Tag emergency preparedness

Two girls cooking with their mother

Preparedness Home Evening Activities

Teaching your family self-reliance and preparedness skills is a great activity for Home Evening. Many ideas and helps can be found at Ready Kids on Ready.gov. They include games, checklists, and other resources. “What If? For Kids” is another way…

Open cyclists emergency kit

Make a Cyclist’s Emergency Kit

The Texas MS 150 has been taking place for 40 years. The Texas MS 150 is a cycling event that benefits the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. It’s a 150+ mile 2-day trip from the Houston area to the Austin area…

Crowder peans and sterilized water in pint jars

Canning Sterilized Water

Sterilized water can be a valuable addition to your first aid supplies. It can be used for wound care, eye washes, and for mixing fluid replacement solutions for infants and young children. Make your own sterilized water by canning water…

A skillet sitting on a #10 can stove

Homemade Canned Heat Stoves

Be prepared for power outages with alternative cooking methods. There are only a couple of methods – Sterno stove, butane stove – that can be used indoors. Make sure you have one of them because you may not want to…

Food production by fruit trees, canning, dehydrating, gardening

Food Availability During Non-food Rationing

The Smithsonian book American Table has a section on how history affected what we ate and now eat. In the article on “Women in World War II” it says: “Rationing of nonfood items also had an effect on the types…