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Sweets and treats in a survival situation
SHTF School ^ | 12/2/13 | Selco

Posted on 12/09/2013 7:51:43 PM PST by Kartographer

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To: Kartographer
Sweets during the SHTF scenario:

1) Find a liberal

2) Drink their milkshake

3) Wash, rinse, repeat...

41 posted on 12/10/2013 4:38:13 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: F15Eagle

I’ve never seen them go moldy, but I have seen them go stale/leathery after a few months.


42 posted on 12/10/2013 5:33:36 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Vendome

AAAAND you can grow God’s sweet treats in a garden ... sugar snap peas! Blanch with boiling water, cool quickly witrh cold water and presto, a sweet treat that’s really good for you.


43 posted on 12/10/2013 7:25:17 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Kartographer

Jello!!!!!!


45 posted on 12/10/2013 8:38:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: F15Eagle

Must have been a bad batch.


46 posted on 12/10/2013 8:54:59 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: MHGinTN

Luv sugar snap peas...


47 posted on 12/10/2013 9:00:33 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Kartographer

Reading through this thread has me thinking I better add to my sugar supplies!


48 posted on 12/10/2013 9:20:07 AM PST by 3D-JOY
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To: Kartographer

Cans of sweetened condensed milk. After a few years it basically becomes caramel. Yum.

There are other uses like putting in coffee, tea, and with rice to make pudding.

As long as the can isn’t damaged, SCM will be good for many years after the date on the can. It does darken and thicken but still good.

Honey of course - local if can get some. Don’t forget to get some raw honey that can be used on wounds but regular honey does help with wounds if you don’t have raw.


49 posted on 12/10/2013 10:30:13 AM PST by CARDINALRULES (Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57 -- 6-22-02)
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To: Vendome

I have a salad marinate which I put on salads, using sugar snap peas, broccoli florets, chopped red onion, bacon bits, sun flower seeds, with Italian dressing, apple cider vinegar and a teaspoon of sugar. Great stuff


50 posted on 12/10/2013 10:46:38 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Kartographer
Some changes will happen over the time, and we may not be aware of it at all.

We have had many such changes over the past 5 years yet most aren't aware of it. If they are aware of one or two changes, they refuse to link them together to see the whole picture.

51 posted on 12/10/2013 11:37:36 AM PST by bgill
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To: mylife

Not if you plant some. You could have a continuous supply of peanuts with little effort.


52 posted on 12/10/2013 11:41:05 AM PST by bgill
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To: greeneyes
A can of beets makes for a good chocolate cake. I think I put that recipe on the FR recipe thread last year about this time. Lots of fruits and vegetables can be added to a cake for more goodness. I think I posted a sauerkraut cake to the thread years ago. Basically it's rinsed and chopped kraut added to a dark chocolate batter, yuuuuum. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
53 posted on 12/10/2013 11:54:17 AM PST by bgill
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To: Squantos

A substitute for honey is corn cob jelly. No, it doesn’t have the healing properties or nutional content as honey but it’ll do fine for the taste. Save your corn cobs, boil them and make jelly from the juice. Of note, even doubling the pectin, mine doesn’t gel but is syrupy. Maybe letting it boil down more would do the trick but since I use it for honey then you’d want it syrupy.

When hard candies get old, they can get mushy. Use them in baking if you don’t want to eat them straight. Or melt them and let them cool and they should be back to hard again. At Christmas, the kids like stained glass cookies which is a cut out sugar dough with smaller cut out shapes in the middle and broken hard candy baked into the smaller inside holes. Make sure to bake these on foil or parchment or they’ll stick to the pan.


54 posted on 12/10/2013 12:08:09 PM PST by bgill
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To: MHGinTN

Eat the sugar snap peas straight from the garden. Same with tomatoes.


55 posted on 12/10/2013 12:12:34 PM PST by bgill
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To: greeneyes

I bet after making the sugar from the beets, the leftover beet mush would work perfectly in the chocolate cake since it requires the beets to go through a blender. That’s a two for one. Waste not want not.


56 posted on 12/10/2013 12:27:25 PM PST by bgill
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To: bgill

Unfortunately, I have to buy the peas from a grocery, so I want boiling water over the exterior before I eat them.


57 posted on 12/10/2013 12:52:44 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Hugin

What is the actual shelf life of Twinkies?


58 posted on 12/10/2013 3:09:06 PM PST by tbw2
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According to snopes.com the shelf life of Twinkies is 25 days. But never let facts get in the way of a good myth or joke.

On a more serious note, canned pie filling is often available cheap. You could crumble dry cookies over it for a poor man’s cobbler.


59 posted on 12/10/2013 3:34:31 PM PST by Hugin
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To: bgill

Good information ..... Grateful. As stated we use bulk hard candy for Halloween , rotating out the oldest product on hand..... Honey is king in our storage for sweetener. Will have to try the cob jelly....sound like a treat.

Thanks !!


60 posted on 12/10/2013 5:47:56 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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