Fix Your Wallet, Health & Prepping. Be a Budget Master and Gain Understanding & Resiliency With a Food Log. Start Copy-Canning for a Self-Reliance Plan.

1. 086: Fix Your Wallet, Your Health, and
Your Prepping with a Food Log
by Ken Jensen

2. Gain Understanding and Resiliency
through a Food Log
• Use a Food Log to Fix
Your Wallet.
• A Food Log Can Fix Your
Health.
• A Food Log Will Kick
You’re Prepping in Gear.
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3. Become a Budget Master with a Food Log
Keep up with the foods you eat
and pay attention to costs.
By paying attention to costs, you
can “shop around.”
Food Logging will tell you what
you typically use.
• Create a Grocery List and Stop
Impulse Shopping.
• When shopping you can keep
up with costs.
• When you know what you eat,
and have extra, you can wait for
good deals.
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4. By Logging your Food Use, You can Super
Charge Your Health
Figure out your Main Nutritional
Inputs
• Am I eating processed foods?
• Am I eating pre-canned foods?
• Do I shop for Raw Materials to
make meals, or for premade
meals?
When shopping at groceries,
stick to the outside isles of the
store.
• Usually where produce, meats,
and dairy is.
• Watch out for bread section and
bakery area.
• Processed Foods are usually in
the center isles.
• When watching the costs of
food, you can find which ones
have cheap organic alternatives.
Audio: ThePrepperPodcast.com/086

5. You can replace grocery store foods
with Local Foods.
• You can get your produce and dairy from natural and raw
local farmers.
• You can grow your own produce each season based on
your food log.
• Go to the local farms and see how they are planted… it is
FUN for children.
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6. It is time to Destroy that Food Resiliency
Goal
Log Your Meals!
• Use copy-canning to quick
start your food storage
– I will discuss more on
this in a bit.
• If you focus on Raw
Produce, you can learn to
can and preserve food
yourself
– This is an extremely
valuable skill.
Learn an Extremely Easy Method
for Logging Food Needs
• Get a cheap notebook to log your usage
• When you use raw materials or canned
goods, log the amount you use
• When using small amounts of things like
spices or creams, you can just log that
you used them.
• When you make your grocery list, you
can calculate your usage, and set up a
list.
Audio: ThePrepperPodcast.com/086

7. What is this “Copy-Canning” of Which You
Speak?
Copy-Canning is knowing what you
eat and calculating what you have
to buy to last a certain period of
time.
• If you like to garden and can, then you can
replace the purchase of canned goods
with your canning.
• This may change your calculating a bit, but
the scope of this is the beginner prepper.
• I will focus on copy-canning with pre-
canned food from a grocery store.
• This is not meant to fix your diet, it is
meant to make you resilient.
– Like I said earlier, you can use this log
to help your health if you want.
Start Copy-Canning for an
Awesome Self-Reliance Plan
• Having a 6-month food
storage could save your
lives, or at least reduce
stress.
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8. After 1 Month of Logging your consumption,
calculate your yearly food.
• Make a 12 Month average of
your usage. You can actually
begin this after a shorter
period of time, but I wouldn’t
recommend it.
• What if the shelf life of that
item is only 6 months?
• Store what you eat, and eat what
you store.
• If you complete this simple task
you will now have some
advantages.
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9. Next, Add Some cheap basics to get to 3 Months of
Food
Add Fillers into your storage
• They are cheap, last a long time, and will
make your current food last a bit longer.
• Grab items such as rice, beans, pastas,
potatoes, and grains.
• Remember, canned foods use less energy
and water input in preparation.
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10. Time to boost your prepping way up with freeze
dried and dehydrated foods!
• The benefit of freeze dried foods
is that they take less heat and
water input.
• Get Higher Quality freeze
dried foods to get non-
perishable versions of
perishable items
• Freeze Dried Foods cover most
things that you couldn’t get
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11. No matter what you are prepping for you should have a good
solid plan for food preps to help you through tough times
without stressing out about where your or your family’s next
meal will come from.
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