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SavvyShopperDeals.com is happy to give away a copy of the Food Storage Planner CD (Retail price, $40!), donated by Prospering Families.  This computer program (Windows) is completely customizable to your individual family and helps the overwhelmed organize their pantry.  It prints inventory lists, shopping lists and helps you on your way to acquiring a food storage - or a PREPARED PANTRY. The CD also comes with over 250 food storage recipes; learn how to use your beans, powdered milk and wheat!

To enter: Post in this thread the one idea you have used in your family to live with preparedness in mind on a daily basis or something you KNOW you should be doing but aren't yet and want to.  Just one tip and on March 25th a winner will be randomly drawn from all posts.  Thanks in advance for all your ideas!

I have a 25 gallon water container out in my garage--the only problem is in case of an emergency--it's empty! We need to fill it!  I have been filling empty 2 liter pop bottles for water. Also, to start cooking with whole wheat, because I have heard that your body does need to get use to it, especially if there was an emergency and you were eating a lot of it.   

I need to buy a hand-held wheat grinder - I can only hook so many things into my generator and the Kitchen-Aid probably isn't one of them!

  
    I use my empty juice containers (apple juice) and store water in them.  Helps with small storing room.     I also try to hit the sales on bottled water when they have them.

Wheat is a major source of our food supply.  Two to three times per month I make a batch of whole wheat bread from my own wheat.  My 2 little boys love it so much, they prefer my homemade wheat bread to store bought bread. I have an electric grinder for good times and a hand grinder for hard times, which I hope never come, but if they do our bodies will be used to eating wheat! 

One thing that I have been trying to do is to only buy things that I know my family will use and eat.  It doesn't do much good to stock up on items we won't use.  Just because something is only pennies or even free doesn't mean we need it, which sometimes takes a lot of discipline on my part!

I have realized that obtaining food storage is much easier then most realize. One tip I have learned is when storing soap. Open all your soaps up and put them into a large bucket. This will allow the soap to dry. I cover mine with a piece of cheese cloth, I guess a towel would work as well. This allows you to have really hard soap. It will last longer and you can grate it into a powder for laundry soap and dish soap if needed. Have you ever tried grating soft soap? Hope that works. I personally need to work on storing more items such as soap, and matches. Will work on that this year.

We just moved to Utah from Idaho a week ago.  Just before we moved I purchased a 55 gallon container to store water in (which I still need to clean and get ready).  Where we lived before we could safely store the water straight from the tap without adding anything.  We are in Cottonwood Heights and I'm wondering if anyone knows if the water here can be stored just as easy or if I need to add anything to it?  Or maybe someone can direct me to a website or phone number which I could use to find that out.  Thanks!