Welcome to Make a Difference Foods. We specialize in products designed to provide stability, peace of mind and self reliance in times of famine or emergency. Make a Difference Foods takes it one step further with solutions to make your food storage something that you utilize everyday, to keep it fresh and healthy. Stop in and learn how we can be your nutritional godsend.
Eat what you store and store what your family will eat. You can't get a "happy meal" in a 10 pound can. You may need to change some eating habits. The second World War experience proved that people were more likely to reject unfamiliar or distasteful food during times of stress that they would under normal conditions. To be certain that the foods we are storing are going to be acceptable during times of need, our tastes must become acquainted with and tolerant of them during normal times.
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Five rules for a successful food storage program.
Rotate!
Rotate!!
Rotate!!!
Rotate!!!!
Rotate!!!!!
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Eat it or lose it.
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Decide what your family's food likes are:
Does your family like to work with basic foods such as wheat, beans, flour, rice, etc?
Do you like fast; simple and easy meals that you can just add water to?
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Get a notebook and list the basic food groups.
Bread, cereal, rice and pasta.
Fruits.
Vegetables.
Milk, butter, cheese.
Protein, Meat, T.V.P.
Fat, sugar, sweeteners.
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Get a loose leaf notebook and list food groups your family would like to eat. Try recipes with foods you like and then store the foods your family will eat.
ONE YEAR FOR ONE ADULT
Grains(wheat, rice, corn, rolled oats, spaghetti)
400 pounds(181 kg)
72 #10 cans(wheat)
Legumes(dry beans, peas, lentils)
60 pounds(27 kg)
12 #10 cans(beans)
Powdered Milk
16 pounds(7kg)
4 #10 cans
Sugar or Honey
60 pounds(27 kg)
10 #10 cans
Cooking Oil
10 quarts(9 liters)
Salt
8 pounds(3.6 kg)
Water
14 gal.
Determining the appropriate quantities for food storage can be challenging for families with children of various ages. Because children are still growing, they need more food in proportion to their size than do adults. It's helpful to add one year to a child's current age when calculating adequate food storage amounts. Then, by knowing the number of children in a family and their ages, parents can estimate food needs as a percentage of an adult portion.
Age
Percentage of Adult Portion
3 and under
50%
4 to 6
70%
7 to 10
90%
11 and up
100%
Infants who are nursing share in their mother's portion. Keep in mind that young children, as well as pregnant and nursing mothers, need more milk than other family members.
