Slow and steady wins the race! Photo c/o redbrownandblue.com
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By Kellene Bishop
Time’s a wastin’. Getting prepared takes a concerted effort on a regular basis. However, it doesn’t take require loads of money or fancy contraptions. It takes action. The good news is that even though I’m not surrounded with a particular need for preparedness right now, I’m still amply rewarded when I do a little something to improve my family’s state of readiness. I find that each activity I do and every effort I make in this regard increases my level of peace, confidence, and assurance substantially. Here are some ideas as to what you can do this weekend to be better prepared. Just pick one or even a couple of these activities and improve your readiness factor!
- Organize an area of food storage. Just one area, such as soups, pastas, wheat, sugar, etc.
- Run your family through a fire drill in the home
Fire Drill photo c/o njfamily.com
- Learn how to grow sprouts
- Learn how to use a solar oven
- Try making dinner on your butane stove
- Learn how to use a pressure cooker
- Bottle butter
- Go fishing (Yes, ladies, that IS a preparedness skill)
- Learn how to make a candle out of a tuna can
- Make fire without a match (preferably NOT in your home.) 🙂
- Cook in your Dutch Oven
- Learn CPR
- Fill those water barrels
- Make notes on your laundry detergent, toothpaste, and toilet paper so that you know how long they actually last your family. (This way you know how much you need for a year)
- Burn/cut up a credit card
- Learn how to make bread
- Sanitize your home including doorknobs, cupboard doors, refrigerator handles, air vents, and telephones
- Try some powdered milk and find one that you like
- Read for a half hour on Preparedness Pro to learn something new
- Preserve your favorite dry foods with a FoodSaver
FoodSaver photo c/o foodsaverblog.com
- Do a financial analysis of how you can allocate a bit more money each month towards eliminating debt
- Make sure your family knows how to turn off the gas line to your home
- Identify where all of your other water sources are
- Attend a self-defense class
- Attend a couponing class
- Read the U.S. Constitution (Yup, becoming familiar with this is an act of preparedness in defense of foreign or domestic enemies.)
- Practice target shooting at a range
- Teach your family a “gathering plan”
- Get your Concealed Firearm Permit
- Learn how to use come common essential oils
- Learn how to put up your tent all by yourself 🙂
- Wax some hard cheese
- Preserve some eggs
- Go camping
- Go for a 5 mile walk with the family
- Learn a new recipe that you can make from what’s readily available in your pantry.
Bacon Potatoes in Garlic Cream Sauce
1 C. evaporated milk
1 ½ T. cornstarch
1 T. minced garlic (I prefer mine from the jar that’s in oil)
1 T. butter
1/8 t. salt
1 t. dried rosemary
1 T. of real bacon bits, or bacon flavored TVP
Two 15-ounce cans of whole potatoes, drained
Whisk the cornstarch into the milk until it is dissolved. Add the butter, salt, pepper, garlic, rosemary and bacon. Bring to a low boil and stir until thickened (This will take about 3 minutes.) Add the canned potatoes and cook for another 5 minutes—or until no longer hard. This side dish serves 4 nicely or you can also add some fried Spam and a drained can of corn and make it a main dish.
So which preparedness activity are you going to do this weekend?
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