Prepared for Christmas: Black Friday Deals
Prepared for Christmas: Black Friday Deals Like many people (or maybe we’re in the minority now), I feel that Christmas has gotten too commercialized. The holiday that’s supposed to be about giving to...
View ArticleStock Your Freezer – Freezing Berries
Stock Your Freezer – Freezing Berries My strawberry and raspberry plants are going great guns this year. I spent Saturday picking (and eating) several cups of sweet berries and I have 4 cups left....
View ArticleBulk Buy: Storing 40 Lbs of Walla Walla Sweet Onion
Bulk Buy: Storing 40 Lbs of Walla Walla Sweet Onion This weeks bulk buy is sweet onion. Lots of sweet onion. In your neck of the woods they might be called Vidalia or Texas or Maui. Around my place...
View ArticleFruity Success – The Do’s and Don’ts of Freezing Fruit
Fruity Success – The Do’s and Don’ts of Freezing Fruit I’m doing my research this week on the proper way to freeze all kinds of fruit and I thought I better share. Hopefully this inspires you to go out...
View ArticleStock Your Freezer: To Blanch or Not To Blanch Vegetables
Stock Your Freezer: To Blanch or Not To Blanch Now that vegetable season is in full swing it is a good time to learn how to freeze the bounty. Each kind of vegetable has it’s own freezing rules and you...
View Article8 Chest Freezer Organization Ideas
Make the Most of Your Freezing Friend I have two chest freezers that were very unorganized. You would think that because I use them as part of my food storage plan, I would have a system for finding...
View ArticleFreezing Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
I purchased a box of navel oranges right before Christmas and they ended up sitting around the house, we didn’t eat as many as I had hoped. Because I’m a frugal gal and I hate to waste things, I found...
View ArticleRethinking Food Storage – The Food Storage Law of 3′s
The Food Storage Law of 3′s I learned a valuable food storage lesson a few weeks ago by a Master Food Preserver. It has me rethinking my whole food storage plan. It’s this concept – to think about HOW...
View Article5 Things To Do With 10 Pounds of Strawberries
Preserve strawberries and retain that summer flavor By now you know I love a good bulk food buy. It is my favorite, frugal way to continually work on my food storage plan. It’s strawberry season in...
View Article5 Things to Do With 10 Pounds of Blueberries
Preserve Your Blueberry Harvest This is one of my favorite times of year, when all the perennial fruits ripen. In my part of the world, we have raspberries, Marionberries, and boysenberries available...
View ArticleHow to Prepare for a Blackout
How to Prepare for a Blackout I think its safe to say we’ve all experienced the power going out at some time. In my neighborhood the lights always go out for a few minutes when there is a storm. A...
View ArticleHow Do I Store That? Fresh Milk
3 Tips for extending your milk storage time Milk can be expensive. In my neck of the woods, it’s going for $3.49 a gallon, which is even more than gas right now. Use these quick tips to extend...
View ArticleHow Do I Store That? Vitamins
Include Vitamins in your preparedness plan Vitamins and minerals have many unique roles to help to maintain our health. For instance Vitamin D and calcium work together. Vitamin D helps our body...
View ArticleRecommended Storage Times for Frozen Food
March is National Frozen Food Month Food preservation in cold temperatures has been practiced since the early days of mankind, although not as effortlessly as today when we have powerful freezers,...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Frozen Fruit Happy
Fruity Success – The Do’s and Don’ts of Freezing Fruit Everyone loves fruit. Well, not my husband, but everyone else loves fruit. We like to purchase ours by the flat and freeze it. It is used for...
View Article8 Chest Freezer Organization Ideas
Make the Most of Your Freezing Friend I have two chest freezers that were very unorganized. You would think that because I use them as part of my food storage plan, I would have a system for finding...
View ArticleThe Prepared Pantry: 3 Month Food Supply
Think of it as the “working supply” of your food storage. It’s Friday after work, you had to stay late to finish a project and you’re tired. You really don’t feel like going to the grocery store and...
View ArticleUse Ceramic Knives for Food Storage Processing
They cut like butter… It is food storage processing time and I have a cool new tool to help. I received 4 ceramic knives and a ceramic peeler from EasyLife to try in my prepared kitchen. I think my...
View ArticleHow Do I Store That?
Have you followed the “How Do I Store That?” series? This year I have undertaken a quest to learn more about food storage. Specifically I wan to know how to take the food we purchase and keep it for...
View ArticleEmergency Preparedness Skills: Seed Saving is Easy and Affordable
Save Seeds up to 10 Years I was at an Emergency Preparedness Fair on Saturday and I was impressed with all the speakers, but especially with Larinda Peterson, owner of Line Twenty Five Landscape...
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