With food prices on the rise and the economy on the fall, emergency preparedness and food storage have become hot topics. Many consumers are storing wheat, flour and oats.

"It was incredible. We have seen huge, huge demands for food storage items," said Daniel Sutherland, retail store manager for Lehi Roller Mills.

So what are people doing with all that food storage?

Crystal Godfrey of Saratoga Springs is living on her food storage by using it in everyday recipes and there is proof on her blog of how well it works.

"There are a lot more benefits to food storage than just if the world ends," said Godfrey. "People think that if the world ends then they will eat their food storage and they won't."

Having usable recipes that your family enjoys will be a much better use of food storage argues the young mother of a 10 month old.

Her new campaign to help modern moms understand how easy it is to incorporate food storage items into their recipes started a year ago after she heard a talk about food storage while visiting family in California.

"I didn't want to hear about food storage. I thought, 'It's too gross and too hard and I will never have to use it,' then I realized I should already have been using it," said Godfrey.

She came home and started incorporating some of her food storage items into her recipes.

After a few months of living on a smaller food budget Crystal Godfrey started a blog to help others learn about the benefits of food storage in everyday cooking.

Even with her husband's new and steady job she still enjoys saving money by mixing her food storage items in with the rest of her groceries.

In an interview last week she talked about the use of hydrated eggs. With egg prices going up 40 percent in the last year, she likes to know that her eggs only cost a fraction of the current price.

"One of the advantages of food storage is that you can live on last year's income," she said. Also since the eggs are pasteurized, she added, "If your kids eat the cookie dough they won't get salmonella."

Her blog, www.everydayfoodstorage.blogspot.com, features a mouthwatering display of cookies made with hydrated eggs, powdered milk and other food storage supplies.

Godfrey has a marketing degree from Brigham Young University and she wanted to put it to good use.

"I wanted to see if I can change that stigma of food storage because it is negative and it shouldn't be. Anything can be done one step at a time," she said.

Now she is getting visitors on her Web site from all over the United States and many from Australia and other countries. They find recipes like "Sneaky squash mac & cheese," "Oatmeal raisin cookies with surprise ... carrots," and "Death by chocolate zucchini cake."

This busy mom says that she makes what she would for her family and then puts it on the blog. Whether it's things from her garden or back to school ideas, she is feeding the same recipes to her family that she is sharing with the world.

"I do it everyday. I am the real thing," she said.