Food Storage Sale

The food Storage is now doing ON SALE ITEMS:  

   

  November's items are :

                    1. Granola $6.25

          2. Macaroni $2.50

          3. Sugar $4.75

          4. Hot CoCoa $3.50

They now have Honey (100+ yrs) and Peanut Butter (3 yrs).

Novembers Quote

Surely we all hope that the hour of need will never come. Some have said, ‘We have followed this counsel in the past and have never had need to use our year’s supply, so we have difficulty keeping this in mind as a major priority.’ Perhaps following this counsel could be the reason why they have not needed to use their reserve.

~President James E. Faust

5 gallon buck 72 hour kit

On the top write month and year.

General Supplies
glow sticks (12 hrs)
flashlight
liquid candle
        matchbooks
mylar blankets
hand warmers
AM/FM radio
whistle and lanyard
sewing kit
blank notebook
pencils
extra batteries (for flashlight and radio)
zip ties
P-38 can opener
trash bags
N95 dust masks
duct tape
small tarp
paracord
safety goggles
split leather gloves
Hygiene Supplies
bar soap
kleenex
floss
baby shampoo
hand lotion
sunscreen
toothpaste
toothbrushes
feminine hygiene pads
comb
toilet paper
wash cloths

First Aid Kit
basic first-aid guide
moist towelettes
antiseptic towelettes
latex gloves
acetaminophen (Tylenol)
ibuprofen (Advil)
aspirin
diphenhydramine (Benadryl)
loperamide (Imodium A-D)
burn cream
sting relief towelettes
hydrocortisone cream
triple antibiotic ointment (Neosporin)
cough drops
earplugs
instant ice pack
tweezers
nail clippers
scissors
digital thermometer
cotton balls
waterproof adhesive tape
gauze rolls
gauze pads
moleskin
band-aids
butterfly bandages
ace bandage
triangular bandage
hand sanitizer
Q-tips
petroleum jelly
RAD sticker (personal radiation dosimeter)
potassium iodide (radiation emergency thyroid blocker)

Class

10$ a week

Here is the pamphlet I was talking about that you can do $10 a week on food storage.

Q&A

Does anyone have any questions on where to get food storage or how long thing last, Or where to go to get financial help. If you need help with any of these let me know and I can post where to go and the info i have to help u.

Sept Quote

Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year’s supply of food and were debt free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: They have at least a year’s supply of debt and are food-free.

~President Thomas S. Monson

       

Case lot at Ridley's

Utah Valley University & Red Cross

Utah Valley University and the Red Cross are hosting a free event, including a disaster shelter simulation and emergency preparedness fair.

Monday Sept 25th.  4pm to 9pm

Register at the following link to receive a free meal at the event:http://bit.ly/2wFpSFz

I've been thinking

   The past few months there has been disaster after disaster after disaster hurricanes, fires, earthquakes and tons of plane crashed and car accidents that are having a lot more deaths in them. It has being a crazy summer. We all need to find a way to prepare ourselves  and others.

  The Elementary had drills this week to show the kids what to do in case of a emergency. I took it the extra step and talk to the kids about it and show them what to do in our house if there is any emergencies here and where everything's at.

    

   

Video

https://youtu.be/3AATsYbC7E8

Food order

Food order Sept 16th, this Saturday. I need your money/order by Firday.

Quote

Prophets have encouraged us to prepare ourselves
spiritually and temporally
 for catastrophes to come.

Case lot sale

Smith is having a case lot sale till Sept 12th

Take home homework

Here is a little help ( hehe) for # 15

Uses:
Heater in Home
Heater in Car during winter months.
Heater for Camping
Heater for your 72 hour kit.

Supplies:
1 empty quart can (you can purchase at any paint store)
1 bottle of rubbing alcohol
1 roll of toilet paper (with cardboard removed)
paint can opener (you can purchase at any paint store or mini philips screwdriver. )
pack of matches or lighter.

To make as a gift: Remove core of toilet paper. Fold the roll of toilet paper in half and stuff into the empty quart can. Put the can and the rest of the items in a ziploc bag separately so the recipient may pour the alcohol in the can when heat is needed. Copy the text below and include it with the kit.

Assembly for Use:

1. Remove core of toilet paper
2. Fold the roll of toilet paper in half and stuff into the empty quart can.
3. Slowly pour 1 pint alcohol into can.
4. Light w/ lighter or match.
5. To extinguish, replace the lid.
6. Put the following instructions in with the rest of the items.

Instructions for using Emergency Car Heater:
Use 70% isopropyl alcohol-any higher percent the flames could be too high. Do not use scented alcohol, it will smell awful in your car. 4 pints of isopropyl will keep a car 60 to 70 degrees for 24 hours. They are extremely safe and don’t produce carbon monoxide.

Warnings: Be careful the can rim will be hot to touch during and for a while after burning, although the can could be held from the bottom even while the heater is burning. It is suggested that you carry a metal pan or cookie sheet or fold a square of tin foil into fourths to set the heater on. Do not pour more alcohol on the heater while burning. Wait for it to burn out or smother with metal lid.

**It is recommended that you keep a window cracked open while burning the heater.**

This heater is NOT recommended for cooking!

Sundays lesson

Top 10 thing we want over:

1. ward Emergency plans
2. Avoid debt and live within your means
3. Education
4. keep a reserve of food and other supplies
5. car kits
6. 72 hr kits
7. read blog
8. Make a plan set down with family and an emergency plan
9. Plan for the small thing not just the big thing.
10. Food orders

9 Ways to Make Practicing Emergency Preparedness Fun in the Summer

1 – Practicing emergency preparedness by going camping

Camping can be such a fun family tradition.  I have the best memories growing up of going camping with my immediate family, grandparents, and cousins.  I now know it was a lot of work for my parents , but the memories are so wonderful that I’m now willing to do the work myself in order to benefit my kids.

Plus, it is a fantastic way to practice emergency preparedness!

• Practice setting up, sleeping in, and taking down your tent.
• Practice cooking outdoors over a fire or with a dutch oven, butane stove, or whatever “powerless” cooking tools you have.
• Practice filtering water from the river or lake.
• Practice entertaining your kids (and yourself) without electronics.
• Practice living without electricity and using lamps, flashlights, solar lights and more.
• Practice using first aid supplies (hopefully for no more than a scrape). Packing for camping will force you to look over what you have in that first aid kit just in case!
• Practice finding kindling and cutting your own firewood (if allowed) and then building a fire.
• Practice identifying poisonous plants.

2 – Practice emergency preparedness at an outdoor get together

Many of us cook outside during the summer. Barbecues with family and friends can be great fun, and they keep the temperature inside the house down.  Start by using the grill you have out on the back porch, but then try something new.

• Can you make a pizza in your grill?
• Can you make bread in your grill?
• What other “powerless” cooking supplies can you practice using?
• Consider investing in a Sun Oven, Volcano Stove, Dutch oven or other outdoor cooking tool and then learn to use it!

3 – Practice emergency preparedness while spending a day on the lake

One of my favorite places in the world to be is out on a lake.  I love water skiing and wake boarding, but I also love just playing and swimming and enjoying the beauty of the world with friends and family. There are many ways to practice emergency preparedness at the lake:

• Teach your kids how to row a boat/canoe!
• You may also (hopefully not) have an opportunity to use your first aid supplies, so look over your kit and read through your manual!
• Practice safe swimming (this can also be done at the local pool).
• Bring your water filter and filter that lake water!  This means you won’t have to bring as much water, and it will give you an opportunity to make sure you know how to use your filter before you have to.

4 – Practicing emergency preparedness by going on a backpacking trip

• This can be a great way to practice using a 72 hour kit (go-bag style).  Do you really have what you need in there to survive for three days without help?
• Backpacking can also be a fantastic time to pull out those freeze dried foods and created some lightweight meals you can make by just adding water.
• Practice using a compass!
• Last, you will have to filter your own water on a backpacking trip as it simply isn’t possible to carry enough water.

5 – Use your emergency stored water to start a water fight

One fun way to rotate through your stored water is to use it for a water fight!  Bring out the squirt guns, fill ’em up with the water you’ve had stored for a while, and make some memories!

You might also consider turning your water off for the day and practice using that stored water to cook, bathe, wash clothes, etc.

6 – Play games to practice emergency preparedness

Most kids are home during the summer.  Fill their time and make it fun for them to practice various emergency preparedness skills by turning them into a game.

• Have a trivia type game/race with question like
  • When do we call 911?
  • Who can name three people to call in an emergency? (911, parents, out of area contact)
  • You knows our full address/phone number?
  • Where is our family meeting place?
  • What is Dad’s phone number?
  • What are mom’s and dad’s full names and birthdays?
  • Where do mom and dad work?
  • Name two ways to put out a fire.

• Have a race where family members try to find things on your evacuation list (to make sure they know where they are).
• Practice gathering everything on your evacuation list. Go get ice cream if you do it within a certain time limit.
• Let your kids spend some times playing the games on Ready.gov’s Be A Hero Site.
• Play “what if?”  Create different imaginary scenarios and have your kids figure out what they should do.
• While not a game per se, one of my kids’ favorite things to do is to cook with me–and that is teaching them a great skill for self-reliance!
• Play doctor with stuffed animals for fun, but actually teach your kids quality first aid skills

7 -Take a road trip and practice emergency preparedness

Who doesn’t love a good family road trip in the summer?  Use it as a time for practicing emergency preparedness skills.

• Look over the supplies you have in your emergency car kit and freshen them up!
• Use a map (instead of GPS) to find where you need to go (or have your kids do it).
• Play some of the games mentioned above while in the car.

8 – Have a family sleepover in the dark to practice living in a power outage

Lots of kids are scared of the dark, and power outages can freak them out.  But, I promise, if you make it seem like a fun thing on a calm (not stormy) night, your kids will think it is too.  Create those great memories!  Summer is a great time to do this because you don’t have to worry about freezing temperatures. (If you live where it gets really hot in the summer try spring or fall instead.)

Turn off your electricity and then have dinner, play games, and sleep in sleeping bags in the same room!  Show your kids it can be FUN (and find holes in your plans/supplies).

You could step this up a notch and “camp” in the backyard as well!

9 – Go on a family walk (or drive) to practice emergency preparedness

Your kids should know how to get home from various places around town.  Take a family walk one warm summer evening and point out landmarks.  Let the kids take turns trying to get home.

You could also take a family drive somewhere and tell your kids to pay attention because you are going to have them navigate on the way home.   Then test them!  Can they get you home without help?

See! Practicing emergency preparedness can be fun–especially in the summer!

What do you think?

What have you done to practice emergency preparedness?  How do you make it less “scary” for your kids?  I’d love to have you share your ideas!

911

Do your kids know how to call 911 and know how to talk to then and our address and stuff?

Planning a Way out

Do your kids know how to get out of the house IF there is a FIRE.

FHE

The Kids can help you pack a 72 hr kit and bags for them.

Do You Have A PLAN

 

Family Preparedness Plan

It has been one crazy week.
                         
     I have been thinking about how to prepare my shelf and family for the future and help them to understand how to be prepared. Like spiritually prepared not just physically prepared. I feel if we are spiritually prepare the the rest will falling in place and be easier to get prepared. 

 1. read scriptures with the family/ FHE
 2. Teach them to save and pay tithing
 3. have them help you with canning and gardening
 4. share with them your plans if a disaster happens
 5. Teach them how to call 911 and talk to the police and all the emergency people
 6. Teach them how to get out off the house safe and where to go. 

Sorry thought it was funny

Apps

   I found  2 apps that will help you remember what you have in your food storage and how long they keep and how much you have, I download both and they r both good, both free but one you can pay $1.99 for the update one.














Food Storage Management


Food Storage Assistants Pro

Food Order

Food order is due this Thursday the 25th.

Quote

Dieter F Uchtdorf

Providing in the Lord's Way

"The prophetic promises and blessings of Church welfare, of providing in the Lord's way, are some of the most magnificent and sublime the Lord has pronounced upon His children. ...Whether we are rich or poor, regardless where we live on this globe, we all need each other, for it is in sacrificing our time, talents, and resources that our spirits mature and become refined. This work of providing in the Lord's way ... cannot be neglected or set aside. It is central to our doctrine; it is the essence of our religion" (Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Providing in the Lord's Way," Oct. 2011 general conference).

FOOD ORDERS

We will do all food orders the last Saturday of the mouth so get your money to me that Thursday. 

back to Basics

https://www.thoughtco.com/calculate-food-storage-needs-3876040

Gathering and Using Your Food Storage

#1- Gather Water

• 14 gallons per person-MINIMUM
• Use a variety of containers & store them in different places in your home.
• Keep water away from direct sunlight and heat.
• Use 2 drops of bleach to 1 quart water to purify. Allow to sit for 30 minutes before drinking.  Water should smell like chlorine if it's properly treated.

#2-Gather a 3-Month Supply

• Start with a one-week menu and buy a few extra items (on sale!!) when you go to the store
• Store only the foods YOUR family EATS!!!
• Make an ingredient list of foods from your menu and that becomes your shopping list. Only buy items when they are on SALE!!  
• You will gradually build up a home store.

#3-Financial Reserve

• Reserve a little money each week and put it in your food storage savings.
• Use the money to shop the case lot sales (April & September), buy food in bulk, buy emergency supplies, etc.  
• Save money for emergencies as well!  Be prepared!

#4-Gather a Longer-Term Supply

• After getting your 3-month supply all stored you can work on storing a longer-term supply.
• This includes #10 cans of food that will last for 20-30 years if stored in a cool, dry, area. 
• I use all of these items in my daily cooking, that is how to rotate it.
• The items include rice, beans, wheat, pasta, oats, and powdered milk

Don't forget about the necessities!!

• Baby needs-diapers, wipes (good to have for more than just babies), formula, cloth diapers, baby food (can be used in cooking!), bottles
• Paper products-paper plates, cups, plastic silverware, bowls, napkins, paper towel, and toilet paper.
• Toiletries-feminine products, shampoo, conditioner, deodorants, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc
• Batteries, cleaning supplies, sanitizers,etc

"The first step is to begin.  The second is to continue.  It doesn't matter how fast we get there so much as that we begin and continue according to our abilities." -Bishop Burton

Find all of the Back-To-Basics posts here!  Start your food storage plan, or brush up on your food storage skills.

President Spencer W. Kimball

"Preparedness, when properly pursued is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.... cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward".

Planting

Seed, it is about time to start your gardens if you have not already.
I have found some plant that will keep Fly's away, they are lemongrass, lavender, Basil, Mint.