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To build our food supply for April, we spent about $19.59 on food staples including:

Sugar (10lbs)

Tomato puree (29 oz.)

3 Elbow macaroni (3 Lbs. ea.)

Mozzarella cheese (2 Lbs.)

We usually use the tomato puree and the cheese for sourdough pizza. I make a simple pizza sauce with the tomato puree. I use it for pasta sauce as well

I use the sugar to sweeten wheat berry porridge, corn meal porridge, sheet pancake, and corn bread.

Macaroni is easy and quick to cook for dinner.

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How to build your food supply on budget?

We spent $31.50 to build our food supply for March using March budget.

We spent $127.10 to build our grocery supply now for April.

So far we spent about $329 in March for March and April grocery supply.

• You can build your food supply on budget if you have a list of items you would need for this month and probably next month and purchase them to reduce your trip to the grocery store during this emergency.
• You can build your grocery supply on budget if you purchase shelf stable food staples and non- food staples in bigger quantities instead of smaller packages. But you need to calculate the cost per unit or ounce to make sure, as it is not always the case.
• You can build your food supply on low budget if you cook from scratch and purchase your food staples instead of ready to eat packaged food. The later might cost more than the former. For instance, we stocked up on flour the previous day. I use flour for sourdough pizza and wraps (eggroll). 5lbs unbleached wheat flour cost $1.22.

How I feed my household of 7 lunch and dinner for less than $1 a person per meal

Yesterday, I made wraps (eggrolls) for lunch and chicken soup and sweet cornmeal for dinner.

Wraps (eggrolls): $1 a person

I used 11 cups of flour to make wraps that was $0.79 (11*$1.22/17) worth for flour. I used 5 lbs. of ground beef about $5 and vegetables including dandelion leaves, sorrel, Egyptian onion. All the vegetables were harvested from our garden back in fall. Therefore, they were free. I used peanut oil and salt for about $1. Some people use ketchup and some sweet and sour sauce. I could estimate $0.20 for the dip. The wraps cost me about $6.99 for our household of 7 and we have leftovers. The wrap lunch cost less than $1 a person with leftovers. The dip which is a finished processed food is expensive especially, sweet and sour sauce.

• Chicken soup and Sweet corn meal: $0.46 per person

Budget and Monthly Expense Tracker

For dinner, I made chicken soup and sweet corn meal. The cost was a follow: $1 for homemade canned chicken (purchased at $0.49/lb. over summer), $0 for homemade canned broth, $0 for homemade grown vegetables and wild plants (Egyptian onions, Creeping Charlie, and dandelion), and $0.05 for salt. The corn bread cost $0.25 for sugar, $0.51 for corn meal ($2.50*3.25/16), $0.22 for flour ($1.22*3/17), $0.62 for milk ($2.20*4.5/16), $0.10 peanut oil. The Homemade chicken soup cost $1.49. The homemade corn bread cost a total of $ 1.69. To feed 7 people including 4 adults and 3 kids, my homemade chicken soup and sweet corn meal cost us about $3.19. That was $0.46 per person.

You can build your food supply on low budget if you stock up on food staples to cook from scratch. But it is important to stock up on ingredients to make food you would eat.