Be Prepared –Food Storage Quantities

1. Be Prepared – Food Storage Quantities • This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all recommended storage items but focuses on food, water and food preparation needs, especially those provided by Bread Beckers. • Water – 1 gal/person/per day • To sustain life for 1 person for 1 year • Grain – 400 lbs • • 300 lbs – mostly wheat, spelt and kamut • • 100 lbs – mixture – corn, oats, millet, sorghum, popcorn, etc

2. Be Prepared – Food Storage Quantities • Beans/Legumes/Brown Rice – 60 lbs • • kidney beans, pinto beans, great northern, baby lima, lentils, black-eye peas, soy beans, mung beans, • • sunflower seeds, flaxseeds, etc • • brown rice, brown rice and brown rice blends, and oats have about 1 year shelf life – mylar packaging with O2 absorbers of smaller quantities is recommended for longer storage • • Beans will continue to dry so older beans will require a longer soak or might be best used to mill into flour. Also rotate out storage of beans.

3. Ezekiel Mixture of Grains and Beans (see spread sheet) • Ezekiel Mix- A combination of beans and grains that form a complete protein. Grains provide the lacking amino acids in beans, while beans provide those lacking in grains. The perfect combination, which may explain why so many cultures around the world eat beans with rice or some other form of grain. • The Ezekiel mixture comes from Ezekiel 4:9 where God instructs Ezekiel to combine wheat, spelt, barley, millet, lentils and beans. A recipe for this bread is in the Bread Beckers Recipe Collection. The flour from this combination can also be used to make muffins, pancakes, cookies and brownies. The Ezekiel mixture combination can also be used whole and boiled with broth and added vegetables to make a delicious stew.

4. Ezekiel Mixture of Grains and Beans (see spread sheet) • The Ezekiel mixture of grains and beans gives a good base for any food storage pantry, providing not only the wheat and other nutritious grains as the base but also lentils and beans that can all be prepared in a variety of ways. • Add some other favorite grains and beans, such as corn and/or popcorn, oats, rice and/or black eyed peas and you have a great variety for food storage.

5. Ezekiel Mixture of Grains and Beans (see spread sheet) • Sprouting seeds • • Most of the above grains and beans should sprout except for oats and brown rice • • Additional sprouting seeds might be alfalfa, clover, broccoli, radish • Sweeteners – 60 lbs – Stores indefinitely • • Honey, molasses, evaporated cane juice • Powdered Milk – 16 lbs • Additional soy beans or sweet brown rice can be stored for making your own non-dairy milks • Fats and Oils – 2-6 gallons – these should be rotated out and replace as storage is used https://www.breadbeckers.com/blog/be-prepared-food-storage-quantities/