I don't make my own bread

Food storage has ALWAYS been a huge problem for me. The idea of buying a year's supply of food is daunting to say the least, and impossible if you want to store the types of food that we actually eat! The biggest part of our food budget goes to fresh fruits and veggies; bread is a huge staple in our home, but yeast and I are NOT friends, so ours comes from the store; and how in the world do I store a year's worth of ice cream?

So, for the first 7 1/2 years of our marriage, we did not have a nearly adequate food storage...though, we have always had plenty of random canned food items in our supply. But, all that changed when a Daily Bread salesman knocked on our door and introduced us to freeze dried food. This actually seemed DOABLE! We didn't buy from him because there was a VERy large mark-up, but because of him, we found the site Emergency Essentials.

They are the CHEAPEST we could find, and it's a great product (the same brand is sold at REI). We have a year's supply of food that will last indefinitely, and we supplemented it with beans and rice from the cannery. WE also bought a bunch of fun "snacky" items, like freeze-dried strawberries. It's food that we can actually use (great for Ryan on his backpacking trips) and it really does taste good! This site also has awesome emergency supplies. We purchased most of the supplies for our 72 hour kits here. ONe of the coolest things we got is a big battery that is also a radio. It can recharge things during a power outage, we have used it to jump start our vehicles, it has a light on it, it's pretty cool.

So--if you're like me and the thought of accumulating a year's supply leaves you boggled, check it out!