More About the Spreadsheet

Did you notice that the spreadsheet has two tabs? The first tab is the spreadsheet and the second tab is a graph of your overall progress.


You can also manually override any field that fills in automatically. For example my son can't drink milk so we dropped our dry milk needs down to three instead of four people.

The amounts on the spreadsheet are for adults. If you have children in your family you can cut down on your needs as follows:

3 and under -- 50%
4 t0 6 -- 70%
7 to 10 -- 90%
11 and up -- 100%

However, we are storing food that we won't touch for 20+ years so we still figure our food storage for four adults even though we have two young children. It is nice to know that we have a buffer when we get to 100% and we also know that we would be fine next year if we only had 80%.

We have also found that it is a good idea to set goals along the way. Our goal is to have 50% of everything, and then work towards 75%, and then to 100%. You will probably get really sick of eating wheat and oats if that is all you have.