Food Storage Friday: Tantalizing Tuna Salad

** Special thanks to Heather, our guest poster for this recipe!


Tantalizing Tuna Salad


This is a recipe that I made up in the early days of my marriage when we were broke and has
been my husband's favorite since the first bite. Even our picky little nieces gobble this tuna salad up without blinking! It's so simple, pretty darn healthy and best of all, it can be made in minutes.


1 can of Tuna in water (drained well)


3-5 Tbsps Mayonnaise (depending on how creamy you like it)


1 dill pickle diced finely


2 Tbsps finely chopped onion (or dehydrated onions)


¼ tsp celery salt


½ tsp Hot Sauce


Salt & pepper to taste


Mix all ingredients well. Serve as is, on toasted bread or with crackers. This recipe serves 1 hungry man or 2 skinny people!


Heather Green is a freelance writer, mother, cook and the resident blogger for An Apple a Day... blog, a free informational website offering tips and advice on online nursing schools.

Food Storage Tuesday

Every Tuesday, we post specific items you should gather in order to supplement your 72-hour kit, your 3-month supply, and your longer-term storage. If you are new to our blog, don't worry! You won't be left behind. Just start up where we are and follow along. You will eventually have everything completed! Once the 72-hour kit is complete, we'll be putting together emergency car kits again (week by week). Once those are done, we'll gather the 72-hour kits again. So don't worry, just jump on in and join us where we are today!


This week for your 72-hour kits, add food.  This is actually a big project so we're going to spend two weeks focusing on this.  You will need to sit down and make up a plan for meals for each of the three days.  Ideally, you would go out and buy all this food in the next two weeks, but if you are on a tighter budget and want to wait for things to go on sale, that's fine too.  Just be sure you have your shopping list completed and maybe make a goal to have everything bought within 2-3 months.


Check out one of our previous articles about food for 72-hour kits here.  Also, the Ensign magazine published an article last year about adequate nutrition during an emergency.  We did a review of that article here, so be sure to check that out as well.  I also encourage you to read the comments to these posts we did, because some people gave some really great advice!  Please feel free to leave your own advice to those posts as well.  Even though they are older posts, they are linked on our 72-hour kit page, so new readers (and all of you!) can access them easily.  Thanks in advance!  We love getting advice and ideas from all our readers.


How is your three-month supply coming along?  I'll admit, mine is coming along a lot more slowly than I had hoped.  If you remember, last spring when we found out we'd be moving, I stopped buying food storage (and in fact we started eating through our three-month supply so we'd have less to move).  The idea was that I could quickly replace everything with the grocery money I saved during that time.  However, moving expenses (and other things) really added up and the money wasn't quite as much as I thought it would be.  But, we are on the right track again and starting to store meals like we were before.  It's still challenging, of course, but we're moving in the right direction!


This month we are gathering wheat for our longer-term storage.  There are lots of places to buy wheat - just Google it and you will see!  Also, if you are LDS, ask around at Church to see if anyone wants to go in on a bulk order.  Sometimes that will get you the best deal.  And don't forget to check out wheat at Emergency Essentials, one of our sponsors.  We've worked with them before and have been very happy.


Where do you like to buy your wheat?

Hello, Earl

I made a huge mistake last night.  I went to Walmart to do my "big" shopping.  You know, when you haven't been to the grocery store in about 2 weeks and you have been eating food storage for the last few days (not that there's anything wrong with that, but I like to have a lot of fresh produce around especially in the summer).


So, what's wrong with going to Walmart on a Wednesday night, you ask?  Earl, that's what's wrong.  I forgot about him when I decided to go.


Hurricane Earl is headed for the coast - in fact I think the storm has already hit North Carolina and I know there were some mandatory evacuations for some of the NC islands.  I live on the Virginia coast, on a peninsula, and although the weather forecasters have not said we are in danger, people still seem to be a little bit panicked.  I have never seen that many people at Walmart, and their carts were filled to the brim with bottled water, juice, bread, frozen pizzas, flashlights, cereal, and toilet paper.  Many of the shelves were EMPTY, including most of the produce shelves.  I'm not really sure what these people are preparing for; if anything, we are supposed to get some rain tonight and tomorrow but nothing much. (But hey, maybe I'm completely mis-informed and I'll wish I had joined in the hysteria!)


The lesson I learned is this: if you are prepared, you shall not fear (i.e., you won't have to run to Walmart, deal with hundreds of people, and stand in line for 45 minutes while you curse yourself for not doing it sooner).  I'll admit, I did grab a case of water because I still am short on water since moving into our apartment.  And, I was mad at myself for not buying it a few weeks earlier at Kroger when I saw it on sale, because here I was paying full price out of necessity.  


It really hit home the fact that the Church's counsel about being prepared is for our own good and safety, it's not just something we are instructed to do randomly.  And I don't even think it requires faith to follow this counsel.  It's just common sense.  Do it now, get prepared. Buy bottled water when it goes on sale (if you need it), so you won't pay higher prices (think price gouging) when it's necessary for water.  Buy canned goods and other food items when they are on sale, and stock up now, and you won't be forced (by necessity) into paying full price when a disaster is looming.  Being prepared not only gives us peace of mind, but it's smart economically too.


Are you in Hurricane Earl's path?  What have you done to prepare?