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Hi,
Where do you get your essential oils and herbs from? I have been reading posts on the ldsfreedomforum for a couple of weeks now as well as your blog and would like some quality sites to purchase herbs and oils from. Thanks!
Brooke
A great company for quality organic herbs is Mountain Rose Herbs in Oregon.
mountainroseherbs.com
I’ll check them out, Becky. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hi Brooke,
Several weeks ago I ordered a 32 page guide book Kellene wrote. It’s for Be Young essential oils which I’m looking to buy once I read a bit more throughly which essential oils my family and I would most benefit from. For whoever is interested, here’s a recent article by Kellene I found helpful before purchasing the book, which by the way is an easy read.
http://preparednesspro.com/the-constituents-of-essential-oils/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:PreparednessProBlogPreparednessProBlog&utm_content=FeedBurner
Whoa! That’s a long link! Anywho, the article was written September 16, 2011. Hope this helps.
Nancy, I’d be happy to personally help you better determine which products would be helpful for your situation. Just use the contact us feature to drop me a line.
Kellene
ror those of us that don’t live in the area that you do your presentation, how can I get the information that you do present? I am the Provident Living specialist in our ward and want to provide to my ward what you are presenting….can you help?
Kellene, I have been reading your blog for about six months now and it has become very important to me. Since I have started reading I have made a serious effort to get into shape, I now work out more than an hour a day and am doing my best to improve my health and stamina. I am also working on my food storage on a weekly basis and am becoming more aware of what’s going on around me and what I need to be prepared for. I just wanted to mention a few things. Watch I Survived on the Biography channel on Sun nights, It’s a real incentive to get prepared, especially the ones when someone wakes up to find a man standing by their bed with a weapon, the one where a train derailed and there was a chlorine spill, and the one where a woman was attacked by a man who was hiding in their attic for days! A good source for discount and closeout books on all subjects is Edward R Hamilton, Bookseller for the best deals. Also, a brick oven in the yard is a great source for cooking and baking using very little wood. We are going to make one in our yard this summer. A solar oven wouldn’t work very often here in Wisconsin.
Mary, thanks a bundle for your comments! I just tried to TIVO the show you suggested and it doesn’t show up…darn it. I’ll have to see if I can find episodes on line or on Netflix. It sounds TOTALLY interesting to me. Thanks also for the bookseller lead. I’m definitely a book addict! Good luck with the brick oven. Your foods are going to taste SO good that way. But you’ll have to store plenty of fuel too! Keep up the good work with the physical fitness!!!! You rock!!!
Great information, thank you very much.
Rob
On a different subject (comments are closed everywhere else I look), have you done any articles about keeping flour and grain pests from taking over stored foods when bought in large quantities? I searched your website but couldn’t find anything on this subject. I’m told they can come sealed in the packages.
Love your articles. They’re very informative, enjoyable and well written.
Pat
Do a search for any articles written about Diatomaceous Earth. There are three articles I believe and they all deal with exactly that issue. (Weird. None of our articles should be closed for commenting except to specific persons who have caused trouble in the past.)
Have a happy new year!
Am looking forward to partaking of preparations along with others. Just found this site.
Welcome, Peggy!!
I have a question..sometimes its very confusing as to how long those #10 cans can really be stored for. Everything I have read about flour says that it can only be stored for a year or so. Not sure whom you would really ask how would one actually contact Mountain House–Provident or any of the others to get a real answer. I would like to store a good amount flour away.
Tom Dawley
Flour isn’t a wise item to store as it loses it’s nutrition value by the day. You’ll be more self-reliant if you have a hand grinder and whole grains.
Great positive thinking read. A great message. It gave me that little push i needed today to crank up that dehydrator and get moving.
Thank you…wonderful information.
This is a tad off topic, but I wanted to congratulate you on your segment on Doomsday Preppers. I really enjoyed the show. Thanks for the egg advise too.
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Glad you liked it
I like watching you National Geo. I was wondering how cool the house would need to be for egg storing. You said cool and dry. Our home is usually at 71*. Is that cool enough or were you thinking basement or cellar?
@DuJuan 68 or cooler.
Saw you on Preppers & enjoyed! Are there other foods that can be preserved in cheese wax? Can the wax be reused?
I really enjoyed watching your segment on NatGeo. My partner and I are just now getting into survival preparation and being a lot more self sufficient. We really found your segment to be extremely helpful and brought to light some things we hadnt necessarily considered preparing yet. Thank you!!
@GI Jane So glad you found something useful!! Really, really am. It makes it all worthwhile.
Thanks for all the great tips on NatGeo. I was going through my barn last night and found 2 sealed containers that I had somehow missed. One has rice in it and one has cornmeal. The containers had originally been stored in a freezer for about 4 years, now at room temp for 8 years. The contents looked and smelled fine. The cornmeal even tasted ok. But both containers and contents are over 12 years old. The dates on them were 12/00. Will they be ok to eat now? If not could I use them as preserving material to layer and store my eggs?
@Reprepper You’ll need to use them now that they are open, but sealed #10 cans of grains typically last for 20-30 years. You’ll have about a year before they go bad now that you’ve opened them.
Just wanted to say that ever since the show aired I’ve become a prepper! I’m from NY and I wanted to thank you for opening up your lifestyle and beliefs with the world!
@BuddyNSelly Great! I’ll be in NYC tomorrow as a matter of fact to do the Anderson Cooper 360 show–that is so long as the TSA doesn’t do a “grope.” No groping zone here.
@Preparedness Pro – Kellene Bishop That’s awesome! Goodluck and hopefully TSA has gotten the picture by now with all these law suits they’ve gotten!
Do you have an inventory list you follow?
I get mine from Young Living. But I also have no problem getting them from Whole Foods, Trader Joes, or other like health food stores. I like to get the homeopathic sublingual pills made by Boire too. The selection that this line has is AMAZING.