Our General Store…Tissues and more

I am so excited to share with you today the great weekend our family had. On Saturday there was a HamCram class scheduled in our area. I told you a few months ago that I got my ham license and we are now very involved with our church’s ham net. We are preparing everything we need to be able to help during a local disaster. It happened that our family was in town last week for a family reunion and our...

Appetite Fatigue

I am still enjoying the last two days of a family reunion so I am borrowing a post for today from Karen at: http://kneadfulthingsnow.com/preventingappetitefatigue.aspx . If you still haven’t checked out her site and are serious about food storage, you should. She speaks about appetite fatigue and I think it is a subject we need to seriously consider in our planning. If you are following the stocking...

Answer to a question: Cytokine Storm

Image via Wikipedia I had a comment on yesterdays post asking a question I felt others may also have and I didn’t want the answer buried so here it is: I just went to a pandemic preparedness class in my community and they mentioned something called a cytokine storm… have you heard of this? The presenters were also selling products so I tended to be more leary butthis was something that I had not heard...

General Store…Sugar and Honey

Originally I was planning to wait until the holiday to have you purchase sugar and honey but since there is now lots of talk about sugar shortages I decided to go ahead and get that now. “Reports of poor harvests in two of the world’s largest producers of sugar have sent prices of the food staple soaring in recent days, with some of the nation’s largest food producers warning that a worldwide...

Pandemic Prep…Stomach Flu, Seasonal Flu, or Pandemic Flu..Do you know the difference?

Do you know the difference between stomach flu, seasonal flu and H1N1 or swine flu? “Stomach flu” is a popular term but not the true medical diagnosis. The proper medical term for stomach flu is gastroenteritis. Gastroenteritis (stomach flu) is irritation and inflammation of the stomach and intestines. It may be caused by a virus, bacteria, spoiled food (food poisoning) contaminated water, or...