Day 1:

This last week I did a ton of prep work.  I took every last jar off the shelves and organized them by type, cataloging how much I had both inside the house and out in the garage.  (My mom came to help with this monumental task, because she's pretty much da bomb.)  I moved, counted and cataloged all of the cans that I had stored in SO many weird places, and in mountains out in the garage.  Now, every can is stored with similar items.  My mom also lent me two food storage recipe books (which is going to save me hours of hunting on Pinterest), and I'm ready to go!

During the week, I decided to give a few recipes a try, just to get my feet wet.  It was...interesting.  For example, Wheat Loaf (which I mostly cooked because the title cracked me up):

So, the complaint from the fam wasn't that it had things in it that looked like bugs, or that the texture was chewy.  The biggest issue they had with this was that it was too spicy.  What?  So, basically, my hubby, the only one who likes spicy things, ate it all.  Friends, I wouldn't recommend eating this much wheat by yourself, gastro-intestinally speaking.  Just sayin'.

The next experiment was Cheezits.  I'm still trying to decide if crackers will be one of the things I still buy.  I used fake, "plastic" cheese slices that I bought on a whim because they were cheap, and it still cost more to make them.  I also kind of didn't measure the salt and may have added too much. The kids told me they didn't like them as they were shoving them in their mouths, soooooo... take that feedback as you will.  (Recipe found on Pinterest.)

And then last night was sloppy joes, which I ate on cardboardy gluten-free bread and it still tasted amazing!  I made bread that morning for the fam, grabbed pre-cooked ground beef I prepped earlier in the week, added in some home-canned spahetti sauce, and it was fantastic!

Thus begins the adventure!  I'll keep you updated!