FREE ONLINE CLASS
How Much Food Does Your Family Actually Need?
Sized to your family, with almost nothing wasted
A practical class for families who:
📌 Want food put by that actually gets eaten
📌 Are working with a real budget, and
📌 Don’t want to guess at how much is enough
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Thursday, August 6 | 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern
Almost everybody has some food put away. How many days does yours cover?
Our family got this wrong twice. Nick’s grandpa stacked a supply of C-rations in the basement during the Cold War, and years later they opened them up and threw the whole lot out. Then in the 90s we bought a year of freeze-dried food in 5-gallon buckets, and it sat in the corner because it wasn’t part of our meals and we didn’t much care for it.
Then Lisa tried one of those online food storage calculators. It handed her hundreds of pounds of wheat and buckets of rice, and she stood there knowing most of it would go stale in the basement before anyone ate it. The charts fail because everybody’s diet is different, and a 17-year-old boy and a 70-year-old lady don’t eat the same.
The food on your grocery shelf traveled somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500 miles to get there, and the store only keeps a few days of stock on hand. In this class, we’ll show you how to size a real food supply out of the meals your family already eats.
The three levels we'll walk through
Store what you eat, and eat what you store. Everything below is built on that one sentence.
1. A real 2-week buffer
Two weeks of actual meals your family will eat, on hand. Lisa ran a test at Walmart and walked out with about 40 meals of rice and beans, 2 weeks of oats, and some pasta and sauce, for $49.77.
2. Scale it larger
Once you know what 2 weeks takes, a month, 3 months, or even a year is plain arithmetic. We’ll show you the multiplication, the buying order, and the rhythm that fills the shelves at whatever pace your budget allows.
3. Harvest to harvest
It’s what our great-grandparents did, and this is what we’d like to aim for. But how much garden space will it take? We’ll give an example to illustrate, and you might be surprised!
What you'll walk away with
- How many days your pantry actually covers right now.
- The menu method Lisa built our whole plan around, and why it beats every chart and online calculator.
- How to size 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, or a full year for your household, with almost nothing left over to spoil.
- The buying order for that first grocery run, and the monthly rhythm that fills the shelves without a big check.
This class is for you if...
- You’ve got some food put away and you’ve never actually counted how many days it would feed everybody.
- Money is tight, or you’re on a fixed income, and you can’t afford an expensive mistake.
- You’re in town, in an apartment, or renting, and you wonder whether any of this applies to you. It does.
- You tried a food storage calculator once and it handed you food your family would never eat.
Wherever you’re starting from, there’s a step here you can take this week. You don’t have to wait for perfect conditions to begin.
Your hosts, Nick and Lisa Meissner
Nick and his family carved out an off-grid homestead deep in the mountains of Idaho 25 years ago, completely off the power grid, and he has lived that way ever since. He and Lisa are raising their family the same way.
About 20 years ago, folks started asking them to teach what they had learned. Since then, they have led country living seminars at hundreds of locations coast to coast, produced hundreds of hours of training, and now serve many thousands of families through The Ready Life.
From the beginning, God’s Word has been their north star, in their spiritual life and the practical one alike.
Save your seat for the class
Thursday, August 6 | 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern
Free to attend, and we’ll send the replay to everyone who registers. Bring a pen and paper, and bring your questions. We’ll stick around afterward to answer what we can.