The Wonder Junior Deluxe is an incredibly powerful and fast hand grinder for a mid-range price. You can use it for powerless emergencies, for daily use, or just when you need to grind something that won’t work in an electric mill like oily nuts and seeds or cracked grains. The WonderMill Electric is the quietest, fastest, and cleanest of all the mills we tested and we have been recommending them to family, friends, and blog readers for 3 years now.

The Wonder Junior Deluxe models have been on backorder for about 6 months now. Each new shipment that comes in is sold out before it arrives. We are currently taking orders for March delivery, however … we just received a bonus shipment of 20 Wonder Junior Deluxe hand wheat grinders due to an order cancellation. A lot of people have been hoping to get one of these great mills for Christmas and now is your chance. We will sell on a first come first serve basis until all 20 have been sold. THESE ARE NOW SOLD OUT. SORRY! We are on a waiting list to get another 20 Wonder Juniors in early January, but it may be as late as March. You may continue to place orders and will be added to the waiting list to receive one as soon as more are available!

We are giving away a FREE WonderMill Electric Mill in the month of december! The first 20 people to purchase an electric mill from our site starting today, will be entered to win a FREE WONDERMILL electric mill. That is a 1 in 20 chance to get your mill FOR FREE! You can choose to either receive a second mill to give to someone else, or get a full refund on your initial purchase. These are great gift items if you are looking for a bigger gift to give someone this year. ALL 20 HAVE BEEN PURCHASED. WE WILL EMAIL THOSE 20 PURCHASERS SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE WINNER OF THE FREE MILL (REFUND)

We will be updating our WONDERMILL main page with details as we sell 20 mills of each kind. Go on over there to purchase and see how many are left!

Winners: Anne-Marie A, jml, Momof5dragons
We will email you to get your mailing addresses.

Special bonus for everyone: We have had several requests to make the Binders on Disc available for sale, especially for the holiday season. We are going to make one more batch of the cds and they will be priced at $20.00 per disc. Click here to buy now!

Winner: Rebekah S.
We will email you to get your mailing address.

Special bonus for everyone: If you weren’t a lucky winner, but you still want to buy a WonderMill, we will extend the free shipping offer through October as well so hopefully that will help out a little!

Winner: Laura who commented “I think that a couple of the pantry size would be perfect for holding ourannual case of Cincinnati chili!”
A representative from CanOrganizer will be contacting you to get your mailing address.

Special bonus for everyone … Use coupon code FSME any time in October to get 10% off of ANY order of CanOrganizers (no minimums required!)

Other Giveaway Winners

As we find out the winners, we will post the names here and/or links to the posts where they are announced with the instructions on how to claim your prize.

Shelf Reliance Food Rotation System: Elizabeth Carter (details/coupon code!)
3-Day Emergency Kit from Emergency Essentials: Laura Tebo
Chef’s Banquet Freeze Dried Fruit Variety from Ready Project: Charolette Peterson Twitchell
2 FREE 1 Year Memberships to Deals to Meals: Bethany Graff, Janet Krum (details and a special offer!)
Quality spices from All About Food Storage: Tiffany (details)
“I Can’t Believe it’s Food Storage” by Crystal Godfrey: Multiple Winners
Augason Farms Breakfast Pack: Jennifer McCleve
“Gardening for Beginners” from My Square Foot Garden: Coming soon
Golden Flaxseed from HiStakes-Spelt: Mel (Click for details)

Thanks again to all the great sponsors who helped us put on this fantastic event. Make sure to visit their sites and fan pages and say thank you so that they will want to participate again in the future! For the complete list of prizes visit the Parade of Giveaways page.

One of the great things about the Parade of Giveaways is that you get to learn more about all of these great companies and products and see how they can help you build your food storage. The BEST part about the Parade of Giveways, is that entering giveaways has never been easier, and is open for the whole month. So don’t be afraid to sign up for your favorite ones (or ALL of them!)

Here is a list of some of the great products (and we have a couple more coming, so check back):

• Shelf Reliance’s most popular Food Rotation System
• 3-Day Emergency Kit from Emergency Essentials
• Chef’s Banquet Freeze Dried Fruit Variety from Ready Project
• 2 FREE 1 Year Memberships to Deals to Meals
• Quality spices from All About Food Storage
• “I Can’t Believe it’s Food Storage” by Crystal Godfrey
• Augason Farms Breakfast Pack
• “Gardening for Beginners” from My Square Foot Garden
• The new 16″ deep Shelf Organizer from Can Organizer
• Golden Flaxseed from HiStakes-Spelt
• Food Storage Made Easy Binders on CD
• JUST ADDED: WONDERMILL JR DELUXE HAND GRINDER

To celebrate National Emergency Preparedness Month, along with our annual 7 Day Challenge we’re going to be hosting the First Ever “Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage PARADE OF GIVEAWAYS!” This event is going to be fun for all of us to learn about some great companies, products, and services WHILE winning some great stuff. Here’s how it works:

Emergency Preparedness, and Food Storage companies are sponsoring the giveaways on this index. Each sponsor is featuring their own product giveaway on their own sites. Visit each of the sponsors to enter. Don’t worry – we have rules for the sponsors to ensure entering will be EASY!

Check out the great products, sponsors, and giveaways for the entire month of September. Winners will be selected by each individual sponsor, and contacted by each individual sponsor. This is just an INDEX of all the giveaways (we’re not in charge of, or responsible for each individual giveaway).

• See how Julie is CONSTANTLY re-organizing her food storage [View Post]
• Jodi and Julie “argue” over how to plan a three month supply [View Post]
• Julie discovers that food storage is NOT only for desserts! [View Post]
• Jodi shares her adventures with canning, sprouting, and more. [View Post]
• Julie shares the BEST food storage recipe ever. [View Post]
• Jodi divulges two amazing cornmeal recipes. [View Post]

SURPRISE GIVEAWAY

We are so excited we have ALMOST hit another milestone in our blogging journey as we are approaching having 5000 “fans” on our facebook page. We are going to be announcing a FACEBOOK ONLY giveaway as soon as we hit the magic number of 5000 fans so if you aren’t already a fan make sure you go to our page and click the “like” button. You MUST be a fan in order to get the notification about the giveaway and find out how to enter (it will be easy we promise!)

UPDATE: We already hit 5000 fans so make sure to check out the Facebook Note for details!

Being a facebook fan gives you more of a day-to-day look into what we are doing to learn more about food storage and using it in our daily lives. We also announce special sales and events, ask and answer lots of questions, link to other great food storage information sources, and post our latest blog posts so you can read them right on facebook and never miss a post again. It’s been a great way to get to know our readers better and to learn from all of you as well. Hope to see you over there!

HERB CLASS SALE

Julie attended a “healthy food storage” class over the weekend (her class notes are coming later this week) and had to share this great offer with you (before it’s too late). One of the suggestions for people that are into more whole, natural types of foods and herbs was to make sure to store herbs for medicinal purposes. Dr. Christopher’s School Of Natural Healing was giving a special for conference attendees only, that they said we could pass on to our blog readers. They do a Family Herbalist course that is normally $500 but if you go to this link by TUESDAY (tomorrow), you can get the conference special of $100. If this is something you’re interested in learning more about, click here.

Want to know a secret? – I’m a counter snob! There has never been an appliance worthy of living on my counter – until NOW. Too bad I don’t own it yet. My mom got a BOSCH mixer for her birthday last December and because she’s trying to sell her house right now, she is crazy busy and hasn’t found time to use it. SO I STOLE IT. Ummm – BORROWED it. After making close to 20 loaves of bread in 2 weeks just because it’s SO EASY I’ve decided I can’t live without it (I gave a lot of the loaves away okay). This machine practically makes the bread for you.

The Deals To Meals Blog is doing a giveaway on one of these precious things! Details on entering can be found on their blog. Oh and while you are there, make sure you check out her recipes. I have a few family favorites I found on this blog – the best one being Beach Street Lemon Chicken Linguini.

Deals To Meals is a service that compares the prices of all of the major grocery stores to Costco and Walmart and tell you where the best deals are. With those deals they give you recipes and meal plans to use those foods. They are now in 12 states and Jodi and I have tried their service recently and have found it to be SO easy, and worth it. Lately we have gotten too busy to coupon like we used to.

Give them a try and let them know we referred you. In a couple weeks we’ll show you how each of us use their site to save a lot of money and TIME! You’d be surprised how differently Jodi and I use the same service.

Utah Valley Women’s Expo

When: April 23rd & 24th, 2010, 11 am to 8 pm (both days)
Where: McKay Events Center, UVU, Orem, Utah
Tickets: Normally $5 but for our readers = FREE

Click on the ticket to print a full-sized version to bring to the show. Tell your friends too!

WonderMill Giveaway

If you don’t have a wheat grinder yet, make sure to stop by our booth and enter to win a FREE Wonder Junior Deluxe hand grinder. We will also have a few electric mills available for sale there if you want to buy one without the hassle and expense of shipping. (If you can’t attend, we’re keeping our shipping FREE for everyone this whole month too!)

LIMITED TO THE EXPO: Food Storage Made Easy Binders ON CD

This is something new and exciting we are doing just for the show. We wanted to make our eBook Binders available for sale to people who visit our booth, so we have made it into a Digital Binder on a disc. The cd contains all of our excel worksheets and the full eBook binder file. We will be selling the digital binders for a special discount of only $12 at the show. You will definitely want to come by and grab one (or more!) at such a great price.

FOR EVERYONE: eBook Binder SALE

For those of you who don’t live in Utah County or who aren’t able to attend the show, we didn’t want to leave you out! We are going to make our eBook binders available on our site for the SAME $5 discount during the days of the Expo. So for FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY you can get the binder download for just $12. WOO HOO!

Well we had a great “Food Storage Fools Day” where we actually did some things we have been putting off FoReVeR! We were so glad our readers joined us and got some great emails, facebook discussions, pictures and feedback about what you all did. Wasn’t it so much more fun to do it together? We were just glad to have the accountability to actually DO stuff.

Although Julie was tending her nephew, had unexpected dinner plans come up, and was kinda feeling lazy on April 1st, she was THRILLED to have this day to FORCE her to get some things done! These are the things she accomplished.

-Purchased propane fuel and charcoal for the Volcano II stove she has. This is her current “electricity free” cooking plan, but it wouldn’t have worked well without fuel!
-Got some new foods for her 72 hour kits that required no cooking. Some of the things she added were beef jerky, raisins, granola bars, crackers with canned chicken, and new candy.
-Took all the disaster kits supplies out of the big awkward bin that is hard to carry and moved it into two bags.
-Packed bigger clothes for her toddler in the bags, and actually put clothes for the baby in the bag.

Jodi has been feeling behind with her gardening. Even though the weather was awful this week she was still able to get a great start on some of her gardening tasks that she has been putting off for several weeks now. Here’s what she got done:

- Printed and put together her new gardening binder
- Planned out and typed up her garden plans for this year.
- Sorted through all her seeds and made a list of what she still needs to purchase
- Planted a TON of seeds in her jiffy pellets using the planting schedule from her gardening binder
- Made a plan for getting the outside gardens ready for planting some seeds directly outdoors, hopefully to be done this following week!
- NOW I finally feel ready to start gardening this year, yay!

For those of you who submitted your pictures and results we entered you into a giveaway for our Food Storage Made Easy Binders! And the winners are…

Stephanie W
Alisa D
Sondra M

Email us at info@foodstoragemadeeasy.net and we’ll get you the download!

Here are a few of the pictures we got from all of you! Good job guys, you inspired us with your emails, hard work, and diligence!

Today, Julie commits to:
-packing some supplies for her new baby in her 72 hour kits – at this rate he’ll be a toddler before she does it!
-getting fuel for her volcano cooker (her current option for powerless cooking)
-put her disasters kit into backpacks, not a big awkward bin

Today, Jodi commits to:
-Actually start her seeds (last week’s gardening post got her motivated)
-Fill her new water boxes – like with WATER – not just good intentions

So initially we were going to just tell you to do something, have you post it in the comments and call it good BUT OF COURSE…

So a lot of you already committed to something in last week’s post or on Facebook. If you haven’t already, hurry up and pick something.

Once you have COMPLETED something you’ve been putting off, email us the details WITH a picture at info@foodstoragemadeeasy.net. You can also put your pictures on the Facebook fan page. Submissions must be received by FRIDAY NIGHT.

Monday we are going to post a bunch of pictures of our own and of your progress and randomly pick 3 LUCKY WINNERS TO GET OUR FOOD STORAGE MADE EASY EBOOK FREE- (You have to ACTUALLY do something, and submit a picture via email to qualify – info@foodstoragemadeeasy.net)

AND THE WINNER IS: Tammy

There was no last name in the comment but we will be emailing you to get your address to receive your prize. Congratulations!

If you want to get your own water storage kits or anything else from Emergency Essentials, make sure to CLICK HERE to get free shipping on your first order over $30! This is a special deal they are giving just for Food Storage Made Easy readers. We love hooking you guys up with great deals Julie is loving her boxes and Jodi ordered a set of her own as well.

Here’s another look at how the Water Storage Boxes worked for us: