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    • The History of Simply Prepared: A Guide to Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage by Cheryl F. Driggs
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      • What NOT to Save After a Flood
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      • Saving Important Books and Papers After a Flood
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      • Cooking Without Power
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      • Pandemic Influenza
      • Pandemic Influenza: What Can I Do Now?
      • Pandemic Lessons from the Scriptures
      • Preparing for Pandemic Influenza:
      • Cloth Face Masks
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      • Reusable Sterile Dressings
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  • Food Basics
    • Grains
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    • Nonfat Dry Milk
    • Whey Milk Alternatives versus Nonfat Dry Milk
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    • Sprouting
      • Sprouting times, yields, and more
    • Storing Seeds
    • Dehydrated and Freeze-dried Foods for Food Storage
      • Dehydrated and Freeze-Dried Foods
      • Rehydrating Dehydrated Vegetables
      • Freeze-Dried Foods
      • Powdered Eggs
    • The Benefits of Canned Food
    • Home Canning
  • Food Storage and Preparedness Plans
    • A Month’s Supply
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    • Building and Using a Rotating Menu Plan
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  • Non-Food Basics
    • Light and Fuel: Facts and Figures
    • Dryer Lint Fire Starters
    • Shelf Life of Key Non-food Items
    • Suggested Non-Food Storage Items
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    • Recommended Reading and Reference: Preserving Food
    • Recommended Reading and Reference: Preparing Stored Food
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    • Introduction to Record Basics
    • When Mom’s Gone
  • The Basics
    • Spiritual Preparedness
      • Why Home Storage?
      • “I Prepare You Against These Things”
      • Preparedness and the Scriptures
      • The Book of Gomer: A Parable
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    • Adapting Food Storage to Where You Live, Your Budget, and Your Diet Restrictions
    • Affording Home Storage
    • Basic Principles of Food Storage
    • Four Kinds of Food Storage
    • Food Preservation
      • How to Store
      • The Battle of the Bugs
      • Storage Containers
      • SHORT-TERM STORAGE METHODS For Dry Foods
      • Long-Term Storage Methods for Dry Foods
      • How to Store Products Not Approved for Dry Packing
      • Dry Heat Processing
      • Dry-Pack Canning in Glass Canning Jars
      • Dry Packing in PETE Bottles
      • Gallon Foil Pouch Requirements for Bulk Foods*
      • Dry Ice Treatment in Plastic Buckets
      • Shelf Life
      • Using a Tabletop Impulse Sealer
    • Food Sources for Food Storage
      • Amish and Mennonite Stores
    • Home Storage and How to Use It
    • Basic Storage
      • Why Basic Storage?
      • Basic Food Storage
    • Home Storage for the Celiac
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Simply Prepared with CFD PublicationsSimply Prepared with CFD Publications
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Because preparedness simplified is more achievable

Food Preservation

How to Store

The Battle of the Bugs

Storage Containers

Short Term Storage Methods

Long Term Storage Methods

Products Not Approved for Dry Packing

Dry Heat Processing

Dry Pack Canning in Glass Canning Jars

Dry Packing in PETE Bottles

Mylar Pouch Sealer Instructions for AIE and ME 305 A1 Sealers

Using a Tabletop Impulse Sealer

Mylar Pouch Requirements

Dry Ice Treatment

Canning Information

Dehydrating Information

Shelf Life

BYU Shelf Life research

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