Three Month Supply Instructions
These three forms are designed to help you find out exactly what your family eats every day, basically your three month supply.
In the first form, you need to brainstorm all the meals and snacks you eat. Don’t forget breakfast and lunch, and drinks and desserts if they’re important to you. Most of us eat mostly the same foods all the time, with occasional new recipes and changes.
Once you have a complete list of all the possibilities for meals, take those and transfer them to the one month calendar. This isn’t something you have to strictly follow, just a general idea of what you’d normally eat and when. For example, we eat salmon every Monday night and have tacos once a month. Obviously every month you will eat differently, so this is just a generalization to help you figure out how many staples you need on hand. If you need more space, print three calendars, one each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You can also make different calendars if you eat seasonally.
Once your calendar is full (including breakfast, lunch, and dinner on each day) then one day at a time you need to look at what you have scheduled and make a grocery list (form 3). For example, my first day on the calendar is scheduled: oatmeal and orange juice (breakfast), macaroni and cheese and apple slices (lunch), chicken enchiladas with broccoli (dinner). Then on my grocery list I need the following items: 6 oatmeal packets, 1 can orange juice concentrate, 1 box mac and cheese, 2 apples, 1 pound chicken breasts, 1 can cream of chicken soup, 1 package tortillas, ½ pound cheese, and 1 bunch broccoli.
When you’re all done you will have a pretty good general idea of what you eat all the time and how much of it you’ll need to sustain you for one month. You can start working on a one month supply at first, or multiply it and work on 6 months, whatever works for you. This whole process only takes an hour if you concentrate and is very helpful!
