livingston
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This woman lays prepping out in an easy to understand format
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I used to watch her and her husband. Off grid homesteaders they are. The more that I watched, the weirder they became.
Lots of good info though.
BDinPutnam
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+1. I have a couple collapsible water bags, I may pick one of these up to add another water solution to the mix.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
This is my game plan if the freezer is no longer an option ... As I said above Everything is in place for this situation .. Canning jars, well over 100 lbs of propane , Propane burners like that is shown in this You Tube. Generator and fuel .. So we have time to process this over a few weeks . It is easier to utilize the freezer for me right now than canning stuff say this week.... I recognize having an 18 cu ft freezer not everything would get canned . .. If I throw out frozen bread and the like ... so be it. .. The goal is 100 jars of canned meat and that could get 2 people by for perhaps a year ? . Having a good thermos on hand is recommended . .. Cooking lunch and storing it for supper in a grid down situation ... Saving fuel will be a god send .
Feel confident your food will stay warm for hours ....https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-hot-food-thermos-4164596
She takes frozen beef and cans it...(unfrozen )
Feel confident your food will stay warm for hours ....https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-hot-food-thermos-4164596
She takes frozen beef and cans it...(unfrozen )
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repete
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" The goal is 100 jars of canned meat and that could get 2 people by for perhaps a year ? ."
Even using qt. jars that wouldn't be much food each day. Each jar would have to last over 3 days! My wife and I use a LOT of pint jars, it's just the two of us and have found that a pint of venison or whatever over noodles or rice is just about right for us, it could be stretched for 3 but it's also only one meal. I would plan on a minimum of one jar per day and that doesn't include fruits or vegetables unless it's soup or stew.
Even using qt. jars that wouldn't be much food each day. Each jar would have to last over 3 days! My wife and I use a LOT of pint jars, it's just the two of us and have found that a pint of venison or whatever over noodles or rice is just about right for us, it could be stretched for 3 but it's also only one meal. I would plan on a minimum of one jar per day and that doesn't include fruits or vegetables unless it's soup or stew.
I bought two more plastic shelving units today, trying to organize a bit better.
Taking a coffee break now.
Taking a coffee break now.
An example of my new diet. Laugh all you want but I actually enjoy salads so nyah! Soup n' salad lunches and dinnera were a big part of my previous weight loss endeavor.
BDinPutnam
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Honey mustard dressing.Whats on it?
Looks like cheese.
Not that I don't love melted cheese.
Incidentally all I do for the chicken is heavily coat some frozen chicken breasts in lemon pepper seasoning and stick two of em in my little air fryer for 19 minutes. Its surprisingly tasty.
I put them in a bag to defrost i the morning when I get home and by the time I wake up they are ready to prepare.
BDinPutnam
.475 A&M Magnum
"Looking good, BillyRay!"
Now you have me wanting honey mustard, lol.
Oh we do something similar btw. Throw chicken breasts in pan, seasoned water halfway up the breasts. Bring to a boil, simmer for 5 minutes, than turn it off and cover for 15 minutes. Perfect and juicy.
I love honey mustard with chicken. Goes really well with the lemon pepper. I can't believe how easy a meal it is to prepare. I should have been doing this all along.
Cooking in general is something I have been doing much more of since all the restaurants closed. I used to eat out almost exclusively.
BDinPutnam
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I'm just starting out, I can't do much yet. IIts cheaper too.
And chicks dig a dude who can cook. Ask me how I know.
can make omelets though. I also make a kick ass tuna melt. I love fish so I make a lot of it, particularly salmon filets. Walmart has reasonably priced frozen ones that I prepare in much the same way as the chicken.
i am also researching getting into capsule gardening for next year.
That's my patio area, thinking about setting up planters for tomatoes, onion, green beens and peas which are some of my favorite veggies. (I know tomatoes are technically not vegetables, hush!)
Onions in particular are my red hot sauce: I put that shit in everything.
That's my patio area, thinking about setting up planters for tomatoes, onion, green beens and peas which are some of my favorite veggies. (I know tomatoes are technically not vegetables, hush!)
Onions in particular are my red hot sauce: I put that shit in everything.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
I am not planning on just meat for the duration.. Have fruit, Vegetables, beans, rice, pasta
I do have a flour mill (hand crank) but last year was a poor year for wheat protein wise . Come virus time most places had none to sell .. .. Will get some good wheat this year.... Plan on making sourdough bread .
Also plan on making pasta. .. That also was sold out a few months ago. Would like to get a torchio
Make homemade pasta. grinding durham wheat.
When my ex Chinese wife was growing up food rationing was the norm... Their family of 4 would get one chicken / month .. Sometimes 1/2 per month.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
Amazon.com: Torchio Bigolaro Hand Press Pasta Maker: Kitchen & Dining
Amazon.com: Torchio Bigolaro Hand Press Pasta Maker: Kitchen & Dining
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Ex chinese wife huh? Almost married one myself.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
spat
.950 JDJ
Botanically tomatoes are fruit. In a culinary sense they are vegetables.
It's kinda like NY vs the Feds on what is a firearm....
BDinPutnam
.475 A&M Magnum
Tomatoes or Tomahtoes?
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
Just found this video, was searching for something else and this popped up. WOW!
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
while watching the pressure canning video .. made me remember the basement of my gandpa and grams home .. down in the basement there
was a door and behind it was a room with just dirt walls with a dirt shelf around it .. .. grandpa would store the veggies from the garden in there ..
was a door and behind it was a room with just dirt walls with a dirt shelf around it .. .. grandpa would store the veggies from the garden in there ..
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
back from google / utube .. Root Cellar its called
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
My father raised potatoes when I was a small boy. Kept some in the cellar for sale . Had a hand cranked potato grader and everything. We did have a coal furnace down there and also a Kalamazoo coal parlor stove in the living room .Because of the potatoes we could not run the furnace..So only the parlor stove heated the whole house. Mother slept with my brother and I in the living room as it was the only warm spot in the whole house. . My father was working nights then.. The Kalamazoo is still on my porch It was functional when taken out and nice looking . We had oil heat installed .
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
Here you go...........
Wow!
Wow!