OK, now we are getting somewhere. Your husband's hunting rifle is all the self-defense you need, along with obvious security-conscious behaviors that we will get into on a forum-wide basis at some point. Rural coastal Oregon is not very dangerous (yet).
I'd like to suggest making your plans around the possibility of unemployment. This will be a common problem. If it never happens, great, but prepare yourselves financially and emotionally in case it does. Getting a good night's sleep with less worry, will probably contribute more to your happiness, than the alternatives.
Unfortunately $1,000 probably doesn't go very far for making house payments, so make a "Plan B" for if you are ever faced with a situation where you can't make the house payment. Think creatively. Do you have relatives in the area? Any way that you can turn the house into a source of income? (Probably not, but ignore that I said that--be creative and daring. I for example host homestay-students from abroad--that would not work for you but a cottage industry might).
Think of any income streams you can come up with. Now, this is my family, not yours, but just to give you ideas to think creatively: we once rented out a spare cello we had. It was only $15/month, but it was one income stream among many that we have. Plus, I know how to turn income streams into MORE income streams. Eventually we sold that cello--at a profit! So my son got years of use out of it, then we got several years income stream out of it, then we sold it at a profit.
You might want to consider keeping the $1000 as cash, and for now just buying some relatively cheap dry staples AND LEARNING HOW TO USE THEM. Don't just buy them and put them away; get used to using them on a daily basis. That way, your "burn rate" will decline as you use cheaper food and do less driving (because it stores well). I am talking about unbleached all-purpose flour (start with that, but you might eventually want to branch out into unbleached bread flour and unbleached pastry flour), rice, lentils (try lentils BEFORE beans as they are much less prone to causing flatulence), yellow split peas (if you can find them; they have a cleaner taste than green), and whatever your favorite type(s) of beans are. Now you will have a lot of trouble finding them in bulk in a small town! Do the best you can, and stock up the next time you are in a town with something like a Costco (there is one near Seaside) or better yet a Cash-and-Carry. Try not to make special trips, but plan your driving as tightly as possible. Gasoline prices have been falling, but this will not last so don't get used to it.
Do you know how to make home-made rolls? Biscuits? Dumplings (those are REALLY easy)? Those are all extremely popular with husbands and kids, and they are cheap to make, and will stretch your food budget. Wheat is fairly high in protein, but it is incomplete protein, so it is good to serve with some split pea soup, or sunflower seeds or garbanzo beans sprinkled on a salad, or stud your rolls with sunflower seeds, flax-seed, and that sort of thing. I think I will make chicken and dumplings tonight for dinner; my kids have been requesting it. That will get us one more day without driving to the store, as I have a little frozen chicken and about 500lbs of flour (not a joke). We have high-gluten flours for yeasted bread, all-purpose flour for noodles, and pastry flour for all sorts of biscuits, pancakes, and other quick-breads.
Do you have a yard? A lot of cool-weather vegetables will do well on the Oregon coast, and it will stretch out your food budget AND provide some emergency food. Have a look at our "Survival Crops" section; more crop suggestions will keep coming in. Generally what you will want to grow, are leafy greens in quantity, to slow down the digestion of starchy dry goods and provide vitamins like Folacin and Vitamin C that they don't.
Learn about complementary proteins if you don't already know about that. If you get protein from 2 dissimilar plant sources, it usually makes a complete protein. That is how Indians (from India--not Amnerinds) and Iranians live on a lot less meat than Europeans and Americans. Iranians have close to American and European protein consumption, from eating things like hard wheat and lentils. South Indians live significantly longer than Arabs (in Arabia) despite much lower per-capita incomes, and one reason is because of their healthy diet (and less propensity to smoke!).
This will cut your costs, both from the price of meat, and the necessity to either store it (deep freezes are expensive to run) or drive to fetch it from the market. If you husband is a regular hunter and/or fisherman, you might try living totally off whatever he brings in. That is what some of our members do.
As you cut costs, build up your savings, and then we can talk about next steps.
Is your husband registered on my site yet?
I will probably be sponsoring a men's forum for talking about crisis leadership issues, at some point.
