Progress Report and Tagged!

It's been a while since I've given an overall progress report on my 3 main goals for this year.

If you came by yesterday you'll know that I've hit a little slump in the "fit" department. But I'm back on...full steam ahead! I'm still working hard at making healthy food choices and staying committed to regualar exercise.

Organization....hmmm. Well I haven't done anything fantastic since I posted about my spice cupboard, BUT I have managed to keep the spice cupboard, and pantry in the tip top shape you saw them in last! Ask my family...I've been like Hitler with them putting stuff back EXACTLY as they found it! I also did help my girls get their toys purged and organized.

Food Storage... this one I'm cruisin' along! A couple of weeks ago our grocery store had their semi-annual case lot sale. I got me some food baby! I'm going to try to remember off the top of my head...don't have the receipt in front of me, so I'm sure I'll miss some stuff.

All the canned foods I name, I purchased at least a case of 24, but a lot of the stuff I purchased 1.5 or 2 cases. For less than $300 I bought beans: red beans, refried beans, black beans. I bought: peaches, pears, diced tomatoes, diced green chiles, applesauce. I bought 100 lbs of flour, 50lbs of sugar, 45 lbs of wheat, 20 lbs of rice, and 10 cases of bottled water! Also got a bunch of meat for my freezer...pork rosts, pot roasts, steaks and a pork loin! Not everything is pictured, but here's a little peek of what I have to make space for in my food storage room!

It is recommended to have a 2 weeks supply of drinking water in case of emergency. That's 14 gallons of water per person. That's just for drinking. It's also good to have an additional 14 gallons per person for washing and cleaning. I haven't added up how much I have so far, but I know I have a ways to go!

I also owe a lot to my mom for helping me get my food storage stocked. A few weeks ago I went and helped her organize her food storage room. Because it's just her and my dad now (my brother sometimes), she ended up having a lot more of some things than she and my dad could possibly rotate through before they start to expire. So I came home with a bunch of stuff that she's had for awhile that is still good, but that they probably won't use before it isn't still good! She ALSO blessed us with several bottles of her to die for hot salsa! Can you say score?

For Christmas my parents gave us a bunch of food storage pasta. We got a huge box full of all different kinds of pastas. They also gave us this big box of these:

These are spaghetti ends. I don't know exactly what that means, but I'm guessing it's the not straight parts on the ends of spaghetti that they cut off to make those nice straight noodles for packaging. Whatever, straight or curly...cooks up the same! I think these are cheaper or something.

Now ladies, these are not two big A bags of pot! I know you were hopin' to come by my place and party...but this my friends is dehydrated celery! You throw it in your soups and cooked dishes, and it plumps up and is celery! I got these for a fantastic deal from our ward food storage specialist. I haven't tried it yet...but when I do I'll let you know how I like it! This lady also hooked me up with great deals on 25 lbs of dried potato flakes, and 45 lbs of dried potato cubes. I LOVE the potato flakes...haven't tried the cubes yet.

Why am I doing this some of you may ask? Well, a big one is obedience. This counsel has been given to members of the LDS church by our leaders for generations. I've always struggled with knowing how to get started on building my food storage - I'm slowly getting there though! And it feels so good knowing I am doing my best to obey the counsel given by men whom I consider to be prophets of God. Also, I take great comfort in knowing my family will be prepared for circumstances that may be beyond our control. I'm not just talking about some great natural disaster, or terrorist attack (although there's comfort in knowing that if I were trapped in my home, my family would have food and water), I'm referring to the kinds of things we've seen happening all around, the economy, job loss, other financial burdens. It's comforting to know that if we were to find ourselves in a situation where Hubby is out of work, or we had slow business, or just some other great financial burden that we would be able to feed our family from what we have stored without having to go to the grocery store and spend money we didn't have.

Wow! I gues this post is getting to be a lot longer than I thought it would be...so on to the TAG!

I was tagged by both Tanielle and Vivienne for this fun 8 tag:

8 Things I am Looking Forward to:

1. No more snow!

2. Vegas!

3. Being out of debt to the government (taxes for small business owners BITE!)

4. Being thin

5. family reunion this summer

6. my brother's birthday (I got him a really cool present back at Christmas time!)
7. The day I can look back at my blog and say I have accomplished my 3 goals for the year.

8. The last day of school.

8 Things I Did Yesterday:

1. doctored my little girl

2. took my son to cub scouts

3. made bean and cheese burritos in the microwave for my kids because:

a) I was too lazy to cook a real dinner, and

b) I needed to use the rest of the can of refried beans my brother came over and ate at lunchtime.

4. Helped said brother upload pictures I took of our other brother's wedding onto his facebook page.
5. Did the dishes...twice.

6. yelled at my kids.
7. apologized to my kids for yelling at them.

8. kissed my husband goodbye and goodnight before he left for work, because I knew he probably wouldn't be back before I went to bed.

8 Things I Wish I Could do:
1. keep house and be organized as well as my 2 best friends do.

2. bottle my children's energy and use it for myself (or sell it...I'd be rich!)

3. sing
4. magically take away my dad's pain and medical problems.

5. Be healthy without it being so hard!

6. Find good jobs for everyone I know of who is unemployed.

7. Afford a personal trainer and dietician/chef.

8. fly.

8 Shows I Watch:
1. One Tree Hill
2. NCIS
3. The Mentalist
4. Dollhouse

5. The Hills

6. The Unit

7. Everybody Loves Raymond (reruns)

8. Arthur (yes I do!)

8 people I tag:

I'm going to tag my 8 most recent followers (at the time I composed this post) who have blogs and haven't already done this tag!:

Christy - Morton Family

Casey - Country Kid at Heart

Tosha.jewelry

The How-To Gal

Geminigirl24 - I Was Never the Girl Next Door

Julie - The Modern Mommy

Sugar, Boogers and Tantrums

Amber

I can't wait to see your answers and get to know you better!