Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Julie - Food Storage Made Easy
So I have been making these delicious smoothies lately and couldn’t figure out if I could justify sharing the recipe on a food storage blog. The other day when I ran out of milk it dawned on me I could try some of my powdered milk in it instead. Well, I did it! It [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Jodi and Julie
A lot of people have asked us if we have a button that they can add to their blog. Well we’ve always had one, but it wasn’t very cute so we never really publicized it except to our family and friends. With our new “look” and several more requests, we thought now would [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Julie - Food Storage Made Easy
As you may have noticed, we took a LONG time to get Baby Step 7 out to you but we have a good reason! I got completely distracted with emergency preparedness. Over the past few weeks I had the chance to relax and do a lot of thinking/pondering about my food storage and emergency plan. [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Jodi and Julie
Have you ever been out of work for a week, a month, even longer?
Do you wish you could buy foods ONLY when they are on sale and with coupons?
Do you wish you had a stockpile of grains now that the prices are getting so high?
In light of the current economic situation, we thought we’d share [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Jodi and Julie
We added a BabyStep! Check out the long-awaited Step 7: Baking Ingredients main topic page to learn about what items you need to store to actually USE your core food storage items. There is no point in having wheat without having sugar, oil, etc. to make it into bread.
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Jodi and Julie
We had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Crystal from Everyday Food Storage tonight and we learned TONS of great ideas for actually USING your long term food storage items. We are using this information to help develop step 7 (coming soon!). We also filmed Crystal answering some of our [...]
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Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
Hopefully you have already watched the “How to Make a 72 Hour Kit” video on our Getting Started page. While I was creating that video my children ended up waking up from their naps and started causing me some trouble. I looked through the outtakes as I was trying to piece together the [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Jodi and Julie
You asked, We listened….
Some of you have asked if there was a way to add additional ingredients on the 3 Month Food Supply to both the meal section, and the master ingredients list of our spreadsheet. Well we updated the sheet. Click here for the newest sheet. Since we didn’t use it to [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2008 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
Shelf Reliance put out an incredible blog post that has a comprehensive list of recommended shelf life for a lot of the most common food storage items. We are definitely going to use this as a resource as we put together our food storage. Things with shorter shelf lives will be rotated and used in [...]
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