Monday Message

"Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through the home production and storage, but others as well." (President Ezra Taft Benson)

We need to keep working on our storages and we need to keep working on skills and frugality.

If you have a yard you own, think about planting fruit trees, berry bushes, rhubarb, asparagus, strawberries, blueberries and other things that come back on their own year after year.

It will take a couple years but you will have food from these things.

And if you can't plant, it's okay! Just get your food in the store for storage, no shame in that at all.

I think prices will be continuing to rise and we need to prepare for it by learning frugal ways around the things we currently have done. These are different times but we can do it!

Today, I made bread using the sourdough discard - get the recipe HERE.

I just made the bread from the booklet and tossed in about a cup of the sourdough in the water and stirred before adding the homemade mix from the booklet.

This makes us a loaf of bread and four cinnamon rolls - works great for us! Today I did the bread in the tube pan.

I spray the tube and sprinkle cornmeal, then the bread has cornmeal all around it. 

I once had round bread toasted at the Amanas. It was so good so when I saw these tube pans at yard sales, I snatched them up.

Well spring is here and so are the storms. This was our first tornado warning for the year and it was scary! It went right over our tiny town but better over than through.

We go to the basement and put on hard hats - not fun, in case you were wondering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHOLrIhbqYM - this gal does lots of research and tells us what to expect. I don't want you to be scared but no matter where you live in the world, this is something to encourage us to prepare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHLJ1UqTHjo 

We need to find work-arounds. We can do hard things - we really can do it. Share your frugal ideas below.

Missy says do what you can to prepare for harder times, you can do it!

Tippy Longstockings says we can do hard things but then we need to REST!