My road to food storage

So my thoughts on food storage have come quite a long way in the past couple of years. For the longest time I just felt like it was beyond me to attempt more than storing a couple of extra cans of green beans. An inventory seemed useless because I didn't think I would ever keep it up to date. Then I thought that we would at least get some non-food items like soap and shampoo and toilet paper stocked up since those wouldn't go bad. Then I thought we could get a year's supply of grains like rice and beans and store it away and be done with it and say we had done what we were supposed to do, but forget ordering wheat. I wouldn't know what to do with wheat if I ever needed it anyway, so why have it? Finally, I think I have come to a point where I am excited about having and using our food storage. I finally get the difference between a 3-month supply and a year's supply. I've been pretty hard-headed, but our wheat grinder came in the mail last week, and I ground my first cup of wheat into flour! I was going to make some bread yesterday, but I'm sick -- I was just happy to get my children dressed for the day. I'm excited to learn how to use our food storage items. I found a website that I liked called everyday food storage that made it seem like I could use my storage for more than brick-like bread and tasteless muffins. There is also a sister website called Food storage made easy that was pretty good, too, for ideas on how to get your storage. So, I will continue enjoying our fresh foods, but I am also going to be learning how to use long-term storage items in a tasty way. Then if the day ever comes when we don't have the money to go to the store, the store runs out of food, or one of any other hundreds of catastrophic scenarios ever occur, I will have the peace of mind to know that my family won't be going hungry.