Food - Week 32: Mustard and Salad Dressing This week store mustard and salad dressing. Mustard will store forever, but salad dressings...

Fires are once again threatening in many states and throughout the world. This is a really bad fire year. Are you ready to evacuate? Do...

Weevils are small, reddish-brown beetles that can fly. Weevils can lay a few eggs a day for months, a long-term challenge. What can you...

Inflation is here and here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. We do not need to let is break our budget unless we fail to...

Food - Week 31: Grains I have become a huge fan of quinoa. It is a great protein, as well as a source of the nutrients and benefits...

Question: "I have a feeling I need to prepare but what do I stock up on when prices are going up? Is it too late?" It is never too late!...

Week Thirty - Food: Vegetables This week store 10 cans of vegetables per family member. Now that gardens are beginning to bare delicious...

There are a few things I have noticed recently: 1. More people are saying they are new to preparing but just have the feeling they should...

Week 29 - Food: Pickles, Olives, Relish, & Salsa (the "extras") This is a fun week, the one you prepared for when you marked your jars...

What are we preparing for? May I suggest four challenges we all need to prepare for. First prepare for power outages. Almost every...

Food - Week 28: Fruit We’re in fruit season - so it’s time to get canning, freezing, and storing fruit. If you don’t know how to can or...

This is what I am doing tonight, filling freezer bags full of water and placing them in empty spaces in my freezer just in case of a...

Early indications are this fire season will set new records surpassing last year. Draught throughout the world has left conditions ripe...

Week Twenty Seven - Food: Protein Since it is July and barbecue time we are stocking up on protein. Many cuts of meat will be on sale....

We know we promised a big announcement and that has not happened. We have been challenged by technical problems and two surgeries. We...

Step 16: This is the first of the challenge weeks. This week you will be “forced” to evacuate. It is important to practice this skill for...

Week 26 Food: Canned Fruit We are half way to our goal of a three month supply in a year. How are you doing? Most weeks we ask you to...

It’s time to revisit the skills you brainstormed learning. Time to make a plan and set a date. Have each family member decide on a skill...

Food - Week 25: Grains The shelf life of whole grains, like wheat berries, rice, oats, and quinoa is longer than flours made from those...

This week let’s finish our home inventory. Time to tackle the family room, kitchen, dining room, laundry room and all the miscellaneous...