tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15418839660128363002026-04-04T11:44:36.496-07:00Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and live in the present. A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step, so watch your step. -Thomas S. MonsonAnnie-Savor This Momenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06438377679929492575noreply@blogger.comBlogger382125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541883966012836300.post-35100777580768332012014-03-08T04:00:00.000-08:002014-03-08T04:00:02.048-08:00

I am off to the Sacramento Temple today for my Weekend Inspiration.  It has been a week full of colds and sore throats, softball and little league (with two tournament games scheduled today, no less), and work and dishes and laundry, oh my!  But I love jumping onto this computer contraption for a little bit of inspiration almost every day.  I'll leave you with some of the lovely

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This is by no means a deals/reviews/contest/freebies site, but I like to win things, and get a good deal.  A few contests and freebies around the web I saw today: Craftaholics Anonymous is giving away a cool WorkTop from the Original Scrapbox.  She's also got tons of organization advice going on this week.   Mother Earth News is offering the Wiser Living and

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With me, and with the rest of the family too, out of sight is out of mind.  I need to have something in front of me to remember what I'm doing or what I need to do.  We've been talking about goals and new year's resolutions, including making some individual and family goals, and I wanted to have something front and almost center to give us some encouragement and to keep us thinking

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Our meal plan this week will depend heavily on crockpot meals and meals that I've prepared ahead.  We did a family grocery shopping trip to last us for 2 weeks.  It's sometimes frustrating to shop with the kids and the husband, but it is also good for them to know the cost of what they eat and how to get the most bang for your buck.  I use some coupons and have a list that

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One way I keep my spending on decorating and crafting in check is by taking what I have already and using it in a way that helps me stay organized.  I have an old china cabinet that is kind of shabby chic-ish, and in our old house I had dishes in it, including our everyday dishes because we had a limited amount of cupboard space in our kitchen.  And it made setting the table

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My niece has been here visiting for the past 3 weeks and is going home soon.  It's been fun having her here, even if we didn't do anything great or crazy.  The girls drug out the scrapbooks last week and had a fun time reminiscing about the old days.  Really, they talked about how everyone looked in the pictures, but it reminded me of why I scrapbook in the first place.  I

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I'm loving my pinterest "All Things Food" board, and I'm constantly pinning new recipes.  Check out my 485 (and counting) pins, and follow my board if you'd like! Chicken Ragout New recipe to try, but it looked yummy.  I'm going to use chicken leg quarters with this. Baked Tacos These I made on the same day as the lasagna and baked penne, along with some burritos that I put in

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Resolutions are a strange thing.  The new year feels full of promise and hope, but for me it seems like most things are left undone, hanging, incomplete.   I realize it is a process, but most of the time my resolutions are way too grand in scale for me to accomplish, like the losing 10 pounds in 6 weeks of 2012 failure.   Or a procrastination so long that I didn't even set

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Pinterest is so useful when trying to put together ideas for a project.  Like a total-DIY-bedroom-makeover-on-a-budget for the newly turned 15-year-old girl in the family. She's been needing a comprehensive re-do. The plan is: keep the furniture and paint all of it, each piece a different color! find a nightstand at a local thrift store or garage sale look for some fabric or sheets to

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***This is a continuation of my 31 Days of Preparing Properly series*** When I was just a young, newly-married bride with stars in my eyes, I went on a grocery shopping trip, which included buying a 5 pound bag of flour.  After coming home to put my groceries away, I noticed some teeny tine little bugs around the flap of the bag.  I carefully opened the bag up to find the flour

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The last couple of years I have had a "one little word" that I wanted to focus on for the year.  I think about a new one periodically, and Ali Edwards has a blogpost with a list of suggestions,  but the way I seem to choose my word is by evaluating where I am and where I want to be.   Last year's word was THRIVE.  Love it, and even though I don't feel like I "

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Once again we are at the bittersweet time of year, when the yearly odometer flips its number and 2012 becomes 2013.   I like to have a theme for my new year.  I'm nerdy like that.  My word for last year was THRIVE.  I love that word.  It makes me think of growing and fulfilling my destiny, and other such amazing things.  I'm not sure if I "thrived" this year {

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A new year means new goals, which of course include getting organized.  Organization with meals is something I'm always working toward, especially since everyone wants to eat!  Every day!   Since I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to cook dinner every night, I've got the first couple weeks of menus made up, and even did some cooking for the freezer.  I also found

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You know how it goes when you have a garden; no matter how hard you try to stagger your planting, a glut of vegetables is always a problem.  Everything seems to be ripe at once, and doorbell ditching your neighbors with zucchini is one option, canning the excess veggies is another.   In a post the other day I shared on of my favorite new books, Canning for the Next

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After posting Day 11's Simple Menu  and thinking about my estimate for the groceries, I thought I'd take a look at what the groceries really are at my local Winco grocery store for that menu.  I have to say, I didn't do too badly!   Simple Menu Shopping List: Baking and dried goods 5 lb. bag flour for tortillas and bread  $1.89  1 box baking mix for pancakes,

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Books that I am LOVING: These are some books that I think anyone who is determined to be self-sufficient or even just dabble in self-reliant living should have on their bookshelf. I know this might sound funny, but The Little House Cookbook is one that I would love to have if I had to cook from scratch with only things I have/am raising/growing/foraging/hunting/fishing.  If

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Some helpful websites I have come across in my quest for becoming prepared: The Survival Mom has some great "getting started" type articles on her website.  She's pretty much a preparedness super hero! The ladies at Food Storage Made Easy have it down to a science.  Sign up for their newsletter and they'll send you checklists and baby steps.  Their 7 Day

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Cooking from scratch is a great way to use and rotate your short and mid-term storage, not to mention the money you will save from your grocery budget!  It also allows us to have some comfort foods using ingredients we have on hand.   I cook from scratch most of the time.  I also prefer to cook with produce that is in season, or use frozen or home canned/commercially canned

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Another good way of building a food storage one week at a time is to budget a certain amount of money and use that to buy foods exclusively for your food storage.  I saw this idea from BackwoodsHome WAY back when I was a newly-wed and saved the information that I printed.  His idea is to spend $10 a week on food storage, rolling any change into the next week.  The prices he

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How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.  And how do you store a year's worth of food and supplies?  For some of us the easiest way is by planning one week at a time.  It's hard for me to wrap my head around what I need to store for short-term, mid-term and long-term use.  I am by no means an expert, but I try to use common sense in getting food storage

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I find a LOT of things online to help get us prepared.  And online resources are great, but make sure if it is information you need in an emergency (maybe instructions on how to set up and use your emergency generator when the electricity is out) you have a hard copy printed out and put in a file.  I keep some of my food storage recipes, emergency instructions like how to construct

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A friend and I talked the other day about how busy we have both been.  Like really, really, busy.  We are not sure what we have been so busy with, but whatever it is we're doing, (all of those little things that add up into big things), is taking up a lot of time!  The problem is that I have a love/hate relationship with organization.  I love the idea of being

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Buying in bulk may not be for the faint of heart.  It takes work if you are really committed to getting the ultimate bang for your buck. Recently I was at the store with my list.  I needed some baking supplies.  I get all of my all-purpose flour at Costco:  25 pounds for around $7.    My basic bread recipe calls for 4 cups of flour, so at 112 cups/25 pound

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First of all, if you are reading this and might be wondering, I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  If you want to know the basics of what we are about you can check mormon.org for more information. Several years ago my parents built a large house with a concrete floor and no basement.  That wouldn't be in issue in some parts of our beautiful country,

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Instead of doing some blogging about preparing, how about a GIVEAWAY of some shopping and meal planning and budgeting helps?  I have two books and a shopping organizer up for grabs.   And a great budgeting and shopping list resource in the Shop-A-Long organizer by Jean Chatzky. Just leave me a comment here about anything; what your favorite color is, who you hope wins

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