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Show DAILY Sunday, Maid) 27. 2005 HERALD FOOD Storage Continued from Foods that help children stay attentive How long Page 16 will it last? students to buy enough groceries for the week (instead of for just a day or two) and to store water, said Kerry Baum, emergency preparedness coordinator for BYU. The university's Dining Services has enough food on hand to sustain 33,000 students for three days, he said. Newly married couples, depending on their own circumstances, are encouraged to start saving for a year's supply of food for their family. Although the task can be daunting to some, it's never too early to start storing food, said Leslie Probert, of "Emergency Food in a shell." Couples who have put away food and know how to use it have found it comes in handy at stressful financial times in life, Probert said. Wheat, 2025 years Beans, 6-- 8 Joanna Cornejo years Sugar, 20 years Cooking oi. less than a year Salt, indefinitely Water, 6 months Seeds, 1 year added to family favorites and that also store fairly easily, like peanut butter, he said. Probert is able to rotate her, year's supply of food storage every years by using food storage items exclusively for breakfast, lunch and ' dinner twice a week. is "The trick to get rid of the notion that these are foods," said Probert. "And being newly married is the perfect time to introduce healthy foods into the diet." The soluble fiber in basic foods reduces heart disease, the insoluble fiber helps encourage a healthy digestive system, and the fiber in whole grains reduces the risk of getting diabetes, Probert said. three-and-a-ha- lf , Storage basics The LDS Church teaches that members should first acquire a year's supply of the "basic foods that would be required to keep them alive if they did not have anything else to eat." After the basics have been stored, the family may decide to add items they are accustomed to eating. Baum has used this direction to come up with three levels of storage. Each level should be completed before a family starts working on the next, he Salmon Chowder Serves 45 cups water 2 cups dried potato dices 2 tablespoons dried onion xh cup freeze-drie- d peas lh to. 1 (5 ounces) bottle processed cheese spread can evaporated milk Yield: If possible, the best place to keep food storage is in a cool,, dark place where sunlight can't reach to ensure long-last- ing shelf life, Probert said. With small apartments, it may be difficult for young couples to store a lot of food in their homes. Probert said if you don't have much storage space, you could create a bedside table of food storage by stacking boxes full of No. 10 cans of wheat and covering it with an attractive piece of cloth. Three hundred pounds of wheat can be stored this way, which is the bulk of what a couple would need in a year's supply. "The bottom line is, if you want your food storage, you will find a place to put it," Probert said in her book, ; 72-ho- , . i can salmon, e : ?Af Tine Hearing Instruments ' -- - Maat In Hit ,a L.1 . ' 3 tablespoons malt or cider 1 1 nw: oil 4 teaspoons sugar Vi teaspoon salt Combine salad ingredients in large bowl. Stir dressing ingredients together and pour over salad. Stir until combined. Chill 2 hours. ,v cups l&ounce can retried beans cup salsa to 1 can (4 ounces) diced Serves &$ i 10 cups cooked and cooled noodles Yield: can Spam Lite, diced i i&ounce can com, drained i i cup pineapple Peanut Butter Kisses Yield: 5ounce bottle processed XA cup chopped nuts Mix together honey and peanut butter until smooth. Gradually add milk. Fold in nuts. 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Sprinkle hydrated cheese over top of dish before baking. bottle Kraft Coleslaw Cook potatoes and onions iir water and liquid from salmon for 5 minutes. Add dried peas; cook another 5 minutes. Removed bones from salmon and break meat into chunks, Stir cheese into potato mixture until melted. Add milk and salmon. Heat through. Do not boil. For A Limited Time Only! : drained Dressing undrained Cream together sugar and shortening. Combine flour and salt. Blend into sugar mixture. Mix coconut and water. Pat l3A square cup into bottom of pan- Spread filling on top. Top with res of crumb mixture. Bake 350 degrees for 25--. 30 minutes. Cool; cut into 16 ' cheese spread 2 teaspoons dried onion can sliced black olives, Dressing: Would you like to hear better! At an affordable price? Now You Can With REXTONl Manufacturer of effective ways to help children behave is to maintain their regular routine. She said that when routines adults: are interrupted, children will Genni Lott, an Orem nutritionoften act out, or sometimes ist, said that the large amounts even verbalize that the day isn't in of added sugars found candy and other sweets are used by the going the way it should. Miller1 said healthy snacks are also body quickly and don't provide important, and that there are a lasting source of energy. several ways to keep children When asked about foods that could possibly have the opposite interested in eating. "Children love to dip things," influence, Lott said she didn't said. "We try to use dipping she could that actually know of any take a child down from a sugar snacks, such as apples dipped in butter and caramel, or high, but said that foods high in peanut animal crackers dipped in pudmagnesium are believed to have ding." a calming or relaxing effect on Miller also said that even chilthe body. Lott said some good dren as young as 2 or 3 years sources of magnesium are nuts old love to prepare their owrr and broccoli. food, such as spreading cheese Pauline Miller, 43, of on a cracker. ish Fork, is the director of Kids ; drained 1 cup cooked and cooled freezeKlried peas 2 teaspoons dried onion or 2 teaspoon dried minced chives i 2 tablespoons hydrated dried celery or 2 stalks celery ' 4 Where should I store food? water, wheat and other grains, legumes, powdered milk, sugar or honey, salt and oil. "The basics are the very most important things to get because they are the least expensive to buy, the most space efficient, the healthiest and have the longest shelf life," Probert said. The second step in storage is to put together a emergency kit to prepare against situations when a family would need to leave the home and their year's supply for a. few days, Baum said. The final step is to purchase the extra ingredients that are Connection, an Orem day care. Miller said that one of the most balance by following the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Guide Pyramid, keeping in mind that children require smaller portions than Food Storage Recipes . said. The first step is to purchase a year's supply of the basics said Hi RAl D C OKRt iPONDi NT Heap, who works at Primary Children's Hospital, said that it Keeping the kids quiet during would be very difficult to sort out the causes behind the extra one two-hosession of general conference may seem like energy exhibited by children on a daunting task, and parents holidays or other special occasions where they may be eating planning' to attend or watch aU more sweets than normal. four sessions have their work "The child may be excited becut out for them. One of the most commonly cause it is Halloween or Christused methods of keeping chilmas, not hyper because they have eaten too much sugar," dren entertained is offering snacks, but some food choices Heap said. "It is very difficult to show the influence of foods are believed to negatively imon emotion. However, there is pact a child's ability to behave: research to show that children For many people, the most obvido well with consistent good ous culprit that comes to mind is sugar. nutrition," she said. "Breakfast is a must. It is But the idea that sugar causes very hard to focus, for either an hyperactivity in children is a adult or a child, if breakfast is myth, said Amie Heap, a registered and certified dietitian in skipped," she said. When choosing snacks, Heap Salt Lake City, "There is no literature to back suggested trying to maintain Nonfat dry milk, 2 3 years ' up," she it IW IIh can i If) K) (VI o. Ht, mn A MM im k. Klin rnonn t u tmtm mn 07Wr? GREAT USED VEHICLES... 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