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| HERE IS THE PLAN FOR LONG TERM MORMON LDS EMERGENCY FOOD STORAGEThe LDS (which stands for "Latter Day Saints") plan is the foundation of many other plans. It is a good one. Might as well stop searchin now, and follow it.
THE LDS PLAN IS SEQUENTIAL, NOT SUDDEN. HERE IS HOW YOU BEGIN:The first thin, that the LDS temple recommends, is that you do not go into debt to get a big supply of food stored. They also recommend that you accumulate a supply of emergency money, too. 1. Begin Slowly To Garner Your 3-Month FoodSupply. Each week, buy a few extras of your everyday groceries. Keep buyin extras each week, until you have enough extra stuff to last a whole week. Then do the same thin again and again, until you have enough food to last for 3 months. Whenever you eat, eat the oldest food first. If there is not a date stamped on the package, then write a date on it with an ineradicable marker. At this stage, you are not buyin freeze dried food, nor bulk food, unless that is what you ordinarily have been eatin. |
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LDS ADVICE ON WATER STORAGEThe Mormon system advises you to begin to store water right away. The first choice is factory-sealed water in PETE bottles, also known as PET plastic. They recommend buyin water in no other type of plastic, exceptin PETE, which is called polyethylene terephthalate. It will be marked on the bottle, often with this logo:
PACKING WATER YOURSELFThe Mormon system gives to you helpful guidelines, if you plan to pack your water, and not only to buy it already packed.
WATER STORAGE CONTAINERS NOT TO BE USED
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TREAT THE WATER BEFORE YOU PACK ITIf your water is not already chlorinated, the Mormons recommend that you add chlorine, before you pack your water. Use unscented chlorine bleach, such as you find at the mass market stores. The concentration in the storeboughten product ought to be 5% - 6% sodium hypochlorite. Use 1/8 teaspoon of liquid bleach to every gallon of water. That will be the same as about 8 drops of bleach. 4 liters are about the same as a gallon. Be sure that your bleach has no fragrance, thickener, nor additive.
YOUR STASH OF MONEYNext, in the Mormon system, you are to slowly begin to save a hoard of money. NEXT: A 1-YEAR'S SUPPLYUltimately, the LDS system recommends 1-year supply of food as a minimum goal. Partly this will be comprised of foods that you like, with a shorter shelf-life, that you will rotate after a few months or a few years. To calculate the amounts that you will need, and to manage your shoppin list, you can get the free Deyo software at this link: Long Term Food Storage. Also, you will have enough of the Mormon "basic 4 foods" to last for 1 year. These are described in the next section.
THE BASIC 4 FOODSThis list is designed for you to have 1 year of food, cheaply, with a lon shelf-life, even so much as 30 years. Other foods are added to the "basic 4", but they have shorter shelf-lives, and you rotate them often.
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