Cooking in a Blackout Written by Cheri Stirling Hey friends! Last week I left you with a lot of questions to think about should there ever be a power grid failure, storm, or something else that causes our power to go down. I know, it was a lot to process, just thinking about how […]
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What if I Was in a Blackout? Written by Cheri Stirling I think that all of us recognize that our world is reliant on technology. We need power to run our homes, vehicles, and offices. Most of our businesses are run using the internet. School’s depend on technology for lessons, curriculum materials and grading. Have
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I’ve been thinking about this for a few months now. Many of us are seeing the signs of the Second Coming, and may be even feeling like, “Any day now would be great, Lord.” Elder D. Todd Christofferson said, “Crucial for the Lord’s return, is the presence on the earth of a people prepared to
Many of you have probably heard about the Avian Flu outbreak that we are currently experiencing. The current death toll on our nation’s poultry industry is currently about 36 million birds. Some grocery stores are already feeling the affects of this devastating loss in our supply chain. With so many birds gone, and inflation rising,
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We’ve talked about how part of the reason we want our food storage is to help us maintain our regular standard of living as long as we can in an emergency. When we experience uncertain times in our lives, there is a tension that arises, and the more of our every day normal we can maintain, the more we can manage that. In addition to food, we are all accustomed to certain other things that keep our home running smoothly. As we are working to build our food storage up, we should also think about the non-food things we use everyday, so that we can lessen the interruptions to our lives even more.
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You may have noticed that I have been missing for a few weeks! The past couple of weeks I have been working on a very special project that I am so excited to tell you about in this post, but first I want to talk about emergencies.
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Ok, so let’s talk about the biggest question we have when we start working on our food storage… how much do I need?
This is something I really struggled with at the beginning of building up our food storage. Storage is a bit subjective, which makes it difficult for someone write up just exactly how much food to buy. Because when I started, I really wanted to find some list somewhere that told me, “Dude, go buy 200 cans of corn, and 150 cans of black beans, etc.” But I honestly don’t like canned peaches, and maybe you hate eating green beans.
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So it’s the year 2020 (Don’t we love how like 90% of our stories start that way now?) and all the cleaners are gone. And that’s when I thought to myself, “Dang, I don’t even know how to make this stuff on my own…”
Did you have a similar moment?
Personally, I struggle with feelings of anxiety and inadequacy, developed through past experiences and (if we’re being totally honest here) too many hours dedicated to magazines and the internet. But, part of preparing for the Lord’s Second Coming means preparing in all areas of life. We know that as we move closer to His return, the more difficult challenges will become. As disciples of Christ, we can prepare emotionally for the upcoming challenges by developing emotional resiliency.
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If you’ve been following along the last few weeks, you were probably wondering if we were ever going to get here. Because let’s be honest, when most of us think of “emergency preparedness” we automatically think, “two year supply of food,” or “food storage.”
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