Saturday, April 25, 2015

What to do with food storage when moving

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  Here is an email I received:   Hi Amy, I hear you're the guru of food storage.  We're having movers for the first time ...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Ice Storm Forecasted for Tonight

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Have you heard?  A big ice storm is possibly going to hit us tonight!  The latest news I saw said that ice would accumulate 1/4"...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Thirty Seconds to Evacuate- what do you take?

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This week, an acquaintance of mine sent this email out: "Last night, our downstairs neighbors' dryer caught on fire and we ne...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Vegetables picked in October

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Here is a picture I took a year ago in October.  We were moving from one house to another.  We had neglected our garden terribly, and it a...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Cell phone chargers

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As I have come to rely on my cell phone more and more, I have felt the need to keep a charger with me at all times.  I keep this little au...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Solar Yard Lights: Use them inside

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 Solar yard lights are such a great thing to have.  They can light up your yard on a regular basis, and then when you have a power outage,...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Normal food for 72 hour kits

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 I prefer to buy normal food from the grocery store for my emergency food supply.  Ready-to-eat meals like this one last a couple of years...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

25 year old lids get brittle

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We bought a lot of wheat in buckets in 1987.  In the last few years we have found that the slightest touch or weight will shatter the lids...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Still using my solar oven

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In my other house, it was such a pain to use my solar oven because I had to keep it in the upstairs spare bedroom.  Now, it is much more c...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Storing Bandages

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I was inventorying my medical supplies, and found that I had a lot of over-the-counter medicines (which I need to rotate) but I really did...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Vacuum sealed chocolate got too hot

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 We moved into a new house last fall, and later found these melted chocolate chips that I had vacuum sealed the previous year.  We think t...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Vacuum canning Chocolate Chips

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 I like to buy chocolate chips when they are on sale, and then vacuum seal them into canning jars.  I use this white attachment that fits ...