Sometimes camp outs can get pretty chilly. When I was growing up we’d frequently take camping trips when it wasn’t quite warm enough to be comfortable–mostly the early spring or late fall trips–and sleeping was never warm enough even with plenty of blankets piled on. I’m not sure how it came to be–maybe my mom […]
Archives for April 2011
Preparedness Basics: Long Term Storage
Once your short term food storage goals are met (or close to it), the next item of preparedness in the food category is to work on storing some long term food storage. These foods are items that will sustain life and store for a long time. This is where your buckets of wheat and rice […]
A Little More Catch Up
It’s been a crazy weekend here, so sorry for no post Friday. The kids are off for spring break for one more day and we’ve been busy cleaning out the house to make it ready for the baby. This has required sweet husband’s time as well since I can pack a box of things, but […]
Winner! And Other Stuff
We finally have a winner for the Seven Years of Plenty cookbook! For those of you new here, the giveaways actually do end on time, it just usually takes me a couple of days to get the winner notified. This time google docs helped me out a bit by not working on the day I […]
Homemade Survival Bar Update–2+ Years Later
Can you believe it’s been two years since we made these homemade survival bars? If you weren’t around for the homemade survival bar post, go ahead and check it out, I’ll wait. We checked on them last year here. Well, I had a sweet reader ask about their condition now, over two years later, so […]
Want to Write a Guest Post?
I’m trying to get organized for this baby that’s coming some time in the next month and will likely be taking some time off the blog when he arrives. However, I don’t want all my readers having nothing to read during that time and only have the drive to pre-write a couple of posts on […]
Reminder
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How to Make Homemade Yogurt at Home
Have you ever wanted to make your own yogurt? It’s really not that hard and saves a ton of money if your family likes to eat yogurt (like mine does). Today we’ve got a step by step tutorial for making your own yogurt from scratch. As a side note, this was also my son’s science […]
Book Review: Seven Years of Plenty Cookbook
I recently received a copy of Seven Years of Plenty Cookbook by Linda Olsson who also writes the blog Seven Years of Plenty. For those of you unfamiliar with the phrase, seven years of plenty were what Joseph in Egypt knew would happen before a great famine hit by interpreting Pharaoh’s dream in the Old […]
Things Are Growing
Spring is actually finally here. We had 70 degree weather last Friday and Saturday and then snow on Sunday. I spent some time in the garden Friday. I must have had morning/all day sickness in the fall, because it is a mess out there! I raked and cleared some of the beds so the kids […]