Challenge #1

Participate With Us in 2009 !

In our Relief Society (Silve Lakes Ward, Victorville California Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints), we are having monthly Preparedness meetings and monthly challenges to help get your prepared for emergencies.

Since it is the beginning of the month, when most folks get a paycheck and feel rich, this week is a good time to plan and start buying for 30 evening meals that can be prepared from items only in your pantry (No refrigerated items allowed). Consider this similar to a science experiment. Go to mypyramid.gov to find your daily nutrient needs for guidelines as to what foods you should have and serve. For example, you want to have an orange fruit or vegetable at least every other day. You should have protein at each meal and snack. You should have a green vegetable (I say: Include canned spinach-remember Popeye?!)every other day at least.

I also challenged everyone to have AT LEAST 3 days water (2 weeks is beter) :one gallon per person per day.

And a light source. Candles are not recommended. Go shopping for a battery operated lantern if you do not have one. Solar or hand cranked one are great! If you already have a lantern, get fresh batteries for it. When the lights go out in a power outage, you will be ready!

I will post one recipe a day that is exclusively from pantry items. I plan to make each of the meals and take a picture of it, too.

Consider the Tallerone (POSTED JANUARY 30) recipe as the first one..we still have to eat it up before I do a new recipe. This recipe I made had 10 one cup serving at about 47 cents a serving. It is really good..the Parmesan cheese and the sliced olives give it some extra "class".