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For decades, government and religious organizations have urged people to prepare themselves for hard times by storing extra food and water. With recent disasters and tough economic times, it’s easy to see the importance of doing something different than we have in the past.

We are becoming more aware nowadays that, without warning, any of us may face a life storm. We may not be able to control our situations and what happens to us, but we can prepare ourselves to weather the rainy days ahead that are sure to come.

Just by paying attention to what we hear on the news, we can see a need for storing food and water. In a crisis, as in New York City on 9/11/2001 and more so in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, store shelves can empty quickly and trucks may not get in for awhile to restock. Trucker strikes can happen as well and so truckers will not deliver food to the stores. Also, can you handle trucks being delayed because of bad weather or disaster conditions (such as we saw with Haiti and South America’s earthquakes, and Iceland’s volcano or what would happen with any volcanic eruption in the future) and so store shelves will become low or empty?

It only makes sense to store food and water in the uncertain times we live in now. OurDayShopping.com is here to help you do that and to plan for future emergencies.

We at OurDayShopping.com encourage people to have a few months’ worth of money put aside for living expenses and also stock up to at least a one-year supply of  food for emergencies and hard times.  We offer food and supplies to help you with this goal.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) have handouts, classes and a Web site that describes ways to prepare, store and cook with emergency food supplies so nothing goes to waste. I hope you will check out their site and ours to help you with your plans. Use this link to learn more about growing a garden.
If you don’t have a traditional garden plot, you can plant vegetables and herbs in containers that fit on driveways, balconies, roofs, and even window sills. This activity can be interesting and rewarding for adults and children alike. The following resources provide useful information about gardening in containers.

Links to Gardening Web Sites *Note: The following links are not to official Church publications, but are provided as additional resource material.

www.garden.org

This Web site offers gardening how-to advice from the experts, a pest control library, gardening articles, and free newsletters. The site also features a children’s gardening section, recipes, and garden research.

www.gardenweb.com

On this site, read what other gardeners are saying about common gardening topics in the garden forum, find answers to your gardening questions in the Q&A section, browse the glossary of botanical terms, and learn from a list of frequently asked questions.

http://www.garden.org/ediblelandscaping/

http://www.garden.org/celebratingtheseasons/

http://www.kidsgardening.com/

Here are some additional gardening Web sites:

BBC Gardening Site

Benson Institute

Food for Everyone Foundation FAQ

Gardening Advice

Organic Gardening

Square Foot Gardening

U.S. Dept of Agriculture – Home Gardening Section

Additional Gardening Links

Social and emotional self-reliance is an important part of the gospel plan. No one is immune from the challenges in this life. When social or emotional problems arise, counsel and support from family members, Church leaders, and other qualified individuals can often be helpful in becoming self-reliant.

LDS Family Services
This will take you to the LDS Family Services Web page.

Addiction Recovery Program

Pregnancy Counseling

Adoption Services

Ten Common Challenges Facing Families

Library of Helpful Information

Working together makes it easier to accomplish our personal goals. Knowing we are not alone makes us less anxious about our future as well. We need to help those who are less fortunate than us in preparing for the future. In an emergency or a crisis, people will remember how you helped them and will be less likely to do something they would not normally do. This makes your community safer and more functionable in a crisis.

Use the citizens of New York City in the aftermath of  September 11th, 2001 as an example of communities working together in a crisis; this making the reality easier to handle.  We have the power within us to do this when we have a change in mindset.  Everyone has the ability to think outside of themselves to help someone in trouble.

We all have encouragement and hugs to share, and the ability to make our environment more acceptable in a bad situation.  It is up to each individual and as a group to put aside our own comfort to think of others.  If we choose not to do so, it is hard to imagine at this time the results of that choice.