With the recent earthquakes, I have been thinking about my food storage and preparedness plan and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit I am guilty of a little procrastination over here! It seems like anytime Jodi and I do progress updates, they turn into confessionals, but bit by bit we make improvements and feel [...]

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It’s recommended before getting heavily into storing “long term foods” such as grains and legumes, to start with a 3 month supply of foods you typically eat. Ideally you’ll start gradually using your grains and legumes in foods you typically eat, but before getting overwhelmed with that … start with your typical foods:

Planning Sheets
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In order to get your ready for the Seven Day Challenge, we are going through revising and cleaning up all our BabySteps. We created the BabySteps to break down the vast amount of information in the “food storage world” when we first got started last summer. From the BabySteps, we developed the BabySteps Checklists as [...]

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We are often asked the question … “Why do you store food?” We have gotten a lot of great email testimonials lately about how food storage has helped families who have been struggling financially in these tough economic times. Last year we wrote an article about how food storage can help with your finances [...]

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We now have tools for EVERYONE to plan their 3 month food supply (and it only took 3 full days to get it all ready for you – so we hope you USE them .
Up until now we have had this intense and “awesome” spreadsheet. However we’re excited to announce two new ways to [...]

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We have been asked a lot recently how to buy food at good prices. There are so many resources out there for you to look at. These types of resources tend to be somewhat “local” in that they do the research and work for you and tell you what the great deals are at [...]

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I just wanted to share a quick update and some valuable tools with you. I’ve been using the Grocery Smarts website to find great deals on food storage/3 month supply items (this is a Utah specific link and is only available in a few other states – SORRY!). For now I do my [...]

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You asked, We listened….

Some of you have asked if there was a way to add additional ingredients on the 3 Month Food Supply to both the meal section, and the master ingredients list of our spreadsheet. Well we updated the sheet. Click here for the newest sheet. Since we didn’t use it to [...]

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So if you remember from my beginnings post, THIS is what my food storage looked like 2 months ago. If you are new to the site, you may not have been around when Jodi and I declared to the world we were going to figure out this food storage stuff and share our research. [...]

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