Week 17 - Beans

BEANS!

Week 16 - The Long Haul

To quote one of my favorite poets and philosopher, Shel Silverstein:

If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!”

So to all you wonderful magic-bean-buyers, hail to thee.  And store away another 8+ pounds of beans for every two people in your family this week.

Have a happy week,
Marie

Week 15 - The Long Haul

Hi sisters,

Again, this week we are working on storing beans, the dry, long shelf life kind of beans, be they red, or white, or black, or pinto.  Be sure to get another 8+ pounds into storage or tuck the $5/week/every 2 people into a savings envelope until you can go get it.

Beans are such great protein and are so very important in our long term, life sustaining kind of storage, but they also are full of interesting associations and memories.  I am reminded of a funny birthday card I ran across a while back while looking for a card.  On the front it said,

"Some nights I lie next to you and feel like the luckiest woman in the world."

Open it:

"Other nights I feel like a woman who should never serve chili for dinner ever again.  Happy Birthday"

And Happy Bean Hunting.

Love,
Marie

Week 14 - The Long Haul

You guessed it. BEANS, again. A few more weeks and you may be coming close to getting in your year's supply of beans. Give me a quick "Done" reply when you have, so I know when to start either giving alternatives or moving on the the next section.

Blessings,

Marie

Week 13 - The Long Haul

Let's start a chant:

MORE BEANS, MORE BEANS, MORE BEANS.

Maybe we can get arms waving in the air.

We're off to buy beans  (and sugar and other items) tomorrow at the Home Storage Center.  Anyone else want to come?

See you soon,
Marie

Week 12 - The Long Haul

This is easy:

MORE BEANS!

Week 11 - The Long Haul

Sisters,

This morning I have two words for you:

MORE BEANS!!!

(as in the kind that have a shelf live of 30+ years). 

Using the current price figures for beans out at the Home Storage Center, I am estimating that $5 will probably get us a little over 8 lbs this week. So purchase, or save to purchase. We'll keep plugging away on our bean supply.

Anyone else want to go with us out to the HSC on March 27?

Beanfully yours,

Marie

Week 10 - The Long Haul

Haloooooo, oh ye sisters of the long haul, It's time to switch gears. I know, you were about sugared out. So here we go. Shift to: BEANS! We will be working on beans for the next 8 weeks, not that we all will probably have all the beans in that we need by then, but we can always come back to it. And for point of clarification, these are not canned beans. These are your dry beans that have a shelf live of 30+ years. If you go to (and I really encourage you all to do so) the Church's website at providentliving.org, you will see that the Church recommends 5 lbs. of beans/person/month. So your first task (or tell your kid's that it is their first task) is to do the math. 5 (pounds) x (# of people in your family) x 12 (months in a year). So what did you get? That is your goal!!!! The following is optional: The next math problem is to figure out how much that is going to cost you (the average price per 25 pounds of beans out at the Home Storage Center is about $17.25), and the 3rd problem is to figure out how many weeks (at $5/week/every 2 people in the family) you are going to need to hit your goal. Of course, for those of you that have partial supplies of beans, you'll have to factor that in as well. I noticed my 3rd grade grandson is working on just these kind of 3/4 step math problems, so maybe I'll go get him to help me. If anyone needs a loaner grandson calculator, let me know - he might hire out. So this week either spend your $5/every 2 people in your family on beans or tuck away that $5 in an envelope marked "Beans" and keep it in a safe place until you are ready to buy beans. I will be going to the HSC on Tuesday March 27 to purchase some beans for Mark and me, You are invited to come along. It's always a fun trip. Just let me know who is interested and we can car pool! (We could even stop at Sonic for a treat afterwards. Maybe I'll take my grandson. He likes the mini banana splits, if they still have them.) It's "bean" real, Marie

Week 10 - Provident Pantry

Hi sisters,

To complete the song from last week:

....the more you toot, the better you feel, so let's have beans for every meal. What can I say, it was one of my kids' favorite tunes.

So I am seeing still more beans on the ingredients lists that have been sent in, so let's keep adding to the beans, whether it is black beans, pinto beans, refried beans, garbonzo beans, etc., spend the money you have allotted for building up your 3 month storage on beans, either canned or dry (whatever your ingredient list calls for) this week. If you have all your beans of this kind, the optional choice this week could be green beans (which we will visit again as a choice when we add canned vegetables).

And as always, if you run across a good deal on beans, please let us know.

And, if your beans are doubling as part of your year's supply, remember the Home Storage Center in Round Rock sells black, pinto, refried, and white beans in bulk and they have a 5.2 lbs prepackaged pinto beans.

Take care...toot, toot,

Marie