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Need to know how to cover your family’s food needs in a way that keeps you from asking what you should make with mismatched ingredients each night? This is where you get that info.
There are classical myths such as those associated Hercules or Achilles or Persues. There are modern-day myths such as, according to Web MD that there is supposedly no actual correlation between giving children sugar and hyperactivity. Makes me wonder what their definition of “hyperactivity” is. You? But then there is […]
When I teach people how to set up their short-term food storage menu, I tell them to have each family member write down their 5 favorite meals. Once they have that list of meals, I teach people to look at each meal’s recipe. Does the recipe require ingredients that are […]
I think no other words inspired my interest in food preservation, especially historic methods, more than the Little House series. Reading those books as a little girl started a lifelong journey of studying culinary arts and researching cooking and preservation methods – including freeze drying. “The little house was fairly […]
Here on the blog, we’ve been doing a lot of talk about five-gallon buckets recently. We’ve discussed how to get 5-gallon buckets for free or at least cheap. There was also a recent post on using a five-gallon bucket for a container garden. Today, we’re going to talk about how […]
When people talk about what you need to buy as a prepper, I once heard it boiled down to: “Beans, Bullets, Bandaids.” I believe it was James Wesley Rawles of The Survival Blog that coined the phrase. The “Beans” in the saying represent your food storage. And if you have […]
If I walked up to you on the street and handed you a prepaid $500 Mastercard credit card and said it’s yours to use, but you have to use it to stock a food storage pantry, what would you buy? After you picked your jaw up off the floor because […]
One of the hallmarks of preparedness is food storage. Most people find gathering long-term food storage fairly straight-forward, but short-term food storage can be a bit more confusing, so I wanted to take some time to break down how I do a short-term food storage menu. I want to give […]
It’s hard to believe that this is our third menu for the quarantine. This week’s gone fast, but we’ve had some activity at home this week which has helped it move along faster. Compost Delivery So on Tuesday of this week, we knew we were getting a delivery of compost. […]
So many of our lives have been turned upside down. Whether you are now homeschooling your kids – since many schools have been closed. Are you eating at home on a regular basis now when normally you would have gone out to eat one or two times during the week? […]
Superman has his arch enemy – Lex Luther. The kingdom of Gondor has a hated enemy – Sauron. The Avengers were almost defeated by their nemesis – Thanos. There are even enemies of food storage. Today, we’ll go through these five enemies of food storage and how to defeat them. […]
