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Common Substitutes, Measurements and Yields

Jodi and Julie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:40:13 +0000

We recently posted about some info that one of our great readers (Nola) shared with us in a document she put together that had TONS of common substitutions, measurements and yields. We were going to break it up into multiple posts, but then realized it would be hard for you all to use it that way – so we made it into a pdf you can all download!

Print it out and put it in your Food Storage Made Easy Ebook Binder (we’ll be including this handout in our next free binder email updates – just in case you were wondering).

Day 5: Food Storage Christmas (long term education)

Jodi and Julie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:00:47 +0000

A lot of people have a hard time storing all the “Food Storage” type foods because they have no idea how much to store, or how to use it. Use these great ideas to help people get going and don’t forget to add the cute Day 5 Tags:

Print-Out of Long Term Needs

Here is a handout that includes instructions and a food storage calculator that you can print out, tie a ribbon around, and give to someone. This will help them determine quantities of foods to purchase based on their family size.

Favorite Food Storage Recipe Delivered

Since it IS Christmas, try baking one of your favorite food storage recipes and bring it over to a friend. Who doesn’t love treats?! Tell them (after they have tried it) that you used Food Storage and they can too!

Any Number of Food Storage Books

To really help someone learn about Food Storage, give them one of these great books:
The Family Preparedness Handbook
I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage
Country Beans
Marlene’s Magic with Food Storage
Food Storage 101

Back to the 12 Days List

Food Storage Substitutions, Measurements, and Yields

Jodi and Julie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:01:15 +0000

We recently posted about a few food storage substitutions we found to be helpful. Well after that post, one of our great readers (Nola) shared with us a document she put together that had TONS of common substitutions, measurements and yields. She suggested we share it with our readers, and let us tell you, the document is AWESOME. Since it has so much information, we’re breaking it up into multiple posts to share.

Knowing what foods you can use as substitutes is a great food storage planning tool that allows you to really focus in on WHAT to store. Understanding yields can also be very helpful as you progress towards cooking more whole foods from scratch. Today we’ll be covering some common measurement conversions, and over the next few weeks we’ll move on to discuss some great substitutions and yields for common items.

pinch = 1/16 tsp.
dash = 6 drops or 1/8 tsp.
1/4 T. = 3/4 tsp.
3 tsp. = 1 T.
1/8 C. = 2 T. = 1 fl. oz.
1/4 C. = 4 T. = 2 fl. oz.
1/3 C. = 5 T. + 1 tsp.
1/2 C. = 8 T. = 4 fl. oz.
3/4 C. = 12 T. = 6 fl. oz.
1 C. = 16 T. = 1/2 pint = 8 fl. oz.
2 C. = 1 pint = 16 fl. oz.
4 C. = 2 pints = 1 quart = 32 oz.
16 C. = 4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 quarts = 1 peck
4 pecks = 1 bushel
1 liter = 1 quart plus 3 oz.
2 oz. = 1/8 pound
4 oz. = 1/4 pound
8 oz. = 1/2 pound
16 oz. = 1 pound

NOTES:
tsp. = teaspoon T. = tablespoon C. = cup oz. = ounce	“=” means equals “-” means minus “+” means plus

These measurements can be really helpful when doubling or tripling recipes, and is something that should be printed and inserted into your recipe box, cookbooks, or Food Storage Made Easy Binder. (*hint* we just may be including some handy handouts in our next FREE binder update). Thanks again to Nola! And we’re excited to share with you all the other great stuff she sent us!

Food Storage Made Easy eBook Binder Updates!

Jodi and Julie — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:46:54 +0000

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 posts we’ve done since the binder was created.

If you haven’t purchased your Food Storage Made Easy eBook Binder yet, we are currently offering a $5 off promotion if you do an educational “assignment” related to the Seven Day Challenge. Click here for more details on how to get the discount! Just think for only $12 (or $17) you get our full binder download plus great updates like these for free FOR LIFE!

If you have already purchased a binder but haven’t signed up for Free Binder Updates For Life yet please email us a copy of your PayPal confirmation or the name/email address you used when you purchased your binder. We will then send you details on how to get your free updates. If you purchased a bulk copy of the binder at a discount you will need to pay for the updates for life upgrade in order to be added to the list. Let us know if you have any questions about the process.

Thanks to everyone who has been patiently waiting for us to put these together. It was a lot of work and we were a bit burnt out from getting through the Seven Day Challenge.

What to do with Extra #10 Food Storage Cans

Jodi and Julie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:40:40 +0000

Last week we asked you guys what you are doing with those extra #10 cans you have lying around (now that we’re all USING our food storage). Well we had some great ideas and wanted to share them with you. You guys are so awesome and we appreciate you sharing your experience and creativity!

How to “reuse” your #10 cans

Decorate them with printed paper, ribbon, and anything else to make them cute. FIll them with fun stuff (candy, lotion, soaps, etc.) and give them out as presents.
Decorate them and then fill them with flowers for center pieces at a party.
Use them to store all sorts of things like flour, and wheat from the big plastic buckets, trail mix, homemade crackers, gluten flour, etc.
Have your kids decorate them and make drums out of them.
You can use them to store buttons, sewing, pencils, crayons etc.
Make tin can ice cream in them.
Refalange it! (I’m not sure that’s how you spell it). There is a falanger which will take that rim off the top of the can and make it ready to seal again.
Put your first aid kit in it, and put it in your 72 hour kit (with a lid).
Put vitamins, hair ribbons, cooking spoons, or rolled napkins with silverware for picnics in them.
Put contact paper on the outside to make it more decorative.
Recycle them!
Use it for pre-made mixes in your fridge.
Use your #10 cans as containers for gifts –maybe an FHE kit all containing contents all about food storage.
Use them to put nails, screws, and other small objects. They help keep things cleaner in a shop or garage.
Use them while changing the oil in dirt bikes or the car.
Take #10 cans and paint them to match your kitchen. Then make vinyl stickers to label the contents of each can. They are decorative as well as FUNCTIONAL! Refill out of big buckets when needed!

Thanks again to everyone who shared their ideas with us. Please feel free to leave a comment with any more ideas you might have. The more of your ideas we read, the more excited we got to try some of these out ourselves!

Emergency Preparedness Plan (and PDF’S!!!!)

Jodi and Julie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:00:53 +0000

For those of you who have been to the Fun with Food Storage Party all week, you may already have received the party favor – Our Emergency Preparedness Plan Workbook. We made it in excel because that way you can customize and alter the sheets to fit your families needs. For those of you who don’t have excel or “hate” excel, -while Julie (the excel nerd) will never understand HOW that is possible… we have turned all the sheets in the spreadsheet into PDF’S. Your welcome! Thanks to a great comment we received on our Emergency Binder post last week, we added a sheet to the workbook for you to record what you would grab in case of evacuations (pictures, albums, laptop) in order of importance. This is new today so if you have already downloaded the file, make sure you get the new version and print out that page.

Here’s a little tutorial on the sheet for ya!
(It’s missing the new sheet we added today)

Make sure you have everything printed and ready to go because your first BabyStep Checklist is coming next week! And you better believe we’re starting with Getting Started.

Helpful Food Storage Tools

Jodi and Julie — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:19:02 +0000

Just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know we have added a section to our site called “Helpful Tools“. When we add videos, checklists, spreadsheets, etc. to the site we will compile them all onto this page so that they are easy to find and all in one place. We’ve had a lot of people coming to the site looking for the Three Month Food Supply Spreadsheet but don’t necessarily know to look on the BabyStep 3 page for it. So click on the “Tools” tab and see if there is anything you may have missed!

p.s. Can you believe tomorrow is the BIG launch? Just a few more hours and the excitement begins!