WHOLE WHEAT BREAD
1 tablespoon yeast
¼ cup warm water
2 ½ cups hot tap water
7 cups whole wheat flour (or any combination of whole wheat and white flour)
½ tablespoon salt
1/3 cup oil
1 ⁄3 cup sugar Continue reading
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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
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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.
Long Term Food Storage
Long term storage means a supply of food that will last a long time, and that you can survive on. Of course, they must be properly packaged and stored in a cool dry place. Some recommended containers are #10 cans, foil pouches, or PETE bottles. Sometimes plastics buckets can be used.
For more information talk to your Relief Society, Self Reliance/Emergency Preparedness Specialist, Cannery Coordinator, visit providentliving.org, or just ask me. Continue reading
Family Home Storage Message from the First Presidency
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Our Heavenly Father created this beautiful earth, with all its abundance, for our benefit and use. His purpose is to provide for our needs as we walk in faith and obedience. He has lovingly commanded us to “prepare every needful thing” (see D&C 109:8) so that, should adversity come, we may care for ourselves and our neighbors and support bishops as they care for others.
We encourage Church members worldwide to prepare for adversity in life by having a basic supply of food and water and some money in savings.
We ask that you be wise as you store food and water and build your savings. Do not go to extremes; it is not prudent, for example, to go into debt to establish your food storage all at once. With careful planning, you can, over time, establish a home storage supply and a financial reserve.
We realize that some of you may not have financial resources or space for such storage. Some of you may be prohibited by law from storing large amounts of food. We encourage you to store as much as circumstances allow.
May the Lord bless you in your home storage efforts.
The First Presidency
THE BASICS OF FAMILY HOME STORAGE Continue reading
To Men of the Priesthood
President Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, November, 2002
Brethren, I wish to urge again the importance of self-reliance on the part of every individual Church member and family.
None of us knows when a catastrophe might strike. Sickness, injury, unemployment may affect any of us.
We have a great welfare program with facilities for such things as grain storage in various areas. It is important that we do this. But the best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. Continue reading
Which are You?
Are you preparing for a siege? You probably grew up during the 50s and 60s and remember the Cold War, fallout shelters, and martian invasions. You worried about Y2K, and now you worry about terrorist attacks, biological weapons, chemical spills, floods, fires, earthquakes, and ants in your pantry. You buy basic food storage items and put them in the garage. Now you can relax and forget about it because you are ready for any disaster. And that is Continue reading
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