Define who you are feeding. This is the foundation for all caloric, water, and supply calculations. Be accurate — under-counting now creates dangerous gaps in your final plan.
LOCATION DESIGNATION
HEADCOUNT BY AGE GROUP
Animals are entered by species under ANIMALS & FEED in Step 04, because a dog and a cow
do not eat the same thing or in the same quantity.
DIETARY RESTRICTIONS
Check every restriction present in the group, then enter how many people it affects. These are presence flags, not group-wide exclusions: 1 of 6 lactose intolerant means dairy stays in the plan and one person needs a substitute, not that dairy leaves the plan. On FULL nutrition depth each flag generates a specific alert scaled to the affected count. Diabetic is captured under MEDICAL / SPECIAL NUTRITIONAL NEEDS below.
ALLERGIES & INTOLERANCES
DIET, OBSERVANCE & FEEDING
MEDICAL / SPECIAL NUTRITIONAL NEEDS
Check all conditions present in your group. Each triggers specific inventory and gap analysis flags grounded in medical nutrition doctrine (Werner — Where There Is No Doctor).
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02SCENARIO PARAMETERS
Define the operational context your supply plan must support. These parameters directly control caloric requirements, planning horizon totals, and gap analysis results.
PLANNING HORIZON
EXERTION LEVEL
Caloric requirements vary significantly by activity level. Grid-down situations involve heavy physical labor — chopping wood, hauling water, manual farming, security patrols. A moderately active adult needs approximately 2,500 cal/day (Provident Prepper). Heavy labor raises this to 3,200 cal/day. Underestimating this is one of the most common supply planning errors.
DAILY CALORIC ESTIMATE PREVIEW
Fill in group profile first to see caloric estimate.
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03NUTRITION DEPTH
Choose how deeply your plan tracks nutritional requirements. You can always start simple and build up. Your choice here determines what the Gap Analysis and Report will calculate and display.
SIMPLE
Daily caloric targets
Total calories needed
Calories on hand
Caloric gap in days
Best for beginners
MODERATE
Everything in Simple
Protein targets (g/day)
Fat targets (g/day)
Carbohydrate targets
Macro gap analysis
FULL
Everything in Moderate
Vitamin C, D, B12
Iron, Calcium targets
Medical dietary flags
Supplement requirements
You can upgrade your depth level at any time by returning to this module. All calculations will update automatically.
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04CURRENT INVENTORY
Enter what you currently have on hand. Be conservative — count only what is accessible at your primary location, properly stored, and within usable shelf life. Round down when uncertain.
#10 CAN / CASE CONVERTER
Bulk cans are sold by the can, not the pound. Pick the product, enter how many cans or cases you have,
and this converts to pounds and adds it into the right row below. Net weights are from the
Home Storage Center order form. A case is 6 cans. Verify against your own label, weights vary slightly by revision.
Select a product to convert.
PACKAGED KITS & BUCKETS
Sealed multi-meal kits (Legacy, Mountain House, ReadyWise, Augason, 4Patriots and similar) cannot be broken
into commodity rows, so enter them whole. Read total calories straight off the bucket label
rather than multiplying servings by a guess. These count toward your calorie coverage but cannot count toward
food-category balance, and the gap analysis will say so.
CUSTOM ITEMS
Anything the standard rows do not cover. Give it a calorie figure per unit and pick which food category it
belongs to so it counts toward balance as well as calories. Items measured in lbs also count
toward the benchmark targets in the gap list; items in any other unit contribute calories only.
ANIMALS & FEED
Animal feed is tracked in its own pool and never counts toward the human calorie total.
Enter each species separately, because feed rates differ enormously: a working dog eats a few pounds of kibble
a day, a 1,200 lb cow eats roughly 27 lbs of hay. Species that live on pasture and hay are flagged separately
because their requirement is measured in tons and acres, not pantry pounds.
FEED ON HAND
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05GAP ANALYSIS
Calculated automatically from your group profile, scenario parameters, and current inventory. This is your operational supply picture — the numbers you need to act on.
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06WATER
Water storage and purification planning. This section is optional — skip it if you have a separate water planning document or prefer to address it independently.
▸ This section is optional. Skip if water planning is handled separately.
STORAGE CAPACITY
Enter storage capacity above to see coverage estimate.
PURIFICATION METHODS ON HAND
WATER SOURCES IN YOUR AO
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07ROTATION & RESUPPLY
A supply that isn't rotated is a supply that spoils. Define your inventory management practices, restocking triggers, and resupply sources before you need them.
▸ EAT WHAT YOU STORE — STORE WHAT YOU EAT. Only store foods your group eats regularly. Unfamiliar foods will not rotate and will expire wasted. A crisis is not the time to adjust to a new diet. (Source: Provident Prepper, Prepper's Long-Term Survival Guide)
▸ INSPECT ALL CANS REGULARLY — Discard anything bulging, rusted, leaking, or with a compromised seal regardless of printed date. When in doubt, throw it out. Vitamins degrade with age — replace multivitamins every 3 years even if stored correctly. (Source: Prepper's Long-Term Survival Guide, Rawles)
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
RESUPPLY SOURCES
SEASONAL PRODUCTION NOTES
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08BARTER GOODS MATRIX
Optional section. In a prolonged grid-down scenario, high-value consumables become a secondary currency. Track what you have set aside specifically for trade — separate from your primary supply.
▸ This section is optional. Skip if barter planning is not part of your current plan.
Enter quantities set aside exclusively for barter — do not count items already logged in your primary inventory above.
CUSTOM BARTER ITEMS
Anything you hold for trade that the standard rows do not cover: honey from your own hives, hand tools, canning lids, work gloves, whatever your area values.
BARTER SKILLS & SERVICES
Goods run out; skills do not. MAGS (Hogwood) and How to Survive TEOTWAWKI both treat services as the more durable trade economy in a long event. List what your group can trade: mechanical repair, medical care, sewing, machining, welding, midwifery, radio repair.
BARTER STRATEGY NOTES
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LIVING SUPPLY TRACKER
Update current quantities as you consume or add supplies. The tracker recalculates days of coverage in real time. Use this as your ongoing operational inventory management tool.
▸ Update the CURRENT QTY column as you consume or add supplies. All coverage calculations update automatically and save to this device. Print this page periodically as a supply log snapshot.
▤GENERATE DOCUMENTS
Print-ready outputs built from your LARDER plan. Each opens a clean, print-ready sheet. Use PRINT FULL BINDER to produce the complete set at once for your three-ring preparedness binder.
◆ FULL BINDER PACKAGE
Cover sheet, supply assessment report, food-category coverage, macro analysis, micronutrient flags and medical dietary alerts (per your nutrition depth), water assessment, rotation plan, barter matrix, and a living-tracker snapshot — assembled into one continuous, binder-ready document behind a cover sheet. This is your printable supply plan for the binder.
INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTS
OUTPUT 1
Supply Assessment Report
The complete planning report — group profile, scenario, supply status, inventory, water, rotation, barter, and recommended actions.
OUTPUT 2
Living Tracker Snapshot
A dated inventory log of every item, current quantity, calories, and days of coverage. Print, write in changes, re-enter at next audit.
OUTPUT 3
Shopping / Gap List
A clean acquisition checklist of every category that falls short of target, with the quantity needed to close each gap. Take it to the warehouse store.
OUTPUT 4
Pantry Wallet Card
Wallet-sized summary card: days covered, percent of target, water coverage, and restock trigger. One per group member.
DATA MANAGEMENT
Storage key: ao_larder_v1 · Your plan saves automatically to this device. Export writes a JSON backup; Import restores one. Export before clearing or moving to another machine.
HELP · LARDER
User Manual
Plain-language guide to every screen. Hover any acronym for its meaning.