This Month’s Food Storage Guidelines:
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This Month’s FOOD STORAGE 52 Week Acquisition Plan to Acquire One Year’s
Storage:
Week 1. Legumes - (30 lbs.)
Week 2. Seeds/sprouting supplies
Week 3. Fruits and/or vegetables (20 qts. each)
Week 4. Paper supplies - toilet tissue, plastics/foils
Week 5: Water (14 gal per person is 1 week supply.)
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Shelf Life & Date Codes for This Month's storage items:
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Legumes, bottled or canned - 24 - 36 months
Peas & Beans, dried - 12 months
Fruits, dried - 6 months
Vegetables, dried - 12 months
Vegetables, dehydrated flakes - 6 months
( - More shelf life information: http://www.nursehealer.com/ShelfLife.htm )
This Month’s LDS Monthly Plan to Acquire Food Storage and 72-Hour Kit
in One Year (with Monthly Goals)
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"No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what
you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another
power over your liberty.'" Ezra Taft Bensen
Spiritual Goal---Decide as a family how you can better remember and celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.
Provident Living Goal---Review your insurance coverage, life, household, vehicle. Do you have enough? Could you replace your vehicle or household foods with the coverage you have?
Storage Goal:
40 pounds dried beans per person
matches
candles
batteries
72 hour kit:
garbage bags
candles
matches
can opener
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This Month’s Cooking with Food Storage Ideas:
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Hearty Soup mix
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1 (14 oz.) pkg. dry green split peas
1 (12 oz.) pkg. pearl barley
1 (14 oz.) pkg. alphabet macaroni
1 (12 oz.) pkg. lentils
1 and 1/2 cups brown rice
4 cups dry minced onion
Combine ingredients in a large, airtight container. Stir
to evenly distribute ingredients. Label container. Store in a cool, dry
place. Use within 6 months. Shake before using. Makes about 12 and 1/2
cups of mix.
Quick Vegetable Soup
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1 can (15 ounces) mixed vegetables, undrained
2-1/4 cups vegetable juice cocktail
Salt and pepper, to taste
Combine ingredients and heat to boiling. Season
with salt and pepper. Serves 3.
(from Pantry Cooking by Cheryl Driggs)
Cream of Bean Soup
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2 Tbs. Salad oil
2 Tbs. Flour
2 Tbs. Butter or margarine powder OR 2 Tbs. Real butter or margarine
3 ¼ cups water
½ tsp. Salt
¾ cup powdered milk
3 cups cooked dry beans
4 tsp. Chopped onion
4 tsp chopped peppers
Add the flour to the oil and blend. Add the butter
or margarine powder. Real butter or margarine can be substituted.
Stir in all remaining ingredients and cook on low heat until thickened.
– Serves 4 From “Cookin’ with Powdered Milk” by Peggy Layton http://www1.icserv.net/D100001/X100043/books.html
Lentil Soup cooked in a Thermos Bottle
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Pour 6 ounces of lentil soup mix into a 32-ounce steel “outdoor” thermos
bottle. Salt and pepper can be added for seasoning. Fill the
bottle with fast boiling water and lay it on its side for even distribution
of the soup mix. Leave for 9 hours. – from "How To Start Your
Emergency Preparations Even If You Only Have a Dollar To Spare" CMC Publications,
P.O, Box 1049, Gardiner, MT 59030 - http://www.y2kmanual.com/index.html
Cream of Broccoli Soup
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2 Tbs. Salad oil
2 Tbs. Flour
2 Tbs. Butter or margarine powder OR 2 Tbs. Real butter or margarine
3 ¼ cups water
½ tsp. Salt
¾ cup powdered milk
2 cups fresh broccoli, chopped OR 1 cup dried broccoli, rehydrated
Onion, salt, and pepper to taste
Add the flour to the oil and blend. Add the butter
or margarine powder. Real butter or margarine can be substituted.
Stir in all remaining ingredients and cook on low heat until thickened.
– Serves 4 From “Cookin’ with Powdered Milk” by Peggy Layton http://www1.icserv.net/D100001/X100043/books.html
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This Month’s Suggested Books:
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"Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables"
by Mike Bubel & Nancy Bubel
ISBN: 0882667033
"Becoming Self-Reliant: Survival - How to be Less Dependent on Society
and Y2K with Disaster Preparedness"
by Ken Larson
ISBN: 0964249715
"Beginners Guide to Family Preparedness : Food Storage, Back to Basics,
Survival Facts"
Rosalie Mason
ISBN: 088290082X
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This Month’s Date Code Info:
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Comstock(800)270-2743 Apples in can
CODE: On second line, first digit is plant, middle 3 are Julien day
of year, next is year, then space, and military time.
SHELF LIFE: 2-3 years
Del Monte(800)543-3090 Vegetables
CODE: First number is year, next is Julien calendar day
SHELF LIFE: 2 years.
Green Giant(800)998-9996 Vegetables
First letter is year, next is month, then year
SHELF LIFE: beans 2 yrcorn/peas 3 yrmushroms-4 yr, Hungry Jack Instant
Potatoes 1.5 year
Healthy Choice 714-680-1431 870T4 = 8 is year, 7 is month.
SHELF LIFE: 2 yr for canned soups and canned pastas
Libby(315)926-3225 call collect Vegetables
CODE: 2nd dig is year, first letter is month, third dig is plant. Next
2 numbers is day of month
SHELF LIFE: 2 years Kraut 18 mo
( - More date codes: http://www.waltonfeed.com/sett/lid.html )
This Month’s Frugal Living Tips:
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I've been experimenting with a lot of FREE stuff on the Internet lately.
Communication has been a big focus with friends and family scattering.
Here are my recommendations for FREEBIES:
FoneICQ - http://www.foneicq.com/ You can send a FREE voicemail message using your telephone to anyone with ICQ with FoneICQ http://www.icq.com/ Call toll-free 1-800-FONE-427. At the prompt, enter their ICQ number, press * and record a message up to 1 minute long. Your voice message will be delivered in RealAudio format to the email address specified in the recipient's ICQ software. If they are online, ICQ will notify them. RealAudio software can be downloaded from the site mentioned, or from http://www.real.com/ This is the same software we were blessed to listen to General Conference online with in October (and the archives now at http://www.generalconference.com/ ).
Message Bay - http://www.messagebay.com/ Send a voice message from the Internet to anyone with an email address.
FreeWay - http://www.broadpoint.com/ FREE 2 hours a month long distance from phone.
MyFreeLD - http://www.myfreeld.com/ FREE long distance from computer to phone
myTalk - http://www.mytalk.com/ (Free email, voicemail, quick calls) Pick up your POP email & have it read to you over the phone. Get voicemail. Make FREE long-distance calls, all with Toll-free access
FAX4FREE - http://www7.fax4free.com/ FAX from the Internet to phone
FREE Fax Email from XOOM.com - http://www.xoom.com/xoomfax/ Get your very own, personal fax number. Incoming faxes will be delivered to you as an email attachment! People can send you faxes from anywhere! The toll-free fax-to-email number has a small fee; but the regular fax-to-email number is FREE
SMS MESSAGES GATEWAY- http://www.lowwwe.com/html/ SEND GSM SMS & FAX FROM the WEB Send a message to any mobile phone in the world for free. It's easy to add the Internet Pager to your own home page to allow people send an email and page your GSM phone. Send a fax to most of the globe for free, confirmation via Email. (I haven't tried this one yet.)
More FREE Stuff is at http://www.nursehealer.com/Free.htm
You can try my own FREE FAX, VoiceMail, etc. with the link above &
at http://www.nursehealer.com/Contact.htm
My VoiceMail 1-800-366-3427 # 2839630 (to ICQ & email - I usually
get these quickly)
My VoiceMail 1-877-205-6135 # 9255 (to phone - I don't get these messages
as often.)
My FAX (801) 650-5185 (NOT toll-free. Long Distance outside the
801 area code.)
(More Frugal Living resources: http://www.nursehealer.com/Frugal.htm
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This Month’s Additional Buying & Storage Tips:
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These are bulk food distributors I can personally recommend:
Blue Chip Group, Inc. http://www.bluechipgroup.net/
Honeyville Grain http://www.honeyvillegrain.com/
Sports Solutions http://www.sportssolutionsinc.com/
San Francisco Herb Co. http://www.sfherb.com/
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