Greetings my friends,
Today I was unbelievably appalled!I was checking out other food storage meals and kits and found that one was actually selling a bucket of primarily oatmeal and instant potatoes plus mac and cheese and a "Beef" Flavored veggie stew....Really? What was a bummer to me is no one could get much nutrition from just that!!!! And I have talked to a number of people who have actually bought this thinking they wont need anything else!!!!!
PLEASE, when buying for your emergency food storage read what it has exactly! Dont be fooled!
well, thats my rant and rave for today!
peace, Sherry
Friday, April 26, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
California "Dreamin" This and That!
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| My daughter Shannon and I! Cruisin in the VW On a BEAUTIFUL California day! Hi all! Thought I'd just ramble today if you dont mind! It's a beautiful day her in Southern Cali! The sky is blue and the flowers are all in bloom, cant think of a place I'd rather be today! Was looking around my food storage and found that I'm lacking in quite a few things! We have been using our food storage regularly and haven't re stocked!!! I need to do this as soon as I can! One thing I do know is our water supply has become quite impressive! Which I hope each of you are storing water as well! Im so thankful for the fact that we do have these things on hand! It's far better to "shop" at home than going to the store! LOL! Especially since money has been a little tight this past month! But we havent gone with out much since we have it already!!! I again urge you to put something aside each time you go shopping! Pick up an extra can or package of something you may already have to purchase and put it in your pantry! Looking forward to growing tomatoes this season! Hopefully we will have our hydroponics set up soon! I want to start canning again! I still dehydrate constantly!!!!! It is awesome to have everything on hand to make a great soup! ALSO thinking about making dehydrated meals for cats and dogs! All natural ingredients! And will store for up to ten years!!! LOL! Well what can I say! Always thinking! LOL! Is anyone else concerned about North Korea? Living where we do just makes me think we need even more items for our emergency kit! Like iodine tablets...Theres a nuclear reactor not far from our home...Its not up and running right now but still concerns me! Did you know that Seaweed is a GREAT source of iodine? AND tastes good and is fairly inexpensive! Something to ponder...... My prayers are with Boston...I cant even imagine having something like that happen to you or your city! Our world we live in is so so scary these days.....And it just goes to show us we live with a false security living here in the US. That things like this and 9-11 can and did happen to us here! Well, I know I rattled on and hopped from one thing to another! But I wanted to make sure I jotted down something while I had a break in working! PLEASE! Be kind to one another.... Pray for all.... Prepare as you can.... Help others.... Plant some veggies... Put aside some water...... Share information with others.... Gather How to books.... Share this Blog! :) Have a most wonderful day! Peace, Sherry |
Well, We've Finally Have things going as they should! :)
Well, what a process! I had very little idea this whole process in packaging and manufacturing dehydrated food was so involved! LOL! Could even say I was CLUELESS! Hahahaha!
But after ALOT of hard work and perseverance we have gone to the next level!
Our Web site is looking really good with all its new product photos...The products all have nutrition labels AND we are in 3 stores as of yesterday! Whew! I can almost sit back and breath now!
If you think you may want to try a sample of our product, please Email me at :simplysurvivingtoday@gmail.com give me your address, name and a short note on which products you would be interested in. I will be more than happy to send out 1-4 samples to each address.
I'm sure when you try it you'll agree its Tasty! :)
Also at this time I may pull back the reigns and just offer 12 items as well as our "Mix-Ins"which total 4 different dip mixes. Then adding the other products a little at a time. This has been so overwhelming at times! Never in my dreams did I think at this stage of my life I would be starting YET another business! I should start thinking more in the lines of retiring! LOL! Oh well, Hard work keeps you young OR puts you in the grave! havent quite decided on that one yet!LOL!
Hope everyone is doing well!
Peace, Sherry
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Fish Tacos anyone???
Greetings my friends!
Well, This past Wednesday we were "gifted" with a bunch of Talapia.. Unfortunately The circumstances that made them available wasn't so nice. Someone apparently went to our friends place of business and cut thru the chain link fence, cut into the pipes that were to the filter system to the tank that his Talapia were in and stopped the flow of water/oxygen. Very sad to say the least!.
I find it so disturbing that people have to be so malicious...But hey, that's the world we live in unfortunately.
Anyways, Bill filet-ed the fish for a few hours and then we made some fish tacos that next evening...I have to say, there is something that just dosent compare with a fish that has been raised on all natural feed as well as fresh veggies! The fish was awesome! We are looking even more forward to when our fish are ready for harvesting!
We just put another few males in the pond, and by the looks of it they are doing well! There is still one male in with about 7 females in our big tank...We hope to get another bunch of babies before we transfer them outside into the pond too!
As far as the "Nursery" we are down to only 12 babies left at this time...Makes me sad but cant imagine having 200 more fish! I would be able to feed everyone I know and then some! LOL!!!!!
So, thats the "Haps" with the fish for now!
Peace!
Sherry
Well, This past Wednesday we were "gifted" with a bunch of Talapia.. Unfortunately The circumstances that made them available wasn't so nice. Someone apparently went to our friends place of business and cut thru the chain link fence, cut into the pipes that were to the filter system to the tank that his Talapia were in and stopped the flow of water/oxygen. Very sad to say the least!.
I find it so disturbing that people have to be so malicious...But hey, that's the world we live in unfortunately.
Anyways, Bill filet-ed the fish for a few hours and then we made some fish tacos that next evening...I have to say, there is something that just dosent compare with a fish that has been raised on all natural feed as well as fresh veggies! The fish was awesome! We are looking even more forward to when our fish are ready for harvesting!
We just put another few males in the pond, and by the looks of it they are doing well! There is still one male in with about 7 females in our big tank...We hope to get another bunch of babies before we transfer them outside into the pond too!
As far as the "Nursery" we are down to only 12 babies left at this time...Makes me sad but cant imagine having 200 more fish! I would be able to feed everyone I know and then some! LOL!!!!!
So, thats the "Haps" with the fish for now!
Peace!
Sherry
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Update on the fish farm experiment!
Greetings all!
Well, it's finally warm enough here so we put 4 of our male Talapia into the pond and after 3 days they are still alive and swimming! Good thing! These guys are over 7 inches long and will just continue to grow like crazy being in the big pond!
On a sadder note tho, I decided to put 2 of the babies, now about 2 inches long in the large tank with the rest of our fish...They seemed to be doing well for most part of the day but after coming home from the market I had noticed that they were half eaten :( NOT making me very happy! BUT I do know now that They will have to stay in the nursery aquarium until we take the rest of the bigger fish outside to the pond....
So, They will have to wait to be transferred until that time.
We have 6 large males and 6 females and are hoping to have another clutch (?) of new babies soon! I have no idea what you would call the new "Fry". The rest of the larger ones will be a great dinner size by the Fall when we have decided to harvest them!
Still trying to get it together for the Hydoponics part. I know we will need to get it up and running soon! Would like to plant and start some of the seeds I got for Organic Bell Peppers! Im excited! I have orange, yellow, red and green! That will be a great start for our Hydoponics garden! And of course LOTS of heirloom tomatoes!
Well, Just wanted to give you an update! Hope all is well with you and yours!
Plant a garden or at least a pot or two of tomatoes!
Collect dry goods and canned items for your pantry and above all........PUT aside water!!!!
peace!
Sherry
Well, it's finally warm enough here so we put 4 of our male Talapia into the pond and after 3 days they are still alive and swimming! Good thing! These guys are over 7 inches long and will just continue to grow like crazy being in the big pond!
On a sadder note tho, I decided to put 2 of the babies, now about 2 inches long in the large tank with the rest of our fish...They seemed to be doing well for most part of the day but after coming home from the market I had noticed that they were half eaten :( NOT making me very happy! BUT I do know now that They will have to stay in the nursery aquarium until we take the rest of the bigger fish outside to the pond....
So, They will have to wait to be transferred until that time.
We have 6 large males and 6 females and are hoping to have another clutch (?) of new babies soon! I have no idea what you would call the new "Fry". The rest of the larger ones will be a great dinner size by the Fall when we have decided to harvest them!
Still trying to get it together for the Hydoponics part. I know we will need to get it up and running soon! Would like to plant and start some of the seeds I got for Organic Bell Peppers! Im excited! I have orange, yellow, red and green! That will be a great start for our Hydoponics garden! And of course LOTS of heirloom tomatoes!
Well, Just wanted to give you an update! Hope all is well with you and yours!
Plant a garden or at least a pot or two of tomatoes!
Collect dry goods and canned items for your pantry and above all........PUT aside water!!!!
peace!
Sherry
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Thank YOU for sharing our blog!
Hello!
Well, We have just passed 3000! Thanks to you and all our wonderful friends and readers we have made big strides in sharing emergency preparedness!
Thanks again!
Sherry
Well, We have just passed 3000! Thanks to you and all our wonderful friends and readers we have made big strides in sharing emergency preparedness!
Thanks again!
Sherry
We "Simply Surviving Today" dehydrated foods WON the taste test!
Greetings my friends,
Wanted to share a "Sister bloggers Blog"!!! It's called "Betty B Ready" It's Betty B Ready @blogspot. We were asked if we would like to participate in a blind taste test at one of our favorite preparedness stores here in San Diego County. We of course said "YES!" and brought several samples for them to try. I was very curious to find out how our food stacked up to the BIG names and was willing to take the chance! I too have had a few of the big guys products and can honestly say I wasn't impressed! In fact that's exactly why I created my own recipes and meals!!!!
ANYWAYS>>>> We came in as WINNERS for Nutrition AND TASTE! I'm very happy and PROUD that John Q Public thinks is yummy too! NOT just friends and neighbors! LOL! Please check this Blog out! It's wonderful! Erica and her husband own 3 "Be Ready" stores!
Peace!
Sherry
Wanted to share a "Sister bloggers Blog"!!! It's called "Betty B Ready" It's Betty B Ready @blogspot. We were asked if we would like to participate in a blind taste test at one of our favorite preparedness stores here in San Diego County. We of course said "YES!" and brought several samples for them to try. I was very curious to find out how our food stacked up to the BIG names and was willing to take the chance! I too have had a few of the big guys products and can honestly say I wasn't impressed! In fact that's exactly why I created my own recipes and meals!!!!
ANYWAYS>>>> We came in as WINNERS for Nutrition AND TASTE! I'm very happy and PROUD that John Q Public thinks is yummy too! NOT just friends and neighbors! LOL! Please check this Blog out! It's wonderful! Erica and her husband own 3 "Be Ready" stores!
Peace!
Sherry
Monday, April 1, 2013
Wheeewho! We now officially have our products in 2 stores!
Hi all!
Dropping in to let you know we are at 35 products now and are in 2 stores and growing!!!! We now have
Entrees, salads, side dishes, pasta sauces, couscous, salsas and Dip mixes! Its awesome! I hope you visit our web site and check us out!
Peace! Sherry
Dropping in to let you know we are at 35 products now and are in 2 stores and growing!!!! We now have
Entrees, salads, side dishes, pasta sauces, couscous, salsas and Dip mixes! Its awesome! I hope you visit our web site and check us out!
Peace! Sherry
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