As I was going through my e-mail recently, I received an excellent question from one of my readers.  Anne-Marie wrote in and asked me this, “Over the last couple of years I’ve gotten more into having an emergency car bag ( I live in South Dakota) and grab and go […]

After most weddings and funerals, we eat a meal.  When a couple is celebrating an anniversary, going out to eat is oftentimes part of the celebration.  I don’t know about at your house, but at our house, the entire family goes out to eat for birthdays.  Mother’s Day and Father’s […]

It’s easy to look at the food in our bug-out bags and think that its only purpose is to keep our stomachs from grumbling for three days.  But our bug-out bag food serves a higher purpose than simply keeping our stomachs from reminding us we haven’t eaten in a few […]

When someone says the word ‘preparedness,’ what’s the first thing that pops into your head?  If you’re a woman – likely the first thing that comes to mind is something related to food.  More often than not, we women are the ones that take charge of making sure that our […]