Get Out of Dodge! Prepping to Leave Your Home and Bug Out During a Disaster (The NEW Survival Prepper Guides)

Get Out of Dodge! Prepping to Leave Your Home and Bug Out During a Disaster (The NEW Survival Prepper Guides) was free for the Kindle when I wrote this. A very informative book that is geared towards the new prepper and gives information on how to bug-out and what is needed to do that!

Food Storage Recipe - Homemade Cracker-Jackish Snack

Your kids will be asking "Where is the prize?". But once they taste this awesome snack , they will forget all about that. Make this delicious snack at home! Everyone loves Cracker Jacks. This homemade crack-jackish treat is cheap, easy, and quick.

Homemade Crack-Jackish Snack

3/4 cup of brown sugar

1/4 cup margarine

3 tablespoon corn syrup

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

8 cups popped popcorn

1 cup peanuts

Combine the brown sugar, margarine, corn syrup, and salt in a saucepan and cook over low heat until the margarine is melted. Cook without stirring for 3 minutes. Add the baking soda and vanilla. Pour it onto the popcorn and peanuts. Mix it together until evenly coated. Bake it at 300 degrees for about 15 minutes. Break it into bite size pieces. If you want it to be a lot less sweet just use more popcorn. You could also change it up a bit and add other types of nuts or pretzels.

Food Storage Recipe - Hash brown Casserole

Hash brown Casserole

2 cans cream of chicken soup

1 1/2 cup of sour cream

2 tablespoon butter

2 tablespoon of dried chopped onion

1 package of frozen shredded hash browns

4 ounces shredded cheese

Mix together in a large bowl everything except half of the shredded cheese. In a lightly greased casserole dish pour the mixture and top with the remaining cheese. Bake for about 45 minutes in a 350 degree oven. The entire dish should be bubbly. YUMMY! This is a good one for breakfast. Plus it is a copy-cat of the Cracker Barrel dish.

Found Another Use For FoodSaver!

We homeschool and I am always printing things off. Some of it I want to keep , but I have no laminating machine. So I got the idea this morning to take and put the items that I want to keep, like times table, in a glad bag and then heat seal it shut with the FoodSaver. Now we have our things in a protective cover and can be kept for good. Make sure it is in there good and flat. No wrinkles. That would make it hard to read the things inside. You could do this with just about anything that you do not want to get wet. Maybe even put all of your important papers in a bigger bag and heat seal it shut so they can't get wet. I have a lot of ideas for this now. Make our flash cards that we use a lot last longer. This would have to be a lot more frugal than getting a machine just for laminating. Don't you have to get special plastic sheets for them and everything? I am all about being frugal!

Food Storage Recipe - Homemade Soft Pretzel Valentines

Make these for the kiddos instead of them eating all of that Valentine candy and chocolate. These are better for them and fun. Make these pretzels into heart shapes and it will be a hit for the whole house.

Homemade Soft Pretzel Valentines

1 package of yeast

1 1/2 cup of warm water

1 tablespoon sugar

1 tablespoon salt

4 cups of flour

1 beaten egg

Coarse salt for sprinkling on top

Combine the yeast, water, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Let sit about 10 minutes until it foams. Stir in the flour. Knead on a table until the dough is smooth. Divide into about 8 - 10 equal sized pieces and then Shape the dough into tube by rolling with both hands. Shape each tube into a heart shape , squeezing the ends together in the middle. Place each one into boiling water that is at a rolling boil for no more than 30 seconds and take out with a slotted spoon. Put them on a baking sheet and brush them with the beaten egg. The egg helps them to get to that nice golden "pretzel" color. Sprinkle the tops with the coarse salt. Bake for about 12 - 15 minutes , but WATCH THEM VERY CLOSELY - THEY CAN GET VERY BROWN ON TOP VERY QUICKLY.

Serve! Give them to everybody on your Valentines list. Great idea for something to take to your kid's class. Healthier than cupcakes, cookies, candy, and chocolate.