I Dare You To Eat It

Last week's Relief Society meeting was not your typical meeting
about Food Storage.
Liesa Card, author of the book

"I Dare You To Eat It:  Designing Food Storage You Would Actually Want to Eat"
shared her humorous story of developing a food storage system that has worked for her family as well as many others.

Sister Card's website:  www.idareyoutoeatit.com states it this way:

There are all sorts of pre-conceived notions about food storage and the people who promote food storage. I do not fit that mold. I’m a working mother who has successfully run my own business for over twenty years; I’ve raised five daughters; and I’ve served in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am living proof that food storage doesn’t have to be your life in order to bless your life. Rather than a set of practices that complicate life, I see food storage as a divine program that has simplified my life. My message is that food storage is part of the whole gospel plan and an opportunity that any bright individual wouldn’t want to miss.

After many years of trial and error, I found the course that works for my family: it involved 1) gradually building a year’s supply of basic dry goods suggested by the Church, and 2) designing thirty meals and purchasing a three-month supply of canned, dried, or bottled ingredients for those meals, with fresh ingredients added as necessary and as available.

Now my family has food storage we’re comfortable eating on a daily basis. It slices! It dices! No, not really. We’re still just talking about mostly canned goods.  But once I figured out how I could design and regularly use my food storage there was an actual shift in my lifestyle. I was prepared with the things my family was used to eating, I knew exactly how to cook with the supplies I had stored, and I began reaping the numerous blessings of that preparation.

Visit Sister Card's website:  www.idareyoutoeatit.com and then click on the "Strategy's" tab at the top left hand side of the page to read about her 3 step process for using your food storage in your daily life.

For more information on becoming self reliant please visit the Church's Provident Living website:  http://www.providentliving.org   You might especially be interested in reading this pamphlet:    Prepare Every Needful Thing: Family Home Storage.  (Also called "All is Safely Gathered In:  Family Home Storage")