Tag Archives: canning

Making flour and flatbread from dried beans

Beans are a major part of our long term food storage and curiosity about grinding them into a usable flour finally got the best of us. From what I have researched, you can grind  any bean into flour. You can … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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Protected: DIY: Build a Forced-Air Food Dehydrator

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And Don’t Forget the Gravy!

Homemade gravy is a treat in our household that’s usually reserved for holiday meals.  I’m not sure but I think my wife has even used gravy as a bribe to get some of her honeydew chores completed. Gravy can turn … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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Piteba Oil Expeller Set-up and Trial Run

We have a fairly broad selection of oilseeds available to us in our area and  the better part of the last year was spent researching the uses and comparing the different  types of oil extraction equipment,  we decided to try … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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Wood-fired Kettle Cooking

The weather here has turned cool now. Cool enough to actually enjoy a campfire. The wife and I had a day’s worth of outdoor work to last weekend so we decided to use some of our garden’s remnants to cook … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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Choosing and Storing Bulk Salt

Salt may be a less-than-glamorous topic for a preparedness blog but there’s no denying how useful and necessary salt is. Salt is necessary to keep our bodies functioning properly and maintain the balance of our fluids, which carry oxygen and … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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