10lbs of sugar |
| Week 21: | 10lb powdered milk |
| Week 22: | 1 can mushroom soup, 1 10 lb sugar |
| Week 23: | 1 can tuna, 4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lbs sugar |
| Week 24: | 1 10 lbs sugar |
| Week 25: | 2 cans tuna, 2 cans mushroom soup |
| Week 26: | 1 100 lb wheat |
| Week 27: | 3 10 lbs sugar |
| Week 28: | 1 10 lb sugar |
| Week 29: | 1 10 lb powdered milk |
| Week 30: | 2 10 lb sugar |
| Week 31: | 1 can tuna, 3 cans mushroom soup |
| Week 32: | 1 can tuna, 4 cans tomato soup |
| Week 33: | 1 100 lb wheat |
| Week 34: | 2 cans tuna, 1 box salt |
| Week 35: | 1 10 lb powdered milk |
| Week 36: | 2 10 lb sugar |
| Week 37: | 4 cans tomato soup, 2 boxes salt |
| Week 38: | |
| Week 39: | 1 100 lb wheat |
| Week 40: | 1 10 lb powdered milk |
| Week 41: | 3 10 lb sugar |
| Week 42: | 2 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb sugar |
| Week 43: | 2 cans tomato soup, 2 cans mushroom soup |
| Week 44: | |
| Week 45: | 1 10 lb powdered milk |
| Week 46: | 4 cans tomato soup, 4 cans mushroom soup |
| Week 47: | 1 10 lb powdered milk |
| Week 48: | 4 cans mushroom soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk |
| Week 49: | 7 cans of tomato soup |
| Week 50: | 7 cans of mushroom soup |
| Week 51: | 2 10 lbs sugar, 1 box salt |
A few weeks you will have "off" to replenish the kitty. I haven't figured it out myself, but by the end you should have 700lbs of wheat, 240 lbs sugar, 40 lbs of powdered milk, 13 lbs of salt, 10 lbs of honey, 5 lbs of peanut butter, 45 cans of tomato soup, 32 cans mushroom soup, 15 cans tuna fish, 10 macaroni and cheese dinners, 500 aspirin, and 730 multiple vitamins plus they suggest adding 6lbs of dried yeast and 6 lbs of shortening and this should be enough to sustain 2 people for a year. For every 2 people you have in your family add $5 more and double or triple the amount of whatever you are buying that week. I hope this makes sense and if you have any questions let me know. For those of you not in the US, you'll have to figure out the equivalents yourself, sorry.
You don't have 52 weeks. If you are just now starting and want to follow this plan, I seriously suggest you try to buy four "paper-weeks" every week. Don't forget this list is intended for just two people. Use this list, or any of the others on The Outlands, to go through your pantry and determine where you are *right now* and mark off what you already have. Then, take the list to the grocery store and spend $20 or so. Every week. Regularly. Print this list out and pass it around to others you know are starting to wonder about preparing a pantry.
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