This is interesting to me because scientists have recommended that if the bird flu were to mutate and become a human virus, the best way to protect yourself would be to stay in your home for 1-2 months. I've heard many scientists say over the years that it's not a matter of if, but when, this virus will mutate. I should get a lot more scientific and give you references to all that, but I don't have time right now to do that.
What I to do is share this list of dinner meals and supplies needed that I prepared today.
These are the ten dinner meals that I came up with:
Hawaiian Haystacks
Stroganoff
Roast w/Mashed Potatoes
Whetten Enchiladas
Spaghetti
Mexican Mixup
Arroz con Pollo
Ham Loaf
Vegetable Beef Soup (we call it Stone Soup)
Pizza
I made a complete list of everything needed for each meal, including spices and water. This is the list of supplies that I will need for 10 of each of these meals (which comes to 100 meals, a little over 3 months worth of meals.) Here it is:
| Au Jous seasoning, 1-1/2 bottles (6 oz size) |
| Better than Bouillion Beef Base, 1-1/2 bottles (8 oz. size) |
| Beef, ground 80 lbs. |
| Bread crumbs, 13-1/2 cans bread crumbs (15 oz. size) |
| Butter, 7 pkgs of four cubes each |
| Carrots, 15 cups, diced |
| Celery, 10 cups diced |
| Cheddar Cheese, 75 cups, grated |
| Chicken Boullion, 3-1/2 bottles (8 oz. size) |
| Chicken breasts, 60 |
| Chili beans, 30 cans |
| Chili powder, 1 bottle (4.5 oz size) |
| Chow mein noodles, 5 pkgs. |
| Crackers, saltines, 3 boxes at Costco |
| Cream of Celery soup, 10 cans |
| Cream of Chicken soup, 30 cans |
| Cream of Mushroom soup, 20 cans |
| Dry onion soup mix, 5 boxes |
| Eggs, 7-1/2 dozen |
| Flour, 95 cups white |
| French dressing, 5 bottles |
| Fritos, 10 large bags |
| Garlic, 1/6 jar of chopped garlic |
| Garlic powder, 1-1/3 jar (21 oz. size) |
| Ham, 5 Costco packages |
| Lawry's seasoning salt, 1-1/2 jar (16 oz. size) |
| Lettuce, 10 stalks romaine |
| Lime or lemon juice, 1/3 of an 8 oz. bottle |
| Milk, 2-3/4 gallons |
| Mozarella, 15 cups shredded |
| Saffola oil, 6 bottles (24 oz. size) |
| Olive oil, 1-1/2 bottles (24 oz. size) |
| Onions, 14 onions |
| Onion, minced 3.75 cups, or almost 2 jars of Costco size |
| Oregano |
| Paprika |
| Parmesan cheese, 3 bottles (8 oz. size) |
| Peas, 30 packages of 1 lb. each |
| Pepper, one can |
| Pepperoni, 20 cups |
| Pineapple Tidbits, 20 cans |
| Pizza sauce, 10 cans, 8 oz. |
| Potato Flakes, 3.5 cans (34 serving size) |
| Potatoes, red - 4 bags (10 lb. size) |
| Rice, 21.5 lbs. |
| Roasts, 10 |
| Salt, 1 cup |
| Sausage, 30 lbs. pork |
| Sour cream, 3-1/2 tubs (3 lb. size) |
| Spaghetti noodles, 10 pkgs (2 lb size) |
| Spaghetti sauce, 20 cans |
| Stone, 1 scrubbed clean |
| Sugar, 1/2 cup |
| Thyme, 1/4 cup |
| Tomato paste, 2 cans (6 oz size) |
| Tomato soup, 10 cans |
| Tomato juice, 6 cans (48 oz size) |
| Tortillas, 7 pkgs (3 dozen size) |
| Water, 17-1/4 gallons |
| Yeast, .625 cups (6 cups in a 2 lb bag) |
I have the complete spreadsheet, broken down into recipes and individual ingredients, in case anyone wants it. Just let me know and I'll send you the Excel file by email.
Breakfast and lunch meals would be in addition to this list.
Thanks to my friend DaraDee, and my sister Angie for giving me the idea and impetus, respectively, to do this! Love you guys!
I want to say a word about preparedness. I believe that the five virgins that had their oil the night that the bridegroom came, and he came much later than expected, had oil on hand because that was what the always did. It was part of their daily living, their routine, their habit, to always have extra oil on hand. It was just what they did. So the hour of the bridegroom coming didn't really matter. That wasn't important, because the five wise virgins lived in such a manner as to always be prepared. It's defined them, it's who they WERE.
I want to live like that. I don't care when the Bridegroom is going to come, I just want to be prepared in the best way I can, even if He never comes in my lifetime. I want to walk shoulder to shoulder in the next life with my Mother, my Grandmothers, my Great-Great Grandmothers, etc., who all thought that He might come in their lifetime. He didn't (or hasn't yet, in the case of my mother), but they all lived as to be ready for when He did come. I think that way of living, that having of enough oil is so valuable, that it shapes our lives such that we become who the Lord wants us to become, just by the act of being prepared, or working towards it.
The timing of what we're supposed to be prepared for, well, that is secondary. It's not really that important. The filling of the drops of oil, and always having it on hand as part of our daily ritual, as part of who we are, now THAT's important.
Now, if Buttercup would just get that calf out, we'd feel much better prepared! :)
