Hi Carson Ward, Family and Friends,
Last week I took a break from the Ward blog. My family has been in town this past weekend and week. Hope you all had a fantastic 4th of July!
As you can see I have changed the title of the weekly blog posting. I have changed it to "Weekly Assignment and Food Storage Ideas". Each week I will give you the usual weekly assignment/challenge and also some great hints about Food Storage and how to use it. Rotating our Food Storage is the key to successful Food Storage.
Quotes:
"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;...." (Hebrews 11:7)
In a 1998 Semi-annual Conference, President Hinckley gave a talk on the story about Joseph's interpretation of the Pharaoh's dream. Joseph explained to the Pharaoh that throughout all the land of Egypt they will have "7 years of great plenty", and then "7 years of famine". Joseph suggested they prepare and store as much as they could during the "great years of plenty" in preparation for the "years of famine". The people were greatly blessed because they followed his counsel.(Genesis 41).
President Hinckley in his talk stated, "Now, brethren, I want to make it very clear that I am not prophesying, that I am not predicting years of famine in the future. But I am suggesting that the time has come to get our houses in order."
We need to get our houses in order, not just temporally but spiritually too!
Weekly Temporal Assignment:
Add the following to your Family Emergency Preparedness Medical supplies:
1) irrigation syringe--this item helps wash out a wound with saline solution
2) tweezers (one regular size, one small)
3) Petroleum jelly
Weekly Spiritual Assignment:
Take a walk on the beach at sunset with your family, with a friend or by yourself and discuss, or mediate, the creation. Read the scriptures where it talks about the creation. Thank Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ for this beautiful world he has given us to live on.
Food Storage Hint:
Did you know you can use cooked smashed beans as a substitute for butter, margarine or oil?
You can use substitute cooked beans for butter, margarine or oil in baking goods. Just use the same amount of cooked beans for the type of fat used in your recipe. Also, gives you fiber, which we all need, especially if in an emergency situation.
A good way to rotate your dry beans or canned beans. Either cook your dry beans, drain (reserving the cooking water) or use canned beans (reserving the water).
Hint: How to avoid gas in your tummy from your dry cooked beans. Either cover the beans with water and let set over night, drain and rinse, cover with water and cook, or, cover with water (about 2 inches above the beans), bring to a boil, boil about 2 minutes, turn off the heat, let set for two hours, drain, add water and cook as usual. Takes out most of the gases.
If the recipe calls for butter or margarine do the following:
1. Cook the beans or use canned beans, drain and smash.
2. If the recipe requires you to cream together butter or margarine with sugar, place whole cooked beans in a food processor or mixer and blend the beans and sugar together until creamy.
3. If using powdered eggs in your recipe, do not add water, the water in the beans will rehydrate the eggs.
4. If the recipe is for cookies, grease the cookie sheet before using.
If the recipe calls for oil, do the following:
Make a bean puree--place the cooked beans in a blender or food processor, then add just enough water, a little at a time, until the beans are blended into a smooth, thick paste with no chunks.
Hint: Match the beans with the color of recipe you are making. Example: Brownies or chocolate cake, use black beans, light cookies or white or yellow cake, use white or navy bean.
It is amazing! You do not taste the beans or even notice they are in there. It is also a great substitute if you are trying to cut down on fats and get more fiber. Brownies will not rise a much as the traditional recipes with fats but still just as good.
Remember: Post your name and comment after this blog positing to have your name entered into the July Monthly FREE Giveaway Drawing to be held July 31st. It is something no household wants to be without in an emergency situation. You will be grateful you have it!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Weekly Challenge and Assignment (Week of June 26th)
Dear Carson Ward, Family and Friends,
Congratulations to Donna Skelton! We won our June FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing. She won a 5-in-one tool to put in her 72 Family Emergency Bag. It contains a shovel, hammer, hatchet, saw and crowbar.
Quote:
"Yea, blessed are they whose feet stand upon the land of Zion, who have obeyed my gospel; for they shall receive for the reward the good things of the earth, and it shall bring forth in its strength." (Doctrine & Covenants 59:3)
I love this scripture! What a wonderful promise we are given if we will just obey the gospel of Jesus Christ, keep the commandments, follow our Church leaders and strive to do the best we can, we will be richly blessed of the things we need.
I love Aesop's Fable, "The Ant and the Grasshopper".
"In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the next.
'Why not come and chat with me,' said the Grasshopper, 'instead of toiling and moiling in that way?'
'I am helping to lay up food for the winter,' said the Ant, 'and recommend you to do the same thing.'
'Why bother about winter?' said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present.' But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil.
When the winter came the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing, every day, corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer."
The Grasshopper quickly learned...it is best to prepare for the days of necessity!
The "Golden Rule" of Food Storage is Rotation!
Weekly Assignments
Temporal Assignment:
Add the following to your Family Emergency Preparedness Medical supplies:
1) Latex gloves (several pairs)
2) bandage scissors (EMT scissors)--I bought mine at CVS for about $5.
Spiritual Assignment:
1) Go to the Temple on a regular basis. When you go, take your teenage children with you to do Baptisms for the Dead.
2) Go as a family to visit the Temple Visitors Center and take a non-member family or friend with you. Take a blanket and have FHE on the grass by the Temple. Talk about eternal families and setting a goal to go to the Temple someday.
3) If your Temple Recommend has expired, see the Bishop to renew it. And then go to the Temple often.
4) If you do not have a Temple Recommend and have not gone to the Temple yet, talk to the Bishop about preparing yourself to go.
Weekly Hint--What to do with Powdered Milk:
I know when many of us think about drinking or using powdered milk, we think huk! And storing it can be diffifult since it has a short shelf life if stored in the containers from a regular grocery store, only 6 months. But if stored properly in the #10 cans from the Dry Pack Cannery or other emergency supply companies, it has a shelf life of 15-20 years. It is an important part of our food storage.
Did you know you can make sweetended condensed milk and evaportated milk from powdered milk? And you can make it drinkable?
Powdered milk is non-fat. If you have young children, who need the fat from milk to help them grow propertly, you should consider storing cans of evaporated milk. It does not store as long as powdered milk but important to have if you have children, watch the expiration date and rotate. Evaporated milk was ceated as a cheaper, more storabgle version of cream, and it is made from whole milk. Another option is to store other high-fat food items like peanut butter to supplement their fat intake during an emergency.
Making Sweetened Condensed Milk from Powdered Milk
1/2 cup hot water
1 cup non-instant dry powdered milk
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter
Combine ingredients and mix thoroughly in blender. Use immediately or store in refrigerator or freezer. Use as you would use in any receipe calling for sweetened condensed milk.
Go to www.everydayfoodstorage.net/videos to watch a video that demonstrates how to make sweetened condensed milk using powdered milk.
Making Evaporated Milk
1 1/2 cups water
1/2 cups + 1 tablespoon dry non-instant powdered milk
Combine ingredients and mix well before using in your receipe. Yields: 1 1/2 cups--the quivalent of a 12 oz. can.
Making Butter Milk
Add 1 teaspoon of white vinegar or lemon juice to 1 cup mixed powdered milk and let stand for 5 minutes before adding to your receipe. My mother use to do this all the time with regular milk when she needed butter milk for a receipe.
Tips for ways to make powdered milk drinkable
1. Slowing introduce it to your family if they will not drink powdered milk. Mix equal parts of whole or 2% fresh milk with powdered milk. Mixing with whole milk will make it 2% milk, mixing it with 2% milk will make it 1% milk. Chill the mixtures before serving to your family. After awhile of drinking the mixture, change to just chilled powdered milk. Before you know it you will have them drinking powdered milk.
2. For better flavor, add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar to 1 gallon of powdered milk and chill before serving.
Drinkable Powdered Milk (makes 1 gallon)
3 cups powdered milk
1 gallon of water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla (optional)
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar (optional)
Put half of the water into a gallon container. Add the dry powdered milk and mix with a whisk. Add the vanilla and sugar and mix. Slowly add the rest of the dry powdered milk and mix well. If becomes frothy and you cannot get the rest of the water in the container, wait awhile and then add the rest of the water.
3. Use it in something where there are other flavors, like chocolate milk, hot chocolate, milk shakes, or on cereal. Use in receipes like mashed potates.
Cooking with powdered milk
If you are using dry ingredients like cake mix, biscuit mix, ect., calling for milk, add the dry powdered milk and mix with the other dry package ingredients. Then add the amount of water necessary to the dry ingredients for the powdered milk being used.
Conversion Chart
Milk needed Water Powdered Milk
1 cup 1 cup 3 tablespoons
3/4 cup 3/4 cup 2 1/4 tablespoons
2/3 cup 2/3 cup 2 tablespoons
1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1 1/2 tablespoons
1/3 cup 1/3 cup 1 tablespoon
1/4 cup 1/4 cup 3/4 tablespoon
Check out the website mentioned above for more ideas on using powdered milk.
Remember: This Sunday, June 26th is our June FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing. Put your name and comment in by 9am Sunday morning for the drawing.
Congratulations to Donna Skelton! We won our June FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing. She won a 5-in-one tool to put in her 72 Family Emergency Bag. It contains a shovel, hammer, hatchet, saw and crowbar.
Quote:
"Yea, blessed are they whose feet stand upon the land of Zion, who have obeyed my gospel; for they shall receive for the reward the good things of the earth, and it shall bring forth in its strength." (Doctrine & Covenants 59:3)
I love this scripture! What a wonderful promise we are given if we will just obey the gospel of Jesus Christ, keep the commandments, follow our Church leaders and strive to do the best we can, we will be richly blessed of the things we need.
I love Aesop's Fable, "The Ant and the Grasshopper".
"In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the next.
'Why not come and chat with me,' said the Grasshopper, 'instead of toiling and moiling in that way?'
'I am helping to lay up food for the winter,' said the Ant, 'and recommend you to do the same thing.'
'Why bother about winter?' said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present.' But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil.
When the winter came the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing, every day, corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer."
The Grasshopper quickly learned...it is best to prepare for the days of necessity!
The "Golden Rule" of Food Storage is Rotation!
Weekly Assignments
Temporal Assignment:
Add the following to your Family Emergency Preparedness Medical supplies:
1) Latex gloves (several pairs)
2) bandage scissors (EMT scissors)--I bought mine at CVS for about $5.
Spiritual Assignment:
1) Go to the Temple on a regular basis. When you go, take your teenage children with you to do Baptisms for the Dead.
2) Go as a family to visit the Temple Visitors Center and take a non-member family or friend with you. Take a blanket and have FHE on the grass by the Temple. Talk about eternal families and setting a goal to go to the Temple someday.
3) If your Temple Recommend has expired, see the Bishop to renew it. And then go to the Temple often.
4) If you do not have a Temple Recommend and have not gone to the Temple yet, talk to the Bishop about preparing yourself to go.
Weekly Hint--What to do with Powdered Milk:
I know when many of us think about drinking or using powdered milk, we think huk! And storing it can be diffifult since it has a short shelf life if stored in the containers from a regular grocery store, only 6 months. But if stored properly in the #10 cans from the Dry Pack Cannery or other emergency supply companies, it has a shelf life of 15-20 years. It is an important part of our food storage.
Did you know you can make sweetended condensed milk and evaportated milk from powdered milk? And you can make it drinkable?
Powdered milk is non-fat. If you have young children, who need the fat from milk to help them grow propertly, you should consider storing cans of evaporated milk. It does not store as long as powdered milk but important to have if you have children, watch the expiration date and rotate. Evaporated milk was ceated as a cheaper, more storabgle version of cream, and it is made from whole milk. Another option is to store other high-fat food items like peanut butter to supplement their fat intake during an emergency.
Making Sweetened Condensed Milk from Powdered Milk
1/2 cup hot water
1 cup non-instant dry powdered milk
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter
Combine ingredients and mix thoroughly in blender. Use immediately or store in refrigerator or freezer. Use as you would use in any receipe calling for sweetened condensed milk.
Go to www.everydayfoodstorage.net/videos to watch a video that demonstrates how to make sweetened condensed milk using powdered milk.
Making Evaporated Milk
1 1/2 cups water
1/2 cups + 1 tablespoon dry non-instant powdered milk
Combine ingredients and mix well before using in your receipe. Yields: 1 1/2 cups--the quivalent of a 12 oz. can.
Making Butter Milk
Add 1 teaspoon of white vinegar or lemon juice to 1 cup mixed powdered milk and let stand for 5 minutes before adding to your receipe. My mother use to do this all the time with regular milk when she needed butter milk for a receipe.
Tips for ways to make powdered milk drinkable
1. Slowing introduce it to your family if they will not drink powdered milk. Mix equal parts of whole or 2% fresh milk with powdered milk. Mixing with whole milk will make it 2% milk, mixing it with 2% milk will make it 1% milk. Chill the mixtures before serving to your family. After awhile of drinking the mixture, change to just chilled powdered milk. Before you know it you will have them drinking powdered milk.
2. For better flavor, add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar to 1 gallon of powdered milk and chill before serving.
Drinkable Powdered Milk (makes 1 gallon)
3 cups powdered milk
1 gallon of water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla (optional)
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar (optional)
Put half of the water into a gallon container. Add the dry powdered milk and mix with a whisk. Add the vanilla and sugar and mix. Slowly add the rest of the dry powdered milk and mix well. If becomes frothy and you cannot get the rest of the water in the container, wait awhile and then add the rest of the water.
3. Use it in something where there are other flavors, like chocolate milk, hot chocolate, milk shakes, or on cereal. Use in receipes like mashed potates.
Cooking with powdered milk
If you are using dry ingredients like cake mix, biscuit mix, ect., calling for milk, add the dry powdered milk and mix with the other dry package ingredients. Then add the amount of water necessary to the dry ingredients for the powdered milk being used.
Conversion Chart
Milk needed Water Powdered Milk
1 cup 1 cup 3 tablespoons
3/4 cup 3/4 cup 2 1/4 tablespoons
2/3 cup 2/3 cup 2 tablespoons
1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1 1/2 tablespoons
1/3 cup 1/3 cup 1 tablespoon
1/4 cup 1/4 cup 3/4 tablespoon
Check out the website mentioned above for more ideas on using powdered milk.
Remember: This Sunday, June 26th is our June FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing. Put your name and comment in by 9am Sunday morning for the drawing.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Weekly Challenge and Assignment (Week of June 19th)
Hi Carson Ward, Family and Friends,
Quote:
"When I was teaching the Gospel Doctrine class with the Book of Mormon, the manual stated that the things that happened before the coming of the Savior to the Nephites is a type of what will happen when he comes again. The secret combinations are getting bad. We could have to leave our homes for reasons of safety, just as the Nephites had to. I sure hope not. But I want to be prepared. Most of all I am so grateful for our valiant Church leaders who are not out for power or greed, who are guided by the Lord. They are watching over us." (Sister Carol Hansen, May 28, 2011)
I have been thinking a lot about her comment ever since she emailed it to me. A few days ago I received another email from Brother Jim Case in our Stake about being prepared and the last days. I will forward his email to you if I have your email address. For years our Church leaders have warned us and warned us about being prepared with having a year's supply of food and storing water, things to sustain life. The warnings have pretty much stopped. Most of my quotes about Preparedness are from years ago, only a few are recent ones. Now at our General Conferences they focus on Faith, Hope and Charity. Read Ether in the Book of Mormon. It talks about the secret combinations and warnings before the destruction. Then in Chapter 12 it talks about Faith, Hope and Charity. Read President Uchtdorf's April General Conference talk, "Waiting on the Road to Damascus", he talks about Faith, Hope and Charity, as did many of the talks given.
We need to be more than just temporally prepared, but also spiritually prepared for what may come our way. As an individual and as a family we need to be reading the scriptures daily and praying. We need to help our children learn the scriptures so they can help themselves when things are tuff. They need to understand, as well as us, the importance of Faith, Hope and Charity in our lives. We need to understand why things are happening around us, how to cope with them and also how being temporally and spiritually prepared will help us in these last days. As we speak with our daughter in Missouri, we hear how the people are coping with the devastation in Joplin. The members of the church seem to be handing it a little better than the non-members because of their understanding of Faith, Hope and Charity. These three little words are so important to us. Let us not only be prepared as an individual, as a family, as a Ward, as a Stake, as member of community temporally, but also spiritually.
Weekly Assignments:
Temporal Assignment:
Add the following to your Family Emergency Preparedness Medical supplies:
1) eye wash solution--you can get this at CVS, Rite-aid or any pharmacy. different than eye drops.
2) a couple of old magazines & 4-6 sticks (like the ones you stir paint with, you can get them free from a paint supply hardware store)--These items make great splints in an emergency situation if someone has a broken leg or arm. You place the magazine or 3-4 sticks around their leg or arm and secure it with your triangle bandages or medical tape until you can get medical help.
3) stool softeners--can also be purchased at CVS, Rite-aid or any pharmacy. I think I have seen them at the 99 cent stores too, but be careful. Usually when someones diet is changed or their schedule they can become constipated. These will help greatly. Check with our doctor for the dosage to give your children and write in on the cap or bottle.
Weekly Challenge:
Spiritual Assignment:
If you are not already, pray daily and read the scriptures daily as a family. Family Home Evening will help tremendously too! Make a schedule to read them the same time each day, before school, after dinner, or before bedtime.
Hint regarding storing wheat:
We have had our hard red winter wheat stored in treated metal cans in our garage on platforms for 30-35 years. We recently decided to open one of the cans to make sure it was ok. As you know, wheat stores for years if stored properly. When we opened the can we notice a white powder on the wheat. This of course, brought some concerns. It turns out the wheat is ok. The white powder is from weevils. All wheat has weevils. Weevils eggs are inside the wheat. When not stored right, to much humidity, they hatch and they eat their way out of the wheat. As they eat their way out they bore wholes in the wheat, causing the wheat powder, just like sawdust when you drill a piece a wood. Weevils are very small, it takes a microscope to see them. They will not hurt you if you consumed them, extra protein they say. Sounds gross, I know!
The way to get rid of weevils before using the wheat, first rinse off the wheat and let dry. Then put a layer of the wheat on a baking sheet, bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Then grind the wheat and use. Once the wheat is ground you need to keep the wheat flour in a tightly sealed container and use within a month. Once you open a can of treated wheat you have to use it within a year. The best assurance is to rotate your wheat like any stored food item. I would say at least every 20 years.
One way to tell if your wheat is ok is to sprout it. Put a few wheat grains in a wet paper towel and place it in a zip lock bag. Wait about 10 days and wee if the wheat has sprouted. If is has it is ok. Another way to is to put the wheat in your month for a few seconds. If it taste bitter, you can use it, but the bread may taste bitter too, or whatever you use it in.
If you store wheat, use it. You need to introduce it to your family slowly. If you are not use to eating wheat it will cause a very upset stomack!
Remember: Post your name and comment at the end of this blog posting to have your name entered into the Carson Ward FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing to be held Sunday, June 26th. It will be something for your 72 Hour Family Emergency Preparedness Bag.
A few years ago Bishop Hansen and Sister Carol Hansen were in the Carson Ward. I have always admired Sister Hansen knowledge and understanding of the scriptures. I recently emailed her about the Carson Ward website and she emailed me back the following:
Quote:
"When I was teaching the Gospel Doctrine class with the Book of Mormon, the manual stated that the things that happened before the coming of the Savior to the Nephites is a type of what will happen when he comes again. The secret combinations are getting bad. We could have to leave our homes for reasons of safety, just as the Nephites had to. I sure hope not. But I want to be prepared. Most of all I am so grateful for our valiant Church leaders who are not out for power or greed, who are guided by the Lord. They are watching over us." (Sister Carol Hansen, May 28, 2011)
I have been thinking a lot about her comment ever since she emailed it to me. A few days ago I received another email from Brother Jim Case in our Stake about being prepared and the last days. I will forward his email to you if I have your email address. For years our Church leaders have warned us and warned us about being prepared with having a year's supply of food and storing water, things to sustain life. The warnings have pretty much stopped. Most of my quotes about Preparedness are from years ago, only a few are recent ones. Now at our General Conferences they focus on Faith, Hope and Charity. Read Ether in the Book of Mormon. It talks about the secret combinations and warnings before the destruction. Then in Chapter 12 it talks about Faith, Hope and Charity. Read President Uchtdorf's April General Conference talk, "Waiting on the Road to Damascus", he talks about Faith, Hope and Charity, as did many of the talks given.
We need to be more than just temporally prepared, but also spiritually prepared for what may come our way. As an individual and as a family we need to be reading the scriptures daily and praying. We need to help our children learn the scriptures so they can help themselves when things are tuff. They need to understand, as well as us, the importance of Faith, Hope and Charity in our lives. We need to understand why things are happening around us, how to cope with them and also how being temporally and spiritually prepared will help us in these last days. As we speak with our daughter in Missouri, we hear how the people are coping with the devastation in Joplin. The members of the church seem to be handing it a little better than the non-members because of their understanding of Faith, Hope and Charity. These three little words are so important to us. Let us not only be prepared as an individual, as a family, as a Ward, as a Stake, as member of community temporally, but also spiritually.
Weekly Assignments:
Temporal Assignment:
Add the following to your Family Emergency Preparedness Medical supplies:
1) eye wash solution--you can get this at CVS, Rite-aid or any pharmacy. different than eye drops.
2) a couple of old magazines & 4-6 sticks (like the ones you stir paint with, you can get them free from a paint supply hardware store)--These items make great splints in an emergency situation if someone has a broken leg or arm. You place the magazine or 3-4 sticks around their leg or arm and secure it with your triangle bandages or medical tape until you can get medical help.
3) stool softeners--can also be purchased at CVS, Rite-aid or any pharmacy. I think I have seen them at the 99 cent stores too, but be careful. Usually when someones diet is changed or their schedule they can become constipated. These will help greatly. Check with our doctor for the dosage to give your children and write in on the cap or bottle.
Weekly Challenge:
Spiritual Assignment:
If you are not already, pray daily and read the scriptures daily as a family. Family Home Evening will help tremendously too! Make a schedule to read them the same time each day, before school, after dinner, or before bedtime.
Hint regarding storing wheat:
We have had our hard red winter wheat stored in treated metal cans in our garage on platforms for 30-35 years. We recently decided to open one of the cans to make sure it was ok. As you know, wheat stores for years if stored properly. When we opened the can we notice a white powder on the wheat. This of course, brought some concerns. It turns out the wheat is ok. The white powder is from weevils. All wheat has weevils. Weevils eggs are inside the wheat. When not stored right, to much humidity, they hatch and they eat their way out of the wheat. As they eat their way out they bore wholes in the wheat, causing the wheat powder, just like sawdust when you drill a piece a wood. Weevils are very small, it takes a microscope to see them. They will not hurt you if you consumed them, extra protein they say. Sounds gross, I know!
The way to get rid of weevils before using the wheat, first rinse off the wheat and let dry. Then put a layer of the wheat on a baking sheet, bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Then grind the wheat and use. Once the wheat is ground you need to keep the wheat flour in a tightly sealed container and use within a month. Once you open a can of treated wheat you have to use it within a year. The best assurance is to rotate your wheat like any stored food item. I would say at least every 20 years.
One way to tell if your wheat is ok is to sprout it. Put a few wheat grains in a wet paper towel and place it in a zip lock bag. Wait about 10 days and wee if the wheat has sprouted. If is has it is ok. Another way to is to put the wheat in your month for a few seconds. If it taste bitter, you can use it, but the bread may taste bitter too, or whatever you use it in.
If you store wheat, use it. You need to introduce it to your family slowly. If you are not use to eating wheat it will cause a very upset stomack!
Remember: Post your name and comment at the end of this blog posting to have your name entered into the Carson Ward FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing to be held Sunday, June 26th. It will be something for your 72 Hour Family Emergency Preparedness Bag.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Weekly Challenge and Assignment (Week of June 12th)
Hi Carson Ward, Family and Friends,
Quote:
"We suggest that members concentrate on essential foods that sustain life." (First Presidency letter, June 24, 1988)
What does the above quote mean to you?
We should not purchase items like snacks and junk foods. First, we should purchase items that will keep us and our family healthy, like wheat, grains, sugar, beans, oil, vegetables and fruits, both packaged/canned and dehydrated/freeze-dried. Then, once we have those items, at least enough for 3 months, then we can add the fun things, like cake mix, items to make cookies, candy, etc.
Weekly Assignment:
Family Emergency First-aid supplies (this week add the following):
1) triangular bandages (3) (You can make these from an old dress or shirt, cut a 24" square and hem. These can be used as a sling, a wrap for a spring, etc.)
2) bandage scissors (EMT scissors) (You can purchase these at CVS, Rite-aid or any store that carries medical supplies for about $5.)
3) Visine eye drops (or another company brand)
Weekly Challenge:
Add some more canned or packaged items to your food storage. Or, go to the church dry pack cannery and can some #10 cans of wheat, rice, beans or dehydrated vegetables. Or, purchase them from an emergency preparedness supply company like EmergencyEssentials.com. This month they have #10 cans of Carrot Dices for $8.99. If you buy 6 cans they are $8.69 each. Shipping is from $6-$12 depending on how much you order.
Hint-- How to use dehydrated apple chips:
Combine equal parts of apples and boiling water (for example 1 cup of dried apples and 1 cup of boiling water). Let stand for at least 5 minutes.
Tips for Using Dried Apples Slices in Your Favortie Recipes:
1. Eat them dry as a healthy snack.
2. Make your own applesauce. After hydrating the apple slices, put them in a blender and pulse until applesause reaches the desired consistency. Season with sugar and cinnamon. Use can also use applesauce as a subsitute for oil in recipes.
3. Use rehydrated apple slices in your favorite apple pie, cobbler, apple cake, cookies, etc..
Quote:
"We suggest that members concentrate on essential foods that sustain life." (First Presidency letter, June 24, 1988)
What does the above quote mean to you?
We should not purchase items like snacks and junk foods. First, we should purchase items that will keep us and our family healthy, like wheat, grains, sugar, beans, oil, vegetables and fruits, both packaged/canned and dehydrated/freeze-dried. Then, once we have those items, at least enough for 3 months, then we can add the fun things, like cake mix, items to make cookies, candy, etc.
Weekly Assignment:
Family Emergency First-aid supplies (this week add the following):
1) triangular bandages (3) (You can make these from an old dress or shirt, cut a 24" square and hem. These can be used as a sling, a wrap for a spring, etc.)
2) bandage scissors (EMT scissors) (You can purchase these at CVS, Rite-aid or any store that carries medical supplies for about $5.)
3) Visine eye drops (or another company brand)
Weekly Challenge:
Add some more canned or packaged items to your food storage. Or, go to the church dry pack cannery and can some #10 cans of wheat, rice, beans or dehydrated vegetables. Or, purchase them from an emergency preparedness supply company like EmergencyEssentials.com. This month they have #10 cans of Carrot Dices for $8.99. If you buy 6 cans they are $8.69 each. Shipping is from $6-$12 depending on how much you order.
Hint-- How to use dehydrated apple chips:
Combine equal parts of apples and boiling water (for example 1 cup of dried apples and 1 cup of boiling water). Let stand for at least 5 minutes.
Tips for Using Dried Apples Slices in Your Favortie Recipes:
1. Eat them dry as a healthy snack.
2. Make your own applesauce. After hydrating the apple slices, put them in a blender and pulse until applesause reaches the desired consistency. Season with sugar and cinnamon. Use can also use applesauce as a subsitute for oil in recipes.
3. Use rehydrated apple slices in your favorite apple pie, cobbler, apple cake, cookies, etc..
Remember: Post your name and comment at the end of this blog posting to have your name entered into our FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing to be held Sunday, June 26th.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Weekly Challenge and Assistment (Week of June 5th)
Hi Carson Ward, Family and Friends,
Quotes:
"And there shall be great hailstorms sent forth to destroy the crops of the earth." (D&C 29:16)
"...be prepared in all things against the day when tribulations and desolations are sent forth...." (D&C 29:8)
"If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)
Tornadoes, hail the size of golf balls and tennis balls, colder weather and snow in the late Spring, flooding, fires and drought are affecting our food crops this year. One orchard lost 25,000 fruit trees due to hail. Japan has lost many of their crops due to the earthquake and Tsunami. The Midwest has had tornadoes, flooding and drought causing damage to their crops. The barges that haul crops from the south and Midwest cannot get up the Mississippi River due to so much flooding. Many countries in Europe and Russia have had great grain losses this past year. Their supplies are low and they are not exporting as much. What does this mean to us? Higher vegetable and fruit prices, and other food items!
Many Emergency Food suppliers have raised their prices quite significantly, as well as our local grocery stores, and some cannot get enough produce to produce the number 10 cans of dehydrated and freeze-dried foods. Mountain House, supplier of number 10 cans of dehydrated and freeze-dried foods, is currently not taking any orders or shipping to other Emergency Supply companies. I think prices will continue to rise.
Weekly Assignment:
As I watch the natural disasters unfold on the news stations, I realize more and more we will need to be prepared to take care of our wounded family members and neighbors. We will need medical supplies to take care of the injured until emergency help can arrive, which may take days, depending on the situation. This is why we are working on setting up family emergency first-aid supplies. The smaller first-aid kits we have are great to have on hand, but they will not last long, they are more for our 72 Hour Emergency Family Bag and our car. Put all the items in a large plastic container with a snap on lid and keep it in a place easily accessible, like a closet.
Family Emergency First-aid supplies (this week add the following):
1) topical antibiotic ointment
2) hydrogen peroxide
3) antifungal ointment/cream
4) alcohol
5) sanitary pads (for major wounds)
(The first 4 items I found at the 99 Cent Store for 99 cents each, and the pads I found at Big Lots for $4, also at CVS for $4 on sale. Total cost this week, $9 plus tax. Take the creams out of the box and put them in a zip lock plastic bag, and the pads in another one, to protect them from water. Mark the expiration dates on the plastic bag if they are not on the cream tubes.)
Weekly Challenge:
1) Add some canned or packaged items to your food storage. Hint: When you purchase packaged beans, rice or pasta's put them in the freezer as soon as you get them home for 24 hours to eliminated any moths and their eggs. If in a box, put the item in a zip lock plastic bag and do the same thing. Same thing goes for bird seed. You can also keep bay leaves in your cupboards, they do not like the smell.
Remember: Post your name and comment at the end of this posting to have your name entered into our FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing to be held Sunday, June 26th. This month's price is something that goes in your family emergency bag.
Quotes:
"And there shall be great hailstorms sent forth to destroy the crops of the earth." (D&C 29:16)
"...be prepared in all things against the day when tribulations and desolations are sent forth...." (D&C 29:8)
"If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)
Tornadoes, hail the size of golf balls and tennis balls, colder weather and snow in the late Spring, flooding, fires and drought are affecting our food crops this year. One orchard lost 25,000 fruit trees due to hail. Japan has lost many of their crops due to the earthquake and Tsunami. The Midwest has had tornadoes, flooding and drought causing damage to their crops. The barges that haul crops from the south and Midwest cannot get up the Mississippi River due to so much flooding. Many countries in Europe and Russia have had great grain losses this past year. Their supplies are low and they are not exporting as much. What does this mean to us? Higher vegetable and fruit prices, and other food items!
Many Emergency Food suppliers have raised their prices quite significantly, as well as our local grocery stores, and some cannot get enough produce to produce the number 10 cans of dehydrated and freeze-dried foods. Mountain House, supplier of number 10 cans of dehydrated and freeze-dried foods, is currently not taking any orders or shipping to other Emergency Supply companies. I think prices will continue to rise.
Why do we need food storage? It is not just for a disaster, but who knows how much more the vegetable and fruit prices will go up with the continual change in the weather and crops being destroyed. Who knows when a disaster will hit us. Who knows when our financial situation may change. Why not protect ourselves and our families for what may come our way? Why not be prepared as the scriptures, our prophets and our Church leaders have been warning us about for years? Why not? If you have not started to prepare, now is the time to get started, no more procrastinating!
Weekly Assignment:
As I watch the natural disasters unfold on the news stations, I realize more and more we will need to be prepared to take care of our wounded family members and neighbors. We will need medical supplies to take care of the injured until emergency help can arrive, which may take days, depending on the situation. This is why we are working on setting up family emergency first-aid supplies. The smaller first-aid kits we have are great to have on hand, but they will not last long, they are more for our 72 Hour Emergency Family Bag and our car. Put all the items in a large plastic container with a snap on lid and keep it in a place easily accessible, like a closet.
Family Emergency First-aid supplies (this week add the following):
1) topical antibiotic ointment
2) hydrogen peroxide
3) antifungal ointment/cream
4) alcohol
5) sanitary pads (for major wounds)
(The first 4 items I found at the 99 Cent Store for 99 cents each, and the pads I found at Big Lots for $4, also at CVS for $4 on sale. Total cost this week, $9 plus tax. Take the creams out of the box and put them in a zip lock plastic bag, and the pads in another one, to protect them from water. Mark the expiration dates on the plastic bag if they are not on the cream tubes.)
Weekly Challenge:
1) Add some canned or packaged items to your food storage. Hint: When you purchase packaged beans, rice or pasta's put them in the freezer as soon as you get them home for 24 hours to eliminated any moths and their eggs. If in a box, put the item in a zip lock plastic bag and do the same thing. Same thing goes for bird seed. You can also keep bay leaves in your cupboards, they do not like the smell.
Remember: Post your name and comment at the end of this posting to have your name entered into our FREE Monthly Giveaway Drawing to be held Sunday, June 26th. This month's price is something that goes in your family emergency bag.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Weekly Challenge and Assignment (Week of May 29th)
Hi Carson Ward, Family, and Friends,
Congratulations! Linda Guyan won a Coleman Lantern at our May Monthly FREE Giveaway Drawing last Sunday.
Wow! What an emotional week we have had with the tornadoes in the Midwestern, eastern and southern states. As many of you know our daughter and her family live about 20 minutes from Joplin. They attend church in Joplin. Her husband and younger children went home after their church meetings about 4:30PM. Tammy went to the high school graduation for awhile to support the youth from their Ward. She left the graduation early and was on highway 170, headed home, when she heard on the radio to pull over, get out of the car and get to shelter (a ditch or building). After the tornado passed she headed home. Their 17 year old son was in Joplin with the church missionaries, getting ready to visit some members, at their apartment when the tornado hit about 5:30PM. They got out and headed for shelter. They helped an elderly lady trapped in her collapsed apartment. Eight members were in the Stake Center when the tornado hit, all are safe and well. After the tornado was over the Bishop asked them to check out the damages to the Stake Center. It was destroyed, the only thing left was a wall with pictures of the Savior on it, the tithing envelope crack with tithing envelopes in it, a small wooden table with a statue of the Christos still standing on it, part of the clerk and Bishop's office with important documents still in tack. The important things were protected!
Many many lives have been lost, and many are still missing, homes, churches, schools, businesses, the hospital and parks are destroyed. Everything in the tornado's path is gone!
When Guido and Tammy went the next morning to Joplin to help out, there were fires due to the gas leaks, you could smell the gas and hear the hissing from the gas leaks. There were live wires everywhere and it was pouring down rain. Stores to purchase food and water were gone. There was dangerous debre everywhere. There was no electricity and water. There were injured people everywhere, people walking around confused, in shock, disoriented, grieving and feeling numb. There were people who had died. Structures were either damaged beyond recognition or completely gone. It looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off. The devastation was unbelievable!
Stake President Jones shares story of Joplin Tornado, after the commercial:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/05/24/peirs.morgan.creed.jones.cnn.html
Story of Joplin Stake Center during and after the tornado, click on the white arrow:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=15702528&nid=148
Would you be prepared if something similar like this happened to you, your family and your community? I think the majority of us are not prepared! I learned some very important things from speaking with our daughter and listening to the news reports.
1) Always listen to the warnings of our Church leaders and obey them.
2) Strive to be as prepared as you can for any emergency situation, natural disaster. Grab your 72 Hour Emergency Backpacks if you need to take shelter or leave.
3) You will be responsible for yourself and your family until help can get there.
4) You will need to assist your neighbors the best you can once you and your family are safe, and medical injures have been handled the best you can.
5) Check on your Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching families as soon as possible.
6) Do not use your cell phone during a storm when there is lightening, cell phones attract lightening and you could loose your life.
7) Texting usually works when the cell phone does not.
8) It will take Fema, rescue teams and equipment 3-4 days before they can get there to help.
9) It will probably take the community leaders, emergency preparedness teams days too.
10) Check with your community to see how prepared they are for an emergency situation and/or disaster.
11) Focus on the important things, not the material things we have lost, but on eternal relationships.
12) There will not only be life sustaining and physcial needs, but very high emotional needs.
13) Have different evacuation plans in place. Know your surroundings.
14) Keep at least half a tank of gas in your car at all times, no electricity mean no way to pump gas.
15) Have an out of state emergency contact number. So many people could not get in contact with loved ones in the area.
I received an interesting email from Bishop Ted and Carol Hansen regarding the hurricanes in Louisiana. "The Stake President in New Orleans told the members they should leave and go north. Those that went were protected. Those that didn't were not protected. We need to obey when our church leaders tell us to do something."
You may be saying, "but even those who were prepared have lost everything!" The important thing is that they obeyed the church leaders. When we are obeying our Church leaders and following their guidance we will be protected! We may not escape the trails, but we will be protected.
This blog is to help you and your loved ones, neighbors and community be prepared. Please read it, use it and apply it!
Let us all strive to be as prepared as we possibly can, for whatever comes our way!
Weekly Assignment:
Last week we completed, once again, the food part of our 72 Hour Emergency Backpacks. I was going to start the Personal Hygiene part but have decided we need to work on our home emergency medical supplies first. You can probably pick up most of these items at 99 Cent and discount stores. Watch expiration dates on medications! You can find the entire list on the "Weekly Challenge and Assignment, Week of May 8th".
This week add the following. Put all the items in a large plastic sealed container and keep in a place easy to access.
1) Band-aids (many assorted sizes)
2) Antiseptic/alcohol wipes (You can get the alcohol wipes by the diabetic supplies.)
3) Hand sanitizer (2 bottles at least)
Weekly Challenge:
1)Review your emergency preparedness supplies and organize them together (72 Hour Emergency Backpacks for each family member, food storage, water storage, medical supplies, shelter and sleeping bags, ways to cook, lighting, heating, personal hygiene, important papers are in order and together in one place, insurances in order and you understand your coverages, practicing fire and earthquake drills with the family monthly, out of state contact information, and whatever else you feel is important to you and your family.) All these things and much more can be found in this blog/website either in the postings on the right side or within the weekly challenges and assignments.
2) Make a list of the items in number 1 above.
3) Check off the ones you have completed.
4) Set goals to accomplish the ones that need completed and dates when they will be completed.
5) Start a saving account or jar for money to purchase the items you need.
6) Watch for sales on the items you need.
If you take one thing at a time you will not feel overwhelmed, and before you know it, you will have it done!
Remember: Post your name and comment at the end of these posting to have your name entered into our Monthly FREE Giveaway Drawing to beheld the last Sunday in June. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at theark.carsonward@gmail.com or call me at 310-835-0902.
Congratulations! Linda Guyan won a Coleman Lantern at our May Monthly FREE Giveaway Drawing last Sunday.
Wow! What an emotional week we have had with the tornadoes in the Midwestern, eastern and southern states. As many of you know our daughter and her family live about 20 minutes from Joplin. They attend church in Joplin. Her husband and younger children went home after their church meetings about 4:30PM. Tammy went to the high school graduation for awhile to support the youth from their Ward. She left the graduation early and was on highway 170, headed home, when she heard on the radio to pull over, get out of the car and get to shelter (a ditch or building). After the tornado passed she headed home. Their 17 year old son was in Joplin with the church missionaries, getting ready to visit some members, at their apartment when the tornado hit about 5:30PM. They got out and headed for shelter. They helped an elderly lady trapped in her collapsed apartment. Eight members were in the Stake Center when the tornado hit, all are safe and well. After the tornado was over the Bishop asked them to check out the damages to the Stake Center. It was destroyed, the only thing left was a wall with pictures of the Savior on it, the tithing envelope crack with tithing envelopes in it, a small wooden table with a statue of the Christos still standing on it, part of the clerk and Bishop's office with important documents still in tack. The important things were protected!
Many many lives have been lost, and many are still missing, homes, churches, schools, businesses, the hospital and parks are destroyed. Everything in the tornado's path is gone!
When Guido and Tammy went the next morning to Joplin to help out, there were fires due to the gas leaks, you could smell the gas and hear the hissing from the gas leaks. There were live wires everywhere and it was pouring down rain. Stores to purchase food and water were gone. There was dangerous debre everywhere. There was no electricity and water. There were injured people everywhere, people walking around confused, in shock, disoriented, grieving and feeling numb. There were people who had died. Structures were either damaged beyond recognition or completely gone. It looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off. The devastation was unbelievable!
Stake President Jones shares story of Joplin Tornado, after the commercial:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/05/24/peirs.morgan.creed.jones.cnn.html
Story of Joplin Stake Center during and after the tornado, click on the white arrow:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=15702528&nid=148
Would you be prepared if something similar like this happened to you, your family and your community? I think the majority of us are not prepared! I learned some very important things from speaking with our daughter and listening to the news reports.
1) Always listen to the warnings of our Church leaders and obey them.
2) Strive to be as prepared as you can for any emergency situation, natural disaster. Grab your 72 Hour Emergency Backpacks if you need to take shelter or leave.
3) You will be responsible for yourself and your family until help can get there.
4) You will need to assist your neighbors the best you can once you and your family are safe, and medical injures have been handled the best you can.
5) Check on your Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching families as soon as possible.
6) Do not use your cell phone during a storm when there is lightening, cell phones attract lightening and you could loose your life.
7) Texting usually works when the cell phone does not.
8) It will take Fema, rescue teams and equipment 3-4 days before they can get there to help.
9) It will probably take the community leaders, emergency preparedness teams days too.
10) Check with your community to see how prepared they are for an emergency situation and/or disaster.
11) Focus on the important things, not the material things we have lost, but on eternal relationships.
12) There will not only be life sustaining and physcial needs, but very high emotional needs.
13) Have different evacuation plans in place. Know your surroundings.
14) Keep at least half a tank of gas in your car at all times, no electricity mean no way to pump gas.
15) Have an out of state emergency contact number. So many people could not get in contact with loved ones in the area.
I received an interesting email from Bishop Ted and Carol Hansen regarding the hurricanes in Louisiana. "The Stake President in New Orleans told the members they should leave and go north. Those that went were protected. Those that didn't were not protected. We need to obey when our church leaders tell us to do something."
You may be saying, "but even those who were prepared have lost everything!" The important thing is that they obeyed the church leaders. When we are obeying our Church leaders and following their guidance we will be protected! We may not escape the trails, but we will be protected.
This blog is to help you and your loved ones, neighbors and community be prepared. Please read it, use it and apply it!
Let us all strive to be as prepared as we possibly can, for whatever comes our way!
Weekly Assignment:
Last week we completed, once again, the food part of our 72 Hour Emergency Backpacks. I was going to start the Personal Hygiene part but have decided we need to work on our home emergency medical supplies first. You can probably pick up most of these items at 99 Cent and discount stores. Watch expiration dates on medications! You can find the entire list on the "Weekly Challenge and Assignment, Week of May 8th".
This week add the following. Put all the items in a large plastic sealed container and keep in a place easy to access.
1) Band-aids (many assorted sizes)
2) Antiseptic/alcohol wipes (You can get the alcohol wipes by the diabetic supplies.)
3) Hand sanitizer (2 bottles at least)
Weekly Challenge:
1)Review your emergency preparedness supplies and organize them together (72 Hour Emergency Backpacks for each family member, food storage, water storage, medical supplies, shelter and sleeping bags, ways to cook, lighting, heating, personal hygiene, important papers are in order and together in one place, insurances in order and you understand your coverages, practicing fire and earthquake drills with the family monthly, out of state contact information, and whatever else you feel is important to you and your family.) All these things and much more can be found in this blog/website either in the postings on the right side or within the weekly challenges and assignments.
2) Make a list of the items in number 1 above.
3) Check off the ones you have completed.
4) Set goals to accomplish the ones that need completed and dates when they will be completed.
5) Start a saving account or jar for money to purchase the items you need.
6) Watch for sales on the items you need.
If you take one thing at a time you will not feel overwhelmed, and before you know it, you will have it done!
Remember: Post your name and comment at the end of these posting to have your name entered into our Monthly FREE Giveaway Drawing to beheld the last Sunday in June. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at theark.carsonward@gmail.com or call me at 310-835-0902.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Weekly Challenge and Assignment (Week of May 22nd)
Hi Carson Ward, Family and Friends,
This Sunday, May 22nd is our Monthly FREE Giveaway Drawing. Post your name by 9AM this Sunday!
Quote:
Quote:
"The principle of the fat and lean kine is applicable today (even today) as it was in the days when, on the banks of the Nile, Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream. Officials (even today) now warn us, and warn again, that scant days are coming." (President Herber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark, Jr., David O. McKay (First Presidency, Conference Report 1942)
You may say 1942 was long ago, but this counsel from the First President at that time is still as true today as it was then. We never know when our food and emergency supplies may become impossible to get or maybe even afford. I heard on the news this past week that food prices are going up again due to the many natural disasters in the mid-west. They cannot get the barges that carry vegetables and grains up the Mississippi River due to the flooding and heavy currants. Droughts in other areas are destroying crops. Members I speak with in Idaho and Utah are having a hard time getting their vegetable gardens started this year due to the cold and snowy weather they are continue to have. Even our Spring has been cooler than normal which can effect growing a garden.
If possible, we need to grow our own vegetables and fruits, even if we get a couple of large pots and plant some tomatoes or other type of vegetables. We are blessed to live in California with a long growing season. It is still not to late to plant some vegetables. The garden shops are still selling plants and seeds.
We need to be adding to our food storage each week, when we go grocery shopping put in one or two extra cans to store. Watch for great sales items and stock up. Add a little each week, and before you know it you will have one week, one month, two months, three months, and before you know it , you will have a year's supply. You do not need to store everything you eat, just the items that will sustain life. But remember the important rule, rotate what you store. Read the expiration dates, canned and packaged items only last a couple of years, and some less, like fruit juices.
Did you know you can freeze butter/margarine and even eggs? Eggs: To freeze eggs take a cupcake pan, line each cupcake section with plastic wrap, break the egg and mix gently (you do not want to get air into the eggs) before placing in the cupcake section (they do not freeze well if not mixed up), and place one egg in each cupcake space. Place the cupcake pan in the freezer and let freeze, take the eggs out of the cupcake pan, wrap and place the frozen eggs into a freezer container or freezer zip lock bag, mark the date, place in the bottom of the freezer where the coldest, not the door. Make sure you use only fresh eggs. They will keep frozen for one year. Make sure to thaw them in the refrigerator the day before you will use them. Good to use in receipes and for scrambled eggs. Butter/margarine freeze in the original package, freezes for one year. I rotate mine every time I buy butter.
Weekly Assignments:
First Assignment--72 Hour Emergency Food Kits (remember 3 of each item for each individual kit)
Add the following:
1) Beef Jerkey (snack)
2) Dried fruit or fruit rollups (snack)
1) Beef Jerkey (snack)
2) Dried fruit or fruit rollups (snack)
Congratulations! You have just finished the 72 Hour Emergency Food Kits. Place all the items in a large zip lock bag, I double mine for safety and protection against water. All the items will fit, it takes some work, but they will fit. You should have 3 of each item below in your kit. Place the 3 day menu (below) inside facing out so you can see the items to eat each day. It will not fill you up but will sustain your life for a few days, high in calories. Place the food kit in your 72 Hour Emergency Backpack.
You should have the following in your food kit:
food items:
granola bars
fruit juice box drink (if you use a mix you will need more water)
hot chocolate mix
raisins (small box)
instant oatmeal
fruit cups
peanut butter crackers
dry soup mix
trail mix (if you buy a large bag, after opening only use 1/3 of it, save rest for next 2 days)
water (keep separate from food items, check often, may leak after a few months)
snacks--you only need one of each item (I put these items in a separate zip lock bag)
gum--1 pack
hard candy--about 10 pieces (if mint, put in separate plastic bag before putting in with other snack items)
beef jerky--1 small package
fruit snacks (1 package of dried fruit or 3 fruit rollups)
food items:
granola bars
fruit juice box drink (if you use a mix you will need more water)
hot chocolate mix
raisins (small box)
instant oatmeal
fruit cups
peanut butter crackers
dry soup mix
trail mix (if you buy a large bag, after opening only use 1/3 of it, save rest for next 2 days)
water (keep separate from food items, check often, may leak after a few months)
snacks--you only need one of each item (I put these items in a separate zip lock bag)
gum--1 pack
hard candy--about 10 pieces (if mint, put in separate plastic bag before putting in with other snack items)
beef jerky--1 small package
fruit snacks (1 package of dried fruit or 3 fruit rollups)
3 day menu (same menu each day):
Breakfast: instant oatmeal, raisins (small box), instant hot chocolate
Lunch: Peanut Butter crackers, Fruit Cup, Trail Mix
Dinner: Soup mix, Granola bar, fruit drink mix
Snacks: Fruit (dried, fruit rollup), gum, hardy candy, beef jerky)
Breakfast: instant oatmeal, raisins (small box), instant hot chocolate
Lunch: Peanut Butter crackers, Fruit Cup, Trail Mix
Dinner: Soup mix, Granola bar, fruit drink mix
Snacks: Fruit (dried, fruit rollup), gum, hardy candy, beef jerky)
Note: Watch the children, they may try to eat more than allowed for each meal or snack. Be careful purchasing food items from discount stores like the 99 Cent or Dollar General Stores. Their items usually expire quickly. The item expiraton date should be at least a year from the purchase date. Check your food and snack items and water often thoughtout the year to assure freshness and leakage. If you do not have a mess kit in your family bag then you will need to add 3 styrofoan cups and 3 spoons.
Second Assignment:
Never let you gas tank get below half a tank! Yes, this means you are filling up more and it takes time, but better to be safe than sorry. What if you needed to evacuate and your gas tank is almost empty and the electricity is out (the gas pumps do not work when there is no electricity)? Gas lines will be crazy and people will panic. Always be prepared! If you have at least a half tank of gas you would be able to get as far away as possible. If possible, store gas in authorized gas cans, out of the heat, for emergencies. If you have a generator you will need to store some gas for it. Try to store 4 five gallon cans of gas, or at least one. Do not store in your car! The best price I have found for the five gallon gas cans is WalMart. They are are about $10 each.
Week Challenge:
Procedures to follow if someone is injured during an emergency situation:
1) Are they in danger in their present location? If yes, move them quickly and as safely as possible. If not, keep them where they are.
2) Restore breathing and heart beat
3) Control bleeding
4) Prevent shock
5) Treat for burns, breaks, poisons
6) Examine carefully and seek medical help as soon as possible
7) Keep checking individual until help comes
Important: Be alert, calm, positive, give directions to those disoriented, dazed, disorganized. Read your first-aid book and know the first-aid procedures above.
1) Are they in danger in their present location? If yes, move them quickly and as safely as possible. If not, keep them where they are.
2) Restore breathing and heart beat
3) Control bleeding
4) Prevent shock
5) Treat for burns, breaks, poisons
6) Examine carefully and seek medical help as soon as possible
7) Keep checking individual until help comes
Important: Be alert, calm, positive, give directions to those disoriented, dazed, disorganized. Read your first-aid book and know the first-aid procedures above.
Last day to post for the May drawing: Remember to post your name and comment by tomorrow 9AM, Sunday, May 22nd, for our May Monthly FREE Giveaway Drawing to be held this Sunday.
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