Two-Week Pantry Pack
Build a rotating two-week supply of food and water in 12 steady weeks, without waste or panic buying.
Two weeks of water and food, bought a little at a time and used before it goes stale.
TWO PDFs IN ONE DOWNLOAD
- Quick Pack (13 pages): the one-page plan, the checklists and the sheets to fill in. Open this one first.
- Full Guide (118 pages): the reasons, worked examples and sources.
WHAT YOU GET
- A step-by-step method for turning two weeks into your own written numbers: gallons of water, daily calories and pounds of dry staples, with a quick calorie look-up table for adults.
- Worksheet 1, the Household Needs Calculator, with a five-minute Quick Start and three worked examples, including a couple with a visiting grandchild and a dog, and a household with an infant on formula.
- A 12-week build plan with a Weekly Shopping Plan table, calorie checkpoints at weeks 5, 8 and 11, a spending limit for each week, and a rule for what to do when you miss a week or overspend.
- Worksheet 5, the Weekly Budget Planner, and a 12-week spend grid to track what you spend and save.
- Food-choosing rules and checklists for special diets, the nine major food allergens, babies and formula, older adults and pets, with a three-tries taste-test log.
- A full water section: how much to store, how to sanitize containers, a rotation routine, and boiling and bleach treatment with the actual doses and wait times, plus a Water Plan, Container Log and Treatment Card.
- Storage guidance for temperature, containers, pests, shelf life with real numbers for canned foods, and labeling, with a first-in, first-out routine and a Storage Spot Survey.
- A no-cook menu table of 12 meal ideas with special-diet swaps, and a 14-day sample menu that follows the fridge and freezer time limits.
- Clear outdoor cooking rules, a carbon monoxide and fire safety checklist and a fuel estimate worksheet.
- Fridge and freezer food safety tables: how long food stays safe, an Eat-First chart, save-or-throw-away lists, and an Outage Food Log to fill in during a power outage.
- A ruled Pantry Inventory that shows how many days of food you hold, a 12-month Rotation and Check Calendar, and monthly and six-month checklists.
- An After-an-Event Lessons List and a Pantry Door Card to tape inside your pantry door.
WHO IT IS FOR
For households that want a calm, budget-friendly food and water supply, including homes with special diets, babies, older adults or pets.
GOOD TO KNOW
- Print it, or keep it on your phone or tablet. US Letter, prints on A4 too.
- Digital download: read the free sample first. We cannot refund a guide once it has been downloaded. If the file is faulty, will not open or is not what we described, email hello@afternormal.co and we will fix it, replace it or refund you.
- General educational information, not medical, legal or emergency advice.