Posted on 01/22/2016 6:26:13 PM PST by MtnClimber
Winter storm Jonas is brewing on the East Coast and is projected to start dumping snow and freezing rain on Friday night. So you should run to the store and buy bread and milk, right? Wrong. Bread and milk expire pretty quickly and require refrigeration. They're also pretty light on the nutrients and won't keep you satiated and supplemented as you ride out the weather. The trick is to buy foods that don't won't expire quickly or need to be refrigerated. They should be easy to prepare, easy to eat, high in protein, and provide enough variety to keep you full and happy for days. Here are 13 better items for your grocery-store run.
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Epic video about Bread and Milk. Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU
I normally hate snowstorms because I have to find a way to get to work and I hate driving in the stuff. But on a weekend, I'll take it. I'll be sitting by the fireplace pretty much all day.
Milk and bread? I never understood why people would want those particular items.
All one needs to do is read Agenda 12’s Woldlands Project/Turtle Island provision. There in UN/United States Govt. approved glory is the plan for America. Less than 500,000 population.
But people lie to themselves and think that it’s tinfoil when both the UN and the US govt signed off on it. We are about 20ish years from the end of their timeframe IIRC. It’s nothing new. they’ve had it there for anyone to read freely since the mid 90s (when I first read it) and likely much earlier in non internet form.
Typo - Agenda 21.
You had better add toothpaste and liquid cork to the list if you are going to eat that stuff.
I don't think it is that nefarious - just the product of urban sophistry... They make fun of hicks like me, but it's because they don't know any better.
They just don't see the need for being able to scratch-make a fire (as an instance), but I have done it many, many times, as a matter of course.
Before we get a hurricane I do some prep work which entails baking a big bunch of biscuits, cooking a smoked ham, refreshing the larder in fruits, nuts, honey, peanut butter,eggs, etc. French bread is excellent for bought bread and makes the best french toast. To each his own, but another thing I like is to bake a pie, a batch of brownies, and a few sweet potatoes. If the storm veers off, all well and good. If it comes in (which hasn’t happened for a few years down here)I’m prepared.
I’ll never forget the panic in 1986 or 87 when I was in London during the only hurricane they had ever had. It was crazy, no food, no electricity, bobbies and other officials completely caught with their pants down and nobody knew what to do. I always have a few candy bars and nuts with me when I travel, so no problem,I was at the train station trying to catch the first connection back to France and another couple from the midwest were there too. We decided we could straighten out the scene in short order, they were used to tornadoes and I was used to hurricanes. We took the same train and boat back to Calais. The last I saw of them they were headed to the train for Italy and mine took me back to Paris. We had some good chuckles at the English that day. I wondered at the difference a few years had made. 40 years earlier, these were the people who had come through the Blitz, but the new generation couldn’t handle a bad storm.
I used to live in Florida and am familiar with hurricanes. I don’t even remember how many I have had to deal with. Being prepared and avoiding the rush is important.
I try to bring some mushrooms home with me every year from France. Unfortunately, after 9/11 the rules were changed and no more glass containers were allowed, so I went to the local butcher in my small town and asked him if he could help me. Now I take my semi prepared mushrooms to him and he puts them in cans for me to bring back home. He retired just before I left this year so not sure what I’ll do next year, but where there is a will there is a way. I love the forest and will miss it when the day comes that I can no longer climb the trails or work my way through the woods to the spots where I know a certain mushroom will be. I have found many of my spots when hunting, so they are not well known locally.
You are right about being fascinated by mushrooms. Unfortunately I’ve not had much time to study them in depth, but I know which ones are the best,and which ones are no good and which ones are deadly.... and so on down the line. In France if one is in doubt, one takes the mushroom to the pharmacy and the pharmacists are schooled as to whether they are good to eat, or poisonous.
Sounds like Julia isn't an ace in the kitchen. Fresh packaged bread should last for at least a week on the counter.
And refrigeration usually isn't a problem during a blizzard.
Thanks for sharing that.
Unfortunately, political correctness has overtaken common sense in too many cases. But PC will be out the door when things get bad.
Pop Tarts and Beer.
I was thinking that you lived near Antero Reservoir.
Do you live in the Wet Mountains near Westcliffe?
Um, there is nothing nutritious about canned soup. It’s all filled with fake flavoring (MSG) which is bad for the brain. The rest of the stuff is ok, but don’t knock milk and bread for growing bad and then recommend AVOCADOS. Milk and bread last for about a week. Avocados are known for being NOT RIPE for days, then for 2 short hours being ripe, then immediately going BLACKENED AND BAD. There’s a reason mountain climbers don’t carry packs filled with avocados.
I’ve had success simply freezing the cepe too. I slice them in about two inch squares, more or less, and freeze them immediately. The beauty of the canned ones is they are already cooked so an omelette is a matter of minutes. Great when you come in tired from a long day. A hunk of French bread or some biscuits and a cepe omelette....mmmmm good.
Don’t forget to cook them in duck or goose fat. Same thing the Indians used to use to store foods for the winter.
By now the 500,000 figure is probably more like a million.
Yes. The thing to look out for is a can that has leakage or swells. If the top of the can (or bottom) seems to be puffed up a little, get rid of it immediately. The danger is from Botulina which is deadly. Dented cans must be examined carefully and look for seams the “weep.” If your can appears normal it is pretty surely still good. Just yesterday I opened a can of Calumet Baking Powder to make some biscuits. I noted the date on the can was three years past its date. Since the can had never been opened, I decided to use it. Sure enough, my biscuits came out as they always do. If it had been opened and lost at the back of the storage shelf I would have tossed it, but it was unopened and still good.
My grandmother always insisted her wood stove was better for her baked goods and refused to give it up. She had a beautiful “range’ as they used to call it and a beautiful wood stove beside it. My second husband was French and in his kitchen was a wood stove and a gas stove, side by side. I found out grandmother was right. Nothing like a wood stove for pies, cakes, and all sorts of pastry. And it was wonderful at keeping the house warm in the long, cold winters.
Yes, I don’t stock avocadoes. That was just in the article. I have been on long mountain climbing expeditions. The longest were 3 weeks and 4 weeks without contact with the outside world. We never took bread, milk or avocadoes. Freeze dried was the way to go then, but canned works for situations where you don’t have to carry it all.
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