Food Storage Pizza Tricks

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 [...]

My New Food Storage Containers

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

New Years Resolutions and Hummus Recipe

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 [...]

Christmas/New Years Recap

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 [...]

Backup Your Computer with Mozy!

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, [...]

Julie’s Whole Wheat Recipes and Update

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 [...]

Water EMERGENCY!

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 [...]

Emergency Plans and Disaster Kits

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. [...]

Tricks of The Trade – A Great Site

Just a quick update post here. I mentioned in my progress update that I am going to wait to find all my remaining products on sale and then finish my three month supply. One way I plan on doing this is by following the tips found on a great site called The [...]