The level of serendipity present throughout this year as I prepare to introduce, and write about, my chosen monthly themes continues to amaze me. I chose to talk about being prepared this month, thinking it would be timely to discuss preparation as school was beginning again for the year, prior to winter beginning, and prior to the holiday season that requires a significant amount of mental, physical, and financial preparation. I had no idea that I would be spending the month leading up to September also preparing for a new baby to join our family or how much time I’d be spending mentally preparing for things that may or may not happen.
Having been raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being prepared is a theme that has run throughout my life. “Be Prepared” is a Scouting motto, the Church counsels its’ members to be prepared for hardships by having a year supply of food on hand, and there is often talk of being prepared for the second coming of Christ.
I am really excited to spend time this month writing and thinking about what it means to “be prepared” and how we can prepare in different areas of our lives.
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Being prepared with food for a year could be pretty easy to do without buying those 25 year barrels or buckets that are advertised, with canned goods. Most canned stuff is good for more than a year, so once one had enough to last a year stored somewhere in the house, the cans could be used before expiring and replaced with new cans, and one could continue like that forever and still always have a full years' food supply, fresh and ready if needed.
It's true, but I actually linked to a calculator. I have found that calculator helpful to figure out how much food my family might need for an entire year. Also, some things are better stored in buckets (grain, for example).