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 […]
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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 […]
Added “BabyStep 8: Fruits and Vegetables” to Main Topics
We added another BabyStep! Check out Step 8: Fruits and Vegetables to learn about adding produce into your food storage and how to preserve it. This is one of our favorite steps as it incorporates some of the “lost arts” such as gardening and canning. Sneak preview: Watch for a post later this week showing […]
Smoothies – On a Food Storage Blog?
Delicious recipe for smoothies using powdered milk and frozen fruits. The secret is in having yogurt cubes frozen in advance. So yummy!
Grab Our Button For Your Blog
A lot of people have asked us if we have a button that they can add to their blog. Well we’ve always had one, but it wasn’t very cute so we never really publicized it except to our family and friends. With our new “look” and several more requests, we thought now would be a […]
Emergency Plans and Disaster Kits
As you may have noticed, we took a LONG time to get Baby Step 7 out to you but we have a good reason! I got completely distracted with emergency preparedness. Over the past few weeks I had the chance to relax and do a lot of thinking/pondering about my food storage and emergency plan. […]
Why Food Storage Should Be Part of Your Financial Plan
Have you ever been out of work for a week, a month, even longer? Do you wish you could buy foods ONLY when they are on sale and with coupons? Do you wish you had a stockpile of grains now that the prices are getting so high? In light of the current economic situation, we […]