Posted: 6/28/2011 12:06:16 PM EDT
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I'm looking for a sample menu for a family of four, for 90 days.
I have at least a months worth of MREs, rice, beans, pasta, and other freeze dried goods set aside. I would like to get more, but i would like to see some detailed samples of what a 90 day menu would consist of. Anyone got any links to other sites? Rich |
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You might give the following book a try:
http://beprepared.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_EB%20F101_A_name_E_Food%20Storage%20101%20-Where%20Do%20I%20Begin? Book I'm 1 year + in my storage, so I haven't ironed out individual meal plans, but do intend to have a lot of 1 pot recipes. |
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http://www.everydayfoodstorage.net/handouts/pantry.pdf
edit: I have a bunch of lists but most of them run 15 or 30 days or a year. I could send them to you and you could modify them to your needs and likes/ dislikes |
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http://www.everydayfoodstorage.net/handouts/pantry.pdf edit: I have a bunch of lists but most of them run 15 or 30 days or a year. I could send them to you and you could modify them to your needs and likes/ dislikes IM sent Thanks, Rich |
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The cook on our ship had a three week rotation on his menus. After three weeks the meal was new again. You need diversity but not that much diversity. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Thats pretty much standard for the military menu plan, IIRC. Nothing wrong with a 2-3 week rotation before you have to eat the same military-prepared option again. |
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The cook on our ship had a three week rotation on his menus. After three weeks the meal was new again. You need diversity but not that much diversity. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile This is really what i was wanting. A sample of menus, day by day, and rotation. I have a list of supplies, and a stockpile ingredients. Some suggestions of meals, other than spag, beans and rice, mac and cheese, etc. Rich |
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This is really what i was wanting. A sample of menus, day by day, and rotation. I have a list of supplies, and a stockpile ingredients. Some suggestions of meals, other than spag, beans and rice, mac and cheese, etc. Rich Then you're going to maybe want to start with the military menu plan. I don't have it on my external drive, but I'll do some surfing and see what I can find for you edit: I am not finding anything that breaks the menu down by day and ingredients. https://rdl.train.army.mil/soldierPortal/atia/adlsc/view/altfmt/9538-1 goes way more in depth than what you need. Maybe what you simply need is a cookbook and extrapolate from there based on your personal cooking style and capabilities. |
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The problem with getting a pre-made menu plan is that you may not like the meals and no one knows what ingredients you have on hand.
The approach we took with our pantry was to look at what we eat now and try to determine how to stock things to continue to make them. For example: Breakfast usually includes a combination of the following: eggs, bacon or ham, oatmeal, cream of wheat or rice, and toast, biscuits or tortillas (corn or flour) Milk, juice so, we stock powdered eggs, yoders canned bacon, Spam, DAK hams, Red Feather canned butter, powdered butter & oatmeal. To make bread, biscuits or tortillas, we stock wheatberries (red and white), dent corn and we have a grinder. This was easy, since my wife loves to bake bread from scratch. 
We like orange juice, so we stock frozen concentrated orange juice. We have a lot stored in the freezer, we use it and rotate it. If the power goes out and the FCOJ turns to goo, we have Tang. (Not a perfect solution, but I have not found a good powdered orange juice drink.) If there is no milk at the store we have Morning Moos and Powdered Milk. Took some taste testing, but we found some that my wife will drink. We did the same thing with the other meals we like to eat. Luckily, we already eat a lot of beans and rice and my wife has several recipes. We have about a year+ worth of beans, rice, wheat, oatmeal, morning moos, powdered milk, etc. Then, I started looking at things that could be made with what we store. For example: we can grind wheat into flour for bread, but you can also grind it coarse and make your own cream of wheat cereal, you can put the wheatberries in a cheese cloth and smack them with a hammer to make cracked wheat for cereal. I have also read that you can cook and eat whole wheatberries (we have not tried this yet) Someone here posted a nice write up on growing wheatgrass from wheatberries. (Supposed to be good for you) White rice can be cooked as rice, but can also be used to make rice pudding, horchata (a rice drink). When I was a kid, I used to eat the leftover dinner rice for breakfast with sugar and milk and a little cinnamon. Rice can be put through the grinder and to make cream of rice cereal. Corn can be used to make cornmeal or grits. |