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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Prepared is an Average LDS Congregation?
I’ve talked with more than one person who is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) who believes that Mormons all have food storage. Unfortunately, even though there has been much said by leaders in the LDS church to encourage self reliance and home food storage, many members of […]
Preparedness Basics: Short Term Storage
I am often asked by people new to preparedness, “Where do I start?” And the answer is, “It depends”. I know you’re excited to hear that one. But where to start varies depending on your situation and what you think you are preparing for. Usually though, it is wise to start preparing for a short […]
Yes, You CAN Sprout Wheat that has Been Stored with Oxygen Absorbers
Today I’m just linking to a post I did a while back because the question has surfaced again about whether wheat stored with oxygen absorbers will sprout. It does, I sprout with it all the time after dispelling the prevalent food storage myth that oxygen absorbers will kill the germination ability of your wheat or […]
Essene Bread Fail
Have any of you ever tried making Essene bread? There are instructions for making it in John Hill’s How to Live on Wheat that are copied straight from some ancient text–the same instructions are on this Wikipedia page. I thought I’d try it out and see if it was any good, since those bible folks […]
Baking Bread in a Solar Oven in the Utah Winter
Solar ovens have a very good reputation for cooking things on hot, sunny days, but what if it’s not a hot day? Have you ever wondered how well a solar oven cooks in the winter? Me too. So I’ve spent a few days with the Global Sun Oven in the Utah winter. I’m kind of […]
Saving Seeds: Radish
If you have an heirloom garden going with non-hybrid seeds, usually the point of going through the extra trouble of getting the non-hybrid varieties is so that you can save seed from your plants to plant again the following spring. Right? Saving seeds is not always as easy as it sounds, with some plants being […]
Book Review: How to Live on Wheat 3rd Edition
You know wheat is recommended as a vital part of any long term food storage plan, but after you have those buckets or cans of wheat in the food storage room, what are you going to do with it all? Even if you have a grinder and can grind it into flour, that will certainly […]
