If you’re doing a lot of Christmas baking (or if you don’t because it never seems to come out right) it’s worth investigating the two letter word in baking-HIGH ALTITUDE. Cookbooks and most recipes are written for SEA LEVEL which is not a huge portion of US. So…if you can’t figure out why your brownies [...]
Food Storage Thanksgiving Helps for YOU!
Sorry, I’m a day late on this post. I just returned from Kanab, Ut (the greatest earth on show!) for my grandfather’s funeral. I appreciate all of your condolences to me and my family. He was a great man who loved God, his country, and his family (especially-there are a lot of us!) and he [...]
High Altitude Baking and NEW HANDOUT!
So, I’ve been in denial for a really long time that I live at a high enough altitude to follow those “special instructions” for high altitude baking. I never had to do it before, growing up in San Diego is about as Sea Level as you can get. For some reason, I really thought changing [...]
Food Storage Yogurt FREE HANDOUT!
FREE FOOD STORAGE YOGURT HANDOUT Also, you’ll want to make sure and download my FREE yogurt handout. It’s a three page handout that will give you… the recipe for making the food storage yogurt from your powdered milk the instructions for turning it into greek style yogurt and yogurt cheese, ideas for how to use [...]
Teaching Kids how to Cook…and use food storage recipes!
I’m assuming most of you have kids home from school today, so it’s a perfect time to post my first “Teaching kids to cook” lesson! Most of you have already downloaded my “Kids in the Kitchen” handout (and if you haven’t, I would by clicking HERE). It gives good basic information on WHY you would [...]
Thanksgiving Time Saving Tips and Recipes-Food Storage Style!
I meant to do this as separate posts but ran out of time (obviously due to the flu) but this is better because now you can print it out and have it all in one spot. This handout has MORE than just time saving tips. It has time saving tips, AND recipes. Including how to [...]
A Mom’s Survival Guide to the Flu
Well, I’m happy to announce that we’re feeling better…at least for the most part. I learned a lot while we were ALL sick which I’m going to share with you all (mostly that having food storage is a REAL life saver)! I realized how hard it is to a) have everyone sick and b) have [...]
What is a Three Month Supply?
So what exactly is a three month supply? What should be in it? Where should you store it? How do you know what should be in it? … These are all questions I’m commonly asked so I did a video to explain everything for you! The pantry list I mention in the video can be [...]
NEW! Bread Handout!
I hope you all had as much fun as I did learning more about “The Wonderful World of Bread” Next we’ll be talking about homemade noodles and crackers. (YUM!) And remember, we’ll re-visit bread when we talk more about sourdough and it’s role in everyday baking along with emergency baking (i.e. if you don’t have [...]