The sale ends April 17th!

LIMITED TIME ONLY! THIS IS A DREAM PACKAGE! IF YOU ARE PREPARED, YOU NEED NOT FEAR! If you're thinking about spending your tax return on food storage/emergency preparedness items, this sale is for you! On sale right now, the Food and Water Storage package provides a six-month supply of food for one person at over 2,000 calories per day. This food is the highest quality, best tasting dehydrated/dried food you will find!

The package includes:

• 96 #10 cans (one-gallon cans),


• a 55 gallon water storage barrel kit, and a Grain Mill wheat grinder. Details of the package below.


• The package retails for approximately $1,500*, but is on sale for $973 plus $15.99 shipping! That's right $15.99 to ship everything. This package is 35% off!

The sale ends April 17th.This sale is not available online, it is only available through Shelf Reliance Independent Consultants like me.

Here are the details of the package:

• Grains/Starch* 6 Hard White Winter Wheat* 4 Potato Chunks* 6 Elbow Macaroni * 6 Six Grain Pancake Mix* 3 Cornmeal* 3 Quick Oats * 6 Instant White Rice


• Fruits/Veggies* 6 Sweet Corn* 6 Green Peas* 3 Broccoli* 3 Raspberries* 2 Strawberries* 6 Apple Chips* 3 Carrot Dices* 3 Mixed Bell Pepper* 3 Potato Beads


• Dairy/Cheese* 6 Non-Fat Powdered Milk* 4 Chocolate Drink Mix* 2 Cheese Blend


• Meats/Beans* 2 Bacon TVP* 2 Beef TVP* 2 Chicken TVP* 2 Taco TVP* 2 Pinto Beans* 2 Black Beans* Kidney Beans* Whole Eggs


• Other* THRIVE Orange Drink*


• Deluxe Hand Wheat Grinder

The Shelf Reliance Water Storage System includes the following:*

• 55 Gallon Water Container* Water Pump - (45" long, 3" wide) Hose (47" long, 1"wide)*


• Sturdy Bung Wrench - doubles as a gas shutoff tool and provides access to storage barrels of all sizes.*


• Water Treatment Solution * Detailed instructions of how to prepare your water storage.

Honestly friends, this is the best starter package I've seen to give you some breathing room if trouble arises economically or any other unforseen calamity occurs. Think how grateful the people of any natural disaster would be if they had this kind of food storage on hand.

You can receive this package within a couple weeks! You can only get this deal through a consultant, so please contact me via email or add a comment with your email and I will contact you.

He who hesitates is lost. Or hungry.

GROCERY PRICES ~ UP, UP & AWAY!

What is causing this rise in prices?

Drought in China: The world's largest wheat producer
Floods in Australia: Devastated most of their wheat crop
Crops Freeze in Mexico: Produce prices expected to rise 50%-90% in the US for at least a few months.
Droughts in Russia: They've Banned Grain Exports
Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan: They consume A LOT of rice, and MANY rice fields were destroyed. They will likely have to import a lot more of it now.

And what of us? It seems I'm taking more and more $$ to the store and coming out with less and less. Yes there are still a few bargains out there but it's just a time/money waster to be out going from store to store to get the best deals. My bi monthly allotment of $30 in the tank is not stretching as far. No more Sunday drives, no more impulsive trips. I don't like feeling hampered, corralled, hemmed in. I liked my freedom!

But there's no avoiding what's likely to come - food shortages, food price inflation.

Good news for you who are still interested in having food insurance with a homestore of delicious convenient foods is that Shelf Reliance prices are good until the end of May! My advice is to stock up. Plant a garden. Buy in bulk. Store what you eat and eat what you store!

I still offer the best prices if you are on my customer list! But for the very best value, I strongly suggest you get yourself on the monthly ship program called the 'Q'. My advice is to make an order of basics now. Right now. They will be at your door within about 2 weeks. And then get on the Q as well at a rate you can afford (try for at least $100/month) You will receive extra savings and benefits! If you really want value, become a consultant. That's the best of all worlds.

Oh, and that little cartoon above? I sent my husband to the store the other day to pick up a loaf of bread and some milk. That's his shopping cart on the way in...

SOMBER SIDE OF THINGS

We watched in horrified fascination as mother nature obliterated hundreds or thousands of lives this week. As we watched, we wondered what we would do. What would you grab first? Or who? How much time did they have from the end of the shaking to the onslaught? I hope that with all their awareness and preparation, that the majority of them automatically got into their cars and sped away as soon as the earth stopped. I hope.

Here on the coast of Oregon, 30-40 feet above the bay which is in our front yard, we had tsunami fears of our own. I have an old 72 hour kit that I bet the MRE's are rotten and the aspirin expired. But I set it by the back door along with another bag of picnic foods in case we had to book it. I thought of family members in town. My youngest son in Hawaii. There was not much sleep that night.

As I looked through my pantry, I saw all the food storage items that I have purchased, all the food I have canned, all the bulk foods still in 25-50lb. bags and hoped it wouldn't all be lost in mud and slime and a waste of money.

We were spared here in Coos Bay. Elsewhere not so lucky. But it will make me double my efforts to be prepared even more.

And it will make me kneel in gratitude that it was only a test run.

This time...

RAINBOWS & LEARNING CURVES

It would appear that my blogging inspiration seems to be at it's height in the middle of the night. Don't know why that is but it's about 1:30 am right now and here I am. Oh well. There's nothing to it but to do it!

It rained and rained today. That's the price we pay here on the coast of Oregon for verdant and breathtaking greenery all year long. But I'd sure like to see a few more rainbows!

And that has me thinking about arches, curves and progress.

The party I had today (#5) turned out very well! I am getting better at the presentation and don't have to rely on my 'script' as much. It will be a great day when I don't need it at all!

But having said that, let me tell you that my preparation to give my first presentation went on for hours and days!
I wrote and rewrote.
I thought and rethought.
I practiced and repracticed.
I timed and retimed it.
Chopper, our big fluffy yellow kitty was my captive audience as I explained to him over again the benefits of THRIVE freeze dried food as 'food insurance', and about storing what you eat and eating what you store! Poor baby.

Tracking my progress, today's party took about 2 hours of pre preparation instead of 10 so that's a good sign that I'm getting this. The old learning curve has seen it's zenith I believe.

To think I began this journey having never tasted any of the products, prepared any of them, but only had this urging inside me to get my own house in order and maybe to share with a few other like minded friends. The road from there to here is like the path of an archer's arrow zinging through the sky. I can see it's trajectory and I find myself feeling confident at where I have landed and where I will go next.

I guess loving what you are doing is a good reason to be awake, inspired and blogging at this hour.

I had a brilliant (?) idea about how to share Shelf Reliance/Thrive food storage with you and your friends there, from me here in Oregon.

As you all know, I have been a consultant with SR/T since the beginning of the year and it is really taking off. It's so convenient, easy to use, delicious and affordable that I have almost 100% positive acceptance with showing it. When I do a product demonstration of the freeze dried fruits, veggies, milk, butter, chicken salad and fudge brownies or coconut macaroons, everyone is just amazed that it's food storage! My calendar is already full of shows for the month of March and it's still the last day of February!

What I got to thinking about is this: If I could, I would just drive over and have a party at your house with your friends and show them in person how great this stuff is. But gas prices being what they are and what I'm afraid they are going to be, I thought of another way. It will be like a virtual party! I will send the easy to make foods to your door, you will invite your friends, then we will skype at the time of your party and I will be there 'live' to explain and share the information.

Of course the hostess benefits are generous, so there would definitely be something in it for you! Free products and 50% discounts when others book a 'virtual' party! Also if someone there decides to become a consultant as well, they could carry on with personal parties.

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, check out https://www.shelfreliance.com/DorieSmith to see the products.
You can also order right from my website but it's so much more positive when you can taste it first!

Let me know what you think of this idea. Maybe it's just plum crazy! But you know me ;)

The musical fruit

I think I wrote in another blog something about cooking beans. They take a long time in case any of you have never tried doing it. Those hard as a rock dry beans soften up eventually if you have the time and you do it right.

When I think of surviving on beans, I think of cowboys and pioneers and early Americans. There was always a pot of beans on the fire. Good thing they were mostly cooking and eating outside as well cuz I'm sure there were some amazing fireworks afterwards, if you get my drift. Beans have sorta faded into the background of our daily diet, replaced by burgers and fries and tacos.

Yet most people who store food for a rainy day, have at least a bag or two if not a couple large sacks of dry beans and I bet they don't actually cook with them very often. Special occasions only ;)

Which is why I'm impressed all over again with Thrive's newest product, Instant Beans! How can it be? Easy. They parboil the beans and then dry them. What won't they think of next when it comes to offering us convenient, fast, easy and delicious foods for long term storage and for right now Home Stores?

They have black beans, pinto beans and red beans in the #10 can ready to purchase this month. I have them on order and will report on them when I can.

Will I also store the s-l-o-w cooking variety? Of course. But the idea of making a decision and having cooked beans 20 minutes later is reassuring for all us special occasion chile makers everywhere!

I just can't guarantee there won't be fireworks afterward!

Oh and just so you know, you can now view my official website at doriesmith.shelfreliance.com. Makes it real easy to order them beans now!