Emergency Preparedness


      food storage, 72 hour kits, emergency preparedness, and self sufficiency


      This is an uncertain world we live in. Most of us will face natural disasters, or financial difficulties in our lifetime, and having a good food, fuel, water and materials supply can be a great comfort. Having a year's supply will not only help us but it will give us a way to help our neighbors if there is a need.
      I hope through these pages, we can help you put away some food and other supplies to help in time of emergency.
      Also on this page you will find several links to How to Make Your Own... we need to be more self sufficient!

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      Amazon.com - New place to purchase dry goods and have them shipped right to you for your food storage.


      72-Hour Kit - Bev Q
      * "My Bug Out Bag" - by Mona B.
      Buddy Burner - Bev Q
      Building a Starter Food Storage - Bev Q     
      Camping with kids! - Bev Q
      Dutch Oven Cooking Recipes - Kim Hicken
      Emergency Car-Kit - Sandy R and Bev Q
      Emergency Response Plans
      How to use a Dutch Oven - Kim hicken
      Interactive FOOD STORAGE Calculator at LDS.org
      First Aid Kit- Bev Q

       Pandemic Flu links to very important information 

      Water Storage -  Andrea Chapman- how much, how to clean it etc.
      Where to Store it all???- Kim hicken
       
      Important Food Storage LINKS AT ProvidentLiving.org
      A One Month Food Storage
      Family Home Storage Pamphlet - in many languages
      Food Storage Amounts
      Food Storage Container
      Growing a Garden
      Info on specific foods you can store and use
      Interactive Food Storage Calculator
      How to Store your Food
      Longer term storage - items that store for up to 30 years.
      Recipes for using up Food Storage
      Recommended Emergency Items

    An article on WATER STORAGE from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    More on water storage from FEMA - recommend 1 gallon of water per person per day. Always have at least a 3 days supply on hand.
    Water sources during an emergency from RED CROSS
    Emergency Preparation

    President Hinckley's talk on being prepared

    Formerly Blue Chip Group is now:Augusan Farms

    Offsite Links to Self Reliance items, articles and info


    7 Mistakes of Food Storage by Vicki Tate
    Are You Ready - from FEMA
    Catching the Vision of Self Reliance - article on lds.org
    Canning - info about how to can- with FAQs and more
    Canning Recipes for Preserving foods
    Canning Success - bellaonline - has photos, recipes and more!  GREAT page
    Canning- illustrated how to articles
    Disaster Supply Kits - from Women's Conference 2006
    EarthQuake Preparation
    Emergency Preparedness for PETS - ASPCA- don't forget your animal friends.
    Family Preparedness -  72 hour kits, and more, + free information on being prepared!
    Food Storage articles of all kinds
    Food Storage FAQ's
    - very informative, advanced site on food storage, safety and more

    Food storage questions and answers
    Getting Started with Food Storage -- ARCHIVED- graphics missing but lots of good info!
    Get Ready Now - online booklet from
    The Department of Homeland Security
    Grab 'N' Go Bag
    Home Storage - Build on the Basics
    How to can and freeze vegetables
    Hurricane Preparation from Red Cross
    Hurricane Prep from Gov't site
    "It wasn't raining when..."  booklet
    Preparedness Handouts

    Provident Living from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Food storage info
    Take the Bug Out Bag Ultralight

    Very informative article on Storage from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    Walton Feeds
    the place to buy your dry food storage.


    Make your Own...

    Candles
    Diapers

    Diapers, bibs, burpcloths
    Laundry Soap
    Root Cellar - you build in your basement
    Root Cellars
    -how to build one

    Root Cellar for food storage
    Sanitary Napkins
    Easy Soapmaking
    Soapmaking
    Quilt
    Waltonfeed's Old Tymers page - learn to churn butter, make soap, sauerkraut and more


    Quotes
    on Preparing

      * Let evey head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead....
      J. Rueben Clark, 1937

      * There is a wise old saying " Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without". Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence o expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. James E. Faust

      * The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to the prophet and stored at least a years supply of survival food.
      Ezra Taft Benson

      * The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah. Ezra Taft Benson

      * The revelation to produce and stoe food may be as essential to our temporal welfare today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah."
      President Ezra Taft Benson

      * We will see the day when we will live on what we produce.
      President Marion G. Romney

      * Ye Latter-Day Saints, learn to sustain yourselves, produce everything you need to eat, dink, or wear....
      President Brigham Young

      * Our emphasis on this subject is not grounds for crisis thinking or panic. Quite the contrary, personal and family preparedness should be a way of provident living, an orderly approach to using the resources, gifts, and talents the Lord shares with us. So the first step is to teach our people to be self-reliant and independent through proper preparation for daily life.
      Author: Victor L. Brown,

      * For the moment we live in a day of peace, but it shall not ever be thus. Great trials lie ahead... and we must prepare ourselves temporally and spiritually. Bruce R. McConkie

      * There is no person who knows the real purpose for which this welfare program is being instituted but hardly before sufficient preparation has been made the real purpose will be revealed and when that time comes it will challenge every resource of the church to meet it. Harold B. Lee

      * When people are able but unwilling to take care of themselves we are responsible to employ the dictum of the Lord that the idler shall not eat the bread of the laborer. Boyd K Packer

      * The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.
      President Brigham Young

      * No man is truly fee who is financial bondage. ‘Think what you do when you run in debt,' said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.' Ezra T. Benson

      * Relief Society stands for self-reliance. The best food storage is not in welfare grain elevators but in sealed cans and bottles in the homes of our people. What a gratifying thing it is to see cans of wheat and rice and beans under the beds or in the pantries of women who have taken welfare responsibility into their own hands.
      Author: Gordon B. Hinckley

      * It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent. anon




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