Obsessed with Emergency Preparedness / Food Storage

Just ask anyone in my family and they will tell you that when it comes to Emergency Preparedness or Food Storage - I'm obsessed. Like everything else in my life, I can't just do things half way. I guess that comes from being a perfectionist.

Recently, a friend of ours sent us a link to a food storage blog (thanks Thelissa!) and ever since then I have been looking at different sites on the web trying to find some ideas and suggestions on emergency preparedness and food storage. Since everyone's tastes and situation are different, I like to see the different ways people like to do food storage. While I've been searching, I have found some really great sites that I thought I'd share with everyone. Here are just a few:

http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net
This website has a lot of great ideas. It's done by 2 stay-at-home mom's trying to do their food storage a little bit at a time. It's great because they break things down into what they call "babysteps" so it helps you do things a little at a time.

http://thecrazyshopper.blogspot.com
This is a lady after my own heart. In fact, I got my inspiration for this post title from her blog. Looks like I'm not the only one who's obsessed about this stuff. She has some great ideas and even lists some deals that she shares.

http://grocerysmarts.com/utah/lists/splashg84cso.php
This is by far my favorite. Have you ever looked at the weekly ads and asked yourself - is that a good deal for that? Well, this site does all the hard work for you and it's free! They take each of the ads and break them down into excellent, good, and ok deals. That way you know right off the bat whether something is a good deal or not. They also have linked the deals with coupons that you can get out of the paper or online. They have listings for all of the stores I know of in Utah. I'm sure for those of you out of state, they might have a section for your state - you may have to go to their home page to find it. The crazy/obsessive shopper site above also shows you how to sort these lists - for example, if you're like me and only want to see the 4 or 5 star deals. This is my new favorite shopping website!

http://www.myfoodstoragedeals.blogspot.com
This site also has great ideas for food storage. There are a bunch of recipes and ways to store things. They have another site entitled http://www.myfoodstoragedeals.com where they do the sorting of the ads (like the grocery smart site above), but they charge a monthly fee. However, they do offer more services like a meal planner - which takes the items on sale each week and comes with a list of weekly meals - so if you're pressed for time, that can be a great benefit. They also have some free downloads that are great, so it's worth taking a look on their blog.

So for you emergency preparedness/food storage gurus out there, here are some sites you might be interested in. If any of you have others you have seen or use, please leave me a comment - I would love to have more.

I'm also leaving these on my right sidebar for my own reference, so if you aren't into food storage yet, but find you are later, you can always find the links there or feel free to email me and I'll send them to you. Good luck!