PREP customized food storage calculator

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xtreme_right

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It's been a while since I tallied up how much food we have. I googled and found the following site. It's nice because you can input amounts you've already got on hand to see what is still needed. You save your info so you can go back and update it.

www.stockupfood.com

BTW, i've never been able to find a good reference for weights vs. volume. For instance, i've bought food and repackaged it into buckets. How much does a gallon of rice, pasta, powdered milk, beans, etc weigh?


xr
 
RCSAR

RCSAR

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I would not join a site and give personal info to get a login and then tell them how I'm doing on my food storage goals.
 
Great Northwet

Great Northwet

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We, being the kind of community that we are, someone on this board must know of a site with a free(well at least where you don't have to sign up) food storage calculator.
 
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Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
RCSAR said:
I would not join a site and give personal info to get a login and then tell them how I'm doing on my food storage goals.
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I agree completely...

We, being the kind of community that we are, someone on this board must know of a site with a free(well at least where you don't have to sign up) food storage calculator.
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It's old....but it's free...pop your adult/kid numbers in, hit the button...print.

www.survivalring.org/foodcalc.htm

Rich
 
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Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
xtreme_right said:
It's been a while since I tallied up how much food we have. I googled and found the following site. It's nice because you can input amounts you've already got on hand to see what is still needed. You save your info so you can go back and update it.

www.stockupfood.com

xr
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xr,

Think about this.

I've just joined this website to see what they have...

What you have found LITERALLY seems to be what is on MY website food calculator page ... food item for food item.

BUT, what you're doing by creating an account on this site, is connecting YOUR email address AND zip code (if you're truthful) to POTENTIAL food storage LOCATONS if someone is really good at connecting dots online.

All you have to do is keep your food storage numbers updated on this website, instead of at home OFF LINE.

My suggestion? DO NOT USE THIS SITE.

You don't have to use my site either, for that matter.

I have found excel spreadsheets for food storage. Let me see if I can dig them up for anyone interested.

Until then, other online alternatives...

http://www.providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,7498-1-4070-1,00.html

http://www.containerandpackaging.com/food_storage_calculator.asp
(another calc exactly like mine, but in windows server side ASP mode)

http://www.simplylivingsmart.com/tools/food-storage-calculator-4.html
(a bit more basic)

http://standeyo.com/News_Files/Food/DFSP.html
From Holly Deyo..three different excel spreadsheets...

http://standeyo.com/News_Files/menu.food.store.html
links to all kinds of food storage information...

More to be found...just google it...

Rich
 
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Great Northwet

Great Northwet

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:DThanks Rich; that was what I was hoping for(bookmarked).
-However, is there a newer, or updated one for those of us who have lots of canned goods and don't go all the way to cooking from scratch.

-Well that's not quite correct; I can field dress a trout-
 
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Great Northwet said:
:DThanks Rich; that was what I was hoping for(bookmarked).
-However, is there a newer, or updated one for those of us who have lots of canned goods and don't go all the way to cooking from scratch.

-Well that's not quite correct; I can field dress a trout-
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The provident living site is about as new and complete as you will find right now.

I like the spreadsheet ideas, however...

Infinitely customizable based on what YOU use, eat, and rotate thru. Just keep records of usage for 2 months, then multiply by 6...you'll have 12 months of data/info to merge or modify the spreadsheet with.

Don't have excell?

Use the Google spreadsheet tool...free, online and available from anywhere, and lockable.

Hope this helps some.

Rich
 
Great Northwet

Great Northwet

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Provident site also bookmarked. And thank you for the google spreadsheet idea; you're a wealth of info, sir!

-great
 
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xtreme_right

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Do people really give truthful info for those sites?

I didn't become a GI yesterday. Of course I gave all false info. I didn't realize there were other sites out there with the same info. Thanks for letting me know.

xr
 
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Double_A

TB Fanatic
xtreme_right said:
BTW, i've never been able to find a good reference for weights vs. volume. For instance, i've bought food and repackaged it into buckets. How much does a gallon of rice, pasta, powdered milk, beans, etc weigh?


xr
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Your not likely to find that info either, unless you compile it yourself. Let's take beans for instance, the numbers will vary according to type of bean, size of bean, moisture content of dried beans etc.
 
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ShakinSouth

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Rich,

I used your calculator and maybe I'm blind, but am having a hard time finding the length of time the calculator is using to determine amounts needed. Is that for one year, or something else? Thanks!
 
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summerthyme

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You can find "standard weights" for most foodstuffs which will be "close enough" for a good inventory. Just Google "cups per pound" of whatever food item you're looking for.

Many comprehensive cookbooks contain this information for most "ingredients"... flour, sugar, etc. And while different types of beans will vary *somewhat* in weight per gallon (lentils will probably weigh up heavier than large kidney beans), it's going to be fairly insignificant.

What we did, though, was during one cleaning/organization of our basement storage area, we WEIGHED every bucket of food. Wrote on the outside how much of each it contained. We used a hanging "dairy scale" we use in the barn for weighing milk, grain and calves, but you could just use a bathroom scale... stand on it alone, then holding the pail of goodies, and subtract the difference.

A 5 gallon pail holds around 25# of white flour, 22# of rolled oats (not quick cooking) and closer to 35# of whole wheat.

Summerthyme (who needs to do an inventory again... sigh)
 
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ShakinSouth said:
Rich,

I used your calculator and maybe I'm blind, but am having a hard time finding the length of time the calculator is using to determine amounts needed. Is that for one year, or something else? Thanks!
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The food numbers are for one year per person.

The water amount of 14 gallons per person seems to be off however...because 14g is what you need per person, per two weeks. 7 gallons for drinking and 7 gallons for sanitation.

I don't think the average person can do 150 pounds of dried beans in two weeks.

I'll get that part of the page updated soon.

Rich
 
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readerb said:
Someone sent a site to me that calculates food needed for storage based upon the # of months + # of people (adults & children) you enter.. its basic, but good:

http://www.simplylivingsmart.com/tools/food-storage-calculator-4.html

There's a lot of other useful information at this site (like getting started, and how to organize, etc), but it also looks like you need to sign-up in order to access some of it.
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Again, this site's food calc is based on mine....just programmed to add all the similar food area together...also note the water output is for 2 weeks (and the site programmer notes that...)

I created an account on this one...there are several PDFs worthy of use inside, as well as a good spreadsheet...

This site is using Joomla, a content management site that is very nice, and the data presented is safe for download...no online storage except of login info.

Rich
 
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