"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." (President Gordon B. Hinckley)
Our weather is turning nice now. The tomato starts I planted are doing good.
As I'm writing this, tomorrow will be April 1, so I need to plant more seeds to have them ready for planting in the middle of May.
If you are in my neck of the woods, you will be wanting to get seeds in pots. You will still have time by the time you read this.
Our gas just went up again. It now is $3.59 a gallon. We have been conserving trips.
This being said, the gas prices will soon hit the grocery prices so those prices will continue to rise. I encourage you to keep working on your storage. This means all around the world will be having higher prices too so no matter where you live, check into putting in storage and growing food.
I know I sound like a broken record but prices continue to rise. I know you are seeing it but we need to be actively working on storage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIFXwB5PVc0 - I don't drink coffee but I found this interesting. I watched a bit of another in this series and they talked about potatoes and Florida's crop being small because of weather and that reminded me of something i wanted to bring up...
In my storage I have instant potatoes that are complete, meaning I only have to add water - perfect when you don't have the milk and butter to add as it is already in it. I like to store potato flakes to use in my bread items, canned potato slices, dehydrated slices and dices and shreds. Kind of like not putting your eggs all in one basket.
I like angel food cake mix where you only need water as well, to me these are perfect storage items.
Same with pancake mix complete. You only need to add water, but I can make pancakes from scratch and from sourdough - yum! and blender pancakes.
https://lifemadesimplebakes.com/blender-pancakes/ - these are so good. If you have wheat berries, give this a try - yum! I store wheat berries because they last 25+ years. Once you grind wheat into flour, it needs to be used or frozen. So I grind what I need when I need it.
So all this to say, store things that you have different versions of when you get your basics in.
Also, remember to store water.
So much is going on that it just makes sense to be working on storage. No need to panic buy or go into debt, just pick up a few extras when you get groceries.
When my husband was in the Air Force (service members aren't paid enough I say) we lived in an old rickety building, in one of three upstairs apartments. The other two were also military people but by the end of the month these neighbors were out of food and would come ask for any we might have. So when I got groceries, I picked up an extra can of tuna, mac and cheese, etc. in anticipation of their need. We were all poor. This started me on my journey to have a storage.
Keep working on your skill building, even if it is just to be able to mend - that will be a huge blessing.
Fabric is so costly so I wanted to include finding fabric by thrifting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=746pXlmu-Cc - thrifting fabric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH-ujL4kUgs - I included this to give you ideas on thrifted fabrics and her yardage for different sheet sizes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgrB_EEG2NE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlNKIgB1q1M
https://sewcanshe.com/category/sewing-projects-for-organizing-your-home/page/2/
https://sewcanshe.com/category/crafty-little-things-to-sew/page/2/
I stuck a few free patterns in with these last two sites so you could think about Christmas gifting.
https://dontwastethecrumbs.com/best-foods-make-from-scratch/ - remember scratch cooking saves money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKgUf3LJ-Ks - she shows both regular and gluten free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPW9dpmZZFA
So a couple things I wanted to talk about...
Remember, I mentioned about having hard copies of your recipes - I encourage you to put them in a binder. I just wanted to remind you again.
The other thing is this week I overheard someone talking and this person was talking about poor people being richer than they were. This was a harsh thing, no one knows how hard another has it. They might have a nice car but are in hard times so to judge another by outward appearances is very unkind and unfair. There are people going to pantries that have nice cars. They could have been laid off, they could have medical bills, we don't know and it is very wrong. This has bothered me for days. So I say people are needing kindness more than ever right now. Let us be kind.
Missy says do the best that you can. Know we can't do everything. Give yourself some grace.
Tippy Longstockings says take time to rest things are hard right now and you need to take care of yourself too.
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