Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Julie - Food Storage Made Easy
With the recent earthquakes, I have been thinking about my food storage and preparedness plan and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit I am guilty of a little procrastination over here! It seems like anytime Jodi and I do progress updates, they turn into confessionals, but bit by bit we make improvements and feel [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
One of the biggest concerns people have when getting started with their food storage is “Where do I store all of this food???”. A while back we posed this question to our readers and we got some fabulous results which we compiled into the Small Spaces Storage Solutions handout.
My husband (the handyman [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
Last week we had a giveaway for a Trekker 2 Disaster Kit from Emergency Essentials. A 3 day supply for 2 people, retail value $99.95 on sale this month for $84.99. The lucky winner is the person with the username (we’ll email you to get your address):
We were so thrilled with the feedback we [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Julie - Food Storage Made Easy
Ok so this is TOTALLY stretching it – but when a sister gets married you have no time for coming up with new posts – so you’ll have to use your imagination.
IMAGINE – you have to make a wedding cake and you only have food storage items as ingredients – well YOU CAN! Last summer [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Jodi and Julie
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED – RESULTS WILL BE POSTED SOON!
Our Grandma Lori Food Storage Makeover project has led to quite a few questions from readers on the different types of “ready-made” Disaster Kits that are available. We initially outlined three disaster kit options and chose our recommendations based off of Grandma Lori’s preferences. [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
This is a recipe that Julie taught me one Mother’s Day several years ago. We were planning a dinner for my mom (the infamous Grandma Lori) and she popped out this way easy and way delicious recipe that his since become a staple in my family. In fact, last night when I made [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Jodi and Julie
We made this post last year- but figured it’s still appropriate since it’s almost Valentines Day again and a lot of our readers have never seen this… If you made this last year remember to restock any foods (if your spouse hasn’t already sneaked them and ate them already). If you haven’t seen this before, [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Jodi and Julie
Are you STILL procrastinating getting your disasters kit together? Well we thought of a fun way for you and your family to GET IT DONE! Presenting the Food Storage Made Easy….
Get your family together for a fun night. Whether you hunt for the items in your house or at a store, make it fun! [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2010 by Jodi and Julie
Today is the DAY! We got Grandma Lori’s disaster kits all purchased and compiled and she is very excited with the results. We started out this phase of our Food Storage Makeover by discussing the three different options available for disaster kits. After some discussion, we found a solution that worked well [...]
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