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Family Home Storage – A New Message
Check the expiration date on
your ideas about home storage.
You may need to throw some of them out.
As a single mother working for a law firm in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Evelyn Jeffries struggled to find the time and the space necessary for home storage. Although she attended activities and meetings about food storage and tried to be obedient to prophetic counsel, like many Church members, she found it difficult to imagine what she could ever do with the hundreds of pounds of wheat she was told she needed to have for her and her daughter.
When a sister in her ward suggested a different approach, Sister Jeffries discovered the key to successful home storage: Continue reading
Self Reliance
Provide for Self and Family
Church members are responsible for their own spiritual and temporal well-being. Blessed with the gift of agency, they have the privilege of setting their own course, solving their own problems, and striving to become self-reliant. Members do this under the inspiration of the Lord and with the labor of their own hands.
Elements of Self Reliance
Self-reliance is the ability, commitment, and effort to provide the necessities of life for self and family. As members become self-reliant, they are also better able to serve and care for others.
Some of the areas in which members should become self-reliant are: Continue reading
But What About a Fire?
Copyright 2009 Preparedness Pro & Kellene Bishop. All rights reserved.
First of all, there are a few facts that you should be aware of. The U.S. has the highest number of fire deaths per capita than any other country. Why? Because Continue reading
Home Portable Fire Extinguishers
Extinguishers have Limits
Used properly, a portable fire extinguisher can save lives and property by putting out a small fire or controlling it until the fire department arrives.
Portable extinguishers, intended for the home, are not designed to fight large or spreading fires. However, even against small fires, they are useful only under certain conditions: Continue reading
Family Finance Message from the First Presidency
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Latter-day Saints have been counseled for many years to prepare for adversity by having a little money set aside. Doing so adds immeasurably to security and well-being. Every family has a responsibility to provide for its own needs to the extent possible.
We encourage you wherever you may live in the world to prepare for adversity by looking to the Continue reading
Provident Living Video
We become self-reliant,” explains Julie Beck, president of the Church’s organization for women, “through obtaining sufficient knowledge, education, and literacy; by managing money and resources wisely, being spiritually strong, preparing for emergencies and eventualities; and by having physical health and social and emotional well-being.”
Church leader Elder Robert D. Hales outlines ways we can become self-reliant:
- Be ready for rainy-day emergencies
- Avoid excessive debt; be content with what we have
- Use the resources of the earth wisely; don´t be wasteful
- Prepare for the future by making spending and savings plans
- Keep a family or personal budget
- Teach children wise spending habits and help them save for the future
- Obtain an education or vocational training
- Find gainful employment
As we become self-reliant, we will be prepared to face challenges with confidence and peace of mind.
Canning Dry Beans
When canning dry beans is it necessary to rehydrate by soaking them before you can them?
Thank you for your question. We use the USDA Home Canning guides to answer canning questions and the procedure to safely can dry beans at home includes Continue reading
Canning Recipes
Mild Tomato Salsa Recipe
160 Servings Prep: 1-1/2 hours Process: 20 min.
- 36 medium tomatoes, peeled and quartered
- 4 medium green peppers, chopped
- 3 large onions, chopped
- 2 cans (12 ounces each) tomato paste
- 1-3/4 cups white vinegar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 medium sweet red pepper, chopped
- 1 celery rib, chopped
- 15 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 to 5 jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped
- 1/4 cup canning salt
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
In a large kettle, cook tomatoes, uncovered, over medium heat for 20 minutes. Drain, reserving 2 cups liquid. Return tomatoes to the kettle.
Stir in the green peppers, onions, tomato paste, vinegar, sugar, red pepper, celery, garlic, jalapenos, canning salt, hot pepper sauce and reserved tomato liquid.
Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 1 hour, stirring frequently.
Ladle hot mixture into hot jars, leaving 1/4-in. headspace. Adjust caps. Process for 20 minutes in a boiling-water bath. Yield: 10 pints.
Nutrition Facts: 1 serving (2 tablespoons) equals 14 calories, trace fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 182 mg sodium, 3 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, trace protein.
Country Woman Christmas Annual 2006, p56
Garden Tomato Relish
160 Servings Prep: 1-1/2 hours + simmering Process: 20 min.
- 10 pounds tomatoes
- 3 large sweet onions, finely chopped
- 2 medium sweet red peppers, finely chopped
- 2 medium green peppers, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons mustard seed
- 1 teaspoon celery seed
- 4-1/2 cups white vinegar
- 2-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons canning salt
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
In a large saucepan, bring 8 cups water to a boil. Add tomatoes, a few at a time; boil for 30 seconds. Drain and immediately place tomatoes in ice water. Drain and pat dry; peel and finely chop. Place in a stockpot. Add onions and peppers.
Place mustard and celery seed on a double thickness of cheesecloth; bring up corners of cloth and tie with string to form a bag. Add spice bag and the remaining ingredients to the pot. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 60-70 minutes or until slightly thickened. Discard spice bag.
Carefully ladle relish into hot 1-pint jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles; wipe rims and adjust lids. Process in boiling-water canner for 20 minutes. Yield: 10 pints.
Nutrition Facts: 2 tablespoons equals 20 calories, trace fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 136 mg sodium, 5 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein.
Taste of Home June/July 2009, p43
Mint Jelly
88 Servings Prep: 30 min. + processing
- 4-1/2 cups water
- 3 cups packed fresh mint, crushed
- 7 cups sugar
- 1/4 cup bottled lemon juice
- 2 to 4 drops green food coloring
- 2 pouches (3 ounces each) liquid pectin
In a large saucepan, bring water and mint to a boil. Remove from the heat; cover and let stand for 15 minutes. Strain, reserving 3-1/3 cups liquid (discard remaining liquid).
In a Dutch oven, combine the sugar, lemon juice, food coloring and reserved liquid. Bring to a boil; cover and stir for 1 minute. Add pectin; return to a boil. Cook and stir for 1 minute. Remove from the heat; let stand for 5 minutes.
Skim off foam. Pour hot liquid into hot sterilized jars, leaving 1/4-in. headspace. Adjust caps. Process for 10 minutes in a boiling-water bath. Yield: 11 half-pints.
Nutrition Facts: 1 serving (2 tablespoons) equals 62 calories, trace fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 1 mg sodium, 16 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein.
Taste of Home August/September 2004, p15
Chinese Plum Sauce
- 8 cups plums, pitted, halved (3 pounds)
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 cup water
- 1 teaspoon
- ginger root, minced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup rice vinegar or 1/2 cup cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cloves
In large heavy saucepan, bring plums, onions, water, ginger and garlic to boil over medium heat; cover, reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until plums and onions are very tender, about 30 minutes.
Press through food mill or sieve and return to clean pan; stir in sugar, vinegar, coriander, salt, cinnamon, pepper and cloves. Bring to boil, stirring; reduce heat to low and simmer until mixture reaches consistency of applesauce, about 45 minutes.
Fill and seal jars; process in boiling water bath for 30 minutes.
Makes about 4 cups
Source: freecanningrecipes.com
Getting the Bugs Out of your Marriage
A list of known symptoms
and secret cures
from the Divorce Bug himself
Hello,
I’m the Divorce Bug. I’m highly contagious and terribly overworked. It seems that no marriage is completely immune from me … so in an attempt to reduce my work load, I’ve developed this brochure on divorce. Contained herein are descriptions of my most potent viruses and divorce-fluenzas, which have successfully started thousands of unsuspecting married couples on the road to divorce. I’ve also included “top secret treatments” which have been developed by our “core prevention” research lab. Although the release of these findings is unprecedented. I believe the general public should be educated … if not for their own sake, then for my own sanity. So please study this information carefully and try some of the treatments. Then maybe my wife and I will be able to take the Caribbean cruise we’ve been planning for the past five years.
Thanks
DB
The Divorce Bug Continue reading
LDS Emergency Preparedness 