iPrepared's Informational Links

How-To:
Apple Box Oven (instructions by Safely Gathered In)
Food Storage on $10 a Week
Make Bread in an Emergency

Information:
Emergency Essentials - Preparedness Articles
FEMA
RED CROSS: Home Preparedness
USU Extension: Food Storage
Utah Extension Disaster Education Network

Also see:
Provident Living Links

iPrepared's Family Home Evening Lesson Links

From The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
*Finance - 4 lessons for varying ages
*Home Storage - 3 lessons for different ages
*Preparedness Activities - 12 activities for teaching preparedness skills in FHE
*Self Reliance - 2 lessons for older children

From iPrepared:
*Earthquake Scenario

From Safely Gathered In:
*Ready To Go
*It Wasn't Raining When Noah Built the Ark
*Emergency Plans
*Emergency Preparedness

From Let Us Prepare:
*Power in Preparedness (1) - 4 lessons
*Power in Preparedness (2) - 4 more lessons

From LDS Living Magazine:
*Preparedness

Provident Living Links

Home Storage:
All Is Safely Gathered In: Family Home Storage
Basic Recipes
Family Home Storage
Food Storage Calculator
Product Recommendations

Home Storage Centers:
Home Storage Center Order Forms
Home Storage Centers
Home Storage Online Sales

Storage Container/Location Recommendations:
Foil Pouches
Longer-Term Storage #10 Cans
Longer-Term Storage Shelf Lives
Oxygen Absorbers
Packing Recommendations
PETE Bottles
Plastic Buckets - Dry Ice Treatment
Storage Conditions
Water Storage Guidelines

Emergency Planning:
Emergency Communications
Family Emergency Planning
Pandemic Preparedness Planning
Ward & Stake Emergency Plans

Finances:
All Is Safely Gathered In: Family Finances
Family Finances

iPrepared's Blog Links:

Everyday Food Storage
Food Storage. Alright, Let's Begin.
Food Storage and Preservation (Filling Your Ark)
Food Storage - A Necessary Adventure
Food Storage and Survival
Food Storage Made Easy
Food Storage Plus
Journey to Preparedness
My Food Storage Deals
My Square Foot Garden
Pleasant Grove, Utah Stake - Emergency Prep
Prepared LDS Family
Preparedness Brings Peace
Preparedness Matters
Preparedness Pro
Safely Gathered In
Sisters Always Simplifying
Survivor's Fortress
Totally Ready
Utah Preppers
These links are intended to be sites that discuss home food storage and general preparedness. If I've missed your blog please let me know. Two requests: Please only recommend active blogs (i.e. published posts in the past month). Also, I would prefer to not list business sites unless there is an active blog separate from the product sales. I will delete business listings from the comments.

Inclusion on this list is not intended to be an endorsement by iPrepared. There are many sensibilities when it comes to home-storage, self-reliance and preparedness and these blogs span the divide. You may find an approach that motivates you or provides information to help you in your quest for preparedness. Disclaimer - you may also find inaccurate information on these blogs. It is always wise to find multiple, valid sources to verify information.

recipes

I currently have about 9 to 12 months' worth of longer-term storage. I'm familiar with many of the products I've stored and I use them somewhat regularly in my day-to-day cooking. There are a few, however, that I am not as familiar with. I usually choose canned beans instead of using my dried beans. And I feel like I have a lot to learn when it comes to using cornmeal and sprouting wheat. Because I have the food stored, I feel like we would be okay in an emergency. But I would like to have more experience with these products before I might need to use them under more serious circumstances.

So, I've started collecting recipes that use the grains and legumes that I've stored. I try to experiment and practice using these recipes so I can gain a familiarity working with legumes and grains. My goal is definitely a work in progress. I might make one new recipe a month or try a new technique here and there. Hopefully, over time, I'll also have the added advantage of slowly rotating through my longer-term supply.

Below, I've included some links that are great resources for longer-term supply recipes and techniques. I want to emphasize that your three-month storage should be made up of meals that you normally eat. So, these recipes are more for experimentation and use of longer-term food supplies - not three-month supply foods.

Longer-Term Storage Recipe Resources:
All Is Safely Gathered In - Intermittent recipes both for three-month supply and longer-term supply.

Basic Recipes - From Provident Living (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

beprepared Recipes - beprepared.com (huge database of recipes - just click on category and go)

Emergency Bread - Suggestions for cooking bread in an emergency.

Everyday Food Storage - Fantastic Food Storage Recipe Blog. She includes pictures and videos.

Food Storage Recipes - Compiled by a Stake Food Storage Specialist.

More Recipes - Source unknown

Preparedness Brings Peace - An assortment of recipes and preservation techniques (3-month)

South Jordan River Stake Cookbook - featured by Preparedness Brings Peace

Using Food Storage - More from Provident Living

NEW GOAL: Find a recipe or new technique and try it in the next few months!

Found a great food storage recipe site? Let me know! I'll add it to this list.