Archives for November 2008

What is a Tweet?

What is a Tweet? A “Tweet” is a special message you get by using the service called Twitter. We send out tweets to our followers to share food storage tips, emergency and food storage related blog posts, interesting websites, updates to our own site, etc. The tweets come in 160 character messages and you can […]

Tweets of the Week: Nov. 23 – Nov. 29, 2008

Here are some tips and cool sites we were talking about on twitter this week Great site on keeping your family organized. http://is.gd/9wLj Organization is the key to success at any endeavor, even food storage! 2:34 PM Nov 29th from twhirl Whole Wheat Homemade Playdough http://is.gd/941E AWESOME IDEA!!! 10:35 PM Nov 25th from twhirl Retweeting […]

Holiday Baking + Food Storage

This time of year is an EXCELLENT time to stock up on your items in Step 7: Baking Ingredients. Mary Hunt, best-selling finance author, sends out daily finance tips in her Everyday Cheapskate newsletter which we LOVE. We encourage you to sign up for her newsletter and also to stock up on these items for […]

Food Storage Savings

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 normal shop […]

Water EMERGENCY!

For those of you who know my 18 month year old son, you will find this humorous, for the rest of you I beg for your sympathy! So today I woke up way too early with a sick child, and a husband who is out of town. I only got about 4 hours of sleep […]

Homemade Applesauce Recipe & Canning

My wonderful cousin Kaila got about 500 pounds of apples off the tree at her new house and was kind enough to give some to me. Since the apples were free and readily available I decided to attempt to make some applesauce. It was messy but a really fun family affair! Homemade Applesauce Recipe and […]