Day 8 {Monday}

Breakfast – Strawberry Malt – o- Meal 220 calories

I could eat this stuff everyday. Plus it has a wee bit of sugar in it which is a total bonus if you ask me.

Snack– Beans and Rice 320 calories

Boring.

Lunch White Bean and Lime Chili 230 calories per serving

Happy to have had this in my kit. There are a bunch of other soups left to try, but I have a feeling the white bean and lime chili will be my favorite overall. I.Love.Cumin.

Dinner Cheesy Mac 280 calories

I was a little worried about how the mac and cheese was going to taste. I was hoping it would be better than the stuff in the blue box… and it totally was. The dish was very creamy and tasted great. So far I have been very please with the quality of the food from Valley Food Storage because it actually taste like food I’d cook for my family.

I remember trying backpacker food when I was in college and it wasn’t the greatest… but holy cow, freeze dried meals have come a long way.

Total Calories Consumed on Day  8 –  1050

Total Beverages Consumed on Day 8 –  7 bottles of water

The hardest part about day 8?

Drinking so much water {rather than tea with milk and sugar} was starting to get to me a little. Habits… like drinking 20 cups of tea a day, are hard to break. But, in hindsight, I probably shouldn’t be drinking 20 cups a day anyway. Waking up and going through my day without an ounce of caffeine in my system is amazing. I feel like I have more energy and am more alert. Weird, huh?

Day 9 {Tuesday}

Breakfast – Strawberry Oatmeal 300 calories

I LOVE this stuff!!! I like eating it out of my tin gardening cup for some strange reason.

Snack– Beans and Rice 320 calories

It’s not very exciting but it’s pretty filling. I think I might try and mashing my beans tomorrow for a little excitement.

Lunch and Dinner Cheesy Mac 560 {280 calories per serving}

Mini spatulas… are amazing. Nuff said. 😉

Total Calories Consumed on Day  9 –  1180

Total Beverages Consumed on Day 9 –  10 bottles of water

The hardest part about day 9?

Actually, nothing. I felt great yesterday {and the day before as well}. I think my body is finally getting use to the reduced calories and is adjusting appropriately. I am getting more sleep {about an hour} than I was before this whole living off a 30 day emergency supply of food started and I am off caffeine.

I am also doing more of my garden chores in the morning while it’s still cool outside and working online during the day… which is kind of nice actually.

I am feeling very optimistic that I can do this. 🙂

21 days to go.

~Mavis

More Posts-
Living off a 30 Day Supply of Dehydrated Food
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 1
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 2
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 3
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 4
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food Days 5, 6 and 7

Day 5 {Friday}

Breakfast – Nothing.

Let me explain. The 1 Month Food Supply Value Kit comes with 85 servings and based on 2 things:

1. Price point so that people can start their food storage in some way.

2. You are supplementing the kit with beans, rice and other items you are already storing.

In hindsight I should have gone with the Premium Kit because it comes with 205 servings and was especially designed to feed 1 person for an entire month. But I didn’t. Because I’m an idiot. And kind of stubborn. 😉

Anywho, 30 days = 90 meals and the kit I am using only has 85 servings which means I have to go without a meal 5 times. So I need to be strategic about it. My first thought was to sleep in on every Saturday this month and skip breakfast plus and go without lunch once.

But then I remembered I am signed up to do a 5k this month {on a Saturday} so that means I can only sleep in {and skip breakfast} 3 times this month and will have to skip lunch twice so I don’t end up with an empty box and no food to eat at the end of the month.

On top of the 5k race, there is Monkey Boy’s Graduation and Father’s Day. Both of which include a family gathering WITH FOOD. Could I have picked a better month to do this personal challenge?

YES

So basically, I’ll be staying in my pj’s and trying not to move a few days this month. It should be interesting. Luckily Lucy the puggle princess likes to snuggle and watch movies with me.

Moral of the story –>When the zombie Apocalypse hits… HAVE A BIG ARSE STOCKPILE OF FOOD. Because you are going to NEED it. 

Snack- Beans and Rice 320 calories

Lunch and Dinner – Southern Style Chicken and Rice Soup  460 {230 calories per serving}

Total Calories Consumed on Day  –  780

Total Beverages Consumed on Day  –  0 cups of tea 9 bottles of water {I’m using this to drink out of}

The hardest part about day 5?

I gave up tea. I can’t believe it. If I can’t have milk and sugar in my tea… forget about it. It’s not even worth drinking.

Day 6 {Saturday}

Breakfast – Multi Grain Cereal 160 calories

Snack- Beans and Rice 320 calories

Lunch and Dinner White Bean and Lime Chili 460 calories {230 calories per serving}

This stuff was freakin’ delicious. I am continually amazed at how good food with a 25 year shelf life can be. Plus, this chili has cumin in it which is one of my favorite spices.

Total Calories Consumed on Day  –  940

Total Beverages Consumed on Day  –  10 bottles of water {it was 86 degrees out!!}

The hardest part about day 6?

It was hot out, a low calorie day, and I had about 6 hours of online work I had to do. I knew going into the day it was going to be a hard one so I made sure to take a nap and drink plenty of water. I also got woke up around 5:30 {I normally sleep in on Saturdays} and watered the garden beds and all the plants super early so I wouldn’t be outside during the afternoon and evening hours when the temps are high. Saturday was lame and kind of depressing.

Until the mail man dropped off a package from James at Valley Food Storage containing 2 packages of pancake mix! “Just a little something to help.” the note said. Hmmmm. What does this mean?

Should I make pancakes? Would this be considered cheating? {Yes, yes it would} I mean, zombies have not attacked yet so maybe I need to save the mix just in case they do. We’ll see.

Day 7 {Sunday}

Breakfast – Strawberry Malt – o- Meal 220 calories

Snack- Beans and Rice 320 calories

Lunch and Dinner White Bean and Lime Chili 460 calories {230 calories per serving}

Total Calories Consumed on Day  –  1000

Total Beverages Consumed on Day  –  9 bottles of water

The hardest part about day 7?

I made homemade chocolate ice cream for my peeps AND baked oatmeal cookies for them as well. On more than one occasion {okay, maybe 10} I opened the jar of oatmeal cookies and gave a good hard smell trying to basically inhale the cookies through my sniffer. It was pretty pitiful and my husband may have yelled “Eat a Damn Cookie Already” at me.

But I soldiered on.

23 days to go.

~Mavis

More Posts-
Living off a 30 Day Supply of Dehydrated Food
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 1
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 2
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 3
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 4

Yesterday was a good day. I woke up knowing I was going to eat the strawberry oatmeal out of my 30 day food supply box from Valley Food Storage and I just knew it was going to be delicious. And it was. It was so good in fact I found dreaming about strawberries and popped online to look our up our favorite local berry farm.

Which of course, led us on a morning road trip to Spooner Farms. I don’t know how I did it, but we bought 2 flats of juicy, freshly picked strawberries and I didn’t eat a single one.

We also made 22 jars of strawberry jam. 🙂

And I made my peeps strawberry shortcake for dinner. 🙂 🙂

Now that my friends is WILLPOWER.

We had a very mild winter here in Western Washington and much to my dismay… it is officially berry season. Oh well, I least we froze a bunch of berries so I’ll get to taste them in July.

Breakfast – Strawberry Oatmeal 300 calories

Snack – Beans and Rice 320 calories

Lunch and Dinner – Southern Style Chicken and Rice Soup  460 {230 calories per serving}

Total Calories Consumed on Day  –  1080

Total Beverages Consumed on Day  – 1 cup of tea 8 bottles of water {I’m using this to drink out of}

The hardest part about day 4?

Actually yesterday was pretty easy. I think my body is getting used to eating smaller portions. It’s more of a mind game at this point I think.

26 days to go!

~Mavis

More Posts-
Living off a 30 Day Supply of Dehydrated Food
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 1
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 2
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 3

 “All I have in the house is alcohol and Oreos.”

I can’t tell you how much I LOVED Dana’s comment from yesterdays update. Go HERE to read it. I’ll wait. Basically, it pretty much summed up WHY I decided to do this self imposed {and totally crazy} challenge.

On the very first day of this Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food series I wrote “What would it be like to have to use one of these kits in a real life scenario? What if you found yourself with no access to a grocery store, no access to Amazon.com – just you, some water and your box of emergency food?”

Like a lot of things in life, I jumped into this without putting much thought into it. I added beans and rice to the box yesterday, but that’s all I will be adding. Period.

I’m sticking to my guns… this is what I’ll be eating for the next 27 days. So no more suggesting I toss in suckers, or spices or chocolate… it’s only going to make this personal challenge of mine that much more difficult.

People keep commenting about my activity level. In reality, I don’t think I am that active. More active than a person who sits at a desk job all day? Yes. But active like stroller mom and her 4 hour a day walks? No. In fact I haven’t taken Lucy on one of our usual 1 hour long walks in about a week… and I don’t plan on doing any of those anytime soon either {the kids are taking her on her long walks instead}.

Maybe I’ll crash, maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll have better skin at the end of this because of all the water I’m drinking, maybe I won’t. Maybe, just maybe, this will wake a few of us up and show what it would really be like to live off a basic food supply kit, some beans, a little rice and water. Maybe we need to fork over a few dollars more and BUY the bigger kit because we’ll need it if we don’t want to be uncomfortable. Maybe we won’t.

Maybe I’ll succeed. Maybe I won’t. 

How boring would life be if we woke up and lived the same life every single day? If we didn’t stretch ourselves? Well, that’s just not me.
Breakfast – Strawberry Malt o Meal 220 calories

I could eat this everyday. I really do like it and I especially like the fact the cereal is sweetened.

During the morning hours I drank 2 cups of hot tea and 3 bottles of water.

Lunch – Pasta Primavera 380 calories

I LOVE this stuff!

Snack – Beans and Rice 320 calories

Never before in my entire life have I eaten beans and rice as a snack. And yet, a huge population of the world does. In fact they eat beans and rice 2 or 3 times a day.

Dinner – Southern Style Chicken and Rice Soup  230 calories

This was another dish I am in love with. It’s very simple and tasty. Lot’s of flavor.

Throughout the rest of the day I drank 6 bottles of water.

Total Calories Consumed on Day  3 –  1150

Total Beverages Consumed on Day  3–  2 cups of tea 9 bottles of water {I’m using this to drink out of}

The hardest part about day 3?

I made 5 dozen chocolate chip cookies for my peeps and didn’t eat a single one. Not even the broken one that was crying out to be put out of it’s misery. The cookies smelled so good and I wanted to rub them on my face. 😉

27 Days to go, and in it to win it.

~Mavis

More Posts
Living off a 30 Day Supply of Dehydrated Food
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 1
Living off a 30 Day Emergency Supply of Food – Day 2