Home canning is getting to be a lost art. With prepared foods of such great variety and at such low relative cost in the supermarket, why go through the hassle of a hot kitchen to do a few quarts of fruits, vegetables, juices, or meats? I hear the same argument about gardening. “Now, if I could can pizza or Big Macs, it might be worth it. I’ll need those when times get tough.” Everything we learn…
It is a known fact that 80% of all job opportunities in today’s work places are never advertised. PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE THROUGH NETWORKING is where today’s job searchers find success. “He that is greatest among you is servant of all.” The Lord’s temporal affairs officer is the Bishop. His Ward Employment Specialist (WES) helps everyone with resources and networking education through LDSEC, located in the Magna Bishop’s Storehouse – 3545 South 7200 West. Many hands make work…
Ever had one of those days when you have nothing to do – rather, you have lots of busy work, but none of it is very important or significant? You’re in a funk. The US Department of Labor estimated that 78% of all labor performed in the work place is non-essential – people making work to avoid work. And we do a lot worse at home. When you’re feeling funky, think for a moment what one thing you…
It’s one thing to try and stimulate the economy with tax or interest rate cuts, but it is entirely another to reshape attitudes about more prudent and balanced budgeting of time and money. The major objective of the Church’s Welfare Plan is to provide WORK for both givers and receivers. To deny people the opportunity to contribute and be self reliant through application of their own energies and talents is to leave them short-changed. The Bishop’s Storehouse…
“Those sure are big sunflowers,” I said to my Bishop’s councilor as he irrigated his garden. I saw him working in his back yard one day on my way home from elementary school. I thought the Provo street ditches were just for kid’s summer water fights, and had never before seen a garden watered in this way. “When they are ready, you can have one and you can eat the seeds and plant some in your own garden…
“My baby has been running at both ends for more than a week,” my Home Teaching young mother said when she brought her daughter to my home for a blessing before going to a doctor’s appointment. “Did you know that chamomile and catnip teas can cure colic,” I asked? “Where were you when my first three kids almost died of colic,” she charged? As the baby nursed on the warm brew the blessing was given –…
As technology distances us from the past, we not only become more dependant upon computer- controlled logistics, but we become more removed from self sufficient know-how of our pioneer heritage. In the winter of 1847, everything was in short supply after the pioneers first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. Imagine having to forage for all your needs. Remember, vegetables do not come from a store, nor does milk come from a truck. Cotton does not grow in…
A young couple, just getting started, determined to sacrifice and spend some of their meager finances on a food supply. They picked a cool closet in their small apartment and determined two things: 1. they would not food shop unless they could purchase a case of something they normally consumed. 2. they would never buy anything unless it was on sale. The local newspaper specials became an important part of their casual reading. What started with generic canned…
The wisdom to store basic grains comes from the Word of Wisdom, that councils: “All grain is ordained for the use of man, . . . to be the staff of life. . .” Grains not only provide great variety and food value, but they also store well for long periods of time, without need of rotation. Processing grains into prepared cereals and mixes not only strips nutritional value, but also increases cost: 65-85% of the original nutrition…
Style and fashion are most often the worldly antithesis to spiritual covenant and commitment. Having “enough and to spare” is a worthy material goal of every home. Yet, each person illustrates his own attitudes and fashion, easily seen in spending habits. “Luxuries become the next generations’ necessities,” reported the U S Census Bureau. Ben Franklin opined on fashion, saying, “expect little change in men’s pockets this year.” Thrift stores inventories come from those who share of their…