Tag Archives: long term food storage
A Closer Look at the Roma Food Strainer
This is a quick photo review of the Weston Roma Food Strainer and Sauce Maker. It includes some close-up photos along with some of our thoughts. We had a chance to use one of these last summer. Mike graciously offered … Click HERE to read the entire post….
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Tagged canning, do it yourself, gardening, long term food storage
Piteba Oil Press: Pumpkin Seed Trial
I finally had the chance to try the Piteba oil expeller out on some pumpkin seeds. Using fresh, homegrown seeds proved to be a bit more involved than using store-bought bulk sunflower seeds. I learned quite a bit about raw/fresh … Click HERE to read the entire post….
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Tagged do it yourself, edible wild plants, foraging, gardening, long term food storage
are Survival Seeds a scam?
There sure seems to be more suppliers offering “survival seed” collections this year. Their ads are even being aired on the radio lately. I’ve been skeptical of some of the claims made by these vendors and would like to explain … Click HERE to read the entire post….
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Tagged canning, gardening, long term food storage
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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Tagged canning, cooking over fire, do it yourself, gardening, long term food storage, solar cooking
DIY: Build a Forced-Air Food Dehydrator
This is a project that was built mostly from materials that we had on hand. We’ve used it for the past 2 summers with excellent results. The design is a small scale version of a commercial dehydrator and can be … Click HERE to read the entire post….
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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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Preventable Diseases: Botulism
Food-borne botulism is most commonly associated with improperly canned foods, specifically low acid foods like green beans, beets and corn, but can develop in improperly stored cooked foods as well. There have been some cases associated with honey, infused cooking … Click HERE to read the entire post….
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Tagged first aid, long term food storage, meat preservation
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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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