The House that Jack Built

This poem sounds like the food storage my mother used to have. And yes, she did cook wheat cereal for us a lot when I was growing up.
Nowadays, we are being taught more to store food we actually eat, rather than so much bulk raw ingredients that are pretty foreign to our everyday lives. So I have a lot of spaghetti sauce, canned corn, macaroni, canned soups, tuna, etc. that we eat every day. I think its very important to have a year's supply of food, and try hard to keep my food storage up to date.

This is the house that Jack built.
This is the basement under the house that Jack built.
This is the food that's stored in the basement
Under the house that Jack built.

These are dried beans frugally placed
As part of the food, that's stored in the basement
Under the house that Jack built.

This is the powdered milk that goes to waste
Next to the beans frugally placed
As part of the food
That is stored in the basement
Under the house that Jack built.

These are the canned goods, bland in taste
behind the powdered milk that goes to waste
Next to the beans frugally placed
As part of the food
That is stored in the basement
Under the house that Jack built.

These are the buckets full of wheat
Stored in a row so nice and neat
Alongside the canned goods, behind the milk
Next to the beans
As part of the food
That is stored in the basement
Under the house that Jack built.

This is the mother of children born
Who cooks wheat cereal every morn
From the wheat in the buckets
Stacked by the canned goods, behind the milk
Next to the beans
As part of the food
That is stored in the basement
Under the house that Jack built.

These are the children all forlorn
Who are sick of wheat cereal every morn
That their mother has cooked since the day they were born
From the wheat in the buckets,
Stacked by the canned goods, behind the milk
Next to the beans
As part of the food
That is stored in the basement
Under the house that Jack built.

Written by Gayle Platt Spjut
From the book, "Mother Goose for Mormon Youth"