Family Night Schedule & Food Storage

I just wanted to share this with you guys. Basically there is a lot that we parents have to cover in order to teach our children. I felt like family night only once a week would never be sufficient. I try to teach whenever I can, like when my kids prompt me by asking questions of their own. But here is a schedule of sorts that I made up so that instead of just winging it every week and hoping my kids are learning evetything they should, I actually can see what we are covering and how much we are covering it and stuff. There IS so much we have to teach them, and that is why there are 3-4 categories per week! This is what we try to follow though:

1st week: Articles of Faith, Preach my Gospel, Nursery Manual, Handouts, other manuals.
2nd week: Gospel Principals Manual
3rd week: Scripture Stories, Gospel Doctrine, Friend magazine.
4th week: FREE, Preparedness, Constitution, Work, Temporal Skills, Self Reliance, Family History, Temple Work.

As of late we have really been focusing on The Plan of Happiness, The Fall, and The Atonement.

We try and be consistent with scripture study and Article of Faith, which we say after each scripture study. Some weeks are better than others. As a family, we are now almost to Jacob. We only read a couple versus per person. So far, we are up to the 8th AoF. Consistency is the key. It doesn't matter to me if it takes til Marce leaves home to finish the book. What matters is that we are in the habit and my kids cooperate. If you are in the habit, your kids WILL cooperate. That is what we've found anyway. My kids have never gotten to the point where they don't want to do it. It's nothing new, it's expected and they even like it. We have just barely started this schedule so we'll see how it goes. I especially like the idea of the Gospel Principals manual. It covers everything very simply and plainly, so it's great for kids! The Friend magazine is also a great resource to go with. I love week 4. If there's one thing I decided as a mom, it was that my kids would not be lazy. They would be hard workers. So many people in my generation and below are lazy minded. I also LOVE the idea of teaching my kids our family history. It is a very RICH history.

Anyway, hope this helps you. I also wanted to tell about an article that I read from an email newsletter I got about Food Storage. It was an interview from a post war German man. He was asked what foods in that time of post war were the most needed, most valuable. THE number one thing was Vegetable Oil. It has different forms. Vegetable oil only has a 2-3 year shelf life, but Cristco for instance can be melted down and lasts for like 10 years...anyway, he said it was so valuable because it could make foods and things that weren't exactly foods (like roots, greens, wild flowers, ect.) taste so much better. He said Vegetable Oil would trade for a few big bags of apples or even hundreds of pounds of potatoes.
The second thing he said was grain/wheat. The third thing was Honey. He said, in times of starvation, Honey could be traded for 3 times more than sugar. The 4th thing was powdered milk. He also said water was very important because with the ingredients listed above here, you could make a lot of things along with salt. So, basically, he said oil, wheat, honey, milk, water, and salt, together with vegetables and potatoes through a garden source were enough to satisfy nutritional requirements for a person.