meredith14

We live in an area where we lose power for days. So we use our camping gear. We have several camp stoves that use white gas along with a heater and light. We have a years supply of firewood to keep warm and we also would move into one room and not heat the rest of the house. When we don't have power we go to town to wash clothes but I do dry them on a line here at home. I don't know what would do for long term "EVERYONE" is without power kinda of thing. I can most of my food stuff to be shelf stable. I don't want to lose a freezer full of food. Back to the water issue..we live on a well and when power goes out we lose the use of a toilet. So we have 2lt plastic bottles filled with water to use for the toilet. I store them on there side under shelf that has space. We don't use for drinking so I don't ever rotate them. Larry- i find plastic buckets at restaurants. I ask them to save them for me with the lids in tack. I like them better cause you can keep them cleaner and move them around for rotation better. I too can have mice here and so I keep mouse bait every where and check on it.

Well, this is the way you say it...that's why we put the accent on "am". We always know when someone is new or not from around here and they will put the accent on "Will" and make the "am" more like a soft "a" sound. I have live in Portland most of my life and now we live a bit south of there. I think the word got out on how great our little area is in the last year we have incressed our ward by a third. Now there is talk of splitting our ward.

I never had tried to make it but I can tell you that NOTHING is going to taste like the real thing. You just have to find one that you can live with and "get" by with. OR... get a cow and make it that way!

Now this is just my humble thoughts...your hubby should be helping out a bit more! I feel that I too work from 9-5 just like he does and then when he walks in the door we are co-parents and it's just not all on me for the rest of the day. He is missing out on quality time with his son at bed time and other moments. I treat my at home time like a job and then later when he is home it is total team work with the kids. (we have 5 boys) We make sure the kids are in bed at 8pm so we can watch TV or do what ever quite thing we want without kids around. Its really hard, I know cause I've been there and done that. It also does not help that you are at the end of your PG and are getting less sleep and with hubby losing he job you are both stressed to the max...but let him know your thoughts and feelings and help you out. We are helpmeet's to one another. He can't make it without you and if you are down and tired...the house will come crumble down around you. Also remember that this too will pass. You are doing the right thing by being home and there for your kids... keep smiling meredith

There are 222 pages to the whole thing. I too am low on ink and decided to download it to the pc and I'm going to have my hubby print if off at work. Cause I'm just to lazy to buy more ink, or maybe I'm just cheap. Then I need to buy a binder to put it in to.

there is a great older book called something like Getting your child to sleep through the night. It has different ideas on helping a child to self sooth himself to go back to sleep for all the different stages and ages. I used it with my second child and it was great. It can be really hard on parents when a child won't sleep right and now that you are PG again it can be even harder. Little kids think of mom as the only one who can care or help them at because we are the ones who nurse at night and when dad works during the day we tend to take that on so dad can get a good night sleep. But as we have more kids and get run down we tend to give in more and not stay to the routine or rules as good as we should. Dad on the other hand sticks to them better. So...when getting a small child on to a good nite time routine..dad should be the one to do it for the first 3-4 nights and then by then mom can step in to help out. Its good to do this on a long weekend. Good luck.

tomatoes,tom sauce,pizza sauce artichoke hearts,peas,corn,beans,carrots dried,mushrooms dried and canned three bean salad apple juice,grape juice, kool aids, juice boxes, pear and prune and tomatoe juice as well. lots of jams jellies cranberries fruit cocktail apple sauce peache and pear,pineapple,mandrines oranges bbq sauce, hot sauce, salad dressings, mustard, vinegar loads of pickles, olives, hot peppers, relish, pickles beans, pickled beats, sugar, brown, powdered, extra fine, flour, all types rice -three different kinds lentels- four different kinds barley, wheat meats- fish, chicken, spam, tuna, clams, pork peanut butter soups -about 10 different kinds canned beans- about 10 different kinds Milks- pwd, sweet, soy, cocconut, evap everything for baking, syrups, pwds, chocolate salts, and seasonings lots of chocolate and sweets crackers cearals pastas-about 10 different kinds, top ramen, first aid kits all bathroom stuff about 3 months of cleaning supplies except bleach, I have a year on that. hubby has loads of guns and ammo I'm still stuck on the fuel, we only have 8 gals of white gas for stoves and lights. I know I need more...just don't know how much. I'm sure I'm forgetting lots of things. We are set and have been for a bit. I have a spare room and it set up to look like a store when you walk in it. I shop from food storage during the week and then when I go to the store I buy what's on sale.

Lots of time there are little used space in the back parts of closets that are hard to reach. Stack stuff there. Under beds is great place. When we were in a little space with kids, I took a hard look at what I had and got rid a ton of stuff so I could store what was important (food). It felt so good to get rid a ton of JUNK, but there were times later when I went searching for something and remembered I had turfed it! Then I kicked myself for getting rid of something I still needed and had to buy again. Also remember that a year is ideal but if you can store just 3 months right now you are on the right track.

Popcorn, I buy whole dried corn to make corn meal out of, but to my knowledge you can't put popcorn in a grinder. It will break the grinder.

Like Abraham's wife (see note above) I use it for any grain, except corn. Corn is to hard to put into it. I like to crack corn and then put it in again to make a fine masa. I have put flax seed into my grinder too. LOVE MY GRINDER!!!

I have this grain mill and use the flaker more then anything else. A couple of years ago my husband did the homework and math on this grain mill and found it to be the best value out there. So we got it and have used it a ton.

35. Tuna Fish (in oil) I believe I remember the reason is that you want the extra calories. I also think that it tastes better too. But that's my two cents.

The other cool thing about their shipping rates is that when you order the months specials the shipping is free on ALL of your orders with the specials included. We get together with others to make a big order and never have to pay shipping. meredith

I have been a member of different forms on other sites and decided I needed to find a form more to my tastes and values. So here I am. I'm a mom of 5 boys in Oregon who is really into preparedness and such. I'm very lucky to stay at home and my husband also works from home too so we spend lots of time together. One night a week I teach parenting classes for a community group and also some cooking classes here and there. My calling at church is in YW and hubby is in the bishopric. So we stay pretty busy with our callings and the boys, no time to get into trouble. LOL Thanks for letting be on board here...I'm looking forward to meeting all of you. Meredith