Tag Archive: food

Jun 10

How to Make Homemade Plant Food

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Why buy expensive plant food. Let Creative homemaking tell you how to make your own. She has a few ideas in this article and none of them would cost hardly anything.

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May 20

Dehydrating Food Without Electricity

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The Prepper Project website shares the different ways to dehydrate food without electricity. There is a section how the easiest food to dehydrate and the most difficult foods… giving tips for both. I personally use my Food Saver machine to store my fully dehydrated foods because it removes the oxygen from with the bag therefore …

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May 14

MORE Grocery Store Knock Offs!

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Every day food storage has a lot of recipes for making your own homemade from scratch knock offs using your food storage. Pretty cool. She has soups, pop tarts and fruit rolls,hot fudge and bread. Plus all kinds of food storage recipes. Great site with loads of info.   http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2011/09/07/more-grocery-store-knock-offs/food-storage-recipes

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May 12

Find A Registered Food Bank In Your Area – There Is Even An App For That

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I think this is a post that is so worth sharing. When your garden over produces, instead of sneaking around the neighborhood in the middle of the night gifting everyone with the surplus zucchini.    Find a food bank near you and donate it to help folks that don’t have a garden. AmpleHarvest.org  has an …

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May 08

Four Simple Rules to Extend the Shelf Life of Your Foods

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Preparedness advice tells us to use the acronym HALT for our food storage. This is some good info for folks that are storing foods or plan to store them. Better to learn this and  do it right that do it wrong and waste food or find yourself needing your stored food but it isn’t good …

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Apr 25

How To Freeze Eggs

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If you raise chickens, the girls are probably beginning to lay a lot. Sometimes you can just have so many eggs you can’t use them all. Well Faithful Provisions has instructions on how you can freeze you excess eggs so you can use them later.    I don’t have chickens but I do see a …

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Apr 19

Comprehensive Survival Food List & Storage Guide

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Nice article from Activist post on what to store and how long its good for. Nice list broken down by length of time you can store it for.

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Apr 19

Why Instant Oatmeal Should Be in Your Survival Kit

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When paking a bug out bag or survival kit, what kinds of easy to prepare foods do you have in it? Prepping to survive tells us why instant oatmeal should be one of the items and why.

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Apr 19

Ultimate Emergency Food – Urban Survival

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Check out what all he says is in sprouts. I always hear how they are superfoods but he lists the vitamin , mineral and other benefits. Envirosponsible shows you how to sprout. To show you how sprouts can be a very good survival food.

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Apr 07

How to Make a Slanted Shelf Unit for Canned Food Rotation for about $100

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Loving this idea for a slanted shelf for canned goods. Since it is slanted the cans go in one side and roll down to the other. Makes it easier to rotate the cans so you are always using the oldest first.    I think this would even be good for a regular pantry not just …

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