ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED…IN A NUTSHELL!

1. My most popular items are on sale-giving you the chance to save BIG this weekend (Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday).
2. Stumped on a Christmas present for the person who has everything?  I’ve got you covered with my (drum roll, please….) NEW GRAB & GO BINDER DOWNLOAD!  The gift that EVERYONE needs and most likely doesn’t have.
3. ENTER TO WIN A FREE COPY OF MICHAEL BUBLE’S NEW CHRISTMAS CD! Simply, purchase one of my popular items (food storage magnets, measurement conversion magnets, Everyday Menu Planner, the Everyday Beans Cookbook) and/or the new Grab and Go Binder between NOW and MONDAY and you’ll be entered to win one of five copies of Michael Buble’s NEW Christmas cd.  FIVE winners will be chosen and announced on Tuesday on my blog.
4. Shelf Reliance is having their BIGGEST sale of the year this weekend (starting Friday and going through Monday).  To see the list of items on sale plus my top picks for you, click HERE.

EVERYDAY FOOD STORAGE BLACK FRIDAY SALE (well,  really it starts Thanksgiving

THE MUST-HAVE GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS!

Give a gift with REAL importance, BEING PREPARED, this Christmas. It doesn’t matter who you are or what station of life you are in-everyone should have a Grab and Go binder in case of emergency.

WHAT IS A GRAB AND GO BINDER?

It is an indispensable guide to your life should you ever go through an emergency. As you can imagine, in times of emergency it can be hard to think through the logistics of everything you’ll need or need to do, so think of this binder as your brain for that-it will remember everything for you and guide you through what you will need to do. There are two important things you’ll need to remember about a grab and go binder, 1) this will have very sensitive information specific to you and your family so you’ll want to make sure you keep it in a secure place out of sight and 2) make sure you grab it if you have to evacuate your house-this will have all of your important documentation, phone numbers, and contacts to survive and recover.

WHAT TYPES OF EMERGENCIES DOES THIS BINDER COVER?

• Evacuation/Natural Disaster
• Death of a Loved One
• Stolen/Missing Wallet
• Missing Person (covers more than just an abduction-think about it, most likely in an emergency your whole family won’t be sitting at home together and you’ll need to find each other)
• Basic CPR Instructions
• Basic Instructions for Turning of Water, Gas, and Electricity
• FEMA Instructions for creating a Family Emergency Plan

HOW DOES IT WORK?

This is a DOWNLOAD because this is an editable PDF file which means you can fill in the needed information right from your computer and print your final product OR you can print it and hand write in the information. Each page will guide you through what to fill out and which forms you’ll want to have copies (if not originals) of, pictures, etc. You’ll want to put the finished pages in page protectors and organize it into a binder that can be stored in a safe place and accessible in times of emergency.  You may want to have copies of this binder at more places than just your home (NOTE: You will not need to buy additional copies for this.)

BUY NOW DURING THE BLACK FRIDAY SALE!

…For only $7 and you’ll get the rights to give this to TWO of your friends or family for FREE.  (And of course, you’ll be entered to win a FREE copy of Michael Buble’s  NEW Christmas cd) Please note: You will receive ONE link but you will have permission to send that link to two additional people or to download the binder and send it to two additional people.

© 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

This week’s way to enter to win the free Bosch is SO SIMPLE!  All you need to do is share an idea, recipe, or a proud food storage room!  You see, if there is one thing I’ve learned blogging about food storage is that there are so many good ideas from all of you!  You’ve probably noticed, I’ve dedicated an entire post every week to YOUR great ideas with Saturday Food Storage Show-offs.  So send me an email at efsshowoffs(at)gmail(dot)com with a picture of your food storage room (especially if it’s in a creative spot in your house!), or a food storage recipe you’ve discovered and love (pictures are extra credit!).

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

This giveaway ends November 30th 2011. Check on December 1st 2011 to see if you won! I’m only able to ship this to the United States (sorry!). Check back every Monday for a new way to enter to win (READ: There will be lots of ways for you to get a lot of chances to enter win!)

BOSCH DETAILS

• 6 1/2 Quart Bowl
• 4 Speed Settings
• Cord Storage
• Suction Feet
• 800 Watt Motor
• Removable (mixing bowl) drive shaft
• Whip holder-dishwasher safe
• Speed setting one is slower
• Speed setting four is faster
• Higher dough capacity
• Sealed Transmission
• Refurbished 1 Year Motor and Transmission

DON’T KNOW THE GLORIES OF A BOSCH?

They can do amazing things like shred chicken, mash your potatoes, make many loaves of bread at once, and yes, they can make cookies (lots and lots of them!).

Good Luck! And make sure you check back on Wednesday for this month’s Food Storage Cooking Club!

© 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

THIS WEEK’S TWO WAYS TO WIN YOURSELF A FREE BOSCH!

1. OFFICIAL WAY TO ENTER #1: Do you remember my Grocery Shopping 101 Mini Class from last year? One of the best ways I mentioned that you can save money on your groceries is to sign up for a FREE two week trial to Deals To Meals, a website that will break down your grocery shopping for you, makes it possible to capitalize on the best sales of the week and to makes it SUPER easy to price match at Wal-Mart.  Well, one of the ways you can enter to win is actually a win-win for you!  Did you know this is when there are so many great sales to help you stock up your food storage?  I want to make it easy for you and make sure you do you take advantage of all these great sales going on now through the end of the year.  So…

   SIGN UP FOR A FREE TWO WEEK TRIAL TO DEALS TO MEALS and not only will you get great help for your grocery shopping, you’ll also be one step closer to a FREE Bosch mixer!  THE DETAILS: Make sure when you sign up that you select Everyday Food Storage when asked how you heard about them.  After you’ve signed up-shoot me an email at efsgiveaways(at)gmail(dot)com to let me know. They are only available in 12 states-if your state isn’t covered OR your already subscribe to Deals to Meals, then just shoot me an email telling me what sale you did stock up this week to help grow your food storage.

2. OFFICIAL WAY TO ENTER #2: Share the Food Storage LOVE!   Remember, the best way to not have people knocking on your door in an emergency is for THEM to be prepared as well. 

   SHARE YOUR FAVORITE POST, RECIPE, HANDOUT, OR VIDEO FROM MY BLOG ON YOUR BLOG! You’re not only helping your friends…but inching towards that FREE Bosch Mixer! THE DETAILS: 1) Share a post about a favorite post, recipe, handout, or video you’ve found on my blog and why. 2) Make sure you include the word food storage once or twice in your blog post and link it to my blog (http://everydayfoodstorage.net). 3) Shoot me an email at efsgiveaways(at)gmail(dot)com with a link to your blog post (if you have a private blog, don’t worry about inviting me just make sure the title of your blog post is telling of your post).

After you’ve done one or all of these, shoot me an email at efsgiveaways (at) gmail (dot) com to let me know which you’ve done. You’ll get one entry for each item you do!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

This giveaway ends November 30th 2011. Check on December 1st 2011 to see if you won! I’m only able to ship this to the United States (sorry!). Check back every Monday for a new way to enter to win (READ: There will be lots of ways for you to get a lot of chances to enter win!)

BOSCH DETAILS

• 6 1/2 Quart Bowl
• 4 Speed Settings
• Cord Storage
• Suction Feet
• 800 Watt Motor
• Removable (mixing bowl) drive shaft
• Whip holder-dishwasher safe
• Speed setting one is slower
• Speed setting four is faster
• Higher dough capacity
• Sealed Transmission
• Refurbished 1 Year Motor and Transmission

DON’T KNOW THE GLORIES OF A BOSCH?

They can do amazing things like shred chicken, mash your potatoes, make many loaves of bread at once, and yes, they can make cookies (lots and lots of them!).

Good Luck!  And make sure you check back on Wednesday for this month’s Food Storage Cooking Club!

© 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

Who wouldn’t want to win one of these amazing shelf storage systems for FREE?  I figured you would which is why I have this exclusive giveaway on my blog. I personally have 2 of their Harvest shelves in my food storage room and love them.  You can watch a video of me in my food storage room HERE with my shelves.  Shelf Reliance has definitely thought these through and made them functional for all your food storage needs fitting both small and large cans while leaving you the ability to fit it just for you-plus rotating is a breeze.  It’s AWESOME! You can check out more of their shelving options, by clicking HERE.

THE 72″ PANTRY FOOD STORAGE SHELF:

Food storage management has never been easier thanks to the Panty 72″. Like its name suggests, the Pantry 72″ was created for pantry storage. Featuring patented front-loading technology that automatically rotates cans on a first in first out basis, the Pantry 72″ is among the most popular food rotation systems offered by Shelf Reliance. This FRS is easy to adjust for different can sizes and boasts a standard can capacity of up to 280 cans.  With its easy-fit design and unique features, the Pantry 72″ makes food storage management a breeze.

© 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

Who wants to spruce up and/or organize their Kitchen? Look what’s in store for you! (A lot of them are perfect accessories to the Menu Days-Fall Edition Menu Planning E-Cookbook!)

Recipe Magnet Board Dry Erase Menu Tile Kitchen Jar Labels Dry Erase Calendar Picture Frame Vinyl Shut the Door

Oh Holy Night Glass Block Vinyl

Glass Block Nativity Vinyl

Have you heard of Say It On The Wall? They are a vinyl lettering company that specializes in unique personalized gifts and decor for your home, office, or vehicle. Vinyl is one of the cheapest ways to redecorate your home and one of the EASIEST ways to make meaningful personalized gifts this Christmas Season.

Say It On the Wall is doing great things over at their site. You may have heard about their Custom Design Promotion they did a few months ago, where they let readers submit ideas for designs that Say It On The Wall designed and let people vote on for their favorite design. (The Winner received the first copy of their design FREE!).

Their current promotion is the “New Product of the Week” Promotion going on from now until Christmas! Every Monday morning, Facebook Fans get to guess what they think the new product of the week will be. The new product is posted in the afternoon and the person that guessed the closest gets a gift certificate to Say It On The Wall. THEN (it gets even better!), that new product is on sale for 40% off for the first week it’s on the site. Take a look at the new products so far:

HOME Blocks

“We Believe in Being”

Halloween Countdown–Cauldron

Give Thanks Plate Vinyl

Gobble ’til you Wobble Blocks

Pilgrim Hat Place-Markers

See what I mean? COOL STUFF going on over at Say It On The Wall! Do you want to WIN a $30 Gift Certificate to Say It On The Wall so you can get some of these (or any of their other FABULOUS Products)? Lucky you! Here’s your chance! (Giveaway closes Sunday, November 21 at midnight) To enter:

1. Become a FAN of SAY IT ON THE WALL on Facebook.

EXTRA ENTRIES:

1. Follow Say It On The Wall’s BLOG
2. Visit the Site and tell what you would buy if you won.

Leave a separate comment for each entry. Good Luck!

Do you have a great product and want to host a giveaway on my blog? Contact me at efsadvertising@gmail.com!

© 2010 – 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

It’s a SCAVENGER HUNT!…an EASY Scavenger Hunt!
How to Enter:

I’ve hidden my logo girl on one of my food storage cooking pages (click on “cooking secrets”).  All you need to do is find it and then email me at efsgiveaways@gmail.com with which page she is on.  Simple, right?!  You have until September 7th to enter.  Then I’ll randomly choose FOUR winners (one for my book and three others for the sets of magnets).  I’ll ship the prizes anywhere in the US and Canada!  Good luck and I hope you win!

Hint: This may not be an instant clue, but if you mix it up and let it chill, you just might get it!

Know someone who could benefit from these prizes? Make sure and let them know about this awesome giveaway!

© 2010 – 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED, THANKS FOR ENTERING

THE GIVEAWAY:
My book, I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage just reached it’s one year anniversary! (Hard to believe my baby is that old! And I wanted to thank all of you for making it a success! It’s been wonderful to hear all of the success stories from people now ACTUALLY using their food storage AND loving it! So as my thank you to you, I’ll be giving away FIVE of my books for FREE!

HOW TO ENTER:
It’s simple really….blog, Twitter, Facebook, leave a comment, or any other creative idea you may have to tell why you love the book, wish you had a copy yourself, or why someone you know needs a copy. Doing multiple options will give you multiple entries, READ: you’ve got a better chance of winning if you do more than one option! Then make sure you e-mail me at efsgiveaways@gmail.com telling me what you did (if you did more than one, make sure you tell me so I can give you credit!) All entries must be received by Sunday (April 11) night and five winners will be chosen at random.

HOW DO I KNOW IF I WON?
Check back Monday (April 12) to see if you were chosen.

SHARE THIS GIVEAWAY WITH A FRIEND:
Do you have a friend who could benefit from using their food storage every day? (Let’s be honest, who doesn’t?!) Make sure and share this giveaway with a friend. (Options for sharing this post through Facebook, Twitter, and E-Mail are below…)

© 2010 – 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

Okay, you’ve heard me talk about how much I LOVE the cookbook series 101 Things (to do with almost anything!) but especially the 101 Things to do with a Cake Mix.  Stephanie Ashcroft does an awesome job with easy and delicious recipes (which you all know are my favorite!)  Anyway, I’ll get to the good stuff.  She is doing a giveaway right now on her blog (Savvy Savings) for a FREE copy of 101 Things To Do With A Cake Mix.  Make sure you go and enter the giveaway and try this very delicious recipe she sent me to share with you!  Click HERE to enter Stephanie’s giveaway and click HERE to check out her AMAZING series of cookbooks.

Lemon Squares from 101 Things To Do With A Cake Mix

1 lemon cake mix
2 eggs (2 T. dry egg powder + 1/4 C. water)
1/3 cup vegetable, canola, or olive oil (anyone brave enough to try beans instead of the oil ?
Powdered Sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, mix together cake mix, eggs, and oil. Mixture will be stiff. Spread mixture evenly into a greased 9 x 13-inch pan. Bake 13-15 minutes until slightly golden on top. Cool, then sprinkle powdered sugar over the squares.

p.s. I added in the information about using food storage…see…it is easy for recipes to be FOOD STORAGE RECIPES!

Also, to those of you in the San Diego, CA area-MARK YOUR CALENDARS-I’ll be doing an Autograph Party for my book “I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage” at the La Jolla Deseret Book filled with fun, samples, and answers to your questions on July 10 from 11:30-1:00 p.m.

© 2009 – 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

I love hearing from all of you about my book.  The positive feedback has been wonderful…and makes all of those very, very long nights writing it all worth it!  Here is one review I couldn’t pass up from Jim at EverythingPrepared.com!

Here is what Jim had to say…

I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage is a great book I highly recommend. How would you like to have your home food storage and actually be able to eat it too?

The “Rock Star of Food Storage” finally reveals the methods she uses to simply and deliciously use her food storage in her everyday meals. This book is a must have for for anyone with food storage. You will not have to wonder any longer about how to use your home food storage as Crystal provides simple, step-by-step examples that will help you use it instead of lose it. I wish I had this book years ago.

I have to admit, when Crystal contacted  me about reviewing I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage, I was a bit skeptical, but excited too. I had learned about the book through Twitter (eatfoodstorage) and the Food Storage Network. They have some great information on their sites so I was interested in seeing what Crystal had to say in her book. I had initially contacted her about reviewing it, but hadn’t heard anything.

When Crystal did contact me, I looked forward to receiving the book. After all, I enjoy reading about food storage and emergency preparedness and have a small library of books on the subjects.

There are 7 great things I noticed about this book:

1. It is easy to read and follow.
2.  It shows you how to decide if you are a menu person or a themed person.
3. It teaches you “tricky” ways to sneak food storage into your meals so your family will be wanting second and third helpings (We used this in our family with great results even before I read Crystal’s book).
4. It is well researched with addresses (linking info) to key resources you can use right now (this save you a lot of time).
5. Key questions about food storage are answered with tips and links to helpful videos.
6. It is written for LDS readers with quotes and thoughts from LDS leaders so the LDS population won’t have to search for them.
7. Best of all…there are over 100 tried and “kitchen-tested” recipes in I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage. 
   Side Bar: Thank you Matt (Crystal’s Husband) and Kate (her daughter) for being the taste testers.

Bonus: You’ll love the conversion charts. It makes it easy to convert measurements, and it takes away the guesswork and time to do math calculations.

There was only one thing wrong with the book. It didn’t include our Home Food Storage Supplies website as a place to purchase products online (just a little humor). Maybe I can talk her into adding it to her next edition of I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage.

All kidding aside. This is an outstanding book I highly recommend.

I believe everyone should have this book.

James Medina
President
Everything Prepared, LLC
http://www.everythingprepared.com

© 2009 – 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

Thank you so much for entering the Mother’s Day Giveaway for the Conversion Chart Magnets. It was so fun to read what you are using and how your family is enjoying it. You are truly doing an amazing job! Now, as for the winners…

Carrie, Albuquerque NM
Christie Christiansen
Laura Fisher

Congratulations to the winners, please email me at everydayfoodstorage[at]gmail[dot]com with your shipping address.

Now, if you’d like to give these magnets as a Mother’s Day gift (maybe as the perfect compliment to my book “I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage“) it’s not too late!  I’ve created a printable Mother’s Day card (click HERE to download then print and fold) explaining the gift and that they will arrive in the mail in a week or if you’ve really procrastinated (don’t worry, I won’t judge you! I’ve created this e-card that you can send to them! (After it is done playing, simply copy and paste the “URL” into an email and send it to your loved ones) Now all you have to do is order the magnets and look really creative! (Make sure when you order the magnets, that you change the shipping address)

To order your set of Food Storage Conversion Chart Kitchen Magnets, click HERE.

Also, if you want to send just a fun video to mothers you know, click HERE.  It is a great and hilarious true to life video for moms announcing they are mom of the year!  Just click the “Send a customized video to all the moms you know” button to the side of the video playing.

© 2009 – 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.