Welcome to our food storage blog! We are two young moms attempting to get a year’s supply of food storage put together. As we started this process we realized there was SO much to learn and we got overwhelmed and didn’t know where to start. We decided to start this blog to keep track of our research, break it into BabySteps, and hopefully help others as well. We are adding things as we learn them, if there is something you want to know more about please let us know and we’ll research it.
Jodi is the wife of a pilot, mother of two little rascals, captain of her women’s hockey team, and lover of reading, knitting, scrapbooking and BLOGGING! When not chasing her kids around or researching about food storage, Jodi finds time to do some web design and marketing consulting.
Julie is the wife of a hockey star (Jodi’s brother), mother of one crazy acrobat son, member of the same hockey team as Jodi, and lover of decorating, photoshop, excel, going to the gym, and BLOGGING! Julie stays busy doing real estate and helping her husband with their hockey business.
I am excited what you have to say about this important topic in all of our lives.
Thanks for the information on this blog! I really like the emphasis on the basics.
We have recently started a food storage group blog, linked above. We have linked to your site from that blog. Come over, take a look, and participate! We are looking for other group bloggers.
Hi.
I’m 23 and single. Most of the websites I’ve been looking at are geared towards families. Have you found any great lists or websites that are geared towards singles? Any information would be helpful.
Thanks!
Mindy
Hi Mindy. In BabyStep 4 we refer to a great site called trackmyfoodstorage.com which allows you to enter the number of people in your family and will produce a report that is customized for your situation. So you can find out exactly how much you’d need to store for one person. Also, under our Getting Started section those tips would be applicable to a single person as well. You would just need to make ONE 72 hour kit, your emergency plan will be simpler, etc. Other than that I haven’t seen anything that specifically is geared towards singles. But I hope you can find some value in the things we are teaching and apply them to yourself. Try cutting recipes in half, borrow a wheat grinder from a friend, etc. Maybe we will do some more research and write a few posts with some more ideas!
Sara-
Thanks for linking to us on your site. I have been so busy I haven’t had a ton of time to look around it and comment, but from what I saw so far it looked really informative. How does it work with being “group bloggers”?
Your 72 hr video is no longer available on youtube and your simple check list in your emergency blog is also gone. Please tell me I’m just looking in the wrong place, I wanted to watch your video again~! Your site is GREAT with covering all the basics! Thanks for all you’ve put together!
Corby, I think the 72 hour kit video was down for a few hours but it looks like it’s working now. The emergency checklist is a pdf document so you need to have adobe acrobat installed for it to display properly. I opened it just now and it seemed to be working for me. Here’s a heads up though, we are going to be putting out a new and improved checklist within the next few days so check back soon for the revised version!
Thanks for all of the great tips! You are women after my own heart. I also am a food storage junky and have a blog I would love for you to check out
It is: http://www.myfoodstoragedeals.blogspot.com. I would love to link share with your website to my blog (and website) if you are interested. I think your website would be beneficial to many of our customers and friends who visit our blog. Thanks again!
If you live in Utah, I would LOVE for you to try our grocery service for FREE and see how we can help you obtain your year supply of food–one week at a time! We offer a grocery service that helps people know which items are on sale for great deals each week, tell them which items to add to their food storage, create a weekly menu planner for your family based around those items on sale and give helpful tips and information to help your family save time and money! Email me at Shandra@myfoodstoragedeals.com and I will set up a FREE account for you to try our service, if you are interested
Jodi is there any way I could get your e-mail address? I have TONS of information I would love to share with you ladies, and I don’t think posting it in a comment is the best way to do it. Currently I am working on a flyer with a 5 year Emergency Preparedness and Provident Living action plan to hand out among our Stake members as part of our effort to increase “motivation” about Emergency Preparedness. It will be broken down by month including information for getting out of debt, finding storage space, water supply and purification, 3 month normal food storage and budgeting for it, a 12 month purchase plan for long-term storage items for only $125 a month for a family of 4, building your emergency cash, emergency savings, and 3 month savings funds, and beginning the road to provident living including larger purchase items such as gas generators, kerosene heaters, a wheat grinder, pressure canner, and other essential items. I am an Emergency Management/Homeland Security major living in Northwest Arkansas and have an 8 month old son, so I am currently not in classes and have quite a bit of free time. I love doing this stuff and am very passionate about sharing it with as many people as possible as well as helping to motivate them to, “awake to a sense of their [awful] situation”.
Misty, Jodi and I both get emails to info@foodstoragemadeeasy.net. We appreciate all your awesome contributions you have made in your comments lately.
-Julie