Challenge: Eat down Food for one month

[Unionville]

I'm doing a challenge to eat down food in the house for 1 month of January.  The only thing that can be purchased in the store is on a predetermined list of 33 items (you decide what items)

[grantmeaname]

Interesting! What sorts of things are on and off of that list, for those of us not in the group?

[swick]

I'd e curious to know what is on the list too :)

Here are a couple of threads that might help :

http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/fire-drill!-skip-this-week%27s-grocery-shop/

http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/eat-all-the-food-in-your-house-take-2/

Good Luck!

[Unionville]

You get to decide what is on your own list.

[Retired To Win]

Our Emergency Reserves Plan addresses more than just unexpected cash flow "disturbances" that could be resolved with money.  Our Plan also addresses "catastrophe" type emergencies.  And part of our reserves to address that is a multi-month canned and dry foods stash.  So, eating down the food in our house is a non-starter for us.

However, we do "eat to rotate" the emergency stores, so that they don't go out of date.

(And, for those who are ready to jump in scoffing at this type of emergency planning, let me just say that I have lived through multi-week emergencies due to hurricanes, snow storms, and political/civil disturbances when food stores were NOT OPEN.  So it is not all in my head.  :O)