{"id":684,"date":"2014-05-27T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=684"},"modified":"2014-05-27T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:18:58","slug":"up-for-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2014\/05\/27\/up-for-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Up for a challenge?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who out there is up for a challenge? Side not: the only people who would do this for fun\u2026there is something wrong with you!!<\/p>\n

In my last post, I briefly talked about supply buying for our bush orientation. It was kind of a big deal, so I thought that it needed a whole post of its own!<\/p>\n

We are in one town (point a). The grocery store where the pilot is is either a 7 hour drive, or a 30 minute plane ride away (point b). The bush location is a 30-minute plane ride from that town (point c). So\u2026I need to order groceries from point \u201cb\u201d and have them shipped to point \u201cc\u201d. I don\u2019t really know point \u201cb\u201d; like what kind of food do they have there? I don\u2019t really know anything about point \u201cc\u201d; like what meals will we need for a month? What can we get out in the tribal markets there? Etc. So I want you to feel my pain! My mission was to plan one month of meals, figure out what all ingredients go into those meals, categorize those items into an excel spreadsheet, and then email them to a supply buyer! Whew! I have never done anything like this before\u2026so you can sense my \u201cexcitement!\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how I did it. Through advice of many, I planned meals for 2 weeks, and then doubled it. We have certain nights that stay the same like \u201cTaco Tuesday\u201d, \u201cPizza Friday\u201d, \u201cPancake Saturday\u201d, \u201cSunday morning quiche\u201d and \u201cSpaghetti Sunday\u201d; so those occur every week (multiply ingred. By 4-Yes!) Now I had to fill in those gap for days I didn\u2019t have a cute saying! I came up with \u201cSoups Wednesday\u201d (rotating same soup every other week), \u201cAsian Monday\u201d, and \u201cRoll up Thursday\u201d. This helped for dinners.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll try to cut to the chase. This took me forevvvvvvvver to do! I had to figure out breakfasts and lunches. How many pieces of bread will all five of us eat for the month: 120 pieces! That\u2019s too many\u2026we don\u2019t have the freezer room for that! So I will have to make bread at least once\u2026what ingredients do I need to make bread?! Mark that down! How many grams of peanut butter will my family consume during this month? How much salt, sugar, oil, etc. will I need?! This is no easy job.<\/p>\n

After working on this for a week, I think I finally got it all done on my end! I emailed the order in. A tribal supply buyer bought all of our stuff (I hope) and put it on a plane yesterday. I won\u2019t have any idea if they got everything that I wanted before I get there. I am trusting them and the Lord! This is a great \u201cgame\u201d I\u2019m getting to play to practice for when we live in the bush.<\/p>\n

And like I said, \u201cWe may be eating a lot of sweet potatoes!\u201d So\u2026who\u2019s up for the challenge?!<\/p>\n

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