#5 - How to Plan a Year's Worth of Food on a Budget (without waste)

Explore how to reclaim the food independence that our great-grandparents had (and our parents forfeited). We believe this food planning method is the absolute simplest way to figure out how much of each ingredient you will need. It works for any time period (1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, etc). You’ll also learn how to gradually ramp up your food storage where it doesn’t break your budget. And as an added bonus, you’ll see how to use your food planning to inform your gardening, so you only plant what you need. In this episode: Our forefathers’ food independence vs modern total dependence The “prepper” approach to food storage Our approach to food security – the Rotating Pantry method that wastes nothing and gradually scales to accommodate your budget Spreadsheet tool for food planning (see show notes link below) How your food storage plan can inform your garden plan, so you only plant what you actually need Show Notes (with transcript and important links--such as the spreadsheet tool): https://www.thereadylife.com/2023/06/how-to-plan-a-years-worth-of-food-on-a-budget-without-waste/