Days 53 & 54-Beginnings of our 3 month Supply of Food

Remember my post last week on feeling the need to acquire a 3 month supply of food? Remember the free program that I found online that helped calculate how much food to actually buy? Well, as I was sitting at the computer trying to input my recipes and the ingredients in each one... I was having some difficulties figuring it out. The program seemed to not be as EXACT as I wanted it. So, my dear husband Bryan helped me out. He took a look at the program, and decided that he would build a new spreadsheet based on our specific recipes. For our date night, we planned and chose some of our favorite meals that we wanted to include in our storage. We then broke all of the ingredients down into cups and using his program were able to determine how much of everything we would need in our 3 month supply.

I spent the morning today taking inventory of what we already had and deciding what we would still need. I was truly AMAZED at how little we actually already had. Out of the "69 things we would need in our storage" we only had an adequate supply of 20 of the items. So after determining what I needed, I headed off to the store to get a few things.
Here is a picture of the stuff I purchased today. It took two whole carts. I figure that this is only a third or so of the items I still need to buy. But, this is a start. I plan on acquiring the rest as we can.