Some Important References

I use ProvidentLiving.org as my main reference for what we, as Latter-Day Saints are commanded to store, per person for a year. Below, are some great resources to get you started on (or continue with) your personal preparedness.

“How Often do Church member arise early in the morning to do the will of the Lord?…How often do we say, ‘Yes, I will obey the commandment to store food and to help others, but just now I have neither the time nor the money to spare; I will obey later’? Oh, foolish people! While we procrastinate, the harvest will be over and we will not be saved. Now is the time to follow Abraham’s example; now is the time to repent; now is the time for prompt obedience to God’s will.” 

(The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p.174, emphasis added)

Here are some helpful links:
Provident Living - Food Storage
Home Storage Center Locations
Home Storage Price List/Order Form (scroll down and download the pdf file)
Longer-Term Food Storage Amounts/Recommendations

Here is a FOOD STORAGE CALCULATOR created by our own Valerie Kinkead. It takes all of the recommended items found from the link above and lets you manipulate it so you can keep track of what you have/need. Sometimes, the hardest part to "getting going" with food storage is the organization of it all! Buckle down and take inventory with this spreadsheet - then keep going! ♥

Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet, taught:

"The responsibility for each person's social, emotional, spiritual, physical, or economic well-being rests first upon himself, second upon his family, and third upon the Church if he is a faithful member thereof" ("Welfare Services: The Gospel in Action," General Conference, Oct. 1977, 76).

"The Church and its members are commanded by the Lord to be self-reliant and independent" (D&C 78:13-14).