Tag Canned Food

Canned food as part of home/food storage

Collage of ready-to-eat cereal, peanut butter, hot cocoa mix, and applesauce

Canned Food for Emergencies

Canned food can be an important part of your emergency supply as well as your three-month supply. Do you have an emergency food supply to get you through power outages, shipping strikes, and travel and utility limitations? There are many…

Collage of ways to use canned food - Tropical Chicken Salad, dehydrated in granola, pureed in cake, dehydrated for snacking

Rotating Canned Foods

If you are concerned about rotating your canned food, there are creative ways to keep it fresh: • Try a completely new recipe using canned foods. A new recipe means you don’t have a previous version to compare it to.•…

Pantry shelves of canned food

Canned Food – A Convenient Nutritious Option

There are many who are concerned about storing a supply of canned goods thinking that they are storing a nutritionally inadequate supply of food.  Several respected universities have researched this issue.  A study conducted by the University of California –…

Collage of butane stove, Pantry Cooking cookbook, storage bins, cyclist's emergency kit

Self-Reliance Gift Ideas

Gift the gift of self-reliance and preparedness this Christmas. Here are some of many ideas for gifts: –Camp stove or butane stove –Solar oven –Rocket stove —Wonder oven –Water bath canner –Pressure canner —Ball Blue Book —So Easy to Preserve…

Four quart jars of dry packed stuffing mix

Dry Packing Stuffing Mix

The fall and winter holiday season is a great time to stock up on foods, such as stuffing mix, that don’t often go on sale at other times of the year. I like to have stuffing mix on hand for…

Home canned sweet cherries in pint jars

Canning Cherries

There are a number of recipes we like that require canned cherries, either tart or sweet. Canned cherries are quite expensive at the grocery store, if you can even find them. Fresh cherries can be expensive if you don’t live…

Cheese Grits Bowl with tomatoes, ham, spinach, and onions

A Three-Month Supply Southern Style

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints introduced the idea of a Three-Month Supply in 2007 in the pamphlet All is Safely Gathered in: Family Home Storage. The pamphlet encouraged members to: “Build a small supply of food that…

Cans of vegetables in medium size multi-purpose bins

Multi-Purpose Bins for Pantry Storage

Here’s a good way to store canned and packaged foods while maximizing space. These multi-purpose bins are on sale right now at The Container Store so your organizing can be 25% less expensive! They are BOGO 50% off until April…