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We had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Crystal from Everyday Food Storage tonight and we learned TONS of great ideas for actually USING your long term food storage items. We are using this information to help develop step 7 (coming soon!). We also filmed Crystal answering some of our [...]

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Shelf Reliance put out an incredible blog post that has a comprehensive list of recommended shelf life for a lot of the most common food storage items. We are definitely going to use this as a resource as we put together our food storage. Things with shorter shelf lives will be rotated and used in [...]

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Corn Cakes
Serving Size: 4 servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/3 cup cornmeal
1 egg
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. salt

Directions:

Preheat a skillet over medium heat.
Spray skillet with nonstick spray
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl with a mixer set [...]

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We added a BabyStep! Check out the BabySteps 4 main topic page to learn about an easy way to start the daunting task of your Long-Term Food Storage. We are getting really excited as we are starting to delve into the deeper and more complicated aspects of food storage. We are learning new [...]

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