Seven Day Challenge from Food Storage Made Easy

There is a great website that I follow called Food Storage Made Easy. Last year I watched them go through a whole week of false emergencies, by email they would announce a scenario ("At 6 a.m. a policeman knocks on your door, a train wreck has caused toxic chemicals to spew out near your neighborhood and you have to evacuate immediately. Grab whatever you can -children, supplies, etc.- and stay gone from home for 6 hours.") Their fans tried to live out the scenario, and then reported in to the website and told about their experiences. It was fascinating!

So this year I am going to see if I can do it. I'm warning you, I'm probably going to only do it half-heartedly, if the scenario is way too difficult I'm opting out for that day.

Here is what Food Storage Made Easy says:

Starting on a surprise day … for 7 days, we have a new emergency to survive with only things we already had stored in our house. We use email to communicate each of the day’s challenges so make sure to sign up (on the website). This also indicates your commitment to participating in this year’s challenge! We will notify you by email when the challenge begins!

If you want to officially sign up, go to their website. But if you want to do it unofficially, all you have to do is check their website each day, because the challenge will be on there as well.

Who wants to participate with me? I would love for you to tell me what you learned so I can put it on my other blog .

What? You haven't heard that I have another blog? Well, I just started it. Here is the email I sent out to my ward and friends:

I am the new RS Provident Living specialist for our ward. I have had a personal blog for a couple of years, where I had already put about 40 posts about emergency preparedness (along with many other subjects.) I decided to start a new blog specifically for my new calling, and so I have copied the 40 posts I had already done onto the new blog.

(So if you have already been following my personal blog, you've seen it all before. But from here on out, mostly they won't be repeats of each other.)

This blog will be a place to store all the handouts and other information that I give in my Relief Society Provident Living presentations.

I do not plan on putting any last names on the blog, because it is searchable through the internet and I don't want the locations of our homes and food storage to be public knowledge.

This is not an official site of the Church, all views are solely the result of my personal study and are shared as a help to others.

http://GottaWannaNeedaGettaPrepared.blogspot.com/