Tag: storage

Cooking With Home Storage

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Cooking With Home Storage is one of the first prepping books I bought, and one of the few books that I have bought more than once.

The authors, Layton and Tate are masters of home food storage. I would recommend a prepper buying any book on this subject written by either of these smart ladies.

They are the food storage equivalent to Jeff Copper in Firearms.

Cooking With Home Storage has useful guides to long term food storage, great recipes, and other tips to make life a little easier, and more comfortable.

You would be well served with having this book on your shelf, I used it quite a bit as I started to learn how to store food.

Now that I have more experience and feel comfortable in storing my own food, I use this book as a cookbook because it has some great recipes.

This book has all manner of useful information that is essential to know when you are planning to live off of stored food. When you are willing and able to go to the store to round out a recipe cooking is easy. However, when you have to make substitutions because you have only what you have, cooking is harder.

April 25, 2018
Quick Wholesome Foods

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Quick Wholesome Foods is a complete how-to 65 minute DVD with innovative techniques that will take the guess work out of preparing healthy, basic delicious foods that the whole family will love in only minutes!

See step by step easy to follow techniques to make low-fat great tasting meals.

Five 15-minute mini classes on Bread, Gluten, Wheat, Beans and 3-minute cheeses made from Powdered Milk, even old powdered milk.

Excellent for home, church or neighborhood groups. We ve made it easy for you to use your basic stored foods.

FREE 28 page recipe booklet included

Alternatively, Amazon video has this online as a rent or buy Amazon video if you do not want to own an actual Quick Wholesome Foods DVD. Click the top picture to order the video, and the picture below just to rent or buy it as an Amazon video.

November 3, 2016
How to Use a Magazine Rack for Can Storage

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I am quite happy with my cardboard can organizers. They have survived a couple moves and several years of can foods being stored in them. However, they are sized for normal sized cans.

I still need something for can drinks, tuna cans, and tomato paste cans.

Here is a good tip for those odd sized cans.

As soon as I saw a picture on pinterest of someone using a Magazine Rack for Can Storage I knew it was worth exploring.

To be honest, I still like my cardboard can organizer better, and finding the right sized magazine racks can be a chore, but this does work well. It is probably also sturdier over time than the cardboard can organizers. I know it would move better if you aren’t someone that stays in one place.

I hope you find it to be useful.

If you have other tips or things you would like to share or see tried out. Please feel free to contact me. I am always looking for good ideas to share. I probably just need to spend more time on Pinterest, but since most of the good ideas are on mom sites, I have to be sure my wife doesn’t think I am out looking for the wrong stuff.

March 24, 2016
How to Close a Bag Using a Soda Bottle
Since I am always messing around in the kitchen I tend to have all sorts of bits and bags of stuff that I rarely use.

I tend to just wad up the top of the bag and stick it in the cupboard. When I how to close a bag using a soda bottle I was amazed.

This is a pretty popular hack for preppers and busy pinterest moms alike. It works well.

It works, so I thought I would share it with you…
- Cut a two-liter (or smaller) bottle right where the bottleneck starts to form. (This could make a good funnel for another project)
- Insert the open end of whatever bag you are using – nuts, chocolate chips, beans….
- Double the bag back over itself, so that the bottle is sandwiched in the middle.
- Smooth the bag as best you can over the threads of the bottle spout.
- Screw the lid over the bag and you will be able to have a tightly sealed bag of goodies.
As you can see this bag storage adapter is amazingly simple, and readily made by most anyone. Furthermore, I find it pretty useful is storing treats for William. It is perfect for large bags of small candies like jelly beans.
February 11, 2016
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning

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Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern “kitchen gardeners” will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits.

Yet Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition.

Translated into English, and with a new foreword by Deborah Madison, Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning deliberately ignores freezing and high-temperature canning in favor of methods that are superior because they are less costly and more energy-efficient.

As Eliot Coleman says in his foreword to the first edition, “Food preservation techniques can be divided into two categories: the modern scientific methods that remove the life from food, and the natural ‘poetic’ methods that maintain or enhance the life in food. The poetic techniques produce… foods that have been celebrated for centuries and are considered gourmet delights today.”

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning offers more than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients. It is an essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world.

I can’t stress how much food production is important for preppers. I don’t care how much you store, you will eventually run out. Being able to produce and store food is vital.

January 14, 2016