We’ve been talking about food storage a lot as we’ve kicked this blog off, but there’s a huge reason for it. While normal life may be going on around us, it only takes one event, like an ice storm to bring our world to a screeching halt. Having food set aside makes life so much easier!
In case you’ve missed them, we’ve already had two articles in this series so far. You can find them here and here.
Food Storage and Saving Money
And in keeping with our previous topic, we’re still talking about long-term food storage and money. Everything deals with money doesn’t it? Today though, I’ve got good news, we’re going to talk CHEAP. Not cheap as in cheap quality, but cheap as in inexpensive.
The purpose of long-term food storage is to take you through an unexpected event (such as a job loss, or a reduction in pay, or for someone in the military, a government shut down, and many more scenarios) as easily and simply as possible while keeping things less expensive than it’s counterpart short-term food storage.
So let’s talk about the CHEAPEST way to feed your family for up to a year.
I use Azure Standard’s Organic Quick Bean Soup mix. While you don’t have to use Azure, I’ve found they are the cheapest at $35.15 for a twenty-five-pound bag of Organic Quick Bean Soup mix.
You can use Amazon. Amazon has a bunch of bean soup mixes. Or find yourself another company that sells twenty-five-pound bags of bean soup mix.
No matter the kind of bean soup mix you use, you want to purchase four 25# bags of organic soup mix per person for one year’s worth of food. Your food won’t be varied, but you will have food, and that’s what is MOST important.
So if we use Azure Standard’s Organic Quick Bean Soup Mix. Four twenty-five-pound bags of soup come out to $140.60. Use the other $20 to purchase bulk spices to make your soup much more flavorful, and you’ll be well on your way to having your long-term food storage covered!
