New and Improved All-American Sun Oven (ok this is really exciting!)

If you’ve followed our blog for a while, you probably know that we both love and use our Global Sun Ovens frequently. We teach about them intensively in our Powerless Cooking Classes because it is such a great way to conserve your fuel as long as you have a sunny day. You can check out a few of our cooking adventures here and here.

Well today we are so excited to tell you about the BRAND NEW ALL-AMERICAN SUN OVEN. The company has taken feedback from customers over the years and has made so many great enhancements to the sun oven. We’re going to highlight some of our favorites in this post, but you can check out the full details over at our Online Store. This new Sun Oven is only available in the U.S. while the Global Sun Oven will still be available in the U.S. and worldwide.

Benefits of the NEW All-American Sun Oven

	20% LARGER INTERIOR: Without increasing the exterior size of the oven, the interior can now accommodate a regular 9×13 pan. HURRAY for this! Now you don’t have to buy special pots and pans or limit your meals to smaller meals.
	EASIER TO ALIGN WITH THE SUN: No more trying to figure out if the oven is aligned properly with the sun (did anyone else feel like the shadow thing was really hard to get right??) The little plastic E-Z Sun Track Indicators take all the guess work out.
	MORE STABLE: The stake at the back is now t-shaped so it is more stable in windy weather, it also includes little stakes you can use to pin it to the ground.
	HOTTER TEMPERATURES: With a thicker glass door and a better sealing gasket, temperatures can now get 10-15% hotter than the Global Sun Oven. On full sunny days you can get up to 360-400 degrees. Woo-hoo!
	BETTER LEVELING RACK: The new rack looks great, you can use it in different ways, including folding it up and placing it on the floor of the sun oven to increase the usable area inside while still allowing air to circulate in the oven. Love this.
	NEW CD: The new CD that comes with every All-American Sun Oven is full of emergency preparedness info, videos, and tons of amazing recipes developed specifically for the sun oven plus FREE recipe organizer software. You can even update the software to download all the new recipes from Sun Ovens website. How cool is that?

If you already own a Sun Oven, we have heard that there will be an upgrade kit that will get you all of the new features (except for the interior capacity). We will keep you posted as soon as it is available.

Sneak Peak at the New Features

Paul Munsen, the President of Sun Ovens International stopped by my house when he was in town last week to give me a sneak peek at the new sun oven. I canNOT wait to get my hands on one of these and start using it! I tried to film a video of him showing me the new features but alas, when you have a 6 year old help film you end up with only half of a video. You can see the half of it that actually recorded after I took the phone from her. I TRIED, please forgive me

Filed Under: Powerless Cooking, Sun Oven Tagged: all american sun oven, Emergency Preparedness, food storage, global sun oven, Powerless Cooking, solar oven, sun oven

Jodi and Julie April 10, 2013 8 Comments

New Products from Lindon Farms

We have been gradually adding a few new products to our Food Storage Made Easy Store over the last few weeks and we wanted to give you a brief summary of the ones in the Lindon Farms section. The meat buckets are on sale through February 15th so if you are interested in those, now is a great time to grab them!

Freeze Dried Meat Buckets

We have normally done our meat storage in #10 cans so we were intrigued by these buckets. Each bucket contains one variety of meat packaged in 6 mylar pouches with 19 servings of meat in each one for a total of 114 servings. We like the idea that you can open one pouch to use, while leaving the rest of the pouches still sealed. It’s a little more expensive to store this way but it’s ON SALE this week!

Varieties: Ground Beef, Diced Chicken, Diced Turkey, Ground Sausage
Pricing: Retail Price: $225.00, Our Price: $202.50, SALE PRICE: $182.50
Click here to learn more or buy now (SALE PRICE valid through February 15th)

Garden Seeds

The Lindon Farms® fruit and vegetable seed bucket contains over 316,000 Non GMO seeds. This variety of 25 different fruits and vegetables have been dehydrated to optimum moisture content for long term storage. Every seed is open-pollinated (non-hybrid) so you can collect the seeds and replant them in future seasons. These seeds come with instructions for planting, harvesting, and collecting seed to replenish for a perpetual garden.

Pricing: Retail Price: $399.95, Our Price: $359.96
Click here to learn more or buy now

Tropical Fruit Bucket

The Tropical Freeze Dried Fruit Bucket includes many of our favorite fruits, all packaged in mylar pouches inside a 4 gallon bucket. It’s a nice and inexpensive way to sample several varieties of fruits with one purchase. This bucket contains one pouch each of Whole Cherries, Whole Red Seedless Grapes, Whole Blackberries, Diced Mangoes, Sliced Bananas, and Diced Pineapples. Available in both 150 serving and 300 serving buckets.

Pricing: 150 serving bucket $133.00, 300 serving bucket $250.00
Click here to learn more or buy now

Filed Under: Recommended Products Tagged: emergency seeds, food storage, freeze dried meat, lindon farms, non hybrid garden seeds

Jodi and Julie February 12, 2013 2 Comments

FOOD STORAGE BLACK FRIDAY 2012

Black Friday is a fantastic time to stock up on food storage and emergency preparedness items at some of the best prices of the year. Whether you purchase these things as gifts for your loved ones, or simply to add to your own supplies, you can definitely get the most bang for you buck over this weekend. We already have talked a little bit about the Shelf Reliance Sale yesterday and also the Prepare My Life Planner sale on Friday.

If you’re just getting started, we strongly recommend purchasing our eBook which only goes on sale twice a year!

Check out the flyer below for more details on all of these great sales and deals! The sale begins Friday morning (although some of the deals are already active), and lasts through midnight on the evening of Cyber Monday.

Filed Under: Christmas Gifts, Recommended Products Tagged: black friday sales, food storage black friday, food storage sales, shelf reliance sale

Jodi and Julie November 20, 2012 Leave a Comment

Shelf Reliance Black Friday Sneak Preview

Black Friday is a wonderful time of year to stock up on preparedness items at great discounts. We have quite a few sales we are going to be announcing tomorrow that will start on Friday morning, but for now we wanted to give you a sneak preview on some of our FAVORITE things from Shelf Reliance that will be on sale. CLICK HERE FOR A FULL LIST OF SALE ITEMS.

Most of the other sale items you’ve seen before on our site, but we’ve never done in depth reviews on some of these Shelf Reliance items so we wanted to let you know what we love about them and why they are a part of our storage.

These prices are only available through a consultant (that’s us!) so make sure you come back and shop through our special links to get the sale prices. We really appreciate you shopping through us and thank you for your support.

Check back tomorrow for the rest of the sale items…

HARVEST 72″ SHELF
	Pricing: Retail Price: $459.99 Our Regular Discounted Price: $270.29 Black Friday SALE PRICE: $249.99 Black Friday pricing available here Friday-Monday Specs: - Can width is adjustable - Small tracks hold up to 15 vegetable size or 17 soup size cans - Medium tracks hold up to 11 medium size cans - Large tracks hold up to 7 #10 size cans - Click here for full product details
What we love: Rotation can be one of the trickiest parts of food storage, especially for your 3-month supply type foods. We love these heavy duty shelves from Shelf Reliance to keep all of your cans organized in one place. It’s a great use of space. Jodi even custom designed the pantry in her new home to fit one of these harvest shelves right there in her kitchen. Yay that it’s on sale this week since she’s moving in next week!

CHEESE 6-PACK
	Pricing: Retail: $270.59 Our Regular Discounted Price: $238.09 Black Friday SALE PRICE: $202.89 Black Friday pricing available here Friday-Monday Specs: - 6 #10 cans of shredded freeze dried cheeses - Varieties include: 3 cheddar cheese, 1 mozzarella cheese, 1 colby jack, 1 monterey jack - Click here for full package details
What we love: We’ve always said that in any emergency, if we could just bake a pizza then we could survive. When we discovered freeze-dried cheese and found out that it actually WORKS we were thrilled. We have used it in so many recipes and it truly is a very good substitution. It melts on pizza, mixes perfectly into creamy casseroles, and can also be used as a garnish for things like tacos. You can see some of the recipes we’ve used it in here, here, and here.

FREEZE-DRIED VEGGIES
	Pricing: Black Friday SALE PRICE: ALL Thrive Veggies will be on sale up to 50% off. Black Friday pricing available here Friday-Monday Specs: Biggest discounts are on the following products: - Freeze dried: Mushrooms, Cauliflower, Zucchini - Dehydrated: Mixed Bell Peppers, Carrots - Tomato Powder - Click here to view full veggie product line
What we love: We love love love having veggies in our food storage because of the every day appeal. They save so much time because you don’t have to rinse, chop, cook, etc. You also save a lot of money cooking with them as you avoid the waste when you can’t finish something before it goes bad. The veggies are so easy to swap in to your regular recipes, just throw into soups, chilis, or dips … or simply rehydrate as a side dish. We feel like they are much tastier than frozen or canned veggies and since they contain no preservatives or additives they are a very healthy alternative when fresh veggies aren’t available. The tomato powder is an amazing and versatile product that can be used to make all kinds of sauces, pastes, etc. so you don’t have to store so many different bottles and jars of tomato products.

FREEZE-DRIED FRUITS
	Pricing: Black Friday SALE PRICE: ALL Thrive Fruits will be on sale up to 50% off. Black Friday pricing available here Friday-Monday Specs: Biggest discounts are on the following products: - Applesauce Powder, Freeze-Dried Grapes, Freeze-Dried Apricots - Click here to view full fruit product line
What we love: When you look on the label of the Thrive freeze-dried fruits all you see is the FRUIT listed. No additives or preservatives. Our kids eat these things in place of fruit snacks or other snacks and think they are a delicious snack. We also love to throw them in smoothies, fruit salads, desserts (i.e. Blackberry Pie!), etc. It’s so nice to always have fruit on hand, even the more “exotic” ones

THRIVE EXPRESS VARIETY PACK
	Retail: $94.99 Our Regular Discounted Price: $88.89 Black Friday SALE PRICE: $71.19 Black Friday pricing available here Friday-Monday Specs: Variety Pack contents include the following items: - Entrees: Creamy Beef & Noodles, Pasta Carbonara, Southwestern-Style Chicken & Rice, Garden Fresh Vegetable Pasta - Soups: Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, Baked Potato Cheese Soup, Broccoli Cheese Soup, Creamy Garden Vegetable Chowder, Hearty Beef Chili - Sides: Chili Lime Chicken Rice, Loaded Scalloped Potatoes, Wild Rice Pilaf - Click here for full package details
What we love: Thrive Express is the “Just-Add-Water” line of foods from Shelf Reliance. If you are looking for something quick and easy to make in an emergency, these types of meals can be great. We’ve tried A LOT of these types of foods and Thrive Express is one of the best-tasting brands. While we are mainly storing these meals “for emergency only” it’s nice to know that our kids will actually eat them if they had to. Thrive Express can be a little pricier than other brands because the meals contain actual freeze dried meats and vegetables while other brands contain “meat flavorings” instead.

More Sale Items

Click the images below to view the full list of featured products. And remember ALL Thrive foods will be on sale ranging from 20%-50% off!

Filed Under: Recommended Products Tagged: black friday food storage sales, shelf reliance black friday, shelf reliance sales

Jodi and Julie November 19, 2012 3 Comments

Price Changes and Sales Coming in November

When the earthquake/tsunami hit Japan back in early 2011 it shocked everyone into realizing the importance of being prepared. Food storage and related preparedness items were in high demand and experienced huge backorders. This was very frustrating for people at a time when they were feeling anxious about getting ready for future disasters.

Hurricane Sandy in combination with droughts and higher food prices this year could cause a similar situation to arise in the near future. We are already seeing price increases among some suppliers and a few products on backorder. We wanted to let you know about a few upcoming price increases as well as some holiday promotions that would be ideal to take advantage of now before supplies become limited. We’ll add to this list as we hear about any other things on the horizon.

PRICE CHANGES COMING NOVEMBER 1ST

Wise Food Storage
Across the board price increases coming November 1st.

Over the past 12 -18 months, Wise Company has absorbed significant price increases from our food suppliers without passing along any of the increased costs to our customers. As widely reported, drought conditions throughout the US, increased fuel prices and government regulation have all combined to increase the costs of critical raw materials such as corn, wheat, dairy and beef. We hoped the upward food price trends would reverse itself but, unfortunately, it has not. Although we have never instituted a price increase in our history, these unprecedented conditions have made it necessary to make certain modifications to our pricing program. We are committed to instituting these changes in a thoughtful, measured and careful manner.

Click here to buy now. Prices will be adjusted the night of October 31st.

Emergency Essentials
Final Days of the Anniversary Sale! Sale prices end October 31st.

Premium 1600 One Year Supply
- On sale this month for $1,749.99 (individually: $2,245.75)
6-Month Lunch & Dinner Supply
- On sale this month for $1,199.99 (individually: $1,578.99)
Goal Zero Lighthouse LED Lantern AND Nomad 7 Combo
- On sale this month for $84.99 (MSRP $155.00)
Kaito® Voyager™ Pro
- On sale this month for $65.99 (MSRP $99.95)

Click here to view all sale items. Prices valid through October 31st.

HOLIDAY PROMOTIONS

WonderMill
FREE GIFT with all wheat grinder purchases

- All Wonder Junior Deluxe orders will include a FREE drill bit attachment. This attachment makes it easy to “power” up your Wonder Junior and grind your grains/legumes more quickly. (Retail value $29.95)
- All WonderMill Electric models will ship with a FREE Chef Brad Comfort Foods Cookbook. (Retail value $14.95)
- FREE SHIPPING ON BOTH MODELS

Click here to buy now and get your free gifts!

Global Sun Oven
Preparedness, Dehydrating & Turkey Roasting Package – $40!

This package includes:
- Hanging Turkey Roasting Rack
- Sun Dry Dehydrating Racks (With one roll of parchment paper)
- Two Easy Stack Pots w/interchangeable enamel and glass lids
- Multi-Fuel Water Pasteurizing Indicator (WAPI)
- Two Loaf Pans
- A totally new computer CD with over 600 SUN OVEN recipes, cooking tips, FAQs, operating instructions and a video series on how the SUN OVEN works and emergency preparedness tips.
(Entire package just $40 with purchase of Global Sun Oven)

Click here to buy now with discounted accessories!

BACKORDER NOTICES

Berkey Water Purifiers
Big Berkey and Crown Berkey’s OUT OF STOCK

The Crown Berkey and Big Berkey models are unavailable until further notice. However, Berkey is offering a Royal Berkey upgrade at a discounted price if you were really hoping to purchase a Big Berkey. You can get the Royal Berkey for just $270.50 instead of the regular price of $283.00.

Click here to buy your discounted Royal Berkey!

Humless Solar Generators
Collapsible Panels ON BACKORDER

The Humless Sentinel can be purchased with a solar panel kit. The popular collapsible panels are currently on backorder and will be shipped separately at a later time. If you order the non-collapsible panels they will ship with your generator.

Click here to buy your Sentinel at the lowest price available online!

Shelf Reliance
Ultimate Veggie Pack SOLD OUT. 6 Month Supply still available.

- The 30-can veggie package is no longer available at the sale price (due to the demand they ended the sale two weeks early). You can still get it for $378 but it will most likely be backordered.
- The 1 person, 6 month fuel, food, and water supply kit is still available through November 11th or while supplies last. It is regularly $1199.99 on sale for $930.99.

Click here for details on the packages and to place an order

Filed Under: Recommended Products Tagged: food price increases, food storage, food storage made easy, food storage sales, food storage specials

Jodi and Julie October 30, 2012 Leave a Comment

Insta Fire Price Increases COMING JUNE 1st

A little over a year ago, we introduced you to a fantastic product called Insta Fire (See our video at the bottom of this post when the creators came and cooked us lunch using only InstaFire!) We’ve just gotten word that with their increased growth, and increase in production costs, their pricing will be changing next month. They currently have a 5 gallon product that we sell for the lowest price online WITH FREE SHIPPING at $59.95. After the price increase, they will only be offering a 4 gallon bucket (which is 1 gallon less) and will cost the SAME as the current 5 gallon (That’s basically like a 20% price increase!). So if you’ve been wanting to get some fuel stored, we wanted to let you know about this, and recommend you purchase before the month is over. We will only be able to sell the 5 gallon up until the end of the month or while supplies last, so don’t delay!

INSTA-FIRE OVERVIEW

Insta Fire is a safe, simple, and versatile new fire starting product. It has water-repellant properties, a fifteen minute burn time and a thirty year shelf life. Use it to light campfires, prepare charcoal briquettes, or as a safe and reliable fuel source for cooking or heating in emergency situations. In an emergency you will most likely need to boil water, cook your food and heat your shelter. This fuel can be used in a wide variety of cooking stoves, even ones you can make out of #10 cans! Proper ventilation is always necessary.

To learn more about the product, and see it in action:

Benefits:

Useful for lighting and drying wet wood, building a campfire or bon fire, quickly lighting charcoal, etc.
Great complement to a Volcano Grill for quick cooking or boiling water
2 cups burn for ½ hour to an hour with periodic stirring
30 YEAR SHELF LIFE. Safe to store indoors. No limits on quantity stored
For more info see the FAQ

The owners of Insta Fire introducing us to the product last year – they even made us lunch! We enjoyed having them cook for us, and learning about the product:

Filed Under: Insta-Fire Tagged: cooking fuel, emergency fuel, insta fire, insta-fire, instafire

Jodi and Julie May 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

Tools to Use Your Food Storage Daily

When you get more involved in using and preserving Food Storage, you start realizing there are a lot of appliances out there that are either necessary or certainly helpful in getting the job done!

When determining what it is you need in terms of appliances, we recommend the “test yourself” theory. What we mean by that, is test yourself by either borsrowing, or doing things the hard way before buying an appliance. Try making bread by hand before buying an expensive mixer. SURE the mixer WILL make the job easier, and oftentimes make the bread turn out better, but see if you are dedicated enough to the habit or lifestyle before buying something you may never use. We borrowed wheat grinders, canners, and dehydrators before ever getting our own, and it was great practice to allow us to see what it was we wanted. So here are a few of our favorite appliances to help us use and preserve our Food Storage.

A Few Of Our Top Picks!

	Wondermill Electric: In an extended emergency with no power, we’ll use our Wonder Jrs, but day in and day out we LOVE our Wondermill Electrics. We have become so familiar with how to use our wheat, other grains, and legumes because the electric mill is so handy, that we’d be ready to use a hand grinder and not change our diets much at all. Emergencies aside, grain mills are great appliances to have to help you cook whole foods from scratch.
	Bosch Mixer: If you plan to make bread, pizza, or other baked goods frequently as you practice using your food storage, a Bosch can be a dream. It really does make your doughs turn out better and it is soooo much easier than hand kneading. We’d definitely consider this a luxury item, but if you can afford it, go for it!
	Electric Pressure Cooker: An electric pressure cooker is great for cooking dry beans, brown rice, and a variety of other foods that usually take much longer to cook. We’re talking from dry to cooked beans in an hour or less! It’s awesome. You can also use this for cooking a variety of meals in a hurry. We both use and love the Cuisinart Electric Pressure Cooker.
	Pressure Canner One of the cheapest and healthiest ways of increasing your supplemental long term food storage is to can your own foods. High acid foods can be canned with a regular and inexpensive water bath canning. But to get into more advanced things like canning meats and certain vegetables, you need a good pressure canner. Jodi currently uses a Presto pressure canner which works well for small amounts of canning, but is also saving up for an All-American pressure canner which is a little more industrial and doesn’t have a gasket that needs replacing.
	Super Blenders: Super Blenders are great to have for everyday, regular cooking, but also can help you use your Food Storage in ways you wouldn’t expect. Often times, these blenders can grind wheat or other grains into flours so you can avoid buying a wheat grinder. The more you start using your Food Storage, the more you’ll find you cook from scratch and eat healthier and these blenders sure come in handy. Jodi has and loves the BlendTec Blender and Julie has and loves the VitaMix. You can’t go wrong either way
	Tortilla Press and Cooker: After making tortillas by hand a number of times, and testing out this press of one of our friend’s, we were sold on it! Whole wheat tortillas that are made from scratch are so much yummier and healthier than any you could buy at the store. Use your Food Storage, be healthier, and make them much faster than by hand! This tortilla cooker presses, and COOKS the tortilla at the same time.
	Food Dehydrators: Another great way to add to your food storage is by dehydrating your own foods either from your garden or bought in bulk at a farmer’s market. Foods you dehydrate yourself have less preservatives and are much cheaper than purchasing dehydrated foods. When the time is right, this can be a good investment for your long term food storage. Our favorite brand is the Excalibur Dehydrator.

Check out the rest of tax refund week

Filed Under: Recommended Products Tagged: baking, cooking from scratch, cooking tools, Emergency Preparedness, food storage, kitchen appliances

Jodi and Julie March 25, 2012 4 Comments

Top Picks for Emergency Prep Products

There are hundreds (probably thousands) of Emergency Preparedness products available out there. Some products are critical to have, while others just make life easier. Below you will find a few of our hand chosen products we love for Emergency Preparedness. We started selling these items so that we could get our readers the best prices possible on them so that they can enjoy them too! In the last post in this series we’ll show you some of the products we love to use daily to cook with our Food Storage in our regular lives.

When determining what it is you need, we always recommend taking care of basics first. Take care of your 72 hour kits, your water storage, basic first aid, and sanitation supplies. After you have taken care of the basics (and have either saved up money or get a nice chunk of change) add to your supplies. If you follow our blog, you know we often try to teach you cheap or free solutions to tie you over in the mean time

A Few Of Our Top Picks!

	Wondermill Jr: In an extended emergency with no power, and pounds and pounds of wheat, you’ll need a good hand grinder to make use of your wheat. The Wonder Jr is a fantastic mill that can grind all sorts of grains and by simply swapping the stone heads for the stainless steel burr heads you can make delicious peanut butter or other nut butters, grind flax or any oily or wet grains, grind herbs and spices, and even coffee or soy beans.
	Global Sun Oven: One of the things that really intimidated us about even getting started with food storage was the idea of powerless cooking. When we discovered Sun Ovens we were thrilled with the possibilities. Anything you can cook in a regular oven can be cooked in a Sun Oven and usually turns out even better! Without having to worry about storing a fuel source, Sun Ovens are the perfect tool for a long term powerless emergency.
	Insta-Fire: InstaFire is a safe, simple, and versatile new fire starting product. It has water-repellant properties, a fifteen minute burn time and a thirty year shelf life. Use it to light campfires, prepare charcoal briquettes, or as a safe and reliable fuel source for cooking or heating in emergency situations. In an emergency you will most likely need to boil water, cook your food, and heat your shelter.
	Fuel Discs: Fuel discs are another great option for fuel storage. They are made of cedar and are idea for use in small stoves for starting a fire or heating and cooking food. They can be extinguished and relit and are safe to store indoors. You can also get a free cube stove with purchase of a 108 pack bundle of fuel discs!
	Berkey Water Filters: While most good filtration systems use a ceramic filter which gets out most of the contaminants in water, you still need to purify it afterwards to get out all of the viruses. The Black Berkey Purification Elements are unique filters in that they remove viruses, harmful pathogenic bacteria, cysts and parasites as well as unhealthy chemical contaminates and impurities while leaving in the essential minerals your body needs.
	Water Bricks: Water Bricks have a unique stacking capability that allows you to store them in virtually any configuration. From small nooks and crannies to large storage rooms or even outside, these containers will fit your needs. When we first saw Water Bricks we knew they could be a GREAT option for people who are struggling with space issues, or who are looking for an easy to carry, light-weight, portable water storage solution.
	Humless Solar Generators: When just getting started with food storage, it is overwhelming to think of what to do in a true powerless emergency situation. Generators can be intimidating, loud, huge, heavy, and require the storage of fuel which is scary, limited, and expensive as well. When we discovered the Humless Solar Generators we knew they would be the perfect solution for many of our readers. The Humless Sentinel is strong enough to power anything in your home that is under 1000 watts (i.e. a Bosch, a blender, your laptop, a refrigerator, etc.)
	Volcano Grills: The Volcano Grill is a great stove that gives you all sorts of cooking options. We love them because they work with a variety of fuels, and cook with pots and pans, grills, woks, or dutch ovens. We use ours for camping, eprep, and just for fun!
	Prepare My Life Planner: The Prepare My Life Planner is an organized emergency preparedness plan. Not only does it contain a step-by-step plan to help prepare your home and family for an emergency, it is also designed to store and organize your important documents. All of the pages, pockets, pouches, and folders are included. Whether it’s a natural disaster or a death in the family, every household needs a plan in order to survive, cope, and recover.

Check out the rest of tax refund week

Filed Under: Emergency Preparedness, Recommended Products Tagged: berkey, Emergency Preparedness, emergency preparedness products, food storage, humless, instafire, wheat grinders

Jodi and Julie March 24, 2012 6 Comments

We Heart Pinterest Day 6: Food Storage Gifts

Since we LOVE Food Storage, and LOVE Pinterest (see post here), each day until February 14th, we’ll be showing you some of our favorite Pinterest boards and neat things we have found and have pinned there! It’s so great to see and share what others have done.

Today we are highlighting our Food Storage Gifts board. This board highlights some gifts we’ve found around the web, and some gifts we’ve made ourselves for people that have or use Food Storage. The best gifts, are those that are useful!

To see the whole board, click here.

PIN 1: One of our favorite gift ideas. #10 can stoves are great for anyone because they can provide people with a way to cook food. Make this with items you already have on hand.
PIN 2: Wheat grass is a fun decorating item, and healthy food item. Check out this pin to see it grown in Christmas mug, but you could use just about any container and do the same thing!
PIN 3: When we got married, we got recipe boxes full of family recipes from Jodi’s mom. You could do a spin on that gift for bridal showers, and make Jodi’s cute recipe binders!
PIN 4: We couldn’t help but share this Valentine’s 72 hour kit for you to make for your loved ones that work at an office.

Make sure you check out the rest of the items on the Food Storage Gifts board. We’ll keep adding to that board as we find great stuff, and we’ll see you tomorrow to highlight another one of our boards!

Don’t forget you can Follow us on Pinterest so you don’t miss any of the great stuff we will be pinning in the future.

Filed Under: Gift Ideas, Pinterest Tagged: food storage, food storage gift ideas, food storage gifts, gifts, pinterest, pinterest gift ideas, using pinterest

Jodi and Julie February 6, 2012 Leave a Comment

12 Days of Food Storage Christmas!

12DAYS We shared this in our monthly newsletter last week but wanted to post it on the blog in case anyone missed it. Share your love of food storage and the peace that comes with being self-reliant by doing our 12 Days of Christmas for a loved one this year. This has been a favorite feature of our blog for a few years now and we continue to update it with other ideas each year. There are tons of gift ideas you can do for FREE or very inexpensively to help people get started on their journey.

IDEAS FOR EVERYONE

You can chose to do all 12 days (you’ll have to start asap or you won’t be done before Christmas) or just choose a gift that you think would help make this a special preparedness Christmas for someone important to you. The point is to share your love of food storage, and the peace that comes with being self-reliant. Each “day” will have a theme, and have 3 gift ideas for you:

An option that’s FREE or under $1
An option that costs $5-20
A more expensive option…

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

Day 1: Emergency Preparedness
Day 2: Shelves
Day 3: Water
Day 4: 3 Month Supply
Day 5: Long Term Education
Day 6: Grains
Day 7: Legumes
Day 8: Baking Goods
Day 9: Fruits and Vegetables
Day 10: Comfort Foods
Day 11: Non-Food Items
Day 12: Checklists

LABELS AND ACCESSORIES

We also have this pdf for you to print out that has tags for each day, name tags, and images you can print, and attach to the gifts. Feel free to use these whether you are doing all 12 days or just doing a gift or two.

We wanted to say thanks to all our readers for being so awesome, and hope you are getting ready for a wonderful holiday season. We’re so fortunate to be able to share what we learn with you all.

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