Prepping Projects For Thanksgiving Weekend

November 21, 2012 By Prepared Mom

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Pinterest has been bursting with great ideas for prepping over this holiday weekend. Here are some of my favorite ideas for Thanksgiving weekend prepping projects.

Dehydrate Pumpkins

We’ve been talking for several weeks now about how this is the time of year to put up pumpkins. Here are some great directions on how to dehydrate pumpkin:

How to Can Cranberries

I love fresh cranberries and this recipe looks delicious. I am curious though that the instructions for this don’t include a water bath. Has anyone done this without using the water bath method?

Plant a Winter Vegetable Garden

I never knew that there were some vegetables that will do very well in the winter. I am going to put some garlic sets out and try it:

What are you planning on prepping this Thanksgiving weekend? Have your eye on anything special in Black Friday sales? I am not planning on shopping but instead practicing skills and working on food stores. I have all the ingredients ready to dehydrate for Zombie Soup and will be getting that put up this weekend.

Preparedness for a disaster makes a lot of sense. With recent and predicted events like Hurricane Sandy, The Colorado Wildfires, Fiscal Cliffs, and rising food and gas costs just in 2012 there is no denying that things are changing in our world. Whether or not you believe "The End of the World As We Know It" is near there are plenty of everyday things to worry about: loss of a job, health emergency, local weather events to name a few.

I find that I worry less about the big "what if's" out there the more emergency planning my family does to deal with the unexpected. I will share the survival tips and tricks I have learned while on this preparedness journey and hope that you join in with lots of comments. We all have a lot to learn from one another.

Now, lets get started prepping! Pick a post and start reading. At the end of every post the blog randomly selects three more survival posts for you to check out. Set aside 10 minutes a day to build your preppers knowledge base. We can never be done learning or prepping, right?