Food Storage
It’s Pay It Forward Day, a day that encourages us to do something kind for someone else and, rather than expecting payment or a good deed in return, we challenge the recipient to pass it on. I love this idea! I think paying kindness forward is a great way to live life…and I’ve experienced its [...]
The most recent commodity reports show rising prices on flour, sugar, eggs and shortening due to steady demand and tight supplies. If you are low on these food storage staples, buy what you can afford. Sugar has risen from $48.60 / cwt in April 2010 to $61.00/ cwt in April 2011. It may take some time for prices [...]
And this is why I started this site. Storing the basics shown above is a great place to start, but I don’t think many of us want to channel our pioneer ancestry to this extent. I believe in knowing how to use these staples to make healthy foods, but also in storing the ingredients [...]
This Christmas, my neighbors are getting homemade bread with jam or honey butter. (The photo is actually one from a previous year when I used a similar idea in gift baskets. This year, I’m just using gift sacks and I’m giving some homemade Strawberry Peach freezer jam and some Me ‘ N Stan’s Honey Butter with [...]
It’s been an incredibly crazy month! I just returned from the Alison’s Pantry Food Show in Pleasant Grove, Utah where I enjoyed, among other things, a presentation on food storage organization. If you’re new to food storage, you need a plan! And, there’s no better time to start than now. September is National Emergency Preparedness [...]
