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Earthling
02-20-2009, 11:03 AM
Wendy DeWitt gives seminars on food storage that appear to be excellent. There are videos of her presentation:

The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGaTlwYs-s

see more of her presentation by putting after youtube.com the following: watch?v=HhGaTlwYs-s
If I put it together it just links to part 1 and there are 9 videos in the complete presentation.

in her video she says you can freely share this file (attached)

in her blog she says her talk will be on BYU TV:
http://www.everythingunderthesunblog.blogspot.com/\

she also did this:

Wendy Dewitt's top 10 reasons "Why I Don't Have my Food Storage"

10. My neighbors have a TWO year supply! No, they don't. They don't have any food. Did you know that 85% of the members of the church don't have any food storage at all? If your idea of food storage is to eat someone else’s food………..this is a really bad plan.

9. I've paid tithing for 20 years...the church can give me a little food. Many members believe that when the times get hard, the church is going to come through like Joseph in Egypt. Absolutely not true. All the church storehouses and welfare farms across the country would only feed 4% of the members of the church. The church has been asking YOU to store food for 75 years. They're NOT storing food for you. Thus, another bad plan.

8. I'm moving in with my children / parents! Really....that’s just a bad plan all by itself. But it points out that most members don't have a year's supply because they're PLANNING on eating someone else's food! Of course, since no one HAS any food, we have yet another bad plan.

7. I have a year's supply...and the bullets to go with it! I've heard time and again, "How dumb is that to go to all the time and expense of getting food...just to have some guy with a gun come and shoot my family to take it away?" Here's a better question. Are you afraid of the guy with the gun? Or are you more afraid of BECOMING the guy with the gun? What would you do if your children were starving to death? Would you lie? Cheat? Steal? Would you shoot your neighbor for his food? I guarantee....if you were watching your child starving to death, you would do anything you had to to keep them alive. If you don't have your year's supply, you are putting yourself in danger of losing not only your temporal salvation, but your spiritual salvation as well.

So far, all the reasons we don't have our food storage involve eating someone else's food. Please, don't put your family's temporal salvation in other people's hands. No one is storing food for you. Not your neighbors, not the government...not even the church.

#6. The boat and the 4 wheelers are taking up all my storage space! (priorities!)

#5. 3 letters....Y2K. Ok, that's 2 letters and a number....but they're always making way too much out of everything! This is never going to happen!” (Every prophecy that has ever been given WILL happen.)

#4. If anything DOES happen, the government will be here within hours! (insert laughter) Did you know the government has been telling us that we need to have food storage? They're actually CALLING it food storage! We now have the government telling us to store food, water, medicines...whatever we will need to be able to stay in our homes for several months.

#3. I can't afford scrap booking AND food storage. The average food storage can cost as little as a dollar a day. We live in the richest society in the history of the world, and while there are cases where money may be a problem, most of the time it is a matter of priorities. We have chosen bigger homes, nicer cars, more tv's, computers, vacations ...everything is more important than our food storage. If I asked, "Who has a cell phone?" most of you would say yes. You pay at least $30 a month to have a cell phone....that's about a dollar a day...the cost of one year's supply of food for your child. Is your cell phone really more important than your child's temporal salvation? You have to make food storage a priority.

2. I'm waiting for the cannery to sell Papa John's dehydrated pizza! Food storage has always had a stigma attached to it. If it's not wheat, beans and powdered milk, it's not food storage. With the system I use, food storage can be sweet and sour chicken, tamale pie, chile and cornbread, beef stew, shepherd's pie, minestrone...even chocolate chip cookies! Your imagination (and your pocketbook) are the only limitations you have.

And the #1 reason why I don't have my year's supply of food? A year?? I thought it was 72 hours!!

You KNOW you should have your food storage. You WANT to have it, but it can be so overwhelming! How much do I buy? Where do I store it? How do I cook it? It seems like an impossible task.... but it's not. It doesn't matter if you use my system or just start buying extra food, the important thing is to do something. Good luck in your efforts! Wendy DeWitt

Julie
02-20-2009, 11:10 AM
Great post. Thanks

arbilad
02-20-2009, 11:30 AM
I do disagree with one part - the one that you can store fun stuff instead of the very basics - wheat, beans, etc. Part of the counsel of the prophets has been to store the absolute basics necessary to sustain life, and then we can add the fun stuff after we have the absolute basics. I don't know about the rest of you, but there is no way with my budget that I'd have a year's supply of food if I had been focusing on anything other than the very basics.

Aldon
02-20-2009, 12:26 PM
I would agree as long as we can add butter and chocolate to the list of basics:)

North_Star
02-20-2009, 01:16 PM
and ice cream.

I would agree as long as we can add butter and chocolate to the list of basics:)

phylm
02-20-2009, 08:40 PM
I picked up a DVD of one of Wendy's prep seminars at our church cannery a couple of weeks ago. It is about 1 and 1/2 hours long and worth every minute spent watching it. My none-member cousin-in-law was with me, picking up his bulk order of basics, and he nagged me for 2 days afterward until I went up to his house where we all could view it together. He was so impressed that he dug out their vacuum sealer and started to put up jars of dry foods. And, after watching the DVD, he is now going to start canning meat. He told my husband the next day that they have been waiting for us to be poisoned by our canned meat! --Talk about a prophet being scorned in his own country!!!!

Toni
02-24-2009, 10:54 AM
and ice cream.

As part of a home school project a few years ago, we ordered some freeze-dried food "like the astronauts had." One of those items was freeze-dried ice cream. I think it was an ice cream sandwich. It wasn't cold :l0 (43): but it wasn't too bad.

signseeker
02-24-2009, 12:02 PM
Anyone ever had goat milk ice cream?

I've had potato ice cream from... wait for it.... Idaho!!

Toni
02-24-2009, 12:06 PM
No, but I could have if I'd thought about it and made it, way back when we had goats.

Potato ice cream. Hmm. Got a recipe for that?

signseeker
02-24-2009, 12:08 PM
I don't have a recipe. I had it at a State Fair and it was amazingly good. Not kidding.

Toni
02-24-2009, 12:10 PM
Cool! I'd like to try that sometime. I wonder where I could get it? I know, internet search.

Julie
03-10-2009, 09:08 AM
This is a copy of Wendy's handout that you can print up.

http://ourldsfamily.com/MadsenGarden/EverythingUnderTheSun.pdf

I am in the process of downloading her fireside she gave that is 1 1/2 hrs long. I am anxious to watch it. I have been very impressed with her youtubes.
http://theideadoor.com/Preparedness/Food%20Storage/Wendy%20DeWitt/Food%20Storage.html

Julie
03-10-2009, 09:16 AM
Wendy's way to store water barrels.
http://theideadoor.com/Preparedness/Water%20Barrels.pdf