Food Storage for $5.00 a Week


Week 1: 6 lbs. salt
Week 2: 5 cans cream of chicken soup
Week 3: 20 lbs. of sugar
Week 4: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 5: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 6: 6 lbs. macaroni
Week 7: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 8: 8 cans tuna
Week 9: 6 lbs. yeast
Week 10: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 11: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 12: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 13: 10 lbs. powdered milk
Week 14: 7 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 15: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 16: 5 cans cream of chicken soup
Week 17: 1 bottle 500 multi-vitamins
Week 18: 10 lbs. powdered milk
Week 19: 5 cans cream mushroom soup
Week 20: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 21: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 22: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 23: 8 cans tuna
Week 24: 6 lbs. shortening
Week 25: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 26: 5 lbs. honey
Week 27: 10 lbs. powdered milk
Week 28: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 29: 5 lbs. peanut butter
Week 30: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 31: 7 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 32: 10 lbs. powdered milk
Week 33: 1 bottle 500 aspirin
Week 34: 5 cans cream of mushroom soup
Week 35: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 36: 7 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 37: 6 lbs. salt
Week 38: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 39: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 40: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 41: 5 cans cream chicken soup
Week 42: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 43: 1 bottle 500 multi-vitamins
Week 44: 8 cans tuna
Week 45: 50 lbs. wheat
Week 46: 6 lbs. macaroni
Week 47: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 48: 5 cans cream mushroom soup
Week 49: 5 lbs. honey
Week 50: 20 lbs. sugar
Week 51: 8 cans tomato soup
Week 52: 50 lbs. wheat



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Some weeks you will have leftover change. Save the change each week to be used for the weeks you may exceed $5.00 (like wheat or milk).

You will end up with: 500 pounds of wheat 180 pounds of sugar
40 pounds of powdered milk 12 pounds of salt
10 pounds of honey 5 pounds peanut butter
40 cans of tomato soup 15 cans of cream of mushroom soup
15 cans of cream of chicken soup 24 cans of tuna
21 boxes of macaroni and cheese 500 aspirin
1000 multi-vitamins 6 pounds of yeast
6 pounds of shortening 12 pounds of macaroni


This should be enough to sustain two people for one year. For every two people in your family add $5.00 more and double or triple the amount of the item you are buying that week.

If you can not afford more than the $5.00 a week for the whole family at least do the $5.00, it's a start.

Remember to mark the date on each item when you buy them and use the oldest first.

bump

Dread...where in the world are you shopping. 20# sugar for 5.00, only in my dreams around here.
I can do better on the soups, tuna and mac & cheese, but only buying on sales.
So where can I get 20# sugar?
Thanks
Jo

that was nov 09

My favorite bulk shopping is at a restaurant store.

A lot of restaurants and small stores do returns I constantly scour the return shelves.

If you have an Amish community close, they will have bulk foods for sale at one of their stores. Some of the stuff ours carries are 25 and 50 lb of sugar, flour, wheat, rice. Smaller stuff is on the shelves, but they keep big bags in the back, ya just gotta ask for them. They also have about anything you can imagine, and some you wouldn't think of finding there, for baking needs, powdered eggs, milk, flavorings, butter, lard, cheese, rolled oats, barley, you name it, even wasabi peas, which I discovered I do not care for. Anyway, if there are some Amish close stop by. Ask someone where the stores are, and they will tell you of others. Even sawmills, for scrap for firewood, to furniture. Good luck............wireless

If my memory serves me correctly this list has been floating around for a while and is a year or 2 old. This list also assumes that you will pay less than 5 dollars some weeks and the total cost will balance out in the end.

that list is a lot older than a couple years. i know prices have went up,but i bet,,in fact i am 90% positive that you couldnt have completed that list on 5 bucks a week in 2006. you MAY,,in some parts of the country,being a super savvy shopper accomplish that list on 10 bucks a week now,,but i am skeptical..


we just got wheat as cheap as we could find was 120 bucks for 200 pounds,that equates to 280 bucks for the 500 pounds noted above.

sugar was 13 bucks for 25 pounds , thats 93 dollars for 180 pounds of sugar.

that comes out to 373 dollars for just those two items. if you bump it up to 10 bucks a week as i suggested that leaves you 147 dollars over the course of a year (52 weeks) to purchase everything on your list.. and powdered milk costs what? and 5 pounds of honey costs??and 6 pounds of yeast, cheapest bulk yeast we have found is over 6 bucks a pound, thats conservatively another 40 + bucks for the yeast alone.

like i said, i am skeptical you could do that list on 10 bucks a week.. in fact i bet most couldnt..

nothing wrong with the list itself as a basic guide for preps,(other than,why do you need 6 pounds of yeast for 500 pounds of wheat?, and i see no beans,nor brown rice,)just the assumed prices are not even close to accurate..

point is,,i bet that list and its prices is pre Y2K..

their are several points here for reposting the list;

cost comparison

tweaking the list items

and the big one THE WAKE UP CALL

on how far we are down the hole compared to wen the list was printed

should get ya in to HIGH GEAR on prepping

Doc.

Hmmm, hippie you're right, we need something more well rounded...

How about this... http://www.grandpappy.info/hfood1yr.htm last updated 12/1/2010