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Getting Started Sprouting!
Getting Started Sprouting I love sprouting. Sprouts are an easy and quick way to get fresh greens in your diet no matter what season it is! Plus growing your own gets you sprouts at a fraction of the...
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Fabulous Home Canned Peach Raspberry Jam
Homemade jam is one of my favorite reasons for canning, and today I have a delicious jam that’s going to our “I Grew Thanksgiving” dinner with me since it’s made from raspberries and peaches I grew!...
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Canning Homemade Peach Peel and Pit Jelly
What do you do with your peels and pits when you’re canning peaches or using them for jam? Mine used to go straight out to the chickens, but I’ve found a new way to get one more delicious use out of...
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How to Implement Self Imposed Reverse Quarantine (SIRQ) to Protect Your Family
Quarantine vs. Reverse Quarantine In a situation involving an outbreak of a communicable disease such as Ebola, Enterovirus D68, or even some strains of the flu, quarantine may become necessary in...
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How to Build a 30 Day Emergency Food Supply
Ever read one of my articles and wish you could add to it or change it up a little? Well, today’s your lucky day! Overstock.com has started a site called o.info that is a wiki site for finding and...
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Twelve Days of Christmas–Food Storage
Let’s be honest, who wouldn’t want to get some food storage or preparedness gear for Christmas? You know it ends up under my tree in some form every year. Well this Christmas I’ve got a gift for...
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Twelve Days of Christmas–Preparedness Gear
Christmas is the perfect time to get some preparedness gear under your tree or give some to someone you care about. And today I have the second half of the 12 Days of Christmas gift giving...
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How to Make Butter with a Butter Churn
Want to start making your own butter? For our Thanksgiving meal this year, we made our own butter using my grandma’s butter churn. It’s probably an antique, but you can get something similar here....
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How to Make Homemade Marshmallows
Homemade marshmallows are super easy and taste so much better than store marshmallows, you’ll want to be making them all the time. Well, at least your husband might want you to be making them all the...
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Four Questions to Ask to Prioritize Emergency Preparedness Goals
It’s a new year and that means the traditional time of making new goals for yourself. Hopefully you added a few goals to be better prepared this year. I keep an ongoing list of things I want to learn,...
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Sinfully Delicious Pumpkin Roll
I’m going to be right up front here. I have ulterior motives in publishing this recipe and detailed instructions. I have pumpkin roll for my birthday each year, but nobody in the house knows how to...
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72 Hour Kit Series Week 1: Food for Your Emergency Kit
Welcome back to the 72 Hour Kit Series! If you haven’t already caught the introduction, read it now so you’ll know what’s going on. I’ll wait right here until you get back. Remember that you are...
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8 Delicious Ways to Use Freeze Dried Vegetables
When I started buying freeze dried food, I knew I needed to take my own advice and try the food out rather than just set it on a shelf and call it food storage and hope I liked it when I needed to use...
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72 Hour Kit Series Week 2: Water for Your Emergency Kit
Welcome back to the 72 hour emergency kit series! This week we’re getting water in our kits. Water for emergency kits is another topic I cover in detail in the first chapter of my book, Food Storage...
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DIY Double 2 Liter Bottle Tote
Here’s an easy sewing project I dreamed up when trying to figure out how to be able to carry more water in an emergency. 2 liter soda bottles are so easy and inexpensive to get, wash, and fill for...
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February 2015 Monthly Challenge: 3 Gallons of Water
Welcome to February’s Monthly Challenge! How did Making a List go? This month we’re going right to the basics. Your challenge is to get three gallons of water stored per person in your household....
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How to Save Carrot Seeds
Welcome! this post is part of the Prepared Bloggers’ 30 Ways of Homesteading roundup! At the bottom of this post you’ll find lots of great links to other ways to become self sufficient through...
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27+ Clever Ways to Use Dandelions
Hold off on the weed spray! That shining yellow flower that pops up all over creation in the spring doesn’t need to be eradicated. Although dandelions are typically thought of as a pesky weed, they...
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Don’t Eat That! Seven Signs of Good Food Storage Gone Bad
Expiration dates are only an indicator of optimal freshness in canned goods. Just because your can of food has reached the printed expiration date does not mean it needs thrown out. Food can be...
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12 Favorite Comfort Foods You Want in Your Food Storage PLUS How to Store Them
Nobody wants to go through a hard time eating just beans and rice. I’ve heard frequently that “if you’re hungry enough, you’ll eat anything.” But why should you need to when you can have foods you...
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