Thursday, October 28, 2010
CSN Stores Giveaway Winner
Congratulations to Sondra, the winner of the CSN Stores gift certificate giveaway! Happy shopping! :)
In other news, I've got quite a bit going with the garden cleanout, so am a little behind on posting. We have onions, potatoes, beets and squash living in the house with us until I can do something with them or find them a more permanent home in the food room. Like the house is not small enough already! Hopefully it is only temporary, right? Wish me luck finding room in the food room to store all the cold storables. Why don't I have a root cellar?
In other news, I've got quite a bit going with the garden cleanout, so am a little behind on posting. We have onions, potatoes, beets and squash living in the house with us until I can do something with them or find them a more permanent home in the food room. Like the house is not small enough already! Hopefully it is only temporary, right? Wish me luck finding room in the food room to store all the cold storables. Why don't I have a root cellar?
Monday, October 25, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Welcome Our New Advertiser: Freeze Dry Guy
Here's a quick shoutout to our new advertiser--The Freeze Dry Guy. Use the ad link on the sidebar to check out their selection of freeze dried and dehydrated foods as well as survival gear. They've even got food packs set up for special diets like vegetarian and gluten-free. I don't require gluten free foods, but I know if you do that can be a hard thing to work with when you're looking for long term food storage. I really want to express my appreciation to the companies that are willing to help the blog out by advertising here and would encourage you all to support them--especially with the holidays coming. I know I love some good preparedness gear under the tree, and I bet someone you love would also. So support our advertisers, they are awesome.
And don't forget to enter the giveaway from CSN Stores if you haven't already--it ends this coming Monday night. Have a great weekend everyone!
And don't forget to enter the giveaway from CSN Stores if you haven't already--it ends this coming Monday night. Have a great weekend everyone!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Fabulous Fruit Leather (Even if You Dry it Too Long)
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Giveaway from CSN Stores
CSN Stores recently contacted me about doing a giveaway for my readers, and you all know I love giving you free stuff, so of course I took them up on it. CSN Stores operate a number of online stores selling things from cookware to platform beds. Most of those platform beds, by the way, would be absolutely fabulous for stashing a whole lot of food storage under if you're pressed for space!
CSN Stores has generously offered to give one of my lucky readers a $75.00 gift certificate for use in any of their online stores! This could get you some Christmas shopping done or get you a sweet pressure cooker like this one or a food processor (I just bought one like this to replace my dangerous old one and love it) or even cover a good chunk of the cost of a pressure canner or a shop vac. Really, they have quite a variety of items available, so you'll probably be able to find something you need (or want). Like this super cute truck planter. Want.
Okay, for any of you new readers, here's how the giveaway works. You are welcome to leave a comment on this post, but it won't count toward the giveaway. :) To enter, you'll need to fill out the form.
For your first entry, put your name and email in the form. This is required for entry in the giveaway. If you don't want to put your real name in the name slot, I guess that's okay, put whatever you like to be called in that space. I need your email to contact you if you win. Your email won't go anywhere else. Promise.
Additional entries are available for the following:
1. Become a follower of Adventures in Self Reliance (you know my posts are worth reading!)
2. Follow Adventures in Self Reliance in a feed reader (or by email feed subscription)
3. Share this giveaway via a post on your blog (make sure to link to the giveaway and leave the link to your post in the form)
4. Twitter a link to this giveaway (include @momof3angels in your tweet and put your twitter username in the form)
5. "Like" Adventures in Self Reliance on Facebook (it used to be called "become a fan")
6. Share this giveaway by some other method like facebook or post it in a forum or email your friends--whatever you want to do works here.
The giveaway will end on Monday, October 25th at 11:59 pm Mountain Time and the winner will be contacted for their shipping information. If the winner does not respond within 3 days, we will choose another winner. Good luck!
CSN Stores has generously offered to give one of my lucky readers a $75.00 gift certificate for use in any of their online stores! This could get you some Christmas shopping done or get you a sweet pressure cooker like this one or a food processor (I just bought one like this to replace my dangerous old one and love it) or even cover a good chunk of the cost of a pressure canner or a shop vac. Really, they have quite a variety of items available, so you'll probably be able to find something you need (or want). Like this super cute truck planter. Want.
Okay, for any of you new readers, here's how the giveaway works. You are welcome to leave a comment on this post, but it won't count toward the giveaway. :) To enter, you'll need to fill out the form.
For your first entry, put your name and email in the form. This is required for entry in the giveaway. If you don't want to put your real name in the name slot, I guess that's okay, put whatever you like to be called in that space. I need your email to contact you if you win. Your email won't go anywhere else. Promise.
Additional entries are available for the following:
1. Become a follower of Adventures in Self Reliance (you know my posts are worth reading!)
2. Follow Adventures in Self Reliance in a feed reader (or by email feed subscription)
3. Share this giveaway via a post on your blog (make sure to link to the giveaway and leave the link to your post in the form)
4. Twitter a link to this giveaway (include @momof3angels in your tweet and put your twitter username in the form)
5. "Like" Adventures in Self Reliance on Facebook (it used to be called "become a fan")
6. Share this giveaway by some other method like facebook or post it in a forum or email your friends--whatever you want to do works here.
The giveaway will end on Monday, October 25th at 11:59 pm Mountain Time and the winner will be contacted for their shipping information. If the winner does not respond within 3 days, we will choose another winner. Good luck!
Friday, October 15, 2010
Get Something Done Contest Winners!
I wish I had prizes for all you ambitious souls who got something done in September! But you know you're all winners because you're that much more prepared, right? Seriously, you guys inspire me with the stuff you're getting accomplished. Keep up the good work! So here are the lucky winners of the contest.
Andrea won the Ball Blue Book for Canning and Preserving
TK and Dunappy won Brunton/Gerber Survival Combos
and Heidi won the 45 Piece Survival Kit
Congratulations! Your prizes will be in the mail soon. And for those of you who didn't win, hang tight, we've got another giveaway next week I think you'll enjoy. :) Have a great fall weekend!
Andrea won the Ball Blue Book for Canning and Preserving
TK and Dunappy won Brunton/Gerber Survival Combos
and Heidi won the 45 Piece Survival Kit
Congratulations! Your prizes will be in the mail soon. And for those of you who didn't win, hang tight, we've got another giveaway next week I think you'll enjoy. :) Have a great fall weekend!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Black Bean Salsa--One of My Favorite Harvest Time Recipes
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Fluorescent Light Induced Migraines and the FL-41 Tint
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
The Get Something Done Contest Part 2
Okay, September is over already. What happened to it anyway?
How did you do on your preparedness goals? Did you get something done? I'll have to be honest with you, I haven't gotten my boards on my shelves yet. We had a bunch of garden stuff that needed done, and the usual craziness combined with a spell of not feeling so well has really slowed me down the last couple of weeks. I've also started working a few hours at the school and taking sewing/alteration jobs that have killed some of my productivity but are adding a bit to the budget which never hurts.
So here's the deal. You all who committed to do something in the last post, let me know if you got something done in a comment on this post. I'll also need a way to contact you, so if your blogger profile doesn't have your email, just leave it in your comment somehow. I'm crafty enough to figure out the anti-spam coded emails like "joe at blahblah dot com" or whatever, so however you want to leave it is fine. I'll take comments on this post until this Saturday night, October 9th 11:59pm because I know not everyone checks this blog every day (and that also gives you procrastinators a few extra days to get your stuff finished!). Then I'll randomly choose winners for the very cool prizes and get you contacted.
Maybe I'll get those boards on yet, or maybe I'll just get the salsa and beets done and the bread made. We'll see how the week progresses. :)
How did you do on your preparedness goals? Did you get something done? I'll have to be honest with you, I haven't gotten my boards on my shelves yet. We had a bunch of garden stuff that needed done, and the usual craziness combined with a spell of not feeling so well has really slowed me down the last couple of weeks. I've also started working a few hours at the school and taking sewing/alteration jobs that have killed some of my productivity but are adding a bit to the budget which never hurts.
So here's the deal. You all who committed to do something in the last post, let me know if you got something done in a comment on this post. I'll also need a way to contact you, so if your blogger profile doesn't have your email, just leave it in your comment somehow. I'm crafty enough to figure out the anti-spam coded emails like "joe at blahblah dot com" or whatever, so however you want to leave it is fine. I'll take comments on this post until this Saturday night, October 9th 11:59pm because I know not everyone checks this blog every day (and that also gives you procrastinators a few extra days to get your stuff finished!). Then I'll randomly choose winners for the very cool prizes and get you contacted.
Maybe I'll get those boards on yet, or maybe I'll just get the salsa and beets done and the bread made. We'll see how the week progresses. :)
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