This week’s blog is a continuation of the theme from last week’s blog on soup, the ultimate survival food. In that blog you learned about storing commercially canned soups and dehydrated soup mixes. This week
Soup might be called the ultimate survival food. With just a few basic ingredients, soup provides a hearty, nutritious meal. Week 44 Preparedness Challenge This week the preparedness challenge is to add prepared soups, soup
Winter squash is in season right now! They are an important vegetable in the annual fall harvest. This is the time of year to stock up. We just harvested our winter squash and are getting
Week 42 Preparedness Challenge This week the preparedness challenge is to stock-up on special family treat items. What are the special foods that add to your family traditions and bring a sense of well-being? In
Add Some Tomatoes to Your Pantry! September is the time of the year when tomatoes are coming on like crazy in our home gardens and can be found at nearly every roadside fruit and vegetable
This week the preparedness challenge is to add baking mixes—muffin mixes, cake mixes, brownie mixes, cookie mixes, biscuit mixes, etc. to your food storage. These mixes can be purchased or prepared from scratch and can add variety to a preparedness food storage plan. Baking mixes are a convenience that can make preparing food simpler, a welcome benefit in an emergency.
This week the challenge is to add an extra container of yeast and other leavenings to your pantry. In a time of crisis, you may need to rely more on foods prepared at home. Breads and other baked goods require leavenings, so it’s good to have a supply in your food storage.
As people recognize the benefits from living a healthy lifestyle, many are adding whole grains to their diets. So, if healthy grains are important to you, you’ll want to have a short-term supply in your pantry. Whole grains are also the foundation of a basic, long-term food storage. Together, grains and legumes deliver a complete and nourishing high-quality protein and provide more nutrition for the money than any other food.
Dry milk is convenient, easy to store, and can be used to replace liquid milk when it is in short supply or unavailable. Nonfat dry milk is the most common form of dry milk used for food storage. Today’s dry milk is much more palatable and more like fresh milk.
Oatmeal is an everyday food that is also an ideal food to store for a crisis or emergency. Oats are a versatile grain that can be used in a variety of ways, are widely available, and stores well.
Not very glamorous and often underrated, beans are one of the most important survival foods. Beans, along with lentils and dried peas, are the richest source of vegetable protein and are an important complement to grains.
Peanut butter is the perfect survival food. A typical serving of peanut butter is two tablespoons, and a 28-ounce jar contains about 25 servings. On average, Americans eat about six jars of peanut butter per year.
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