A Famine Menu

This is a basic famine menu that will keep you alive. Variety of taste will come from supplementation from a vegetable garden, fruit trees, raising animals, bartering, spices and additional items you store. Each family must be creative to vary the taste of the foods and to add additional items that will make the basic foods most appetizing for you.

Adding small farm animals will enhance your diet tremendously such as hens for eggs or chickens for meat, meat rabbits, cows or goats for milk, yogurt, cheese, pigs for meat, and a fish pond stocked for meat. Also storing sprouting seeds will give you needed enzymes through the winter from your kitchen counter. Keep a store of garden seeds to renew the vegetables each season and gain seed saving skills. Using lacto fermentation techniques will bring healthy enzymes and variance in flavors as well as being a means to preserve your harvest without heating your containers (just store extra salt).

This is only one example of a famine menu, modify it to meet your particular needs or share yours with all of us. We welcome all information that will help us in hard times.

Someone looking over my Famine Menu once asked me if the title weren't an oxymoron-"Famine Menu"-like you have a choice of eating foods when there is a famine. I responded that I was planning to eat during a famine, and eat as well as I can prepare for. God bless us all.

Basic Famine Menu
Per Day for One Person
3 slices of whole wheat bread (lunch and dinner)
1 pot of oatmeal (breakfast, vary with spices and fruit from the orchard or dehydrated or nuts)
1 pot of rice (dinner)
1 pot of beans (dinner, vary with spices and vegetables from the garden)
1 glass of milk

In Addition Per Week
1 pint of jam
1 jar of peanut butter
1 spaghetti dinner with hamburger
4 pots of soup (From leftovers and Soup for A Year)
7 jar sprouting seeds rotation (From Ann Wigmore's book on Sprouting)

In Addition Per Month
1/2 -#10 can popcorn
1 can potato flakes
1 can Refried Beans
1 can white flour

Amounts to Store for One Person, Two Persons, Three Persons, Four Persons
Wheat 90 lbs, 168 lbs, 252 lbs, 366 lbs
Rolled Oats 24 lbs, 48 lbs, 72 lbs, 96 lbs
Rice 60 lbs, 120 lbs, 180 lbs, 240 lbs
Dry Beans 60 lbs, 120 lbs, 180 lbs, 240 lbs
Spaghetti Pasta 60 lbs, 120 lbs, 180 lbs, 240 lbs
Powdered Milk 16 lbs (kids 32 lbs), 32 lbs, 48 lbs, 64 lbs
Potato Flakes 18 lbs, 36 lbs, 54 lbs, 72 lbs
Refried Beans 24 lbs, 48 lbs, 72 lbs, 96 lbs
White Flour 48 lbs, 96 lbs, 144 lbs, 192 lbs
Honey 18 lbs (see Bread for a Year), 36 lbs, 57 lbs, 57 lbs
Granulated Sugar 40 lbs, 80 lbs, 120 lbs, 160 lbs
Oil 9 Qts (See Bread for a Year), 18 Qts, 18 Qts, 18 Qts
Yeast (See Bread for a Year) 2 lbs, 4 lbs, 8 lbs, 8 lbs
Salt 8 lbs (See Bread for a Year)
Peanut Butter 17 lbs,34 lbs, 52-16 oz, 52-16 oz jars
Fruit Jam 52 Pints
Spaghetti Sauce 52 Quarts
Canned Hamburger or meat 52 pints
Popcorn #10 cans, 6
Multi-Vitamins, 365, 730, 1095, 1460
Items for Soup For a Year (Another day, another document)
Spices
Sprouting Seeds (Wheat, beans, seeds), 40 lbs, 80 lbs, 120 lbs, 160 lbs

This Famine Menu will supply more than the LDS recommended minimum to keep us alive.
For each person per month:
Grains 25 lbs
Beans 5 lbs

h/t Sharon N Lance Palmer