Make a Fanny Pack Emergency Kit
Make this transition emergency kit to help you get from where you are to where you need to be in an emergency. Make a Fanny Pack Emergency Kit for your office, school, or car. It takes minimal storage space and…
Simply Prepared with CFD Publications
Because preparedness simplified is more achievable
Simply Prepared with CFD Publications
Because preparedness simplified is more achievable
Cheryl
Canning Sterilized Water
Sterilized water can be a valuable addition to your first aid supplies. It can be used for wound care, eye washes, and for mixing fluid replacement solutions for infants and young children. Make your own sterilized water by canning water…
Homemade Canned Heat Stoves
Be prepared for power outages with alternative cooking methods. There are only a couple of methods – Sterno stove, butane stove – that can be used indoors. Make sure you have one of them because you may not want to…
Being Prepared Reduces Stress
How do being prepared and having food storage reduce stress in your life? For me, stress is relieved by
Principles We Can Learn
Some things to think about from “4 Principles We Can Learn From the Way the Presiding Bishopric Works” by Sydney Walker “Bishop L. Todd Budge, Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, [stated]: ‘What I’ve found in my own life is…
Emergency Car Kits
No matter what the country or the traffic is like where you live or what your expected weather is, you should have an emergency car kit in your car. You can purchase them or make them yourself. The size and…
“Provisions according to that which the Lord” commands
In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Christ, we learn that Lehi and his family travelled in the wilderness for 8 years before they came to the land Bountiful. After they had been there “for the space of many…
Food Availability During Non-food Rationing
The Smithsonian book American Table has a section on how history affected what we ate and now eat. In the article on “Women in World War II” it says: “Rationing of nonfood items also had an effect on the types…
Unseen Strengths and Weaknesses
The dead trees in the small forest near me have all been cut down. (see post from 22 Jan 2024) There are 25 trees that succumbed to the drought, a large percentage of this small grove. Felling and cutting up…
Surviving Droughts in Our Lives
There has been a drought in my area. We had mandatory water restrictions that told us how often and what time of day we could water our yards and hand wash our cars at home. Restaurants couldn’t serve water unless…