New LDS Church Home (and Food) Storage Guidelines
Lesson #1
It’s important to understand the New 2007 LDS Church Home Storage Guidelines. As I’ve been reading preparedness books I have discovered that many of them have wonderful ideas, but they follow the old food storage counsel – getting your year supply of long-term foods. Nothing is said about a 3-Month Food Storage Supply. It’s important to stay current with the LDS Church guidelines. I am grateful for a church that is helping each of us catch the vision of food and home storage. So your assignment is to digest the following:
• All Is Safely Gathered In: Family Home Storage, 2007
• Family Home Storage: A New Message, Ensign, March 2009
• Watch the video: Bishop Keith B. McMullin Speaks on Family Home Storage (ProvidentLiving.org, top right hand corner of the webpage)
• And read Frequently Asked Questions from ProvidentLiving.org for additional insight.
After digesting these resources, you will understand the fourstep approach to building your home storage. From the March 2009 Ensign we read:
1. Gradually build a small supply of food that is part of your normal, daily diet until it is sufficient for three months
2. Store drinking water
3. Establish a financial reserve by setting aside a little money each week, and gradually increase it to a reasonable amount
4. Once families have achieved the first three objectives, they are counseled to expand their efforts, as circumstances allow, into a supply of long-term basic foods such as grains, legumes, and other staples.”
“This new program is within everyone’s grasp,” explains Bishop Burton. “The first step is to begin. The second is to continue. It doesn’t matter how fast we get there so much as that we begin and continue according to our abilities.”
It’s a wonderful program that will help our families in so many ways. Don’t get overwhelmed with it. Stay focused on gathering your 3-month supply first. Good luck with this lesson! What’s the difference between the three-month and longer-term supply items? “Three-month supply items are foods that you normally eat, including canned and commercially packaged foods. Longer-term supply items are basic food items like grains and beans that have very low moisture content (about 10% or less), can be stored for long periods of time (20–30 years), and would sustain life if nothing else were available to eat. A portion of longer-term supply items may be rotated into the three-month supply. ProvidentLiving.org
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LABELS: FOOD STORAGE