Tag: bulk food storage

  • Simple Recipes Using Food Storage

    Simple Recipes Using Food Storage

    Book Review: Simple Recipes Using Food Storage
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    Simple Recipes Using Food Storage gives you a doable plan to help you prepare.  For many of us, storing the food is much simpler than finding recipes that use them.

    My family uses the LDS principles of bulk food storage, and if you don’t use them on a regular basis it can be hard to make meals from wheat berries and powdered milk.

    Whether emergency strikes, your family falls on lean times, or you just need to rotate your food storage, you can use these recipes to make everything from breads and desserts to smoothies and soups.

    Having recipes that are easy and taste good – while using your food storage goes a long way to helping you use what you store.  This alone makes the book Simple Recipes Using Food Storage a worthwhile purchase.

    If you store food, you should get some cookbooks so you can follow the wisdom of eating what you store, and storing what you eat.

    This small cookbook is a good start on that wisdom.  I know that in my home, we are very busy during the week (who isn’t) and having simple recipes makes the difference between cooking and eating out.

  • How to Make Homemade Cream of Wheat

    How to Make Homemade Cream of Wheat

     

    Homemade Cream of Wheat
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    Like all good preppers, I have a substantial store of wheat berries dutifully packed away in Mylar bags and nitrogen packed buckets.  However, its a lot easier to buy and pack wheat than it is to cook with it.

    Because of this I have been purchasing wheat cookbooks and messing around trying to find recipes that work well with my lifestyle.  On of the very first workable recipes I found was this simple recipe for homemade cream of wheat.

    This recipe uses a blender instead of a grinder so its easy.  Of course when SHTF I could set my grinder to course or use a mortar and pestle.

    Best yet, using whole wheat berries is cheap verses the $5 a box of cream of wheat that lasts all of two bowls in the morning.

    The recipe for Homemade Cream of Wheat is simple.

    Ingredients

    • Wheat Berries (ration of 1 wheat / 2 water
    • Water
    • Salt to taste
    • Butter to taste

    Procedure

    • Pulse the wheat in a blender until cracked and not powdered.
    • Boil twice as much water as you have cracked wheat. (salt and butter to taste)
    • Once it has thickened add milk, sugar, honey, nuts, berries, chocolate or anything else (My lovely bride prefers lots of cheddar cheese).
    • Cook until it has the texture and thickness you desire.
    • Put it in a bowl and enjoy.

    Its a little nuttier than processed instant cream of wheat, and a lot darker.  I find it compares with oatmeal.

    Its not my favorite breakfast food, but its a lot easier to store and loads cheaper than a sausage egg and cheese croissant sandwich….