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A Year Without the Grocery Store: A Step-by-Step Guide to Acquiring, Organizing, and Cooking Food Storage
In these uncertain times, your family can go a Year Without the Grocery Store!
While everything around us is in disarray and filled with confusion, you can take control of this area of your life and know that your family will have plenty of food, no matter what your circumstances. More importantly, if you’re consistent, you can accomplish this in fifteen minutes a day or less!
Strapped for cash? Provide your family with a year’s worth of food for $160 per person per year! I’ll show you how.
In A Year Without the Grocery Store, I’ll walk you through a step by step plan
• Incorporate the meals that your family already loves
• Takes into account your family’s unique food allergies, intolerances, and preferences.
• Teaches you how to economically store food your family loves.
• Provides you with simple recipes using basic ingredients to make comfort foods that your family craves.
Discusses alternate ways to cook your food storage in case you encounter an extended power outage.
• Instructs you how to safely store and use stored water.
• Points out pitfalls and holes in most people’s food storage and crafts a plan for how to avoid them.
Don’t know what you don’t know? I help you figure things out!
Discover the top four food storage items most people miss.
What often overlooked item is essential for cooking food storage?
What one type of item that most people forget can change the same basic ingredients into totally different meals? How does that work?
Never cooked without your stove? How do you cook without a stove? I show you how!
Be better prepared for other small emergencies with bonus content in this book including Kit Content
BOB / 72 Hour Bag
Car kit
Power Outage Kit
Sickness Kit
Karen has been featured on Zero Hedge, The Organic Prepper, and Natural News. This authentic guide to food storage has been endorsed by Daisy Luther – The Organic Prepper.
Up your game and take care of your family more comprehensively so that your family can go A Year Without the Grocery Store. Pick up your copy by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of the page before the price goes up.
While everything around us is in disarray and filled with confusion, you can take control of this area of your life and know that your family will have plenty of food, no matter what your circumstances. More importantly, if you’re consistent, you can accomplish this in fifteen minutes a day or less!
Strapped for cash? Provide your family with a year’s worth of food for $160 per person per year! I’ll show you how.
In A Year Without the Grocery Store, I’ll walk you through a step by step plan
• Incorporate the meals that your family already loves
• Takes into account your family’s unique food allergies, intolerances, and preferences.
• Teaches you how to economically store food your family loves.
• Provides you with simple recipes using basic ingredients to make comfort foods that your family craves.
Discusses alternate ways to cook your food storage in case you encounter an extended power outage.
• Instructs you how to safely store and use stored water.
• Points out pitfalls and holes in most people’s food storage and crafts a plan for how to avoid them.
Don’t know what you don’t know? I help you figure things out!
Discover the top four food storage items most people miss.
What often overlooked item is essential for cooking food storage?
What one type of item that most people forget can change the same basic ingredients into totally different meals? How does that work?
Never cooked without your stove? How do you cook without a stove? I show you how!
Be better prepared for other small emergencies with bonus content in this book including Kit Content
BOB / 72 Hour Bag
Car kit
Power Outage Kit
Sickness Kit
Karen has been featured on Zero Hedge, The Organic Prepper, and Natural News. This authentic guide to food storage has been endorsed by Daisy Luther – The Organic Prepper.
Up your game and take care of your family more comprehensively so that your family can go A Year Without the Grocery Store. Pick up your copy by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of the page before the price goes up.
197 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 30, 2018
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About the author
Karen Morris
3 books21 followersKaren Morris is a multifaceted individual embracing the roles of a Christian, wife, homeschooling mom, and prepper.
Her preparedness journey began unconventionally with couponing, inadvertently laying the foundation for self-sufficiency. Overcoming challenges like the Ferguson Tornado and Riots ignited her passion for readiness.
Through her platform, "Are You Prepared, Mama?" Karen empowers others with practical and mental preparedness insights.
Her Illinois homestead boasts an orchard and garden.
With her books “ A Year Without the Grocery Store”, “ A Year Without the Grocery Store’s Companion Workbook,” “Mom on the Run,” "Become a Prepper Prodigy" (Coming December 23) and the upcoming "Sophia's Tale," she offers invaluable guidance on navigating various scenarios.
Karen's narrative is one of resilience, growth, and proactive commitment, inspiring individuals to secure their futures with confidence.
Her preparedness journey began unconventionally with couponing, inadvertently laying the foundation for self-sufficiency. Overcoming challenges like the Ferguson Tornado and Riots ignited her passion for readiness.
Through her platform, "Are You Prepared, Mama?" Karen empowers others with practical and mental preparedness insights.
Her Illinois homestead boasts an orchard and garden.
With her books “ A Year Without the Grocery Store”, “ A Year Without the Grocery Store’s Companion Workbook,” “Mom on the Run,” "Become a Prepper Prodigy" (Coming December 23) and the upcoming "Sophia's Tale," she offers invaluable guidance on navigating various scenarios.
Karen's narrative is one of resilience, growth, and proactive commitment, inspiring individuals to secure their futures with confidence.
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July 29, 2018
Not helpful for our lifestyle
We already live without the grocery store in a lot of ways by foraging, gardening, cooking from scratching, canning and buying in bulk. I thought this would give more ideas on how to keep going. This is just a beginner's guide to long term food prepping by buying bulk basics and storing them in Mylar and buckets. We have food independence for every day, not a disaster situation of the future where we have to cook with powdered eggs and dried wheat berries. Her plans seem like very expensive and time consuming ways of living to prepare for her husband losing his job or having her house hit by a tornado. She could put aside all that money she's spending on Mylar bags and a year's supply of food and use that for emergency savings of those things happen. This is very basic information if you want your house crammed with buckets and tubs of survival food, not for how to live with fresh, good food all the time without relying on the grocery store.
We already live without the grocery store in a lot of ways by foraging, gardening, cooking from scratching, canning and buying in bulk. I thought this would give more ideas on how to keep going. This is just a beginner's guide to long term food prepping by buying bulk basics and storing them in Mylar and buckets. We have food independence for every day, not a disaster situation of the future where we have to cook with powdered eggs and dried wheat berries. Her plans seem like very expensive and time consuming ways of living to prepare for her husband losing his job or having her house hit by a tornado. She could put aside all that money she's spending on Mylar bags and a year's supply of food and use that for emergency savings of those things happen. This is very basic information if you want your house crammed with buckets and tubs of survival food, not for how to live with fresh, good food all the time without relying on the grocery store.
January 5, 2021
-its NOT a book about living without the grocery store. its a book about amassing a years supply of dry and canned goods and storing them.
-focuses on long term food storage with 5 gallon buckets, mylar bags, and *massive* bulk quantities of foods with long shelf lives. and where to buy that stuff.
-more of a disaster prep book, includes things like a how to make a bug out bag and preparedness kits.
-the recipes in this book and the 'recipe planning' includes telling you to just *skip* any recipe that cant be made from these stored foods (canned, freeze dried, powdered).
-the only mention of fresh fruits and vegetables are a recommendation for a garden. the only mention of fresh meat is to can it.
-all the dairy is dried or powdered. all the fruit is dried or canned. all the vegetables are canned. all the meat is either canned or freeze dried. zero fresh food. none of this sounds even remotely appealing.
-the author actually suggests having a child give up their room so that room can be turned into a food storage room. a whole entire room, so you can amass a years supply of stored food. and thats how you live without a grocery store for a year, on rice and wheat and oats and freeze dried meat and powdered milk.
-being only 106 pages, it is succinct and does not repeat itself much.
-it is self published and has editing errors.
-focuses on long term food storage with 5 gallon buckets, mylar bags, and *massive* bulk quantities of foods with long shelf lives. and where to buy that stuff.
-more of a disaster prep book, includes things like a how to make a bug out bag and preparedness kits.
-the recipes in this book and the 'recipe planning' includes telling you to just *skip* any recipe that cant be made from these stored foods (canned, freeze dried, powdered).
-the only mention of fresh fruits and vegetables are a recommendation for a garden. the only mention of fresh meat is to can it.
-all the dairy is dried or powdered. all the fruit is dried or canned. all the vegetables are canned. all the meat is either canned or freeze dried. zero fresh food. none of this sounds even remotely appealing.
-the author actually suggests having a child give up their room so that room can be turned into a food storage room. a whole entire room, so you can amass a years supply of stored food. and thats how you live without a grocery store for a year, on rice and wheat and oats and freeze dried meat and powdered milk.
-being only 106 pages, it is succinct and does not repeat itself much.
-it is self published and has editing errors.
April 11, 2024
I won this book in a goodreads drawing.
Prepping is very popular today. This book tells you how to prepare for the worst and save some dough by buying in bulk and storing food. Knowing how and what to buy are very important for this kind of thing, as anyone who has cleaned out a refrigerator will tell you.
Very informative and easy to follow.
Prepping is very popular today. This book tells you how to prepare for the worst and save some dough by buying in bulk and storing food. Knowing how and what to buy are very important for this kind of thing, as anyone who has cleaned out a refrigerator will tell you.
Very informative and easy to follow.
February 5, 2023
This book is less about a year without the grocery store (through means of gardening, foraging, supporting local farmers, and rotating through pantry items purchased in bulk) and more about how to store a year’s worth of food in case there comes a time you *can’t* go to the grocery store. Which is cool, but not what I was looking for. Lots of Mylar bags and #10 cans and freeze dried foods. I approach my long-term and short-term food storage very differently than the author and I enjoy lots of seasonal variety in my everyday meal plans. While still some useful insight throughout, this book would be better for someone interested in storing food for emergency situations.
August 15, 2018
I thought this was a really good guide to help folks learn more about how to get started saving food for short and long-term storage. It brought back memories of growing up on my grandparents' farm, as the author used some of the same techniques that they did to preserve their harvest.
I like how the author talks about the need to be prepared for natural emergencies that can make it difficult to have access to food, water, and grocery stores. In 2015 a deep-freeze of -24 degrees F, along with 3 feet of snow took out all of the ancient copper plumbing in our home, and, we lost our garage and all of the contents. It took nearly two years to reach a settlement with our insurance company and lender to be able to make all of the repairs so that we could once again have running water in our house, so the authors tips on storing water really hit home. Also, after my husband and I lost our jobs for an extended period of time during the last recession, it would have been nice to have had 6 months or more of food to fall back on as we searched for new opportunities. I am definitely looking forward to trying out some of the resources and tips the author mentions to try to rebuild our pantry and food storage as we also work on repairing our finances.
I highly recommend the book for anyone that wants to increase their self-sufficiency, increase their financial stability or that simply would like to be a bit more prepared should they suffer the consequences of an unexpected power outage due to weather or other natural events and need to be able to prepare warm, filling, nutritious meals for their family from their own storage.
I like how the author talks about the need to be prepared for natural emergencies that can make it difficult to have access to food, water, and grocery stores. In 2015 a deep-freeze of -24 degrees F, along with 3 feet of snow took out all of the ancient copper plumbing in our home, and, we lost our garage and all of the contents. It took nearly two years to reach a settlement with our insurance company and lender to be able to make all of the repairs so that we could once again have running water in our house, so the authors tips on storing water really hit home. Also, after my husband and I lost our jobs for an extended period of time during the last recession, it would have been nice to have had 6 months or more of food to fall back on as we searched for new opportunities. I am definitely looking forward to trying out some of the resources and tips the author mentions to try to rebuild our pantry and food storage as we also work on repairing our finances.
I highly recommend the book for anyone that wants to increase their self-sufficiency, increase their financial stability or that simply would like to be a bit more prepared should they suffer the consequences of an unexpected power outage due to weather or other natural events and need to be able to prepare warm, filling, nutritious meals for their family from their own storage.
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July 10, 2020I am not sure yet if this book will be applicable to my life at all, but it was a perspective I never given any thought to.
March 28, 2018
A wonderfully practical book that lays out realistic goals to storing food for a myriad of reasons: to save money, for emergencies long or short term, or just to go without the grocery store ;)
The book gives how to's for different long term storage options, pitfalls to avoid, and even how to do it yourself to save on cost. She addresses issues such as limited space, gardening to supplement dried food storage, the need for vitamins, and a very over looked item: water storage. She gives great ideas on how to *use* what you store, rather than it sitting for a long time and being wasted. She shows how she makes her menu plan around her bulk food storage.
And each chapter ends on some simple practical "to do" items to get those baby steps in the right direction of doing.
This book is inspiring to me because how she truly is writing to equip for real life and I hope to implement some of these methods and utilize bulk storage to cut the food budget down.
The book gives how to's for different long term storage options, pitfalls to avoid, and even how to do it yourself to save on cost. She addresses issues such as limited space, gardening to supplement dried food storage, the need for vitamins, and a very over looked item: water storage. She gives great ideas on how to *use* what you store, rather than it sitting for a long time and being wasted. She shows how she makes her menu plan around her bulk food storage.
And each chapter ends on some simple practical "to do" items to get those baby steps in the right direction of doing.
This book is inspiring to me because how she truly is writing to equip for real life and I hope to implement some of these methods and utilize bulk storage to cut the food budget down.
July 23, 2018
It was an interesting read, but there was little here that I haven't read elsewhere. I was hoping for more practical day-to-day advice and a whole lot more recipes. I'm not interested in stockpiling food just in case. I need practical information on how to use survival style food storage options to feed my family every day. There were just not enough recipes and menu ideas to help with that. And I already have enough books on prepping for disaster.
December 13, 2022
not the homesteading book I was hoping for.
Fairly basic advice that pushes more of a preper agenda than a homesteader lifestyle. A lot of time was spent on go bags and emergency preparedness.
Fairly basic advice that pushes more of a preper agenda than a homesteader lifestyle. A lot of time was spent on go bags and emergency preparedness.
June 6, 2021
Wildly disappointed by the typos, unfinished sentences, and poor writing. It just automatically makes people not take you seriously. And this little book has such practical, solid goals! I don't agree with everything she says or her conclusions, but she has honest, simple advice that's good to consider. I'll refer back to it in the future as we move this summer and I try to be a little more prepared in some of these things.
August 20, 2019
The big picture and the small details in one book
This is hands down the best food storage book I’ve read and I’ve read a bunch of them. I now know what I have, what I need, and how to use it efficiently. This not only builds food storage, it also simplifies meal planning. No more what to cook struggles. I love it!
This is hands down the best food storage book I’ve read and I’ve read a bunch of them. I now know what I have, what I need, and how to use it efficiently. This not only builds food storage, it also simplifies meal planning. No more what to cook struggles. I love it!
February 16, 2023
Meh. Had some ok tips on how to get a garden started and basic food storage, but I feel like this book should have been titled “how to live in a bomb shelter for a year by eating powdered eggs”. It DID however, inspire me to think more on how to be better prepared and how to slowly stock up extra food in the freezer for emergencies and such. I’m pretty terrible at thinking ahead.
January 31, 2018
Great ideas if you have the room to store as much as the author. Although I have a pantry that could sustain me quite a few months I just haven't felt the need to gather so much grain or wheat berries that we may never use. There are some good recipes to know and have anytime. Great ideas to shop to get your storage cheaper if this route is for you.
September 2, 2022
Great information on how to prepare for an emergency whether that be physical or natural disaster of some sort. Ms Morris gives many ideas on storage space options, places to buy your items, how to decide whether you're getting a good deal, and also has included many recipes. Very informative and worth the time to read.
July 15, 2020
This was an interesting read and it gave me some things to look into like buying more items in bulk, and being more prepared for an emergency. I think the book I really need is how to grow and preserve produce from your garden for your large and very hungry family.
December 7, 2019
Good info
Great info and good starter to food storage and emergency preparedness. It’s nice to have a book about this from a “normal” persons viewpoint!
Great info and good starter to food storage and emergency preparedness. It’s nice to have a book about this from a “normal” persons viewpoint!
July 27, 2018
A Year Without the Grocery Store: A Step by Step Guide to Acquiring, Organizing, and Cooking Food Storage
Starts out with the author discussing the items in her basement that will last them a whole year but mostly the piece of mind that she won't have to spend a lot of time planning meals, they are done and stored.
There is a bit of trial and error when it comes to preparing the food that was stored...
I like the concept but don't have the room for it as we have no basement at all. We do use food storage, food saver where you vacuum seal a meal or vegetables. I've kept some squash for over a year and it works out fine for making muffins.
Green beans I can blanche or just freeze them out of the garden, boil them in the bag when ready to use.
Lots of resources of where to get bulk items, online or co ops delivered to a drop point. Cheaper the more you buy at one time.
Love the section on couponing as we rarely buy boxed or canned items either.
There are even sections on packing an emergency bag for the car and at home as you will need more than just food.
There are assignments to do also to keep you going in the book.
Love mix and dressings combination that you can make at home-no more buying them at the store.
Substitutions for most everything, gravy mixes, etc. also how to make milk when you don't have any, substitutions for so many things.
Real life events, tornado, riots, etc that the family had to use the storage.
A KEEPER!
Starts out with the author discussing the items in her basement that will last them a whole year but mostly the piece of mind that she won't have to spend a lot of time planning meals, they are done and stored.
There is a bit of trial and error when it comes to preparing the food that was stored...
I like the concept but don't have the room for it as we have no basement at all. We do use food storage, food saver where you vacuum seal a meal or vegetables. I've kept some squash for over a year and it works out fine for making muffins.
Green beans I can blanche or just freeze them out of the garden, boil them in the bag when ready to use.
Lots of resources of where to get bulk items, online or co ops delivered to a drop point. Cheaper the more you buy at one time.
Love the section on couponing as we rarely buy boxed or canned items either.
There are even sections on packing an emergency bag for the car and at home as you will need more than just food.
There are assignments to do also to keep you going in the book.
Love mix and dressings combination that you can make at home-no more buying them at the store.
Substitutions for most everything, gravy mixes, etc. also how to make milk when you don't have any, substitutions for so many things.
Real life events, tornado, riots, etc that the family had to use the storage.
A KEEPER!
February 20, 2020
One of the best books written on this subject. Easy to understand and follow through.😀😀😀😀😀😀
July 27, 2018
One year of food storagesimplified
Excellent book for starting your food storage preparation ! This book should be read not only by preppers but anyone considering having a pantry stocked with foods that you like and enjoy. I like the fact that the author gave you assignments to practice what you read at the end of each chapter. Thank you Karen for a well prepared
Excellent book for starting your food storage preparation ! This book should be read not only by preppers but anyone considering having a pantry stocked with foods that you like and enjoy. I like the fact that the author gave you assignments to practice what you read at the end of each chapter. Thank you Karen for a well prepared
February 1, 2018
Loved this book
Some great ideas for surviving disasters of all types when you are broke, need to save money or just don't have access to grocery stores . Karen Morris will lead you through everything you need to know.
Some great ideas for surviving disasters of all types when you are broke, need to save money or just don't have access to grocery stores . Karen Morris will lead you through everything you need to know.
February 3, 2018
A great book for beginners
I got this book for free, but it's well worth whatever their asking price is. It's practically a handbook for emergency preparedness. Can't rate this high enough.
I got this book for free, but it's well worth whatever their asking price is. It's practically a handbook for emergency preparedness. Can't rate this high enough.
July 11, 2018
This was a very thorough and well done guide. My mom has some food storage for years, so I knew the basics already (though this book would be perfect for someone just starting out/a beginner), but there was a lot of very specific and practical knowledge in here that I will be using.
August 1, 2018
Good ideas
I picked this book up on a whim and read through it quickly. I found it to be well written and full of good advice for being prepared. I highly recommend it if this is something that you are interested in.
I picked this book up on a whim and read through it quickly. I found it to be well written and full of good advice for being prepared. I highly recommend it if this is something that you are interested in.
June 18, 2019
Not really about not going to the grocery store, more of a prepper thing. Good, practical advice on that front. I live rural enough that we practice that kind of preparedness just because there are dozens of scenarios that could end with us stuck here for a while.
January 31, 2018
Stack it up
This is a very comprehensive book on how to stock up on groceries for up to a year. So much information I would not have thought about.
This is a very comprehensive book on how to stock up on groceries for up to a year. So much information I would not have thought about.
March 12, 2018
good information to have
After Hurricane Irma, we were without power for a week. I lost over half the meats in my freezer. Sure wish I'd had this book then!
After Hurricane Irma, we were without power for a week. I lost over half the meats in my freezer. Sure wish I'd had this book then!
May 11, 2018
Great book
This is fantastic book for anyone interested in food storage. Great recipes and information on alot of subjects. We all need a helping hand now and again.
This is fantastic book for anyone interested in food storage. Great recipes and information on alot of subjects. We all need a helping hand now and again.
March 8, 2021
Really boring
I thought this would be more creative. But it is not. It is very basic and not everyone can grow a garden at home.
I thought this would be more creative. But it is not. It is very basic and not everyone can grow a garden at home.
April 1, 2023
This book was $3 at a resale shop so I figured I would give it a read. For a person just starting out in canning or bulk buying, it’s a nice resource. I think the author was trying to convey a few things - 1) always be prepared. She’s not necessarily talking about the zombie apocalypse but more so for weather related incidents, job loss, inflation, lock downs, etc. This advice was relatable to me because I had to laugh when I was called a hoarder during the pandemic. I had some extra items, including toilet paper in the basement and didn’t have to beg or wait in long lines trying to get things. We live far from good shopping and started “hoarding” (if that’s what you want to call it) over 5-6 years ago, long before the pandemic. The funny part is that the person who called me a hoarder was at every store each day for a week buying every last roll of tp off the shelves, as much bottled water allowed, grabbing any chicken breast she could find and so forth. Isn’t that hoarding? Mine was collected over a long period of time, when prices were decent, and the person next to me wasn’t trying to rip it out of my cart. The stuff we purchase is the stuff we use, so not sure why that’s hoarding. Lol. 2) buying in bulk is cheaper. I think we all already know this but she shares some places she buys her bulk items and she also shares how she stores them. 3) less (trips to the grocery store) is more. I think we all know this too…most trips to the store result in over spending, time away from doing things you truly enjoy, etc. She definitely talked about practical ways that you can literally prepare to not hit up a grocery store for a year…including starting a garden, finding local farmers, co-ops, trading, etc. Is it practical for everyone? Absolutely not. But even the the (trusty) government recommends families store 3 months of water and other supplies for emergency. 🤭😉
February 17, 2021
My favorite food storage book so far
I’ve been learning about and working towards long term food storage for about 3 years now. It’s been hard to achieve between tight budgets and military moves, and the pandemic. I have to say I was so glad to have whatever I’d had on hand between my last move and pandemic, we would have been short on a lot of things and price gouged on the rest. Would have been a lot of creative cooking as well. We were unbelievably blessed to be able to keep business as usual for the most part in our kitchen.
I’ve been working on building back up since stores started getting back to normal and I’m on a pause while expecting new orders soon, but I can’t wait to implement more from this book. I’ve already made use of some of the newer tips.
As you could expect, there’s a bit more of the same, for people new to this, it need to be comprehensive; however, I feel that there was more to learn for most everyone in this book. It was very practical and up to date.
I’ve been learning about and working towards long term food storage for about 3 years now. It’s been hard to achieve between tight budgets and military moves, and the pandemic. I have to say I was so glad to have whatever I’d had on hand between my last move and pandemic, we would have been short on a lot of things and price gouged on the rest. Would have been a lot of creative cooking as well. We were unbelievably blessed to be able to keep business as usual for the most part in our kitchen.
I’ve been working on building back up since stores started getting back to normal and I’m on a pause while expecting new orders soon, but I can’t wait to implement more from this book. I’ve already made use of some of the newer tips.
As you could expect, there’s a bit more of the same, for people new to this, it need to be comprehensive; however, I feel that there was more to learn for most everyone in this book. It was very practical and up to date.
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