Hi Bill! Thanks for the encouragement.

I think for the month experiment we are going to see if we can hold-out eating and maintaining a 100% normal routine in terms of food. This will give us and our readers the chance to learn about how much food will fit in the average sized freezer and fridge.

Also, if we start in the next few weeks it will be in the middle of winter and will even be a little better with the potential for more power outages, and generator usage.

For the long-term experiment we will most likely be going for staples, and our garden, and that will allow us to report on other things like cooking oil consumption, growth rate in the garden, pounds of grains, rice, beans etc we consume and more.

I think doing it over a couple tests 1mo, 3mo, 1 year (the plan so far) it will allow us to report back a wide range of things needed, not expected, and the like.

If people are interested I could see us doing a 1 week test just to provide some consumption data.

Another thing we want to do is a "Trash Report"... where we report our trash, and compost information.


(All things not related to the experiment will not be counted... IE: Trash from constructions projects, purchasing things for construction projects, etc. During the test we will still continue working on the house but this data will not be counted, and items purchased will not be used in the 'day-to-day' routine.)

Anything that we buy for routine living will go into our report as "oops" we neded ____.

I want the experiment to not only be a test but a HUGE learning experiment in as many ways as possible.