Posted on October 13th, 2009 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
We’re SOOOO excited! Our Fun With Food Storage network is being featured on the Utah show Studio 5 all this week and we were on the show yesterday to talk about PLANNING your food storage. Here is a copy of our segment in case you missed the show and haven’t seen it posted [...]
Posted on August 24th, 2009 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
Today I want to share with you a story (or confession) about my garden this year. As you may recall from my “It’s Garden Time” post and my “Jiffy Pots” post, I had high hopes for my garden this year. Well watch the video below to find out what REALLY happened!
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
Hopefully you have already watched the “How to Make a 72 Hour Kit” video on our Getting Started page. While I was creating that video my children ended up waking up from their naps and started causing me some trouble. I looked through the outtakes as I was trying to piece together the [...]
As we mentioned in BabyStep 5, the biggest hang-up people seem to have with starting their long-term food storage is WHEAT! And more specifically, how to actually use a wheat grinder. Well don’t worry, as promised we have made a video showing you just how simple it is to grind your own flour from wheat.
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FINALLY – A SOLUTION!
How do you decide what to include in your 3 Month Food Supply?
How do you determine how MUCH of each item to buy?
How do you keep track of your current inventory and what you still need to buy?
How do you make sure you are stocking up when items are ON SALE?
We couldn’t [...]
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy
Problem
While preparing the blog post “How to Make a 72 Hour Kit” I pulled out my own kits to take some pictures. I realized the date on them was July 2006 so I decided I better rotate the food out since the recommendation is typically to rotate it every 6 months to a [...]