Today is Day 2 of the Food Storage Made Easy 10 Year Blogiversary Party!  If you missed all of the announcements from Day 1 you can recap it here.  There are lots of announcements for day 2 and another fun giveaway so let's get this party hoppin'.

Yesterday I promised to give away a copy of our book and you entered by sending a kind note saying goodbye to Julie.  She is actually on a family vacation right now and was getting emotional as I sent her email after email from all of you with such sweet words.  Thank you all, we have the BEST readers!  The winner of our book Food Storage Made Easy: A 3-Part Program is:

I will reach out to you via email to get your mailing address.  Congratulations!

Julie was so touched by all of the emails that she asked if I could post a quick response from her in today's email.  One thing we needed to clarify, people always tend to get us mixed up and we did throw a lot of changes at you in one short paragraph.  JODI is the one who got divorced and she is the one who will continue on with the blog.  JULIE is still happily married to Jodi's brother, but is moving on to other things in her life.  Don't feel bad if you mixed us up, our own family still calls us the wrong names.  lol.  To read her response to you click on her letter below.

Carrying on with all the changes, today I'm updating and highlighting a few of the Food Storage Made Easy social media accounts.  Here is a sneak peek of what is changing and what you can expect in each place!  I hope you will join me in one (or all) of these places so we can be real life FRIENDS!

Facebook doesn't give much love to its pages any more.  You may already "like" the page Food Storage Made Easy but probably rarely see the posts.  I still want to have it for new people coming in, but I don't share a lot of my personal updates there any more since so few people actually even see them.  Here's what you can expect on the page:

- Facebook Live Videos (these actually do show up for people)

- Blog post links

- Sale notifications

- An occasional funny meme

PRO TIP:  If you want to see everything I post here, click the "following" link at the top of the page and you can select "see first" or even turn on notifications if you are a die hard fan ;)

My favorite place to share my personal food storage adventures is in the Facebook Group.  This group is called Food Storage, Survivalism, and Preparedness.  I like to keep the name generic so that people know it's a community and NOT just a place for me to broadcast my blog posts.  Here is what you can expect to get from joining the group:

- Daily updates on what I'm doing with my food storage

- Fun interactive posts you can comment on

- Questions from group members of all levels of preparedness

- Answers to YOUR questions from numerous experts (and I pipe in my opinion as well)

- Wonderful community of individuals sharing THEIR food storage adventures

- Links to helpful resources from my site as well as other sites 

- Occasional exclusive Facebook Lives (these are not public so i don't do them in here as much)

If you don't love Facebook and Instagram is more of your jam, don't worry, I'm updating the @FoodStorageMadeEasy account over there too.  Instagram is a little bit hard to share content and tutorials on, but it's a fun place to share beautiful pictures and daily life snippets and people actually SEE my posts!  I put a fun surprise on there today so make sure to check it out and let me know what you think!  Here are a few highlights of what I'll share on Instagram:

- Similar posts to the Facebook group

- Behind the scenes pics of my life

- Inspirational / motivational quotes

- Food pictures

Confession:  I have not been an avid Instagram user so I tend to go in spurts of posting good stuff and then not posting for a while.  I am hoping to do better but please be patient with me :)

Today I'm giving away a fun product that we launched a few months ago via a Facebook live.  It is a #10 can Jar Lid Intro Kit that let's you reseal cans with a reuseable lid and sucks all the oxygen out using a vacuum sealer.  You can view the Facebook Live video I filmed introducing the product at this link.

To enter to win, all you have to do is like, join, or follow your social media account(s) of choice and then share one (or all) of them with at least 3 friends.  Here's how you can do that for each account:

Facebook Page:  Leave a comment on any of the page posts and tag 3 friends

Facebook Group:  Add 3 friends to the group by adding them on the right side of the page

Instagram:  Tag 3 friends on any of the posts and encourage them to follow my account

I will compile all of the entries and randomly select a winner by 11:00 pm MST tonight (Thursday).