Building a Stockpile With Only $5 Per Week! Creating a Stockpile. Building a Stockpile. One of the questions I seem to get asked most often is.. ![]() ![]() If not.. what can you cut out of your week to find $5 to help build your stockpile? Just how important is having a stockpile to you? Can you make it a priority over something else in your life that costs $5 a week? Let's chat for a minute about having a stockpile... I'm no zombie prepper. ![]() I'm not prepping for the end of the world. I'm not prepping because I think aliens are going to attack the earth and we might have to hide in bunkers until they are gone. I'm prepping to be prepared. What if we lost our availability to go to town for groceries? What if the prices were raised temporarily so we couldn't afford to get the basic things we normally get? What if our co- op truck can't make it here and we have to go without ordering our groceries for a few months? What would happen in the event of a job loss where we would need to save as much money as possible to pay other bills? In the event of any of those situations, having a small stockpile on hand is a good idea. Did you know that 5. US population only has no more than 3 days of food in their house? In rural South Dakota were we live we have a pretty good chance of being snowed in or stuck at home for much longer than 3 days, so having less than 3 days worth of food would just be unsafe for us. Ok, back to building a stockpile with that $5 a week.. Before you start this challenge, keep this in mind. Be realistic about your stockpile. Don't stock up on things that your family can't or won't be able to eat. ![]() ![]() ![]() If there is a week where you aren't going to buy what's planned, just buy double of something that you definitely can use from another week. Building a Stockpile Weekly Buying Guide. Make sure to spend no more than $5 per week buying the item listed. Before you buy, also make sure you have proper food storage containers for everything. Answers.com is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want. For a limited time only you can buy 2 and get 1 free on select board games on Amazon! There are popular titles like: READ MORE ». Histamine is a neurotransmitter which is involved in our local immune response. Here is a quote from an excellent post by That Paleo Guy on Histamine Intolerance. I love new beginnings. Most people are sad when the holidays are over, but (minus the hangover) January first is my favorite day of the year. ![]() ![]() Week 1 - Spend $5 on Rice. Week 2 - Spend $5 on Beans. Week 3 - Spend $5 on Sugar. ![]() A while back, I read a fascinating article about the governor of Oregon and his attempt at eating for a week for just $21. This concept wormed around in my mind for. After learning the dangers of aluminum foil and how it's made, you may want to rethink having this convenience item in your kitchen. 309 comments (Add your own) 1. Carla Listenfelt wrote: I too have hemochromatosis and I eat everything and anything I want as long as I have a glass of. The Nutrition Blog Network is a collection of blogs written by registered dietitians.Week 4 - Spend $5 on Salt. Week 5 - Spend $5 on Baking Soda. Week 6 - Spend $5 on Milk Powder. Week 7 - Spend $5 on Dried Onion. Week 8 - Spend $5 on Dried Garlic. Week 9 - Spend $5 on Unsweetened Cocoa Powder. Week 1. 0 - Spend $5 on Baking Powder or Yeast. Week 1. 1 - Spend $5 on a Whole Grain. Week 1. 2 - Spend $5 on anything else. Pin this for later. Now comes the real challenge.. Do your very best to make that amount stretch as far as possible! Are you ready to join me on this challenge? By the end of 1. 2 weeks you aren't going to have the biggest, most impressive stockpile there ever was, but you will have a nice amount of basics set aside for an emergency time. Of course a full stocked stockpile will have more items than this (hopefully you will be able to preserve some meats, fruits, and veggies too!) but this list will build a great basic foods stockpile. To help keep you motivated, here is a fun chart that you can print out and keep in your pantry or in your kitchen to keep track of your progress. Not sure where to store your stockpile? Make sure to check out these Small Space Storage Ideas. Disclaimer: This post may contain a link to an affiliate. See my disclosure policy for more information. Freezer Crock Pot Cooking. Welcome Pinners!!! First I have to say: WOW! I am totally shocked at the response to this post! I’ve had a lot of people ask about the shopping list I used. This includes all the things I wouldn’t normally have in my pantry. Things like salt and other spices I didn’t include – so before you start chopping please do go over the recipes and make sure you have everything. It also is for 1 recipe worth of all the recipes on the recipe page. Please let me know how your cooking adventure went! I love to hear from you all! Another great resource is this cook book. It has quite a few recipes as well as shopping lists! Check it out!**Update** I now have a FAQ page complied from common questions. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! More Meals. If you haven’t yet make sure to check out the follow up cooking days with more recipes and shopping lists: Freezer Crock Pot Meals Round 2. Freezer Crock Pot Meals Round 3. Or check out this great e- cookbook with other great recipes. Please also stop by my Facebook page and say hi! Or subscribe for updates! I’m joining the freezer cooking “sensation” and filling my freezer with crock pot meals! Lucky for you I’m sharing what I did and how I made 3. Want the recipes I use? I just hated getting home and having the rush of trying to get dinner ready while all I really wanted to do was spend what few waking moments I had left with the boys. It was awesome to only have to boil some water for noodles or throw some rice in the rice cooker and have super healthy yummy dinners. Buying The Food. I started planning this out last week. I went though recipes that I had, recipes online as well as other blogs that have done a similar task. I came up with 9 crock pot recipes and added taco, spaghetti and hamburger patties as well. I double (or more) all of the crock pot recipes. I I tried to find things with similar ingredients but not so similar that they were the same. I make a spread sheet for a shopping list and consolidate all of the recipes together. You can often save this way by buying the larger cans of things like tomato sauce rather than a ton of smaller individual ones. Then I went through the sale fliers for Save. Mart, Raley’s, Winco and Safeway and found what was the cheapest (knowing that I was probably only going to be going to Save. Mart and Winco from previous experience). Save. Mart has this awesome sale that on select days a week you can get fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts for $1. They also had chicken leg quarters on sale for $. I usually buy my meat from Save. Mart when it’s on sale because their prices are so low. But here’s the even better tip. Not only do you get on sale meat, but you can often find it marked down because it’s due to “expire”. Most of the meat I got today was $1. I filled my cart for only $6. I went to Winco for everything else. Preparing The Food. Once home I lay everything out on the counter (loving my new kitchen right about now. I try to do all of the same task (like washing) at the same time. I’ve found it saves me some time. Landon is a master green bean snapper! He snapped off all the stems and snapped the bean in half – he did most all of it by himself! Then I cut up everything. I go though the recipes one more time and note what needs to be sliced, diced or chopped. I note the volume of an average 1 of each veggie so measuring out for the recipe is a lot easier. Once the veggies are done I repeat the process with the meat. I do the meat last so it has the longest time in the fridge before being assembled into a meal. Filling the Bags. Then I sit down (yay! I write the recipe title and date and any directions of things that need to be added or special serving instructions on the bag. I try to put as much stuff into the bag as possible, but sometime the liquid wont fit with all the meat and veggies. I make my own turkey stock so I have bags frozen that I’ll just pull out when I pull the main food bag out. Then I fill all the bags with the meat first, more to get the raw meat up off the cutting boards but also to hold the bags up so I can fill it with the veggies and other ingredients better. This time took me a bit longer than I thought, Brad came home from work, I said “dinner’s ready. But if you think about it, that mess really won’t happen again for about 2 months or so. Plus all the time I get to spend playing with the boys instead of cooking. Plus that fact that I only spent a little over $1. It did take me most of 5 hours to do all of this, but that was with the two little ones “helping”. Landon helped a ton and I powered through when Riley was napping to get a lot done. Just know it’s totally possible to do. Not pictured is the spaghetti sauce, hamburger patties and taco meat! Forgot to take a picture of those! Have you done something like this? I’m always looking for new recipes that go in the crock pot that freeze well. Share! I’m excited to also let you know about a great e- cookbook that is all about crock pot freezer cooking. It’s from the creator of the Healthy Mama BBQ Chicken recipe that I used in this batch of meals. It has some great ideas for gluten and grain free crock pot recipes! Check it out! Here is the much asked for shopping list! Remember this doesn’t include spices and other normal pantry stuff, so check to make sure you have all you need before you start chopping. This list is for all the recipes posted here, including the one outside link for the Healthy Mama BBQ Chicken! Freezer Cooking Shopping List.
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