Food Storage Practices Grow Outside LDS Circles

Ok, yes, I live in Utah and I belong to the predominate faith, and for the last 10 years my church service was to promote food storage. And to add to that I work for Honeyville Grain teaching classes and representing the company at Preparedness Fairs. So I meet a lot of people, people from ALL over the western US and from all denominations and walks of life.

Get to the point Karin!

It used to be that only the LDS people (and actually only a small percentage of LDS members really have food storage the way they have been asked to - grumble, grumble) would store food. Now, because of economic uncertainty, natural disasters, etc.,  it's becoming more and more of a practical necessity.

I have met trucker's who stop in on their way through town who pick up a couple hundred dollars worth of freeze-dried items, a fellow who was worried about the rest of his family and came to the store with his truck and trailer to purchase $7,000 worth of grains and other food items. And mind you, it was his adult siblings he was buying for too. And then there are the regulars who once or twice a month come in and add a bit more to their food storage. And the list goes on and on.

Please, just to it! You never know when that "rainy day" will come. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

How to get started: 

Check out our blogs on food storage.

www.providentliving.com

I love the blog "Food Storage Made Easy" - baby steps.

And there are many more resources.

E-mail me at RockyMtnSurvival@gmail.com and I'll help you get started.

Remember my post of a couple weeks ago? "If you can control the food - you can control the people."

~Karin

Homemade Laundry Soap Recipe

My daughter gave me a 5-gallon bucket with homemade laundry soap. In my opinion it works better than store bought laundry soap. And the bestest part ever is its only 2 cents a load!

Here, the recipe:

Laundry Soap

1 bar Zote Soap or Fels Naptha
1 ½ cups Arm and Hammer washing soda
1 ½ cup s Twenty Mule Team Borax
Lots of Water

A bucket to store it in 5gal

Heat 12 cups of water in large pot. Grate the bar of soap and add to water. Stir until soap melts. Add washing soda and Borax. Ingredients will foam, stir until everything is dissolved. Remove from heat.

Heat 8 cups of water and place in 5 gallon bucket, add soap mixture and stir. Add 2 gallons plus 12 cups water and stir. You may add 1-2 oz. of essential oil for a scent.

Cover and let set for 24 hours- mixture WILL gel. You will need to stir the mixture up a few times over the next few hours just so it doesn’t turn into one big blob.

Use ½ cup of laundry soap per load.

I have it in a 6 gal bucket with a gamma lid.

And if you want this vinyl to stick on your bucket... check this out to order.

(go to title, and click on the attached link.)