I've grown up during a time where things have always been plentiful - so I have alot to learn. The first is - what can I and what can't I freeze? I'll be looking into that this week!
Thanks again for including me.
I think we always have a lot to learn.
I grew up in hard times, then found out how little that I really knew about so many things and still have more to learn.
Before 9-11, I was a member of a group, called “Once a month cooking”, it was a freezer group and had so much information in it.
They made a hobby of good food in the freezer and some of their tricks were amazing and useful.
I haven’t been posting on freezing, even tho I have had a link for a week or more open to check out.
Do share what you learn about freezing, about all that has been said and I agree as I have the book, one called “Stocking up”,
it covers all types of preparing food for storage and is excellent.
Do keep in mind, that the first thing that will be useless in a disaster is the freezer.
Electric can be lost, from something that happened many miles away.
The terrorists can now hack into the computers and shut down whole plants, they have already proved that they can do it.
Remember about 4 years ago, when New York was without electric for a week and all the apartment dwellers were sleeping on the streets?
The final investigation called it “a computer glitch”, in Ohio.
Even if the people had climbed 25 or 30 floors to get into the apartments, they could not get in, as the doors use the new electronic keys and there was no electric.
I had good luck with the food dehydrator from Walmart, using the Stocking up book to guide me, did greens of several types and lots of squash, then kept them in the freezer, as I am only one and had a large supply.
In the earlier parts of this thread, there are links and searches for Solar dryers and homemade dryers.
Please share with us what you learn, as I am so out of practice and out of date, that I would need to start all over again.
Watch for the link to TLCsoaps.com, I think, and join that group, they are a fine bunch of people and will help you learn, there will be the “someday I will” and people making their living selling soaps they have made on it and all willing to share what they know.
When I first went on the internet and discover Yahoo Groups, I joined a slew of soap and candle groups, but none were of the quality that TLC is.
On the candles, when I got into them and learned that I could do the same thing with a pot of oil and a wick, and put the same ingredients in the air, I lost interest........the wax you buy is petroleum based, unless you buy beeswax or soy wax and I am not a soy fan.
Now I couldn’t have them burning anyway, with the oxygen machine going 24 hours a day, so maybe it is as well that i left them alone.........
But you must also try paper making and papermache, now that is fun and don’t forget doll making.
Do it all, don’t pass up anything.......or..........choose one thing and become an expert at it.........I am a do it all person and will never be an expert at anything.
Smile and have fun, make this your day to get excited and see something new.