The Harried Homemaker Preps

I can't believe how quickly 2010 went by. I thought it would be interesting to evaluate my prepping progress over five areas. INFORMAT...

Month Seven: This month of my Prepping Plan featured a few bumps, namely on the grain mill front . I bought a lot of food storage-relate...

I have a cabinet in my kitchen where I store several different types of canned goods - diced tomatoes, canned soup, chicken broth, etc. It...

Merry Christmas to the few, the proud, the readers of my blog. :) (Merry Christmas to the Marines and the other branches of the service, too...

I don't have one of these. Grrr.... If you have been following my Prepping Plan , you might have noticed that I was planning on getti...

I've been making a lot of homemade pizza recently. Having lots of baking ingredients on hand really does inspire me to cook from scratch...

Honeyville Farms is giving away three combo packs of freeze-dried products: one fruit combo, one veggie combo, and one potato combo. In orde...

A Furby Do you remember the Furby? It was the hot toy of the Christmas of 1998. At that time, I was a newlywed, in college, and working p...

It's cheap, it's compact, and it's easy to store. You can buy a few boxes of the ingredients and have clean clothes for years.  ...

I did something recently that had intimidated me for the longest time: I canned chicken breast and ground beef. For some reason, canning mea...

Three months of meals from your pantry Food storage can seem really intimidating when you're getting started, especially if you start...

There have been several times that I have wished that I had a mini first aid kit with me. The instance I remember most vividly was the time ...

The stores are full of baking supplies at bargain prices. If you haven't done so already, why don't you pick up a few extra items? ...

You probably heard the news about the attempted bombing in Oregon . A Somali-born, naturalized US citizen named Mohamed Osman Mohamud plott...

Did you think this past month seemed to fly by? I can't believe November is already drawing to a close. I also am astonished that I'...

Image from yourfamilymoney.wordpress.com Do you follow The Survival Mom's blog? If so, you probably read her recent post called ...

Kendra at New Life on a Homestead is giving away a bunch of Tattler reusable canning lids. Haven't heard about Tattler lids? Well, read...

Moist and wonderful! It has a cake-like consistency. Warning: If you like your cornbread dry, gritty, and tasteless, this is not the reci...

I don't watch Glenn Beck regularly. My personal political beliefs are a curious mixture of moderate, libertarian, and (occasionally) apa...

This box of 200 gloves was $10.87 at Sam's Club People are quite blase about H1N1 these days, but do you remember the frenzy in 2009?...

I've been waiting for this day for a long time. I've made bread since I was a teenager, but this is a definite first - 100% whole wh...