Our General Store…And the News About the Economy Gets Worse…Win a Consulation!!

Posted by Carolyn on Jul 12th, 2010 in Current Concerns, Food Storage, Our General Store, Where to Begin Food Storage | Comments Off

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To help motivate you to share I am offering the chance for you to win a personal one hour consultation. This will be a phone call where you can ask any questions you may have. You may even ask a group of friends to join you on a conference call or just using your speaker phone. To win one of five consultations just refer five friends to blog.totallyready.com and our yahoo group. Have them mention your email address when they log into the yahoo group and leave a comment on any blog post. Ten friends and you get two chances to win. Fifteen friends and I will call you, guaranteed! It’s that simple. Watch for other special offers as we progress. I know I don’t want to look back when things get worse and think I could have done more to help you.

This weekend I spent several hours inventorying my General Store. I took some time but it was well worth it. I discovered a few areas I need to beef up but I was so happy to discover my storage really is very well balanced. Plenty of each food group, condiments, spices and ingredients for desserts. There is always room for improvement and that was my goals, to find the weak spots. We have been working on our non food items and there I am doing much better because it is on my mind each day as I watch for items on sale and think about what we should add next. We have had a conversation about laundry detergent in the yahoo group and I am feeling I need to store more so I can make it an entire year instead of just three month. None of the ingredients will go bad and I would really like to be able to have clean clothes for as long as the emergency last. I also think if there are others I need to be around I would want them smelling fresh too! It’s important for all of us to have those “discussions” with ourselves to determine what the priorities are for our own situations. TP, toothpaste and now soap, yep they all make my list!

I also spent time this weekend at an LDS cannery. If you have never been they are a wonderful resource for inexpensive, long term storage foods. The prices are great and you can the food in #10 cans which protects them from pests, water damage in case of a flood and damage from winds, smoke from fires and earthquakes. You do not have to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to go. Just find a Mormon friend and ask them if there is one in your area. The friend can direct you to a price list so you can see what is available. Then ask them to take you. You may just get them moving on their own food storage again.

This morning Erskine Bowles who is Obama’s Debt Commissioner spoke and he said if we (our nation) don’t restore fiscal sanity we are going to go broke. He continued that this is the worst economic crisis in history and if we stay on this path it will be a cancer that will destroy our country from within. Allen Simpson, the co-chair of the same commission made similar remarks and said out debt is being financed by China who is just printing more money to buy up investments in the US.

Last week I received emails from people around the world like never before, New Zealand, Australia, Costa Rica, England, Canada and more. It reminded me this is not a problem only for us in the United States.

“Otago University’s school of human nutrition has released its annual food costs survey of how much it costs to feed a family based on healthy nutritional guidelines. The survey confirms what shoppers already know – it’s getting more expensive to buy even the most basic of groceries. And in some areas prices have risen by more than half over the past five years”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/3907335/Food-prices-eat-more-from-weekly-budget

If you are just joining us you should now have a list of items you are going to add to your General Store and you should have a storage buddy. Today you begin. You will add non food items each week along with those who have been around here for a long time. This week we are going to add vitamins to our store shelves. I am not a huge believer in vitamins because I don’t believe they are the fix but during a time of stress when our food choices may not be adequate to provide all the vitamins and minerals we need vitamins will be an important addition to our daily diet. Vitamins are good for at least two years after the expiration date so when purchasing by the newest on the shelf. Check because the newest are often in the back. This week there seem to be lots of B one get one free offers on vitamins so stock up.

If you are just beginning and need to be stocking food as well begin this week by adding fruit. You can can your own or go to the store and purchase. Add 5 cans per family member. To get a complete list of what you will need to store for a three month supply you can purchase my ebook: Mother Hubbard: What She’s Doing Now, you can purchase the Totally Ready Newsletters from the last year, or you can go back and browse the General Store posts beginning in February of 2009. If you choose to purchase anything I will include the 52 Week Guide to a Three Month Supply free.

My last Doctor Prepper Show. We spent the entire hour talking about food storage. Take a listen as it was all about how to get started. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/doctorprepper/2010/07/08/doctor-prepper-show