Tick what you have in the house and what you can cook on. The page then shows what you can make now,
what you are one thing short of, and everything else. It remembers your ticks on this device, so you can
keep it up to date like a pantry list. Works with no internet.
1. Tick what you have
Nothing ticked yet.
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2. Tick what you can cook on
A recipe that needs an oven will not be offered to someone who only has a fire. Leave this blank
and nothing is ruled out.
You can make these now
One thing short
Everything else
Where these come from
Every recipe says where it came from: a section of one of this library's guides, or a book on the
drive and the page it is on. Old books are fine for methods. For food safety — canning, curing
meat, fermenting — follow the guides, because the times and pressures depend on how high up you are, and
this page links to them rather than repeating them. Where an amount is ordinary kitchen knowledge with no source,
the recipe says so. Nothing here is a quantity or a time that somebody made up.
Weigh what you have, say who is eating it, and this works out how many days it lasts, what a fair
daily share is, and what to use up first. It does the same arithmetic the
Food Security guide
sets out, with that guide's own numbers.
1. Who is eating
Pick what each person is. The calories come from the guide's table, not from their weight —
weight is for watching whether the ration is working, further down.
2. How long it has to last
Count the days to the next harvest, then add about three months of reserve — that is the
guide's rule.
3. What you have, weighed
How long it lasts
A fair daily share
Per person per day, with one marked scoop per food. Two people present whenever the stores are
opened, and a written log of what went out — the guide says why.
Use these first
Soonest to go off at the top. A date you entered beats the general guidance; where you gave no
date, this counts from today using how long that food keeps sealed and cool.
Weigh-in
The ration on paper is not the ration people actually eat. Write everyone's weight down now and
again every week or two: the first sign that someone is not getting their share is that they lose weight faster
than the rest. Children and older people often give theirs away.
Where these numbers come from
What a person needs a day is the
Food Security guide's table
(the US Dietary Guidelines), planned from the top of each range because "active" there only means walking
three miles a day. The cold-weather addition and the 2,100 kcal planning figure are the WHO's, through the same
guide. How long food keeps sealed comes from Utah State Extension through that guide's storage table. Calories,
protein and fat per food are USDA FoodData Central's standard figures for the ordinary form of each food —
a planning figure, not a measurement of your sack of wheat. Three wild foods (camas, cattail, wild seed) are not
in USDA's tables at all and are marked as estimates wherever they appear.
This page does not decide anything for you. It will not tell you to cut a child's food, it
does not know who is ill or pregnant beyond what you typed, and it cannot see the mould in the bottom of the
bucket. Hunger diseases, feeding someone who is already starving, and babies in a shortage are all in the
Food Security guide,
and this page sends you there rather than repeating them.