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July 25, 2012
Greetings!
We're winding down harvest time!  Are you looking forward to being finished yet?  We've got a few great suggestions for you today for going beyond simple preservation!
 
We also have a couple giveaways, events and other things to let you know about!
 
Enjoy!
Harvest Wind-Down
The Law of Diminishing Returns Strikes!
 
If you're like us, and we're sure you are, you labor in the garden all spring and summer, looking forward to the harvest.  Then, the harvest gets old!
 
Not that we don't love it or regret it, but putting up a bountiful harvest is a LOT of work!  By the 4th or 5th week that you've stayed up until 1:30 am to be able to pull that last batch of the day out of the pressure canner and to clean up - it starts to get a little old.  You need your sleep, but you love filling your store room!  Eventually we all get to the point that we're just ready to be done.  It's not that we don't want to do it anymore, we just want to be able to relax again.  Fortunately come bottle, frost or rot - the harvest finally wanes and we can settle into our winter slumber.  

Well, we're here to spice things up a bit!

Here are just a couple ideas for preserving the harvest in a little more processed way.

Seasoned Tomato Sauce
Do you still have tomatoes coming out your ears?  Have you already put up 50 bottles of them so far this fall?  How about making a nice Seasoned Tomato Sauce out of them and then bottling it ready to use!
 
For a good spaghetti sauce, you usually add ingredients that, while delicious, lower the acid levels to the unsafe zone.  So unless your family's secret spaghetti sauce recipe contains several cups of red wine vinegar, it will be too low in acid to be canned in a boiling water bath.   
 
This fantastic recipe includes onions, garlic, oregano and several other spices making it a safe and delicious sauce!
 
 
 
Apple Pie Filling
You've sliced them, you've sauced them, you've fed a bunch to the pigs.  But the apples keep rollin' in!  How about getting some of them ready for pie!

Everyone has their own special recipe for baking their delicious apple pies, so my advice would be stick to what you know if you're so inclined, or try my recipe and see how you like it!  If you have never made apple pie filling, I assure you, the recipe I use has been passed down and is so good you can eat it right out of the jar!  You can always go stock up on canned apple pie filling, but I think in the long run, making your own is always better and might even save you some money.
 
With bottles of this delicious filling, not only can you quickly get a pie going, but you'll have a special treat for the kids - just dish them up a bowl of it!
 
 

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It's National Preparedness Month and we've been enjoying celebrating it by setting up lots of fantastic Giveaways!  (more on that below)
 
We're also getting close to releasing our first set of improved FEMA Guidelines!  For National Preparedness Month, The APN initiated a project to upgrade the simple Readiness levels that FEMA presents and get them Prepper Ready!



 

Share your Canning Tricks and Secrets!
Do you have some tips and tricks, recipes or great experiences with Canning that you'd like to share with The APN Members?  If so, we would be happy to publish them for you!  Check out the "Writing for The APN" section below for details.

The APN's Resident Metals Expert!
Junk Silver?  Gold Bullion?  Rare Coins?
 
We're very excited to introduce a new special partnership with Austin Rare Coins!

Ryan Denby is the President and CEO of Austin Coins and has been in business for over 15 years!  He has agreed to join up with The APN and provide regular advice, information and especially: DEALS!  

If you have any questions about Precious Metals or if you've been unsure of what you should do with them in your Preps, he is the man to ask!  Not only has his company set up a special page for APN Members, he will also be offering special pricing JUST for us!  As part of this arrangement, Ryan will be providing regular articles helping us all learn and better understand the strange markets we're experiencing.  Here is a segment from his first offering:

It is clear to me that Preppers have the correct mentality of hoping for the best, while preparing for the worst and in this day and age, I could not agree with this philosophy more.  Too often people forget what happened in the latter part of 2008. Everything was just fine with all markets and then, suddenly, the bottom fell out and everything wasn't alright. In a matter of days, people's IRA's, 401K's, college savings accounts and personal savings were decimated, and in spite of recent gains in the market, most have still not fully recovered. But people who had diversified some of their investments with precious metals, such as gold and silver, were better protected financially. This is precisely what the Prepper movement is all about-being prepared.

 

It is painfully obvious that things aren't what they seem in domestic and world markets, and particularly in currency markets.....

 

Read the rest of the article here.

 

Visit the special APN Coin Store Here!

Upcoming Events:
Self Reliance Expo: North Carolina
 
The Self Reliance Expo in North Carolina was last week.  Unfortunately, The APN crew had major vehicle issues on the way there and had to turn around and limp home!  

We'd like to apologize to any APN'rs who were looking for us at our booth.  We'll be at the one in Mesa though!


Prep Fest 2012 Alpharetta, GA

When: Sept 22nd
Where: Solar Energy USA
Alpharetta, GA
Details: Here


Self Reliance Expo: Mesa AZ

Come see the SRX show in Mesa!
When: Oct 26-27
Where: Mesa Convention Center
Details: Here


If you are putting on or know of events that should be listed in this section, please let us know by emailing: [email protected]
Current APN Giveaways!:

We have been working our partners and sponsors over to build a HUGE pot of prizes!  Be sure to give them the love they deserve for giving everyone a shot at some free stuff!

Congratulations to J. Smeltzer for winning last week's Giveaway, he already has it and says everything in it is awesome!

The APN Weekly Giveaway
This week we're giving away a great Bug Out Bag Booster Kit!
 
It includes:
  • 8 Mountain House Food Pouches
  • EOS Headlamp
  • Katadyn Micropur Tablets
  • Primus Firesteel 
  • Tenacious Tape

This little kit will quickly boost your Bug Out Bag to higher Prep Levels!


Entering is EASY!  

The APN Sun Oven September Giveaway!

Global Sun Oven has provided us with TWO Sun Ovens to give away this month!  

It is SUPER easy to enter to win these Sun Ovens!  




SECRET Contest Entry Opportunity!!!

If you're reading this right now, you're ahead of the game!  The ONLY place to learn this Contest Entry method is by reading the Newsletter all the way through!  

The great thing is, this method will let you get LOTS of entries really easily!

It's very simple:
  • Click the button below.  Each person you forward this Newsletter to is an entry into the Sun Oven Giveaway!


You can use this to gain as many SECRET Entries as you want!!!


Recently On The APN:

Barbara Salsbury gives lots of tips and ideas to get ready for Fall and especially Winter.  Not just around the house, but making sure your Preps are Prepped.






 
Cotton - we all typically wear it day to day, but is it safe for your Preps?  Can it actually be dangerous to wear cotton in a bad situation?  You might be surprised by the answer!






 
This fantastic Do-It-Yourself recipe will let you cut that dishwasher detergent right out of your budget!
Writing for The APN:
  • Would you like to sharpen your Writing Skills?
  • Are you interested in helping others learn?
  • Do you regularly do Preparedness oriented projects?
  • Would you like to start building your name in the Preparedness Industry?
If you said yes to any of the above, keep on reading!

We're always looking for enthusiastic writers!  We have a couple different available:
  1. Guest Author: Send us an article every once in a while, you get full credit in your article.
  2. Disaster Experiences: Submit a story for our Disaster Collection!  Extremely similar to the Guest Author program, just with a focus.
  3. Contributing Author: Our Contributing Authors have a permanent spot on the website.  Each of their articles uniquely identifies them They commit to 2 articles per week and get to join the whole authoring team in our back channel community!      
If you want to give it a shot, click on the links above!  To apply to be a Contributing Author you will need to submit your first trial article as a Guest Author. 

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In This Issue
Canning Tips & Ideas
Precious Metals
Sun Oven Giveaway
Squirrel Syndrome
Wear Cotton?
Homemade Dishwasher Soap
Write for the APN
APN CLassifieds
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