The meal method

I had a "duh" moment this weekend while looking for food storage recipes.

I came across several websites written by people who have a great method for beginning your food storage.  Start by naming five meals that can be cooked with storeable items, and store enough ingredients to make each meal five times.

This will give you 25 days of food storage.

When you have the first 25 days, name five more meals, and store enough to make each meal five times.  Then store enough to make each meal ten times each.  That would be 100 days of dinners in  your food storage, which is more than three months.

Ideally, you would eventually have enough to make thirty meals twelve times each, or fifteen meals twenty four times each.  If you add enough for breakfast and snacks, that's a full year of food storage.

Why did I not think of this?