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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Aug 14, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 33: Ketchup, Mayo, & Vinegar
Week 33: Ketchup, Mayo, & Vinegar Ketchup and mayo should be on sale this week due to summer celebrations. If you dated the bottles in...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Aug 7, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 32: Mustard & Dressing
Food - Week 32: Mustard and Salad Dressing This week store mustard and salad dressing. Mustard will store forever, but salad dressings...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jul 31, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 31: Grains
Food - Week 31: Grains I have become a huge fan of quinoa. It is a great protein, as well as a source of the nutrients and benefits...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jul 24, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 30: Vegetables
Week Thirty - Food: Vegetables This week store 10 cans of vegetables per family member. Now that gardens are beginning to bare delicious...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jul 17, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 29: The Extras
Week 29 - Food: Pickles, Olives, Relish, & Salsa (the "extras") This is a fun week, the one you prepared for when you marked your jars...
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cjnicolaysen
Jul 11, 20232 min read
Making Your Own Master Mixes
Many years ago there were some very popular cook books that advocated creating a master mix and then using it to make several recipes. I...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jul 10, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 28: Fruit
Food - Week 28: Fruit We’re in fruit season - so it’s time to get canning, freezing, and storing fruit. If you don’t know how to can or...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jul 3, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 27: Protein
Week Twenty-Seven - Food: Protein Since it is July and barbecue time we are stocking up on protein. Many cuts of meat will be on sale....
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jun 26, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 26: Fruit
Week 26 Food: Canned Fruit We are halfway to our goal of a three-month supply in a year. How are you doing? Most weeks we ask you to...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jun 19, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 25: Grains
Food - Week 25: Grains The shelf life of whole grains, like wheat berries, rice, oats, and quinoa is longer than flours made from those...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jun 12, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 24: Soups
Week 24 Food: Soup Again we store 4 cans of soup per family member. Consider how you will use your soup. Will you eat it when ill? That...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jun 5, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 23: Cheese
Week 23: Cheese Diets rich in milk and other dairy products help build and maintain bone mass, reduce the risk of osteoporosis, build...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
May 29, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 22: Protein
Week 22 - Food: Protein Protein is so important for muscle maintenance and growth. Don’t skimp on protein. You have so many options here,...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
May 21, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 21: Juice
Week Twenty-One - Food: Juice Time to add juice to your food storage. This week add three 64 oz. bottles of 100% juice per family member...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
May 16, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 20:
Week 20: Food - Peanut (or nut) Butter This week we are storing four pounds of peanut butter. You may be asking why when we have already...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
May 8, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 19: Fruit
Week 19: Food - Fruit Fruit can be used in desserts, main dishes, side dishes, smoothies and even added to cereals and oatmeal. I like to...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
May 1, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage Challenge - Week 18: Gelatin
Week 18: This week add flavored and unflavored gelatin to your store shelves. Gelatin is great when dealing with a medical emergency....
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Apr 24, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage - Week 17: Soup
It's already Week Seventeen and your Food shelves should be filling up. How are you doing? Week 17: Food This week store 4 cans of soup...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Apr 17, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage - Week 16: Vegetables
Week 16: Food Storage It’s veggie time again. I know it seems you are accumulating lots of cans, and you are. I watched a video about...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Apr 10, 20231 min read
2023 Preparedness Food Storage - Week 15: Grains
Week 15: Food This week add 6 pounds of grains per family member to your General Store. This can be wheat, oats, rice, brown rice, wild...
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