Seven Step Week 25

I heard last night on the news that a portion of the cherry and apple crop in Washington has been destroyed due to a wild fire there, which is still burning. Doesn’t it feel good to know we don’t need to panic when we hear such reports? We are being proactive and we will be “totally ready” to face a challenge as it presents itself. This week: 1. Place a pot in your grab and go pile. Make...

Lessons From the Past

I have written before that I believe there is much we can learn from the lessons of the past. I found this article very interesting and wanted to share it with all of you. By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press LONDON — Waste not, want not. Evoking an era of World War II austerity, British families are being urged to cut food waste and use leftovers in a nationwide effort to fight sharply rising global food...

A Question About 72 Hour Kits

I received this note this past week and I decided it was worth a response here as it is a really great question. I wonder if it’s just me, but it seems that it takes about a WEEK for the government and non-profit agencies to get things together and get to the areas that are affected. I live in an area in the middle of the ocean so we’re even more isolated than the contiguous 48-states. Why do they say...

The Price of Food Storage

I had someone ask me today about buying a 3 month supply of food for their children. They wanted to know about dehydrated food. You all know I don’t believe in storing dehydrated food, except for milk and maybe cheese powder and powdered eggs, well, there may be a few more things. When our goal is two fold, to stay out of debt and to have a supply of food, I believe the best approach is real food, the foods...

Why Store Paper Plates?

For those of you who have purchased Mother Hubbard: What She’s Doing Now and for those following our Seven Steps program you may be wondering why we are storing some of the items on the inventory list. I decided today to talk a minute about a pandemic. Remember when the news was full of warnings about a pandemic? We have mostly forgotten about it but that may be dangerous. We are overdue for a major health...