[goosie]

I was reading about how to cook with food storage and this person made a point of mentioning that meat should be used as a flavoring. This is not the way we cook now but it would make the meat go farther. I am trying to stock up on gravies, meat base, Lipton and Knorr soups and other flavorings to use with noodles, rice, pasta and other caloric meal stretchers. Most preppers love south of the border cooking. That is generally cheap. You can do a lot with ground corn or cornmeal. Buckets of corn (that you can grind) will last thirty years and it is cheap. Among other places, they have it at Sam's.

[bgill]

When eating ramen noodles now, use only half the packet of seasoning and save the remaining half for the next batch of noodles. It tastes better and you won’t be eating so much salt. Before long, you’ll have saved up enough seasoning packages that you won’t need to buy extra for preps.