Monday, November 29, 2010

Stored Food Night

I have recently been reflecting on the plethora of information regarding what foods to store for your preparedness lifestyle, but am noticing a huge void in the "what to make/how to make it" department.  In that vein, I am planning a "Preparedness Recipes" series that will give you an idea of what we store and how we use it.  In the following weeks, I will introduce a sampling of our recipes made entirely out of our food stores.  In the meantime, enjoy this glimpse into other folks "Stored Foods Night".



Bon Appetit!

7 comments:

  1. Great idea. Looking forward to seeing the recipes.

    Several months ago, I started buying campfire cookbooks so I'd have an array of simple one-pot recipes for my food stores. Your recipes will provide delicious and much needed alternatives to those cookbooks.

    NoCal Gal

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  2. When I was over in East Africa I saw refugee's from a civil war that would be 'very happy' to eat what those kids in that video thought was gross. This country is blessed with good soil, good climate and with farmers and rachers that know how to work it. We have become fat, happy and lazy. (and that's what worrys me)

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  3. Wow, that video is pretty funny! It was a great morning chuckle, thanks! :D

    And also brings to light a more serious matter, which I will have to think on.

    ~Beth

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  4. LOL! That's great. I've gotten some tasty ideas from this site:

    http://safelygatheredin.blogspot.com/

    I'm looking forward to seeing yours!

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  5. I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO FOLLOWING THE PREPAREDNESS RECIPES. I FIND YOUR BLOG TRULY INSPIRING,AND YOU MAKE EVERYTHING EASY TO UNDERSTAND.I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA.. PEOPLE MAY HAVE STORES OF FOOD BUT WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE TO PREPARE IT, WHAT GOOD IS IT TO THEM.GOOD LUCK.. GLORIA

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  6. I thought you might like this link. It's to a free down-load of a cookbook my church puts out for using food storage items. I've found it useful.

    https://acrobat.com/app.html#d=6mNpJzcXSqKFTlRxcwTP4w

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  7. @captaincrunch
    I agree with you about us being very spoiled in not only this country, but also in the affluent countries of the world.

    However, many people are under the mistaken impression that if you're hungry enough, you'll eat ANYTHING. Not so. Studies have shown that most people under stress will NOT eat just anything, especially unfamiliar/disliked foods.

    Studies have also shown that children and old folks can and will burn out on a steady diet of the same foods and quit eating - in a matter of weeks. (So oatmeal for 3 meals a day will have a kid or old person not eating in a week or two.)This is why you have more than just wheat, rice and beans in storage.

    I took a survival school class in college. I HATE fish. As a part of our training, we were left for 4 days to travel across a mountain without any food, except what we could gather/kill. We were to stay together in a large group that consisted of the entire 35 or so people in the class.

    I was very good at foraging and collected quite a bit of Lambs quarter, pigsweed, etc. However, the deal was that all food was put in a common pot and shared. Unfortunately (for me!) one of the young men was especially adept at fishing and the fish was dried (making it especially NASTY!). That fish was put into the greens that I had gathered. I could NOT eat it. And I will tell you, that after 4 days I was HUNGRY! VERY HUNGRY! But I COULD NOT eat it. I tried and gagged on it.

    This film was a tongue-in-cheek film about the 3 "mistakes" of food storage:
    not storing stuff your family is used to eating (TVP and lentils), keeping it in storage too long so that there's a taste/texture change that makes it unpalatable and kills the vitamins in it (the peaches that looked like gravy discussion), and then not knowing how to cook with what is stored (improperly prepared lumpy powdered milk).

    The point of food storage is to give your family food for an emergency. If you want them to eat it when there's trouble, then you need to be feeding it to them NOW. That way, they're used to eating it and YOU know how to prepare it in a palatable manner AND the food is being rotated.

    I'm out of work. I'm using my food storage. And you know what? Most of the cans of tomato products that I've had in storage are no good! It's been less than 6 years that they've been on the shelf - and they are commercially prepared products. But most of them spurt when I take the can opener to them. Some have had bulging lids (I didn't bother to open them.) Now I use tomato products a lot AND there were different brands on the shelf - so it wasn't one lot or one manufacturer at fault. But what I didn't do was to rotate my storage.

    If any one is interested, I have several more sites that help people start a food storage program and then USE the food that's stored. They post the recipes too.

    HTH

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