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7 Day Emergency Preparedness Challenge: DAY 1 – FOOD

🚨 Mock Emergency Alert – Day 1: Economic Crisis 🚨 Scenario: Economic Crisis – Food Shortages and Food Storage

Picture this unsettling situation: Oil prices have skyrocketed, leading to a severe economic crisis. Transportation costs and consequently food costs are through the roof. In many areas, store shelves are bare, and food is becoming increasingly scarce. Today, we face the reality of food shortages and the importance of relying on our food storage. It’s time to put your preparedness plan into action and make real meals with the supplies you’ve diligently stored away. 👉 Let’s navigate this scenario together, sharing your food storage meal ideas, tips for stretching resources, and any creative solutions you’ve come up with in the comment section below. That is where we come together to learn, support, and thrive during these challenges. Check out the subsequent blog posts for more scenarios in the days ahead, and let’s find out how ready we can be for whatever the future may hold! 💪🌍


Fortunately, you have been following your gut and the counsel of people you respect, and have accumulated a reasonable amount of food storage. *IMPORTANT: STORE WHAT YOU EAT, AND EAT WHAT YOU STORE
Today you get to USE it!

Goal: Have a PLAN for real meals you can make from your food storage

Today’s Tasks:

  1. Prepare ALL your meals and snacks using only pantry (food storage) foods.
  2. Create a complete meal plan for 7 days (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) using ONLY ingredients you already have in your home storage
  3. Take a serious look at what you have on hand: Do an inventory to determine how long your food supply will last you with a reasonable meal plan
  4. SHARING TIME: Take a picture of your meal plan or type it up and share it in the comment section below
  5. Remember that Learning from each other is a huge part of the benefit of challenges like this.

Today’s Limitations:

  1. For this day, and ALL days of the challenge: no spending money, no going to stores, and no restaurants
  2. You cannot use any fridge or freezer food (assume it has been used up)
  3. You cannot use fresh produce from your garden (pretend it’s winter)
  4. You cannot use fresh eggs even if you have chickens (someone stole them)
  5. Stop whining.  Its only ONE DAY you can do this.

Advanced Tasks because you’re a super hero:

  1. Make a meal plan for 30 days instead of just 7
  2. Add a dessert to your menu tonight as well
  3. A huge thunderstorm also struck today and your power is out all day. Cook all meals without power!

REMEMBER, TOMORROW’S CHALLENGE WILL BE DIFFERENT.


Make sure your fill out today’s REPORT CARD to see how well you did, to keep track of areas you can improve, to remember things you need to do, and things you need to buy.  Use the data you gathered to make a game plan to take you to the next level of preparedness, whatever that may be.


7 Day Challenge REPORT CARD – Food Storage, EATING WHAT YOU STORE

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Today we focused on FOOD and becoming more aware of exactly what we’ve got, how to use it, and what we need to acquire to reach our goals.  Goal 1st level: short term food storage – 3 months.  Goal 2nd level: long term food storage – one year.

Goal: Have a PLAN for real meals you can make from your food storage

Daily Evaluation Questions to ask Yourself

  1. Were you able to prepare using only pantry or storage foods you had on hand (NOT IN THE FRIDGE, FREEZER OR GARDEN)? What foods did you miss having?
  2. Do you have all the ingredients on hand to create 7 days worth of complete and nourishing meals? What additional items could you get to have more variety?
  3. How many months worth of food storage do you estimate you have on hand?
  4. Do you have seasonings and other essentials you’re used to using?
  5. What are some ways you can supplement your storage with ‘fresh’ items in an emergency?  ie: gardening, sprouting, grinding flour, having chickens etc

Click on the daily report cards here

Challenge brought to you by Cindy, Karen and Linda because WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Have fun, and remember to share your experiences here in the comments below or in our Facebook group dialogue.

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7 Day Emergency Preparedness Challenge Introduction

So I’m doing this thing.

I got together with a couple of likeminded friends and we decided to challenge ourselves. Then we decided to open it up for other likeminded people to join us.

For 7 days, we are testing our individual Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage Plans. Each day will bring a NEW mock emergency, or situation that will test at least one of the reasons we strive to be prepared!   And an opportunity to rate yourself and make a note of changes you need to make.

Originally it was scheduled for a particular week, so we all go through the scenarios together, and it is attached to a facebook group called WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: 1 WEEK EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CHALLENGE.

I hope you’ll join us here and take the challenge to test yourself. During the challenge, don’t take the easy way out and skip over the hard stuff, or cheat. No going to a store, or spending any money for the entire 7 days! And feel free to adapt the scenarios to fit your own family and situation.

Watch for follow up posts marked Day 1, Day 2 … and so forth.

Here are the daily report cards that you can print if you wish, for a self assessment on each day’s challenges.

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Challenge brought to you by Cindy, Karen and Linda because WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Have fun, and remember to share your experiences here in the comments below or in our Facebook group dialogue.

Cindy