Emergency Preparedness

The great tragedy in Japan has given us each extra incentive to take a personal & famiy inventory. How is your family doing with emergency preparation?

At lds.org it states:

Family Emergency Planning

Church members are encouraged to prepare a simple emergency plan. Items to consider may include:

Three-month supply of food that is part of your normal daily diet.
Drinking water.
Financial reserves.
Longer-term supply of basic food items.
Medication and first aid supplies.
Clothing and bedding.
Important documents.
Ways to communicate with family following a disaster.

Lds.org

You may want to check out the product recommendations on the new lds.org website. The link is here. You may notice that the first two long term storage items that they list are grains and legumes. Those are followed by this quote:

You may also want to add other items to your longer-term storage such as sugar, nonfat dry milk, salt, baking soda, and cooking oil. To meet nutritional needs, also store foods containing Vitamin C and other essential nutrients.



There are many websites and philosophies of "experts" giving you a large list of items that "you should store" --- but I feel that there is safety in following the modern day prophets and what they recommend. Prayerfully consider the many quotes found on lds.org about why the prophets recommend wheat and the importance of purchasing basics first- then when you have those basics feel free to add other items to your long term storage.

Wonderful Water Filter Bottles

After our stake women's conference many of you were interested in the water bottle that filters out impurities. You can find it here. Remember to store water with your water bottles so that you will have something to filter :0)

Some of you are STILL waiting for me to email out the handout- sorry I've been so slow- after spring break I hope to be able to catch up on a few things. Thanks for your patience!

Why Store Grains and Legumes?

Mormon Times has an article today about four reasons for storing grains and legumes in our long term food storage- she missed the main reason though- the main reason we should store grains (especially wheat) and legumes is because that is what our modern day prophets have asked us to do :0)