Posted on 04/26/2013 1:17:09 PM PDT by Kartographer
we've slowly accumulated a stock of pretty much everything one buys at a store from dry and canned food stuffs, to other goods like storage bags, wrapping paper, soap, laundry detergent, cleaners, tooth brushes, paper products, and so on and on. We've really gone out of our way to identify everything that might be applicable, even if they are items we use only irregularly. When we run out of something, we check storage, pull out another one if we have it, and add it to the shopping list - so that when we go shopping, we are mostly replenishing storage and not stuff in current use.
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We just see the signs of the times and are keeping oil in our lamps. If you are seeing different signs so be it.
My Great Grandfather fought in the Spanish American War and The First World War and told the family that some of the canned meat was from the earlier war. Which led to him machine gunning a bunch of ducks on the water for the mess hall, but that’s another story.
My Dad came to our place in the woods many years ago. He saw wild burdock growing, started picking and after some parboiling, dunked them in egg batter and fried them. He was happy as a clam. He also ate dandelion salad every spring with hard boiled egg cut up, and a dressing made with vinegar and bacon grease. Yum!
I just bought the collapsible Coleman camp oven that looks a lot like that for our wood stove or for outside use.
Yep.. in spring it's important to move some of those potatoes and parsnips and carrots from what there is to eat in the winter. Dandelion salad makes things move. ;)
/johnny
The Butterfly isn't collapsible, though. But you can pack a world of stuff in it when it's upside down, so no cubic footage is lost if that's a concern.
/johnny
One of the things about Butterfly is that they provide real equipment that is really used, day to day, by third world people. It's gotta work and be cheap.
/johnny
Yes it will clean you out but nothing like homemase kraut. I call it “natures brillo pad.” We also do our own kefir, did it for 20+ years from our goats milk, now we get raw cow milk. Also recently discovered kombucha. Fermented tea. Takes a week for a gallon. Learned a lot at www.kombuchakamp.com. We’re into our 4th gallon, one gallon a week for the 3 of us works out good.
LOL, thought you would get a laugh after your perfectionist bread posts. I may actually try to make some and vacuum seal it for hunting season.
Our camp over is just for emergency use. One of those things my hubby agreed to sometimes he thinks my prepping goes too far.
/johnny
Some of you folks amaze me. Is there anything y’all can’t do? :)
I was reading about kombucha a few months back after buying a bottle at a health food store. The making of it intrigues me but I don’t trust myself enough (albeit, it looks easier than brewing beer which I do).
Try it - it’s so easy. Just need a clean crock or 1 gallon glass pickle jar. Make a gallon of tea, any kind, add 1 cup sugar and the kombucha pancake or SCOBY as it’s called. The bacteria eat the sugar and the tea ferments in about a week. Then you just add fresh tea to the crock, each time you make a batch it adds a layer to the pancake. Have tried 3 kinds of tea so far. Favorite is green tea, then after it turns into kombucha and goes in the fridge I add some dried blueberries and the tea gets a nice blueberry flavor. I tried some from the store first and it was awful! Luckily a friend had brought some over for us to try, homemade, so I knew it tasted good. It’s not really alcoholic, just fermented.
Does it really have all the health benefits they say it does?
That’s a good question, a lot of the info I found is anecdotal. But there is a lot of wisdom (and a lot of history) in eating and drinking fermented foods so I just do it. There is more info out there on kefir, one really good site can be found by googling kefir and the guys name is Dom. If you know of anyone with Crohns doctors do recommend yogurt or kefir. fermented foods are great for the gut. So many of the problems we have with our health are food related, eating too many processed dead foods.
I’m not really a ‘prepper’ but I like to think of myself as prepared. For all of those higher statistical probability events, like ice storms, I would have no problems, which puts me a leg up if there ever was a SHTF situation. (I think I’m actually somewhere between common and SHTF).
By the way, what is an ‘anti-prepper’? I can understand scratching your head at some of the hoarder types but basic prepping is just common sense. It is very conservative to be prepared to be self sufficient versus waiting on someone fro the government who is here to help.
LOL! I had the numbers for thermal transfer for marble handy, a piece of flat marble was handy, and that's what I went with. It is pretty convenient.
I did notice a tendency to break over the years. But sandstone would have been worse.
Use what you have. And I'm darn proud that you have any kind of stone in your oven.
Convection ovens. That will require a new post.
/johnny
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