How to Create 3-Month Food Storage menus

As you plan your 3-Month food storage menus, ask yourself this question:
“What type of adversity could come into our lives which our 3-Month food storage
supply could help us with?”

Here are some possibilities:

Job Loss:
If you lost your job, do you have enough food stored to help reduce your expenses
while you are searching for a new job?
Medical Emergency:
If a member of your family became seriously ill, do you have foods stored to help
your family make simple meals while caring for a loved one?
Power Outages:
If you were without power for a week or two, do you have enough
easy-to-prepare foods to get you by?
Major Natural Disaster:
If a major natural disaster occurred do you have some easy-to-prepare foods?
And do you have enough fuel or a way to cook them for a few weeks?

Creating food storage menus is a simple way to help you decide what to store.
Consider the counsel to “Gradually build a small supply of food that is part of your normal,
daily diet until it is sufficient for three months.” (Family Home Storage: A New Message,
Ensign, March 2009.)

Below is a list of my personal 3-Month Food Storage Menu to help you start thinking.
Adjust to suit the needs of your own family. Recipes from PreparedLDSFamily.blogspot.com
have an * and recipes from Emergency Food Storage in a Nutshell by Leslie Probert and
Lisa Harkness (Deseret Book) have a # sign.
My menus use a combination of small canned, packaged and long-term foods. Some bread
loaves could be stored in your freezer; however the list gives you enough long-term
food storage ingredients for making it homemade. Some menus use homemade
spaghetti sauce and others use jar spaghetti sauce for times when you need simple preparation
or emergency cooking. You decide. Snacks are included as many of us need to eat
something between meals because of low blood sugar. Or children need to eat more often.

Many of these meals are simple enough for teens or a spouse to prepare if Mom is unable
to cook. Include a few freezer foods, but don’t depend on your freezer unless you have a
generator or have plenty of shelf-stable foods. Menus that require freezer foods are
italicized. Consider storing powdered eggs, and canned chicken or beef.

Many of the ingredients are items you store and use already. This makes it easy to
replenish because you use what you store, store what you use. Best wishes! Valerie Albrechtsen

# 90 BREAKFAST MENUS Page

3 Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins* PLDS
3 Whole Wheat Zucchini Muffins* PLDS
6 Applesauce Spice Muffins* PLDS
12 Blender wheat pancakes* PLDS
12 Wheat waffles, butter/syrup milk
24 Oatmeal w/raisins
30 Cold cereal, milk
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# 90 LUNCH MENUS Page
12 PB & J sandwich, fruit cup, boxed drink or Tang
12 PB & J sandwich, pears or mandarin oranges
12 Chicken salad sandwich, applesauce cup, Gatorade
12 Tuna sandwich, baked beans or applesauce cup
6 Canned chili w/beans, saltine crackers
6 Tomato soup, saltine crackers
6 Ravioli's, banana chips
6 Spaghettios, saltine crackers, Gatorade
6 Canned Stew, Ritz crackers, applesauce, milk
6 Cup o’noodle soup, V8 juice
6 Macaroni & cheese, fruit cocktail, Gatorade
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# 90 SNACK MENUS Page

18 Food bar
3 Pretzels
6 Fruit snack
6 Graham crackers
6 M & M's or taffy
6 Hot cocoa drink (has dry milk)
3 Corn Chips w/homemade salsa
3 Chips w/refried beans & homemade salsa
12 Homemade popcorn# 114
3 Simple Scones* PLDS
3 Caramel Popcorn
3 Cake from mix w/canned frosting
3 Brownies from mix
3 Snicker doodles# 110
3 Chocolate Chip Cookies# 108
3 Chewy Oatmeal Cookies# 109
3 Apple Crisp# w/shelf whip topping 103
3 Easy Peach Cobbler# 100
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# 90 DINNER MENUS Page

6 Clam Chowder, canned, bread/butter
6 Chicken Noodle soup, canned, bread/butter
6 Vegetable Soup, canned, bread/butter
6 Chicken Vegetable Pasta Soup, canned, saltine crackers
6 Spaghetti w/jar sauce, canned corn, milk
6 Spaghetti w/homemade sauce, canned green beans, milk
6 Quick Chili w/corn#, Biscuits 73
3 Pineapple Chicken#, rice 92
3 Italian Pasta Salad#, Biscuits 67
3 Chicken & Rice Casserole, Biscuits
3 Chicken w/ Egg Noodles# and DH peas, canned corn, milk 93
3 Chicken w/ Egg Noodles# and DH broccoli, canned corn, milk 93
3 Chicken a la King#, rice, canned green beans 94
3 Creamy Chicken#, mashed potatoes 92
3 Chicken Noodles and peas#, canned pears 93
3 Teriyaki Pineapple Beef#, rice w/broth 91
3 Bisquick Vegetable pot pie, canned peaches, milk
3 BBQ Beef Casserole#, canned peaches 90
3 BBQ chicken on hamburger buns, canned peaches, milk
3 Sloppy Joe's on hamburger buns, applesauce
3 Enchilada Casserole w/corn, canned peaches
3 Beef Nacho Casserole#, Spanish rice, water
3 Roast gravy w/mashed potatoes, canned green beans, milk
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Suggested Ingredients to Store: Family of 6
(Rounded estimates. I apologize for any errors)

Dairy
0.6 #10 Powdered Eggs
1 #10 Dry Milk for baking
3.5 #10 Morning Moos powdered milk substitute for drinking
70 Quart Gossner shelf milk (if you'd rather use dry milk, refigure totals)
3 1/2 pint Shelf Whip cream (Gossner.com)
3 14.5 oz. Evaporated Milk
5 LB Shredded cheese, freeze
1 8 oz. Parmesan cheese

Grain
6.5 #10 Whole wheat
8.5 #10 White Flour (or 40 lbs.)
2.75 #10 Spaghetti (or 12 lbs.)
3 LB Bowtie noodles
6 LB Egg noodles
3 LB Spiral pasta
0.9 #10 Macaroni (or 3 lbs.)
8.5 #10 Quick Oats
1 LB Cornmeal
0.75 #10 Popcorn (or 4.5 lbs.)
3 #10 Rice, white (16.5 lbs.)
4.5 12 ct. Corn tortilla, freeze
3 8 ct. Hamburger buns, freeze
7 LB Bisquick
7 LB Pancake mix
18 Boxes Cold Cereal, 10 serving size

Sugars
15.7 LB Honey
7.6 LB Brown Sugar
34 LB White Sugar
6.5 32 oz. Jam/Jelly
4.5 64 oz. Pancake Syrup

Fats/Oils
5.75 48 oz. Vegetable oil (about 2 gallons)
2 48 oz. Shortening
6.75 32 oz. Mayonnaise
13.5 18 oz. Peanut Butter (or 243 oz.)
4 LB Butter, freeze

Legumes/Beans
6 cans Kidney Beans
6 cans Chili Pinto Beans
3 cans Refried Beans
18 cans Chili
12 cans Baked Beans
54 cans Canned chicken (may substitute frozen )
36 cans Canned roast beef (may substitute frozen)
36 cans Tuna
3 LB Beef roast, freeze
 3 LB Ground beef, freeze

Soups/Prepared Meals
12 box Macaroni & Cheese
18 15 oz. Raviolis
18 15 oz. Spaghettios
18 15 oz. Stew
36 Ea. Cup o'noodle
18 Ea. Vegetable soup, 19 oz.
18 Ea. Clam Chowder, 19 oz.
18 Ea. Chicken Noodle Soup, 19 oz.
18 Ea. Chicken Veg. Pasta Soup, 19 oz.
12 Ea. Tomato soup, cond.
3 Ea. Chicken gumbo soup, cond.
18 Ea. Cream of chicken soup
12 Ea. Cream of Mushroom soup
3 12 oz. Chicken broth

Fruit
3 #10 Apples DH LDS
1.5 #10 Banana slices, freeze dried
12 29 oz. Peaches
9 29 oz. Pears
12 15 oz. Mandarin oranges
6 20 oz. Pineapple chunks
6 29 oz. Fruit cocktail
18 16 oz. Applesauce
108 Ea. Applesauce cups, lunch size
36 Ea. Fruit cups, lunch size
2 32 oz. Raisins

Vegetables
2 c. Green pepper, freeze dried
3 c. Garden peas, freeze dried
2.5 c. Broccoli, freeze dried
0.8 #10 Potato Flakes (or 12 cups)
3 cans Mixed vegetables, canned
6 cans Carrots sliced, canned
33 15 oz. Corn, canned
27 cans Green beans, canned
3 15 oz. Canned pumpkin
6 4 oz. Sliced mushrooms
8 4 oz. Diced green chiles

Tomatoes
3.5 26 oz. Salsa
9 15 oz. Diced tomatoes
18 15 oz. Stewed tomatoes
6 29 oz. Whole tomatoes
6 29 oz. Tomato sauce
20 8 oz. Tomato sauce
11 6 oz. Tomato paste
6 25 oz. Spaghetti sauce, prepared
 Snacks
9 16 oz. Saltine Crackers
6 box Graham Crackers
3 12 oz. Ritz crackers
3 16 oz. Pretzels
72 Ea. Granola bars
18 Ea. Nature Valley bars
18 Ea. Nutrigrain bars
36 Ea. Fruit Snacks
7.5 16 oz. Tortilla chips
3 LB Taffy candy
3 LB M & M's

Condiments
4 18 oz. BBQ Sauce
1 bottle Soy Sauce
1 10 oz. Worcestershire
1 15 oz. Teriyaki Sauce
4 20 oz. Ketchup
3 cans Black Olives
3 bottle Italian salad dressing
1 16 oz. Lemon juice

Baking Supplies
1.5 10 oz. Baking powder
1 16 oz. Baking soda
1.6 26 oz. Salt
1 16 oz. Pepper
1 21 oz. Dough Enhancer
1 16 oz. Instant Yeast
1 1.44 lb. Baking Cocoa
1 4 oz. Chicken bouillon granules
1 24 oz. Gravy powder
1 8 oz. Vinegar
1 8 oz. Vanilla
3 Ea. Cake mix
3 Ea. Frosting tub
7 12 oz. Chocolate chips
1 16 oz. Cornstarch
3 Ea. Lipton onion soup mix
1 8 oz. Dry onions
Spices, onion powder, garlic powder,
cumin, chili powder, cream of tartar

Beverages
5 64 oz. Apple juice
36 6 oz. V8 Juice
36 Ea. Juice box, lunch size
1 4 lb.+ Gatorade powder mix
5 64 oz. Apple juice
1 4 lb Cocoa drink mix
1 22 qt. Tang powder