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Category Archives: Beyond the Babysteps
Spice Up Your Comfort Foods
Step 9: Comfort Foods is one of our favorite steps. When we participated in our 7 Day Challenge we came to realize just how important these foods really are in making your life feel somewhat normal in an emergency, and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond the Babysteps, Comfort Foods
Tagged Comfort Foods, common herbs, common spices, herb list, spice list
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Beyond the BabySteps: Legumes: Split Peas
In BabyStep 6: Legumes we give you a list of possible legumes to store with a recommended amount of each one. One of the things we decided early on in our food storage adventures was that we would only store … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond the Babysteps, Legumes
Tagged food storage, Legumes, Long Term Food Storage, split peas
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Alternatives to Wheat for Food Storage
In our series featuring Why People Do Food Storage we touched briefly on allergies as one of the “health benefits” of doing food storage. (Please note: Our final article in that series will be posted later this week!) We wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond the Babysteps, Grains
Tagged celiac disease, food storage, gluten-free food storage, wheat alternatives
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Food Storage Recipes: Enchilada Pie
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Bean Recipes, Beyond the Babysteps, General, Julie's Progress, Recipes, Wheat, Wheat Recipes
Tagged Bean Recipes, food storage, whole wheat recipes
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Food Storage Made Easy eBook Binder Updates!
We have just published our first batch of updates for our Food Storage Made Easy eBook Binders! This update includes all of the revised BabyStep Main Pages as well as 9 handouts put together from some of our best blog … Continue reading
Beyond The BabySteps: Non-Food Items: Inventory List
For our Summer Crash Course we have been revamping all of the BabyStep pages and last week we updated the Step 10: Non-Food Items. On that page we give a great list of ideas for non-food items to have, but … Continue reading
Beyond the BabySteps: Water: Evaporation Still
If you are new to food storage and following along with the BabySteps Summer Crash Course, please refer to the recently updated Step 2: Water page before you read this post and get overwhelmed. Our recommendation for beginners is to … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond the Babysteps
Tagged Emergency Preparedness, evaporation still, water still, water storage
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Beyond the BabySteps: Grains: Types of Wheat
We have had a few questions lately about the difference between types of wheat. While we have touched on it before we thought it would be helpful to explain it in full detail for you in an individual post. There … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond the Babysteps, Grains, Wheat
Tagged food storage, hard white wheat, Long Term Food Storage, types of wheat, whole wheat
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Beyond the BabySteps: Emergency Chemical Toilet
I found this handout in an old “preparedness binder” that my mother-in-law had given me for Christmas about 4 years ago which I had promptly shoved in a closet and forgotten about until a few weeks ago. It has some … Continue reading
Beyond the BabySteps: Water: Alternate Sources
BabyStep 2: Water If you are new to food storage and following along with the BabySteps please refer to the Step 2: Water page before you read this post and get overwhelmed. In BabyStep 2 we recommend to store a … Continue reading
