<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[A Prepared Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prepare your home for everything – even for today!]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:21:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://apreparedhomesite.wixsite.com/readyornot/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not: Garlic Time in the Fall]]></title><description><![CDATA[This post may contain affiliate links, which means that I may receive a commission if you make a purchase using these links. As an Amazon...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-garlic-time-in-the-fall</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6528480546b8127d5a440f6f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:40:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_4ebf5cca23464e369d16c63418c7805d~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_780,h_438,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #95: Storing Vegetables]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was talking to a friend about the soon to be released A Prepared Home food storage calculator and how it was going to be such a big...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-95-storing-vegetables</link><guid isPermaLink="false">644884ac3187152400fe4915</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:58:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_8294eba76cb54df1896dc31c49956e9f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_576,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #94: Re-assess Food Storage]]></title><description><![CDATA[My daughter gave me a cookbook by Zonya Foco, of “Zonya’s Health Bites” on PBS, for Christmas and I have been reading it, yes reading it,...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-94-re-assess-food-storage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6448837c794268f18425319c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:51:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_ce56c5dda2454f728583a94a7582f6d3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_300,h_300,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #93: Water Resolutions]]></title><description><![CDATA[How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions?  Have you accomplished everything and are ready for new ones?  Pull out your...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-93-water-resolutions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64487d987b7dd1087ea2c355</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:30:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_67278a415e734f0ba8d38de5a4160f0a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_990,h_743,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #92: Cinnamon Toast]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I am cold and tired, all I want to do is to curl up and drink some hot cocoa and eat some cinnamon toast, maybe even take a nap...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-92-cinnamon-toast</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64487b9eb33a914ac644b4b3</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:18:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_90b56ec5f1ce4620824a33b511add6f6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_643,h_428,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #121: Prepare Community]]></title><description><![CDATA[East Palestine, Ohio’s motto on their website is, “The Place You Want to Be!” And then they had a train derailment with toxic chemicals....]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-121-prepare-community</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63ed77c71f4cb5ed8605e907</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:41:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_55cfc5d1f12f43508603ea86a4e5dcfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_992,h_558,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #172: SuperTanker Water Storage]]></title><description><![CDATA[“So, how was it boiling your drinking and washing water?”  That is a question that you could have asked quite a few people in our...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-172-supertanker-water-storage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63e2b3257770f463c20d87ba</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:43:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_4bdd2bf074a346a1981d23aebf2472b6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_624,h_390,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #91: Alternative Heat Sources]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you got a backup heat source?  That is a really good question to ask yourself.  One of the men that I work with had his furnace go...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-91-alternative-heat-sources</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63dc149e611ef622dcef69b5</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:57:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_0e9f6e7a9a4e47d0adf6aa2a4cc23ffa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_422,h_465,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #90: Grandma’s Best White Bread]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty, thirty+ years, okay, several decades ago, my friend gave me this bread recipe that had been handed down from mother to daughter...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-90-grandma-s-best-white-bread</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63cc582c3a9c6d169854fc39</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2023 21:33:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_d1f1e37568ac49b5914452b800e9fd0b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_624,h_935,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #89: Christmas Toilet Seat Gift]]></title><description><![CDATA[I just love how some of you are really getting into the Christmas spirit of giving preparedness gifts. My friend was telling me that one...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-89-christmas-toilet-seat-gift</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b14d753ea6d0dd733669ce</guid><category><![CDATA[Emergency Preparedness]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:12:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_84512905fa324678b3c47d430247b552~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_418,h_474,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #88: Christmas Stocking Stuffers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now that we have recovered from Turkey overdose (of which I loved every minute), the last of the pie is long gone, and Black Friday is...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-88-christmas-stocking-stuffers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b14c07aa4e4b2b7b72354f</guid><category><![CDATA[Emergency Preparedness]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:06:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_4b852e0b75b442409f519f7671397e24~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #87: Cherry and Pumpkin Pie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Years ago, I bottled dozens of cases of cherry pie filling.  I am not exaggerating, there were about 15 cases of 12 quarts each – it...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-87-cherry-and-pumpkin-pie</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b14939fdcd4e1aedf0810b</guid><category><![CDATA[Recipe Articles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Every Day Food Storage]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:00:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_ec29b5d1960f40eead1654ee1a8c2c6f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #86: Apple and Ice Cream Pie]]></title><description><![CDATA[I generally make my apple pies from scratch because it is so easy. Just peel and slice about 6 to 8 apples and you have a pie. Okay, I’ve...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-86-apple-and-ice-cream-pie</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b147b8eea3643f44cb27e3</guid><category><![CDATA[Recipe Articles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Every Day Food Storage]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:48:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_ae7f6718917645fbba14e294015845c6~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #85: Lemon Meringue and Pecan Pie]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a child, one of the first things that I ever baked was a pie – a cherry pie.  I was about eight years old, and it was my dad’s...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-85-lemon-meringue-and-pecan-pie</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b145b2eea3643f44cb2794</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:42:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_738eefcedd954216a90509d729bca2fb~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_600,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #84: Fire]]></title><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I talked to my dear friend in California about the fires that were consuming southern California. My friend lives...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-84-fire</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b14497aa4e4b2b7b7233f9</guid><category><![CDATA[Emergency Preparedness]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:33:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_c3c1e7b91fec4035a7b17cb8b8932ae8~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_675,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #83: Alternative Fuel and Gas Tips]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have a wood/coal burning stove in my basement that keeps my house toasty warm, but it only works if I have dry, split wood that is...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-83-alternative-fuel-and-gas-tips</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b143909b96d2c3b60b01e8</guid><category><![CDATA[Emergency Preparedness]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:29:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_09f0160b86ce4bc3b5f7e79e1b7f110d~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_600,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #82: Mortgages and Leasing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The following comments are not the opinions of any newspaper or magazine writer.  They also may not be the opinion of your creative...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-82-mortgages-and-leasing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b141fcb3084b07c5f85c25</guid><category><![CDATA[Emergency Preparedness]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:24:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f4a2eb10b3154a8a8c1bcda2e37e94c0.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #81: Cream Based Soup]]></title><description><![CDATA[A friend of mine from work tried a couple of my recipes and liked them, and so she decided to share one of her favorite recipes with me....]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-81-cream-based-soup</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b1408dd6bec14cc7cbc51b</guid><category><![CDATA[Every Day Food Storage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recipe Articles]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:17:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_061c842c8aba4e93979b3baf520529c0~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_328,h_246,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #80: Water Filter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recently, there was a WATER CRISIS in a small town near me. I didn’t know about the water woes until a woman at church told me about it....]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-80-water-filter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b13e993559834de3b5d4c7</guid><category><![CDATA[Emergency Preparedness]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:12:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_285ed8d67f7a4c49aa1daa8d39d832e6~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_972,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not #79: Candy Storage]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are now going into the candy season. This is, as they say, “the best of times and the worst of times.” Candy is going to be prevalent...]]></description><link>https://www.apreparedhome.com/post/ready-or-not-79-candy-storage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b13cdf27bd0aafe37f54ae</guid><category><![CDATA[Every Day Food Storage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emergency Preparedness]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:03:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1acc64_5006adec4ffe4ccc9205e6a723289f55~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_612,h_408,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dawn Van Nosdol</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>