Level 3: Month Two

March Provident Living Plan
Level 2: Educate Yourself!

Assignment:

Educate yourself on long-term food storage and determine the types of foods you want to eat. Calculate how much food you need per person in your family.

Educate yourself on long term food storage and determine the types of foods you want to eat. There are so many options, especially in Utah. Do you want to stock freeze-dried items, grains and legumes? A combination?

How much will you need?  

According to FoodStorageMadeEasy.net, "there are basically two schools of thought on long term food storage. One recommends a 2300 calorie diet with 300 lbs of grains and 75 lbs of powdered milk (this was the original recommendation given to members of the LDS church back in 1978). A more recent recommendation has been to increase the calories to 2400, raise the grains to 400 lbs, and lower powdered milk to just 16 lbs (this is based off of a research study done in 1979)."

There are several online tools to help you calculate this for your family.
LDS.org
FoodStorageMadeEasy.net
LivewiseIndustries.com
BePrepared.com

Level 2: Month Two

March Provident Living Plan
Level 2: Meal Planning

Assignment:

Make a list of foods/meals you eat regularly and determine how much you would go through in three months time. From that list, pick 14 pantry friendly meals.

Write it down!

What are your popular family meals? What ingredients do you need for those meals? Are they pantry friendly ingredients? Could they be pantry friendly ingredients?

Take it one step further. From that list, pick 14 pantry friendly meals. These can be the meals you work towards keeping in stock, times six. (14 meals x 6 = 3 months of meals)

Want some forms to help you keep track?  Try this site over here. Or this one over here.

Level 1: Month Two

March Provident Living Plan
Level 1: Important Papers

Assignment:

Gather copies of your important documents, both digital copies and electronic.

Don't forget your important documents! Take time now to gather and protect your documents.

The originals of most should be kept in a safety deposit box.  You can scan documents onto a computer and create digital files. You can store the electronic copies of the documents on a remote computer or securely in the cloud. 

Make paper copies and keep them in a sealed, waterproof bag in your emergency kit so they are with you.

Documents to consider are:

• Home Inventory
• Insurance Policies - house, life, car, property, boat, ... Check that your policy covers you for disasters and that the limits are adequate since the last time you reviewed it.
• Wills - make sure you review and update your will occasionally too
• Property Deeds - to prove you own the house and land
• Titles to vehicles
• Tax Returns - first 2 pages of state and federal returns from the past 3 years
• Contracts - business you are doing or having done
• Stocks and Bonds
• Bank Account Numbers
• Credit Card Numbers and company phone numbers
• Driver's Licenses
• Social Security card
• Health Insurance Cards
• Prescriptions - medicines and eyeglasses
• Immunization records
• Phone Numbers - relatives, employer, insurance agent, doctor, pastor, financial advisor, repair contractor
• Birth certificates
• Marriage certificates
• Passports