After all of the rain...

We've had buckets of rain here and flooding. But, this iis what appears after the rain stops. Beautiful sky! Just had to share! Have a great week!

Food Preservation & Storage at Home - A Step by Step Guide to Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Freezing & Safely Storing Food for Later Use

Food Preservation & Storage at Home - A Step by Step Guide to Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Freezing & Safely Storing Food for Later Use was a free Kindle book when I wrote this post.

 

 

Book Description

 

LEARN:: Step by Step Strategies for 4 Food Preservation and Storage Techniques (Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating & Freezing)

Do you wonder ANY of the following: How can I take advantage of in-season produce prices and eat them all year long? How can I safely prepare meals for my family for the week or month ahead of time? How can I be prepared to feed my family in case of a natural disaster or other state of emergency?

If you find yourself asking any of these questions, then it's important for you to know these food preservation and storage techniques.

YOUR GOAL:: Establish a 3 Month Food Storage Supply for You & Your Family

I want to challenge you to gather enough food for you and your family to survive on for 3 full months, preserve it using canning, pickling, dehydrating and/or freezing strategies, and safely store it.

Any number of things could happen today that could potentially leave you without an ample food supply. You or the primary income earner of your household could be laid off and unable to find work. There could be a natural disaster that contaminates our water supply and leaves us without food. These are just to name a few.

If you are smart and start preserving and storing food at home to get you through these potentially devastating times, you and your family will have a greater chance of surviving any situation.

DOWNLOAD:: Food Preservation & Storage at Home - A Step by Step Guide to Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Freezing & Safely Storing Food for Later Use

Inside "Food Preservation & Storage at Home" you'll get step by step strategies for these top 4 methods of preserving foods at home.

Inside this guide you’ll learn:

Why preserving your food at home is now more important than ever

How to avoid food-borne illnesses when canning

What tools you will need for each food preservation technique

A step by step canning strategy

A step by step pickling strategy

A step by step dehydrating strategy

A step by step freezing strategy

A 3 month food storage supply challenge

How to buy the freshest food possible for preserving food at home

Preserving food at home using one of these 4 methods and storing it for later use doesn’t have to be difficult. What you need is a simple, proven strategy for each food preservation technique that you can easily understand and begin to follow today. That’s exactly what is provided in this book.

Food Storage Recipe - Super Quick Chicken & Rice Dinner

Super easy and frugal dinner. Great for when you are in a hurry.


Brown four skinless, boneless chicken breast in a bit of oil.

 Cook until they are done.

 Remove from the pan and then add a can of condensed cream of chicken soup. 

Add 1 1/3 cup of water to that in the pan and bring it to a boil. 

Stir in 2 cups of uncooked instant rice. 

Top it with the chicken and cover. 

Cook it on low heat for a few minutes.

 Stir and serve.

Homeschool Minute - Them Bones!

Now that it is October , we are having a lot of fun. I have saved a lot of things for this month. Perfect timing to learn about bones and the body. We did the skeleton today. I got this free printable from Confessions of a Homeschooler that has the skeletal system and internal organs. We will do the organs Friday. Little Man had fun with this. I left it all apart and he had to put it together like a puzzle and then put the labels in place where they go. He used the Skeleton Key for that today. Soon, he should be able to do it without the help.

We will be working on some great fun things this month. Learning about bats, mummies, etc.

Cloth Hankies - DIY Sewing

Eveyone in our house has allergies. They are starting up now. I spent the evening sewing some cloth hankies that are super soft for the nose. These are super simple to make. In a few minutes you can sew one.

Sew your two layers of soft fabric right sides facing. Sew them all of the way around, leaving a small opening where you can turn them right side out. Fold in the opening and top-stitch the whole way around. Easy and you will soon have a whole stack of soft hankies for the allergy season and the winter cold &flu season.

They are practically free also. I use old t-shirts.

The Yellowstone Conundrum

The Yellowstone Conundrum (Is this the end?) was a free book when this post was written. A fiction book for you to read. This is about something that scares the crap out of me. I really think that it could happen. :(


 The Yellowstone Caldera, the most dangerous hot-spot on the surface of the earth, erupts with a series of 11.2 earthquakes and spews volcanic ash high into the atmosphere. Six hundred miles away a 9.45 quake under Puget Sound causes massive destruction to Seattle as a tsunami strikes and destroys most of the waterfront.

The Fort Peck Dam in Montana on the Missouri River fails as does the Jackson Dam on the Snake River. The power grid in the Western United States quickly disintegrates, with utility companies fending for themselves. Power outages reach the East Coast.

The Beginning of the End is a page-turning novel with readers following eight characters as they scramble out of harm's way on Day One of the Yellowstone Conundrum; everyday people put into extraordinary situations, with the President of the United States and his cabinet scrambling in the background to find how to escape from lose-lose scenarios.

The Columbia Generating Plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation suffers great damage and begins a meltdown. Bridges in Portland collapse. Infrastructure in the NW is severely damaged and thousands are killed; Salt Lake City, Boise, Denver and every city, town and village in the Pacific Northwest are affected.

The massive Death Cloud from the Yellowstone explosion sends volcanic ash into the jet stream, which then begins to carry the heavy ash south across Wyoming, over Denver until it catches up with a low pressure system advancing across Texas.

Follow army vet Ray Spaulding as he survives the crash of a WSDOT ferry in the tsunami, then manages to save, then lead a handful of everyday people who rally together to save the Seattle Public Library from destruction by gangs.

University of Washington professor Denny Cain and student Karen Bagley vow to get out of Seattle, only to find themselves in a firefight as the local Seattle gangs attempt to claim the night.

Skier Penny Armstrong fights her inner demons by skiing north toward Billings in an attempt to avoid the Death Cloud.

Long-distance trucker Cameron Hedges is forced to step out of character as he first rescues Betsy Jamison, then convinces an entire town to move out of harm's way.

Robert and Nancy O'Brien, both up-and-coming managers within the Department of the Interior are separated by their jobs, then by the earthquake and explosion.

The President of the United States must deal with his own Kobayoshi Maru, with a series of impossible lose-lose scenarios as the power grid in the United States collapses.

Radiation Network

Radiation Network

Radiation levels in USA just keep going up and up. 

Pinterest Homeschool Board

Pinterest

I started this board awhile ago and it is full of tons of great things to do , freebies, advice , and more. 

Tips for Survival Food Gardens

Food storage is a good way to go to be prepared for the future, but so is a garden for having fresh produce. Here are some tips on how to start a survival garden that will make you more self sufficient.

1. See what grows well in your area- If you don’t know where to start or what to grow, a good first step might be to see what is possible for you to grow. For example, it might be a good thing to know that if you live in Alaska, you probably won’t be successful at growing pineapple. Looking into what grows well in your climate helps you narrow your search and make decisions about what seeds to buy.
2. Analyze the space you have- Another thing that will be helpful with starting a survival garden is knowing how much you can plant. If you live on the 4^th floor of an apartment building, your options for planting are a lot more limited than someone living on a farm property. Because some plants take up more space than others, you can use this as another deciding factor for what you will plant.
3. Strive for a well-rounded grow- If you decide to use your entire space to plant nothing but peas, and an emergency occurs, you won’t be able to live off of your garden alone because peas don’t have every nutrient you need. Try to include a variety of different plant foods. Think of what produce would go well with your food storage items so that you can have complete meals. Doing this will make it so you have lots of different vitamins and minerals that your body needs to live.
4. Keep in mind the seasons- Because different plants have optimum growth in different seasons, it might be helpful to plant by categories of season. If you have all the plants that need to be harvested in September in one area, you are less likely to forget about one and waste all the food. This can also help with when you re-plant next year. You will remember that one section of the yard needs to be planted in the spring, one in the summer, and one section needs more shade or water than another.
5. Get creative- If you live in a small space, don’t despair! There are lots of ways to grow a survival garden without having an actual yard. Use your deck to store pots with tomatoes or wood pallets to grow smaller plants in.

Just remember, every step toward being completely prepared is important. Don’t get overwhelmed, and just keep improving. Click here to visit a social media page with more emergency preparedness ideas.

Author Bio- Dirk Puckett works in the emergency preparedness industry and also enjoys mountain biking and spending time with his family. Click the link for another gardening and food storage resource.

Heating Homes with Solar Air Collectors (DIY) - Exposing The Truth

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I am going to show this to hubby when he gets home!! Great way to save some money.