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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If you’ve been following us for awhile, you know at the beginning of the year we had some New Years Resolutions. Well now is the time we TELL ALL about how we did. We’re excited about how this year went, and can’t wait to share our goals for 2010 in a few weeks! [...]

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So this is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE “food storage” recipe! I learned it at a class I went to about a year ago and couldn’t believe how delicious it was. What I love about it is how many “advanced” food storage concepts it has that I have tackled slowly.

At first I made this recipe with [...]

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In a couple days, I’m going to be sharing with you my FAVORITE food storage recipe. It’s a recipe I would have never had the courage to try a year ago because of all the “food storage” techniques required, but after slowly learning how to use a lot of this food, I have been [...]

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Since Jodi confessed on Monday about her “gardening failures” I figured I would make my confession about what bits and pieces of my food storage and emergency preparedness plans were lacking.
With the Seven Day Challenge approaching on a surprise day in September, I wanted to make sure to really be on top of things (especially [...]

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The other day Jodi and I were talking and she mentioned she didn’t now how to cook rice without a rice cooker.  It reminded me of when I was back in college.  I sat next to this girl and somehow we got talking about rice.  I confessed EVERY TIME I ever made rice it was [...]

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As we have grown and expanded our food storage knowledge, we have continually added to our site. While the site has expanded with so much information, we still want to make sure that it’s still easy for beginners to navigate. Since we are about halfway through our Summer Crash Course we decided to [...]

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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.  So I wanted to share with you a few little tricks [...]

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