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Showing posts with label Preparedness. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Organize Your Food Storage / Pantry

The best thing that I ever did was organize my food storage. I found so much that I did not realize I had stored back and some items that were out of date. Really has already saved me a ton of money!! I am preparing for winter already and if we have a worse "second" wave of this pandemic.



I was really surprised at how much we have. This is not even all of it. With it being organized now, I can easily see what we do need and get more of it. I can see when we are getting low on something before we run out of it. It took me almost 2 days to organize it all. But, it was something that had needed done for a while.

I used the plastic shelving that are easy to put together and can hold quite a bit. Holds a lot , but keeps it easy to see it all. I also used some of those plastic shoe box sized totes to put items in that are small , like packages of gravy mix, oatmeal packs, candy, etc. The buckets have rice and dried beans in them.

Monday, December 7, 2015

Take Advantage Of The Sun & Nature

It isn't difficult to utilize the sun to help with easing the cost of your power usage. It will help by using the natural heat and light. You will use less power and be more sufficient. This will save your family money in the long run.

  • Orient you buildings to take advantage of the sun and to protect your home from the cold winter winds. You can plant a living "fence" to help with this if you have to. Plant a row of evergreen trees to keep the cold wind away.
  • Be sure to have as much insulation in your home as possible. This will also help in the summer by keeping the heat out and in the winter will hold the heat in.
  • Think about adding a sunroom to your home. You can vent the heat into the home during the winter and in the summer vent the heat outside.
  • Use the natural light during the day. In the winter open the curtains and let that natural light and heat into the house.
  • Think about adding brick to the outside of your home. This really helps with controlling the temperature. 
  • Use hanging plants and overhangs to cool the home in the summer. 
  • Plant your own food garden in your yard to save money on food costs. 
  • Have a rain barrel to catch water to use to water your garden and yard. My son also used our rain barrel to wash the cars. Great way to save money on water.
There are many ways to use nature to help you keep your utility bills low.

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Friday, December 4, 2015

Off Grid Living

Off Grid Living Box Set: 35 Tips on How to Survive Off The Grid Plus Prepper Survival Guide For Food Processing and Preservation, Food Storage And Water ... the grid, food processing and preservation) was a free book for your kindle.A lot of great tips tips to have on hand for if you are ever off-grid or without power for any other reason.

Let The Sun Do The Cooking!

Use the free heat of the sun to cook your food. It is easy and energy efficient. It saves on fuel cost and  in the summer helps to keep you cool by not having to heat up the house with your stove. With solar cooking it is cooked with lower temperatures that will not burn the food and makes it easy to just let it cook away without stirring or checking all of the time. Set it in the heat of the sun and come back after a few hours to a well- cooked meal.

A great idea is to set it up on a table that can spin so that you can make it follow the sun during the day. Makes it easy for us with bad backs, also. Don't have to pick up the whole cooker, just spin the table the bit that it needs turned.You can easily cook all year long with a All Season Solar Cooker.  You can bake bread, cookies, and cakes in a solar cooker. The best thing to make , since it is set and cooking all day, is stews, beans, soups, and casseroles.

You can easily make one. The links below have plans for making them and recipes.

Having a solar cooker is great for kids , also. They can learn to use one easily and be cooking in one in no time. My son was 7 years old when he made one out of a pizza box. It worked pretty good. He baked cookies in it and did some hot dogs. It was fun for him and he learned a lot about the sun and how it works.
Get the whole family involved.

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Bake A Cake In A Jar

This is such a cool idea. Bake the cake in the canning jar and then you can store it. You can use box cake mix or make your own cake.

  • Always use the wide mouth straight sided glass canning jars.
  • Lightly coat the inside with vegetable oil or cooking spray.
  • Fill the jars only about half way to give the cake room to rise.
  •  Keep the mouth clean to ensure a good seal.
  • Be careful when removing the jars from the oven. 
  • Store in the fridge or the freezer for up to 6 months.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Water Dowsing

My grandfather was a huge believer in dowsing. We lived out in the boondocks and he used it to find water for their well.

He always told me that he only dowsed for need. If he felt like he was tired or not relaxed enough to dowse then he would stop. Either let someone else do it or wait until he felt that the answers were coming naturally. I can still see him walking slowly around the 3 acres they had looking for water. He went over it a few times to make sure and each time he got the same answer and they had water the whole time they were out there! 

You can get a ton of information online about dowsing for water and go from there. 

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Going Off-Grid







We are very close to going totally off-grid. Have a piece of land lined up , a camper, and a truck. We will be all set. We have been looking for Solar Power items online and are going to have to get a Composting Toilet. We will be ok with that. The place we are looking at has awesome cell phone service and we will have the solar power for lights etc. I can't wait! In my mind we are already moved. It will be so great to live off the land and be free of utilities. Have a home where we can have freedom!

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Ready For All Shelter Survival Guide: What You Must Have To Thrive In An Emergency Situation

Ready For All Shelter Survival Guide: What You Must Have To Thrive In An Emergency Situation (catastrophe, disaster relief, survival food, emergency preparedness, ... Education & Reference, self sufficient,) was a free book for the kindle when this post was written.

 Would you be ready for a disaster?
Have any doubt about the strategies you have? Fear Not!
With this book as your new reference you will soon be able to have and do anything you need to be able to prosper in a crisis.

Do you always tend to wait to the last second to get well-prepared?
You must change your tactics now and get the minimum needs if anything would come to happen. You must take action for you and your family. There is a lot of disaster happening these days all over the world, natural disasters, epidemic like Ebola, social crisis... So it's fair to say that... Prevention is the key!

Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn in this book...

  • What kind of food you should have
  • How to prepper the food
  • Essential tools to have with you
  • How to react quickly to a catastrophe
  • The things to know to be really prepared
  • And much, much more!





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