Find out more about Julie’s exploration into the realm of “healthy food storage”.

Filed under: Events, Grains, Healthy Food Storage, Julie's Progress, Legumes | View Comments

Throughout the last two years we have really discovered that there is definitely not a one-style-fits-all approach to food storage. When this first became apparent to us was in our second month of running the blog when we were researching how we were going to get started on our three month supply.

Julie posted her [...]

Filed under: Events, Jodi's Progress, Three Month Supply | View Comments

It seems like just yesterday that we came up with this crazy idea to blog about food storage when we had absolutely ZERO food storage and had no clue where to even start. In fact according to our very first blog post, we originally wanted to call this blog “Food Storage For Dummies … [...]

Filed under: Events, General, Jodi's Progress, Julie's Progress | View Comments

For those of you who have followed our blog for long you would know I LOVED couponing, I DID couponing, couponing SAVED me a lot of money – UNTIL:

I had another baby last winter

Albertsons closed down (my primary store to coupon at)

Red Plum (one of the coupon booklets) stopped coming in the newspapers

I feared my [...]

Filed under: Budgeting, Julie's Progress, Three Month Supply | View Comments

Learn more about Julie’s obsession with “healthy food storage” along with a great book review and information about a holistic living conference.

Filed under: Book Reviews, Healthy Food Storage, Julie's Progress, food storage books | View Comments

A few weeks back we posted part one of a Square Foot Gardening FAQ put together by Emily Peery, author of the eBook “Gardening For Beginners“. Today we are going to give you the second half of the questions asked by our Facebook Fan Page readers. But first here is a little update [...]

Filed under: Gardening, Jodi's Progress | View Comments

Safety inspection – $5
Past due registration – $40
Starting up a new insurance policy – $100
A truckload of … dirt? – $30
Family trip to the dump to get compost for my vegetable gardens – PRICELESS

A BIG pile of … dirt

Gotta love a beater truck that’s not afraid to get dirty (my husband loves classic cars)

Hubby forgot [...]

Filed under: Gardening, Jodi's Progress | View Comments

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 [...]

Filed under: General, Julie's Progress, Shelves, Three Month Supply | View Comments

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 [...]

Filed under: Jodi's Progress, Preparing Your Space, Shelves | View Comments