Peoria mom is doing her best to prepare for the worst
by Karina Bland
Lisa Bedford appears to be your average stay-at-home mom of two, driving her kids to archery practice in an SUV and selling Pampered Chef kitchen tools on the side. She hollers for 10-year-old Olivia and Andrew, 8, to come to the table and do math problems while she mills wheat to make her own bread. Dad is at work, and the family's four dogs, one cat and the turtle in a glass aquarium are napping.
It's Bedford's T-shirt that gives her away: "Survival is a mom's job," it says. The T's are for sale on her Web site, thesurvivalmom.com, where she gives practical advice on preparing families for the worst.
Bedford began stockpiling canned food, laundry detergent and toilet paper almost two years ago, converting a spare bedroom into a giant pantry. The silver shelves are stocked better than a convenience store, with pyramids of canned food, sacks of rice and wheat, and boxes of cereal, oatmeal and pasta.
All four family members know how to shoot guns, and they practice regularly at the shooting range. And in the back of her SUV is a 72-hour emergency kit - a plastic container filled with power bars and beef jerky, blankets, medicine, tools, water-purification kit and flashlights. She knows how to get out of the city in a hurry, using old country roads instead of what would likely be crowded freeways.
"If we ever have to bug out, we're ready," Bedford says. She even has the kids' textbooks downloaded on her Kindle.
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