I recently completed a poll that stated If you only had 15 minutes to evacuate your home due to a wild fire, what would you grab first? We have had a very dry year in our state so far. We have had over 1,400 wildfires year to date in our state. As in other states, fireworks, gun and fire restrictions have increased. I watched a fire from my backyard as the entire side of a mountain was engulfed...

The one thing we love in our house is bread. We use store bought bread for sandwiches, but all our dinner bread, whether rolls or loaves of bread, we make using our food storage. That means that we use our wheat and grind it into flour. There are two side notes before I get into this fabulous recipe. The first is that you need a good grinder for wheat. We do have a hand grinder, but we only use...

One of the biggest issues that I hear about food storage is that you can’t eat it. I will let you know right now that I love to eat. Anyone who knows me can testify to that. When we first started using our food storage we made some mistakes. I want to share with you some of the mistakes we have made so you don’t have to make those same ones. I will also share with you the recipes and...

Just this week we talked about why we need food storage and the differences between short term and long term food storage. Today I wanted to talk about short term food storage. I hear that building food storage is just too hard of a task, that it costs too much or there have no place to store it. The best way to start to put these fears to rest is by focusing on your short term food storage. A...

Today’s article is credited to my child who taught us all last night what we need to do in case of a fire. Once a week we spend time as a family without any distractions. There are no friends allowed to come over. We take this time to become closer to each other. We always have an activity that we do together and we rotate who is in charge. I felt that we needed to go over what to do in...