End of Food Storage Month

So a month of feeding my family food storage (minus essentials like milk and bread) is over. Here's what I've learned:

• My family has a month's worth of food in storage, assuming we have a way to keep all of our frozen stuff cold (either electricity or winter weather).

• My family relies heavily on convenience foods. (This is more a reflection of my poor housekeeping skills.) Frozen pizza, frozen french fries, etc. were the first foods we went through.

• I need to up my storage when it comes to spices/herbs/condiments. We ran out of pepper, parsley (I use it in almost everything), and worcestershire sauce.

• We need more chickens for winter month production. They really slow down their laying once the days get shorter. We got four eggs per day during the summer, but now we're only getting 1-2.

• We need to try root cellaring potatoes. We ran out of them pretty quickly, and they're a staple around here. Next year I'm going to grow them in the garden and attempt to root cellar the surplus.

All in all, it was pretty painless. It might have been a lot different if we hadn't had freezer stock to use. In that case, we would have been relying on canned meats and canned veggies, both of which aren't commonly eaten in my household.