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Back to School with Everyday Food Storage http://everydayfoodstorage.net/. there's lots of information and video's.

Join The Fun With Your Food Storage

From Food Storage Made Easy..... enter the 7 Day Challenge,
"Here's your chance to see if what you've squirreled away will hold up to a disaster -- without having to wait for the real disaster." (Mormon Times article about Julie Weiss and Jodi Moore, young Mormon authors of the food-storage blog foodstoragemadeeasy.net, are issuing a challenge to any and all takers).
Great way to test our food storage.
Sign up at Seven Day Challenge. Get more information at Mormon Times newspaper article: http://mormontimes.com/mormon_ living/tips_living/?id=10512As Seen On KRCR-TV California: http://krcrtv.com/node/3980Ready.gov Emergency Preparedness Month Calendar: http://ready.adcouncil.org/ EventCalendar.asp (listed on September 1st nationwide)
To learn more and sign up for the challenge yourself, please visit http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/7day and find out if you truly are READY!

Everyone Ask For It

zucchini jam recipe‏

6 cups zucchini, peeled and grated
6 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of lemon juice or real lemon
1 cup drained, crushed pineapple

1 6 ounce pkg of Strawberry Jello

Peel and grate Zucchini: add rest of the ingredients. Cook 6 minutes at hard boil. Remove from heat and add 1- 6 ounce package of Strawberry Jello. Stir well and put into freezer container's keep in refrigerator or freeze tell needed.

Thank You Sylvia!

Back to School Week

Follow Crystal-Everyday Food Storage

Back to School Week-August 31-September 4

Your kids aren’t the only ones going back to school! Don’t quite understand the difference between instant and non-instant milk? Not convinced on using powdered eggs in your recipes? Still pondering which tastes better, red or white wheat? Can’t think of any other way to use beans than in chili? Well then this week is for YOU…and anyone you know that has these same questions. Each day I’ll be highlighting a different food storage category and explaining everything you need to know about it. There will be a lot of videos and a lot of FUN! You won’t want to miss it!

Great Information

Check out the Article at spokane.latterdaysentinel.com
Savvy savings - Discount shopping pays off for Spokane family
By McKay Allen, Guest August 10, 2009 —

Brown Sugar

Homemade brown sugar? The ingredients are simple-- sugar and molasses. You may very well have these items in your pantry. Brown sugar is very easy to make, convenient and economical. If you know how to make it, you can avoid having to make a trip to the grocery store when a recipe calls for it and it's not on your pantry shelf. Read on to learn how to make brown sugar.
Step 1
Get a mixing bowl and a fork or an electric hand mixer. Set aside.
Step 2
Measure 1 cup sugar and place in the mixing bowl.
Step 3
Add 1 tbsp. molasses into the mixing bowl with the sugar.
Step 4
Use a fork or an electric hand mixer (at medium speed) to mix the sugar and molasses until thoroughly blended.
Step 5
Scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula, and then continue to mix until the sugar and molasses are well mixed.
Step 6
Add an additional 1 tbsp. molasses to the mixture, if you prefer a darker shade of brown sugar, and continue to mix until well blended.
Step 7
Enjoy your homemade brown sugar right from your kitchen.

I Can Do It

We can meet the challenge of our Relief Society Presidency, by having a health food supply by this October. She has asked that we use only our food storage in prepareing meals for a week or two during this month. It will be up to our own family needs how long. Check out the "How to get started" and past blogs for help. Lets work together, call or e-mail me with any questions.