Wednesday Why: Why Food Storage?

Wednesday Why:  Why bother with food storage?  Why teach others about it?

Some reasons for having, using and teaching about food storage:

1. Obedience to prophetic counsel
2. Cut food bill by using basic ingredients and cooking at home
3. Save time & money--not as many trips to the store, homemade mixes and meals cost less (usually), able to buy things on sale since have a stock & therefore not pay full-price.
4. Health:  homemade meals are easier to control ingredients
5. Taste:  it really can and does taste good to have homemade meals from basic ingredients!
6. Peace of mind:  have something tangible and edible when temporary emergencies or disasters strike, anything from a power outage, loss of job, sickness, to a needed car repair that may need to cut into the food budget.
7. It is fun to know how to care for one’s self on normal days as well as not so normal days-- that it won’t be required to rely on someone else or a governing body.
8. Quite simply, it makes sense to have a store of some sort at home.  Food prices are rising at a higher rate than inflation in many instances, having actual food in the home is in general a better rate of return on the money spent on it over time.

I hope these ideas help in encouraging anyone who is still holding back and not convinced about having food storage.  I know we are blessed when we follow a prophet.  Because of circumstances we might not be able to have a full year supply of everything, but we can and should still get and learn what we can to be prepared temporally as much as possible.