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 to go into a little more detail about that since we get [...]

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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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If you have read our blog for very long, you have often heard and seen us talk about how much we LOVE our WonderMill Wheat Grinders. We were lucky enough to get ours fairly early on in our food storage adventures, but we confess that we let NOT having a grinder really stand in [...]

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So here is my confession. I really wanted to learn how to make homemade corndogs as a follow up on Thursday’s cornmeal post. (Yes you really CAN use corn/cornmeal in a LOT of different foods!) However, I got a little intimidated by the whole deep frying thing and I chickened out. [...]

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In BabyStep 5: Grains we give you a list of grains which can/should be part of your long term food storage. Jodi started her grain storage with cornmeal because she didn’t have a wheat grinder yet and it seemed easy and non-intimidating, although she now prefers to store regular popping corn and grind it [...]

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We want to give a special thank you to WonderMill for donating a Wonder Junior Deluxe as a giveaway for our Seven Day Challenge. We are thrilled to announce that they are offering a $30 rebate off of ANY WonderMill (electric or manual) all the way until November 25, 2009. This is an [...]

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Sprouting can fall under several of our BabySteps since you can sprout many grains, legumes, and other foods. However, the biggest benefit of sprouts is that they can act as a fresh “vegetable” in your diet so we are covering it under the Fruits and Vegetables step. If this feels overwhelming to you, [...]

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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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