Learning How to Prune Fruit Trees

Saturday, February 27 at 10 a.m. at the Israelsen's home. The men are invited to join us.

Food Storage Site

Website for bulk food that is really cool and reasonably priced.

www.bulkfoods.com

Soups and Chowders

Our food storage group is meeting at 7 p.m. on January 26 to learn to make soups and chowders.

72 Hour Kits

This Tuesday, July 28 is the food storage group at Cynthia's home at 7 p.m. we will be learning about 72 hour kits, first aid kits, etc. Cynthia has lists for kits. You will also be discussing all the upcoming food storage groups for the rest of the year.

Ready or Not!

Think you're safe?

Do you sit there and think:"

I know, I could add to my food storage or begin my 72-hour kits but nothin's ever gonna happen where I'd actually need that stuff?"

Well, Escondido, here's a wake-up call. There's a little site I like to check called Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada. Most of the quakes are small but as you'll notice they are continual and a few 3's and 4's are always sneaking themselves in there. Yes, the earth is constantly shakin' and rollin'.So if you don't think Emergency Preparedness is important for you, go to that site and check again and hopefully you'll reconsider . . .

Free 72-Hour Kit stuff
So, you wanna start or add to your 72-hour kit but don't have the money? Never fear, here's your answer!

Walmart has a website that offers free trial size things such as granola bars, diapers, toilet paper, tampons, maxi pads, bars of soap, deodorant, zip lock bags etc. It's completely free with no strings attached and will not add spam to your e-mail. You can choose to review the product after use by clicking a box towards the end or leave the box empty if you'd rather not be bothered. I've always clicked that I was willing to take the survey later but have yet to receive one. The site is updated weekly and biweekly so you have to check back often and quantities are limited. Also, it will only show so many products at a time on one page. So, after scrolling through the visible ones please refresh your page and sometimes you'll notice new ones pop up. You have to ask for each individually.

Click on this link for the freebies!

http://instoresnow.walmart.com/In-Stores-Now-free-samples.aspx

Food Storage Group

Take a look at Laura Legner's work for the day!

We had great success as the sisters spent 4 days canning their food storage items. Each sister purchased her own items; flour, sugar, wheat, rice, beans, macaroni, etc. and then took them to Cynthia Israelsen's to put in cans and seal them with the canner.

It was surprisingly easy to do. Just pour into the can, pop in an oxygen packet, put on the machine and seal. Of course, what made it easy was that Cynthia did all the work getting it set up for us. She also gave up a lot of time to help and instruct each of us. We really couldn't ask for a better person to head this committee. It was so successful, we will be doing it again!

The results? 800 cans of food= 4 TONS of food!! Wow!

Enrichment Group - Food Storage

Who would have thought you could have so much fun at a food storage meeting? Well, we did. We also got a lot of work done. Each sister brought food storage items for her family, beans, rice, sugar, oatmeal, pasta, even baking soda! We then worked together to pouch them in special airtight bags. Thanks to Cynthia Israelson we had the pouches and the pouch sealer from the Bishops Storehouse. Everyone went home with their cars full of bagged food to their now filled pantry. It was so successful we will have to do it again.

Too bad we didn't get pictures of the ladies hauling in 100 lb bags of rice, beans, etc. But here are photos of a few of sisters (some missed the camera). Earthquake, we are ready! Almost.