Preparedness Fridays: A Day with No Power

Preparedness Fridays: A Day with No Power

Have you ever gone a day with out power?  Ever just given it a dry run to see how it would go?  Well that is exactly what my neighborhood did last week.  It was actually a lot of fun.  I didn’t know when the day would be until I got THE EMAIL stating what the [...]

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Food Storage Halloween BUG Pizza

Food Storage Halloween BUG Pizza

Okay, if you’ve been following my blog for more than a year (or two or three…) you know that every year around Halloween I open it up for debate on what I should eat Halloween night because my husband and I have never been able to agree on what we should eat. He grew up [...]

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Bosch Giveaway: Week One

Bosch Giveaway: Week One

It’s that time again! WOOT WOOT!  I love having the opportunity to give someone a Bosch mixer for FREE.  They are amazing machines that I’ve always loved (no joke, I have a home video of me at ONE playing with my mom’s machine…maybe I’ll try and find it).  Anyway, they can do amazing things like [...]

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Food Storage Cooking Club: More Food Storage Recipes with BEEF TVP!

Food Storage Cooking Club: More Food Storage Recipes with BEEF TVP!

Well, I’ve been waiting a LONG time for the right time to share these food storage videos (so long I may just look pregnant, though I’m not right now that I was able to do with Augason Farms. It was great fun helping to develop these food storage recipes and also show some great ways [...]

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Store this not that: Food Storage Style…TVP Chicken and Freeze Dried Chicken

Store this not that: Food Storage Style…TVP Chicken and Freeze Dried Chicken

TVP CHICKEN VS. FREEZE DRIED CHICKEN & CANNED CHICKEN Okay, so I tried. I really, really tried to stomach the chicken tvp. I tried putting it in a really flavorful soup but here’s the thing, the fake chicken taste is hard to hide (in fact nothing I did hid it). It’s just so….fake….tasting. I personally [...]

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Update with my life-My mild life crisis…

Sorry, I’m taking a break from TVP with a mild life crises. For those of you (like me) that think “emergency” or alternative cooking is only for when the power is out or during a large natural disaster has never had a broken oven that can’t get fixed until October 13th! One more reason that [...]

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Food Storage Sausage TVP & Eggs

Food Storage Sausage TVP & Eggs

First of all, thank you to those who came and saw me at my book signing at Deseret Book. It as great to meet you! Yep, you knew we had to go there some day….and today is the day!  The day we start talking about food storage TVP.   TVP is one of those dreaded [...]

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It’s that time of year again-72 Hour Kits!

It’s that time of year again-72 Hour Kits!

Fall and winter are fast approaching and you know what that means….time to go through your 72 hour kits and check your smoke detectors! This is something you should do every six months, when was the last time you did it? Make sure when you are going through your 72 hour kit that you make [...]

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Meet me at Deseret Book’s Ladies Night Out!

Meet me at Deseret Book’s Ladies Night Out!

I’ll be signing copies of my book I Can’t Believe it’s Food Storage THIS SATURDAY (October 1st) from 6-8 pm at the American Fork, UT Deseret Book during Ladies Night! So stop by and say hello and grab a delicious sample, I’d love to meet you!

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Saturday Food Storage Show Off: Hamburger Soup

Saturday Food Storage Show Off: Hamburger Soup

Doesn’t this soup look amazing?  Special thanks to Staci for sharing the recipe AND a beautiful picture.  I guess it’s time to admit that Fall is around the corner…time to break out the soup recipes! Staci says…”I just got this recipe today from my mom-in-law and just HAD to share with you!! I made it [...]

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