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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jul 10, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - 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, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 27:
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 5, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 23:
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, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - 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 15, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 20: Peanut (Nut) Butter
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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Nicole Beus Harris
Apr 23, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 17: Soup
It's already Week Seventeen and your Food shelves should be filling up. How are you doing? Over the last 5 days, my food and general...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Mar 26, 20242 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 13: Salt & Yeast
This is a simple and inexpensive week so take this opportunity to stock up on items you may have missed in past weeks or items on sale...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Mar 20, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 12: Vegetables
Before we begin let me remind you we want to hear from you. How are you doing? How are you feeling now that your pantry and other areas...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Mar 13, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 11:
Week 11: Food - Freezer & Free Week This week we will have a task for the food portion of our weekly challenge but it is free! This free...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Mar 6, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 10: Protein
Food Week 10 - Protein Frozen foods month continues and we are storing 5 pounds of protein per person this week. Frozen fish and meats...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Feb 28, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 9: Vegetables
Food - Week 9: Vegetables March is frozen foods month so the rest of this month we will stock up on frozen foods. If you do not have a...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Feb 21, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 8: Ginger Ale & Herbal Teas
Week 8: Food Store Ginger Ale and Herbal Teas. We recently discovered ginger beer. We have had this in the past but it was very strong so...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Feb 14, 20242 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 7: Grains
Week Seven: Grains It’s a grains week. Store 6 pounds per person. Please do not store wheat if you do not like wheat or you do not know...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Feb 7, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 6: Fruit
Week Six: Food Canned Fruit We are back to fruit. This week store 6 cans per family member. If you have an aged parent or a single adult...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jan 31, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 5: Powdered Milk
Wednesday's Weekly Challenge: Today we add powdered milk to our General Store shelves. I can hear the cry now..."We hate powdered milk"....
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jan 24, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 4: Protein
Wednesday's Weekly Challenge: This week store protein. Now, protein is many things but for our purposes, we are talking meat, fish, nuts,...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jan 17, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 3: Vegetables
Week Three: This week we are adding 10 cans of vegetables per family member. I know this sounds like a lot. Look for the veggies on sale;...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jan 10, 20241 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 2: Fruit
Week Two: Add 5 cans of fruit per family member to start on a three-month supply or purchase as many cans of fruit as you are able on...
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Carolyn Nicolaysen
Jan 4, 20242 min read
2024 Food Preparedness - Week 1:
Welcome to 2024! This year on Wednesdays we will be covering our year-long plan for food storage. If you purchase each week's challenge...
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