Preparedness Class #1

Long time no sharing, sorry! Let's just jump right into it:

For those of you who couldn't attend the first Stake preparedness class here are the links to the information that was shared. It was a great class and I hope more of you can make it next time!

First I read this talk: "If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear"

Then we covered the first two classes from Food Storage Made Easy here, direct link to the class downloads.

The main questions we covered were:
Why do you think it’s important to have food storage?
Why do you think building a food storage can be so hard?
Why do you think it’s important to have a have a 3 Month Supply of food?
Why is planning your 3 month supply of food storage difficult?
When shopping for food storage, what are some of the things that frustrate you?
How many of you have had some food go bad because you don’t use it in time?

Also shared was Prepared LDS Family's 3 month food calculator, which I think gives a great example of a 3 month supply of food.

If your ward would like this presented again as a Relief Society class or perhaps a fifth Sunday lesson, I am willing to do it again.

The next class will be March 22nd on gardening.

Smiths Deals

There are some great deals at Smiths this week on candy, biscuits, mashed potatoes and free pasta.

Alpine Food Storage

Alpine Food Storage is a great site for longer term or bulk type food storage. Here is their info from their webpage: Alpine Food Storage aims to provide excellent service, helpful advice, and quality long-term and everyday bulk food products. We do our best to provide resources and products for groups, families, and individuals. Our rule-of-thumb is: "Eat what you store. Store what you eat." Our hope is to provide products, tools, and opportunities for our customers to do just that.

Rather than attempting to sell single-use, "now where did I put that" items, pre-manufactured kits, and supposed one-size-fits-all preparedness plans, we work with our customers to customize a plan and a routine that work for them -- one that can be implemented and utilized in everyday living.

Give us a try. We're confident that we can offer you a steady and sound resource for your food storage and food usage needs, which can be shaped to your current life's situation.
Our pricing is low. Our service is high. Hope springs eternal.

Food Storage Made Easy

I am super excited that Food Storage Made Easy will be coming to teach a class on "Building Your Three Month Supply" on April 29th, at 7pm at one of the buildings in our stake. Mark the date on your calendars and be thinking up your questions now.

Gardening

This is a great chart on when to plant your garden. We need to get started!!

Another Great Blu-Ray Combo Deal

Go here to see how to get Toy Story and Toy Story 2 for a great deal! We did this but instead of buying The Princess and the Frog we bought Ponyo. And you can only preorder thru Monday to get the extra money off another dvd but even just using the coupon once the movie comes out is still a great deal.

Huggies Coupon and Fun FREE Photo Offer

There is a new coupon here for $3 off any Huggies diaper product. (If you go to the household category it will be easier to find)

And go here to see how to get a cute photostrip shipped to you for free!

Smiths 03/17-03/23

There are some great prices this week at Smiths. Go here for the full list. I think these are all good to stock up on, they are all part of the March to Savings Promo Event where if you buy 8 items (included on the sale) you get $4 off. The prices in bold are what you would pay if your items are purchased in groups of 8, mix and matched from the sale.
　
American Beauty Pasta, 12-16 oz .49


Arrowhead Water, 24 pk 2.99 (and if you use this coupon: Arrowhead Water, 700 ml 6 pack free with purchase of two Arrowhead Spring water half liter 24 packs B2G1 Free Group A you could get all 3 items for 5.98)

Bumble Bee Tuna, 2.5 oz .49 (and use this coupon from the newspaper: Bumble Bee Premium Tuna Pouch, any 2.5 or 5.5 oz. .55/1 to get them for FREE)


Motts Apple Juice, 64 oz .99

Nabisco Snack Crackers, 5.5-10 oz 1.79 (and use this coupon from the newspaper: Nabisco Crackers, any 6oz.-16.5oz. $1/1 to get them for .79)

Powerade, 32 oz Limit 120 units per order and limited to quantity on hand .25

Kid's Clothes

This week Target has their Circo infants and toddlers tees and shorts on sale for $3 each. Their is a coupon here for $5 off a $30 purchase (look under kids spring savings) so you could get 10 items for $25 plus tax. If your kids are bigger their girls sizes 4-16 tees, scooters, leggings, and boys sizes 4-18 tees and shorts are on sale for $4 each.

And the 18th-21st if you want to shop at Gap, Gap Outlet, Gap Factory Store, The Gap Generation, Banana Republic, Banana Republic Factory Store and/or Old Navy there is a coupon for 30% off your purchase as part of their Friends and Family Sale. If you didn't get your own coupon you can contact me and I can email on to you.

The Princess and the Frog

Go here to see how to get The Princess and the Frog dvd for $.99 or the Blu-Ray/dvd combo for $6.99. We are buying the Blu-Ray versions as they are released because we know someday we will upgrade to that kind of player and then we will already have some of our movies paid for.