So Crystal at EveryDayFoodStorage.NET is always recommending adding food storage to meals and not telling your family since they may not give it a fair chance.  Well my husband works from home and knows how and what I’m cooking so I haven’t been able to use that trick.
Well tonight I hosted a little dinner party [...]

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I don’t know about you, but with the weather changing the last thing I want to be doing is spending too much time in the house cooking.  I have been trying to come up with some ways to be more efficient in the kitchen.  Of course when it comes to tips in the kitchen, make [...]

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Julie displays her new food storage containers and how nice and organized they make her pantry and cupboards.

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So here’s a little update for you on my New Years Resolutions. For those of you who don’t remember what they are (because really, why would you memorize my resolutions) here they are:

I want to cook more with DRY beans and quit being so afraid of the soaking concept
I want to plan dinners ahead [...]

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We got so busy with the Fun With Food Storage launch and recovering from the holidays we forgot to tell you what we got for Christmas, and of course our New Years Resolutions.
Remember our All We Want for Christmas Post? Our families must have been spying on our blog because we received several items from [...]

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Brought to you by Mozy’s biggest fan - Julie!
The one part of getting started that we haven’t addressed until now is getting your computer backed-up. Chances are you have a lot of important stuff on your computer like financial documents, email, digital photos, music and more. Unfortunately, computers are vulnerable to hard drive crashes, [...]

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So as you know from our All I Want for Christmas post, I’m still dying for a Wonder Mill Wheat Grinder, however, a few weeks ago I borrowed my neighbors mill and ground up A TON of wheat.
I really thought the amount I ground up would last me for months and months. Truth be told [...]

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For those of you who know my 18 month year old son, you will find this humorous, for the rest of you I beg for your sympathy!
So today I woke up way too early with a sick child, and a husband who is out of town. I only got about 4 hours of sleep (the [...]

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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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