Product
Highlight of the Month: Victorio Steam
Juicer
This easy-to-use
machine is well worth the money if you plan on harvesting a lot of fruit,
especially grapes. The juice can then be
made into jelly if you want. Nectar is a thicker juice that can be made from
peaches or apricots. If you put apple
slices in the steamer you can get juice and then can the pulp left behind as
apple sauce. It is great for fruit that
may not look pretty enough to can as halves.
Remove any undesired spots after washing and make into juice instead. You
can also use it to juice tomatoes and other vegetables. It acts like a giant
double-boiler. Wash your fruit or
vegetables and remove any LARGE stems or other pieces that you do not want
juiced. Fill the basket with your fruit. Peels and seeds are fine to leave in. The steam from the bottom pan will break the
skins open. Wait a while and then
squeeze the clamp on the tube to release the juice straight into a clean, hot
jar. Put hot, prepared lid on and wait
for it to seal on its own. No mess and
it is super easy to use. You just keep
adding more fruit every-so-often to the basket to keep the process going. Do be sure to add more water to the bottom
pan about every 1 ½ hrs. At the end of the canning session, dump the garbage
left in the basket. This steam juicer
comes in two metals and price ranges.
The aluminum juicer is around $50-60.
The stainless steel costs quite a bit more. In Utah you can find it at IFA Country
Stores, Cal Ranch Stores and Macey’s as well as on-line.
Emergency
Water Storage Information
Water is the most important thing to
have in your food storage plan. People cannot live
without water for more than 3 days. Our
City Water supply is very vulnerable to sabotage and other problems with the
system. It is very easy to get started
on storing at least a small amount of water in your home. Do what you can, no matter where you
live. Here are a few things to remember
when storing water:
1) Each family should have a minimum of
2 gallons per person, per day. A Starting goal should be enough for 2 weeks.
2) If you are using City water, it has
been treated and does not need any other treatment if stored in a clean PETE
container. You may choose to add special
water treatment tablets or a few drops of chlorine if in doubt.
3) DO NOT store water in milk jugs. You may safely store water in re-used soda or
juice bottles. Look for the PETE symbol
on the bottom of the bottle. Just wash
them out first.
4) If using large plastic barrels, make
sure that they are NEW or have only been used for water, soda or other human
foods before. If you are not sure what
was stored in it before…do not use the water for drinking!
5) The darker the plastic bottle/barrel and
the darker the storage area, the less likely that algae will be able to grow in
the bottle during storage.
6) I personally like to have some of our
water in small bottles in case we have to evacuate. I like to have some of our water in the large
blue barrels in case there is a disruption in the water supply and we are at
home. Be sure to also have a pump made
to get the water out of the barrels!
7) To improve the taste of water that
has been stored, simply pour the water back and forth between 2 containers to
add oxygen. You can also add any
powdered flavoring.
8) There are many water storage
container options on the market. Do what
works for your family.
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| blue barrel and pump 30-55 gallon |
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| re-fill clean juice or soda bottles with water |
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| The Super Tanker water storage system |
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| 5 gallon water brick, stackable containers |
Vital Documents
Binder
Storing,
organizing and protecting your Vital Documents is one of the most important
things you should do for everyday and especially during an emergency. We have always kept these documents in a file
in a file cabinet but it was always an unorganized mess. It would take several minutes of digging
through all the papers just to find a child’s immunization record for scouts or
school, every year. We recently learned
of a new and easy way to keep them handy and organized. We simply created a 3-ring binder just for
these documents. Why did it take so long for us to do this? (Store where your family knows where it is,
but a burglar hopefully will not find it).
Some people choose to use a bright colored binder so it is easy to
find. You might choose to use a plain
colored one and hide it in plain sight instead. If you ever have to evacuate
your home be sure to take this with you.
If your home is destroyed, in most cases you must have the original
document and not a copy!
Items
needed:
1- 1 ½” or
larger 3 ring binder
sheet protectors
8 or more
divider tabs
Fill the
binder with the sheet protectors. Create
sections for each document that you do not want to lose. Suggested documents to keep in here are: Birth Certificates, Social Security Cards,
Marriage Certificate, Diplomas, Titles to homes and cars, insurance papers,
Powers of Attorney, Medical Advance Directives, immunization records, church
records, a color photo of each family member and a list of distinguishing marks
etc.
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