If you read this blog regularly, you know how much we like buying our products from Emergency Essentials.
Here's a link to their current Group Specials: http://beprepared.com/category.asp_Q_c_E_900_A_c2c_E_tn_A_name_E_GroupSpecials - They have discounts for dried onions, dried bell peppers, hiker water filters, and more. These are just the advertised GROUP specials. That means you have to buy the specified number to get the reduced rate.
Now... take a look at my favorite page of their well-organized website: http://beprepared.com/quickshoplist.asp_Q_c_E_64_A_name_E_Provident%20Pantry®%20Freeze%20Dried%20Food%20in%20Cans - these are the dried products from Provident Pantry they sell. I love looking on the right hand size of their list and seeing red which indicates a reduction in price. Looks like strawberries and bananas are reduced, along with others. Yum! Anyone else's mouth watering?
By the way, we do not get a discount or freebies or anything else from Emerg Essentials for giving your their information. (I wish ... hint hint!!) We just think they have the best prices for the best dried foods and other emergency supplies. They fill orders quickly too!
Check them out!
Rabu, 11 Februari 2009
Recipe: Homemade Dog Food & Treats
Every time we drive near Petco, VHTS asks to go in to get treats for our Chihuahua. Got us thinking: If the shumer hits the fan, and we run out of dog food and treats, what will we do? Found these recipes, and tried them. Princess-Picky ate them!
Most dogs choose their favorite treats by smell, and they like gamey flavors best, as well as liver, fat, garlic, horsemeat, lamb, beef, cheese and fish. Do NOT add salt. Dogs need to eat only once a day. Properly trained and allowed, dogs will self-regulate. For dogs use 75% carbohydrate foods (grains and vegetables) to 25% meat.
Doggy-Burger-Yum:
1 cup dried ground beef, rehydrated, cooked
1/2 cup cooked oatmeal
1 jar baby food - green beans
1 jar baby food - carrots
Mix together. Add cottage cheese and scrambled or boiled egg if you have it. Serve at room temperature. Store unused portion (covered) in refrigerator; use within 3 days.
Doggy-Chicken-Yum:
1 cup dried chicken or turkey dices, rehydrated, cooked
1/2 cup cooked brown rice
2 jars baby food - mixed vegetables
1/4 cup unsalted chicken broth
Mix together. Serve at room temperature. Store unused portion (covered) in refrigerator; use within 3 days.
Doggy-Peanut-Butter-Treats:
2 1/2 cups flour
1 jar baby food carrots or sweet potato
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup milk
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Combine ingredients well. Add a little more or less flour (or more/less milk) to make a stiff dough. Roll out on a floured surface to a quarter-inch thick. Cut out using cookie cutters. Place on oiled cookie/baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes.
Doggy-Green-Treats:
1 jar baby food - peas
2 jars baby food - meat
1/3 cup cooked oats
1/4 cup powdered milk
1/4 tsp garlic powder
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine ingredients well. Press into little treat-sized patties and place on oiled cookie/baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes.
Onions and chocolate are TOXIC to dogs. Avoid!
Most dogs choose their favorite treats by smell, and they like gamey flavors best, as well as liver, fat, garlic, horsemeat, lamb, beef, cheese and fish. Do NOT add salt. Dogs need to eat only once a day. Properly trained and allowed, dogs will self-regulate. For dogs use 75% carbohydrate foods (grains and vegetables) to 25% meat.
Doggy-Burger-Yum:
1 cup dried ground beef, rehydrated, cooked
1/2 cup cooked oatmeal
1 jar baby food - green beans
1 jar baby food - carrots
Mix together. Add cottage cheese and scrambled or boiled egg if you have it. Serve at room temperature. Store unused portion (covered) in refrigerator; use within 3 days.
Doggy-Chicken-Yum:
1 cup dried chicken or turkey dices, rehydrated, cooked
1/2 cup cooked brown rice
2 jars baby food - mixed vegetables
1/4 cup unsalted chicken broth
Mix together. Serve at room temperature. Store unused portion (covered) in refrigerator; use within 3 days.
Doggy-Peanut-Butter-Treats:
2 1/2 cups flour
1 jar baby food carrots or sweet potato
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup milk
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Combine ingredients well. Add a little more or less flour (or more/less milk) to make a stiff dough. Roll out on a floured surface to a quarter-inch thick. Cut out using cookie cutters. Place on oiled cookie/baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes.
Doggy-Green-Treats:
1 jar baby food - peas
2 jars baby food - meat
1/3 cup cooked oats
1/4 cup powdered milk
1/4 tsp garlic powder
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine ingredients well. Press into little treat-sized patties and place on oiled cookie/baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes.
Onions and chocolate are TOXIC to dogs. Avoid!
Unless your dog is used to eating animals and bones, don't give dogs any bones. They tend to splinter internally or lodged in the throat.
We'll work on cat treats but since we don't have a cat, they won't be tested. We're don't have experience with other pets - anyone have treats for birds, ferrets, rabbits, etc? Please feel free to leave your recipe as a comment to this post. Thanks!
Selasa, 10 Februari 2009
Too Much Preparation Or Not Enough?
We regularly read www.survivalblog.com and came across the following a few months ago: http://www.survivalblog.com/2008/11/two_letters_re_adapt_to_surviv.html
Basically, the writers state that all the learning of survival skills, like gardening and hunting, won't help if the s*** really does hit the fan. If people know you're preparing, you'll be among the first targets for looters and scavengers.
We have to agree.
So when you are learning leathermaking, cabinetry, hunting, and other specialties for you, your family or your community, be sure to figure out how you would survive if you couldn't leave your place for 6 to 9 months - or longer. Do you have enough water and food? Toilet paper and diapers? Laundry soap and cough medicine? What if you couldn't even turn on lights, or light a fire to cook your meals? Or plant a garden because people would see evidence of someone tending to it?
Just a thought.
Basically, the writers state that all the learning of survival skills, like gardening and hunting, won't help if the s*** really does hit the fan. If people know you're preparing, you'll be among the first targets for looters and scavengers.
We have to agree.
So when you are learning leathermaking, cabinetry, hunting, and other specialties for you, your family or your community, be sure to figure out how you would survive if you couldn't leave your place for 6 to 9 months - or longer. Do you have enough water and food? Toilet paper and diapers? Laundry soap and cough medicine? What if you couldn't even turn on lights, or light a fire to cook your meals? Or plant a garden because people would see evidence of someone tending to it?
Just a thought.
Recipe: Wheat Berry Bread (By Machine)
This is another recipe to use the wheat berries you have stored. We've moderated a recipe to make in our bread machine, because, well, we don't eat a lot of bread, and half of it has to be wheat-free anyway.
Give this a try. You may want to play with the ingredients and measurements for your own personal taste, machine, or perhaps baking in your oven or a solar oven.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup milk
2/3 cup water
2 tablespoons vinegar
1-2 cups additional wheat flour (especially if making without bread machine)
Directions:
Follow the instructions to your machine, placing the ingredients in the bucket according to instructions. Our machine calls for wet ingredients first, then dry, then yeast. Mix the wet together before adding. Mix the dry together before adding. Then, set on longest baking cycle, and start.
After the machine has mixed for a few minutes, take a peak. While it's supposed to be stickier than bread made from store-bought flour, it's still needs to be a firm dough. Add a bit more flour by tablespoons as necessary. This should make a 2-pound loaf.
Copyright (c) 2009 New View Group, LLC
Give this a try. You may want to play with the ingredients and measurements for your own personal taste, machine, or perhaps baking in your oven or a solar oven.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup milk
2/3 cup water
2 tablespoons vinegar
1/3 cup oil or melted butter
1/3 cup honey
1 egg
4 cups wheat flour (you need to measure it from what you grind yourself)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda1 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon yeast
1-2 cups additional wheat flour (especially if making without bread machine)
Directions:
Follow the instructions to your machine, placing the ingredients in the bucket according to instructions. Our machine calls for wet ingredients first, then dry, then yeast. Mix the wet together before adding. Mix the dry together before adding. Then, set on longest baking cycle, and start.
After the machine has mixed for a few minutes, take a peak. While it's supposed to be stickier than bread made from store-bought flour, it's still needs to be a firm dough. Add a bit more flour by tablespoons as necessary. This should make a 2-pound loaf.
Copyright (c) 2009 New View Group, LLC
Senin, 09 Februari 2009
Inventory Check: Can Openers
Picture this:
The bird flu has broken out, so you've been confined to your house, just like everyone else. You've eaten everything in your fridge and freezer, and now, you've got to start dipping into your canned foods. It's been a week, and after using your can opener 9-10 times a day, it's finally broken. Uh oh. Do you have a spare? Maybe. Somewhere. Uh, maybe your neighbor might have one, but the health police are stationed outside, watching for curfew breakers. You try a knife but it cuts your hand. You die because you don't have an extra (decent) can opener.
Not a pretty picture.
So get some. But not just any. We had found some really cheap at the dollar store, with red handles. Bought 3 that day. Tried one out the next week, and it wouldn't work. Neither would the other two.
Find one you really like, that you can afford. Then, get lots of them. Stash one with every box filled with canned foods. In every drawer of the kitchen. In your car. In your bug-out-bag. Everywhere.
The bird flu has broken out, so you've been confined to your house, just like everyone else. You've eaten everything in your fridge and freezer, and now, you've got to start dipping into your canned foods. It's been a week, and after using your can opener 9-10 times a day, it's finally broken. Uh oh. Do you have a spare? Maybe. Somewhere. Uh, maybe your neighbor might have one, but the health police are stationed outside, watching for curfew breakers. You try a knife but it cuts your hand. You die because you don't have an extra (decent) can opener.
Not a pretty picture.
So get some. But not just any. We had found some really cheap at the dollar store, with red handles. Bought 3 that day. Tried one out the next week, and it wouldn't work. Neither would the other two.
Find one you really like, that you can afford. Then, get lots of them. Stash one with every box filled with canned foods. In every drawer of the kitchen. In your car. In your bug-out-bag. Everywhere.
Recipe: How to Make Walnut Milk
Here's another recipe to make a milk substitute:
Ingredients:
1 cup walnuts
4 cups water
2 tablespoons honey or 1 teaspoon stevia
Directions:
Soak walnuts 24-36 hours to remove bitter tannins. Rinse. Place walnuts with 4 cups clean water in a blender. Blend on high for 3-6 minutes. Strain twice through cheesecloth into a mason jar, label and refrigerate. Use within 3 days.
This milk is full of the omega 3/6's, essential amino acids.
Use the leftovers for making goodies like bread, pancakes, muffins, etc.
Copyright (c) 2009 New View Group, LLC
Ingredients:
1 cup walnuts
4 cups water
2 tablespoons honey or 1 teaspoon stevia
Directions:
Soak walnuts 24-36 hours to remove bitter tannins. Rinse. Place walnuts with 4 cups clean water in a blender. Blend on high for 3-6 minutes. Strain twice through cheesecloth into a mason jar, label and refrigerate. Use within 3 days.
This milk is full of the omega 3/6's, essential amino acids.
Use the leftovers for making goodies like bread, pancakes, muffins, etc.
Copyright (c) 2009 New View Group, LLC
Minggu, 08 Februari 2009
Long Term Food Storage Containers - Icing Buckets
Ever since I read about how to store food to keep bugs and critters out (I think it was on http://www.survivalblog.com/), I've been searching for icing buckets at bakeries, Wal-Mart, and anywhere else that makes cakes. It's been months and either they sell them or aren't allowed to just give them to customers. However.... we finally found some at King Sooper's (Krogers to some people). I was in the bakery section ordering a cake when I had a thought. I asked the lady behind the counter what they did with the empty icing buckets. "Oh, we give them to whoever asks". Free.
YIPPEE!!
We found our source. They only had three (one 2 gallon, one 2 1/2 gallon, and one 3 gallon) but she said depending on how many cakes they do during the day, they usually have at least one. So I've made a mental note to check every time I'm there, and have told Hubby to do the same.
Since we have a little mouse problem, this is perfect for us. We should be able to get enough for beans, pasta, flour, sugar, etc. etc.
Now we just have to wash the icing out of them. That's the hardest part because the icing is slick - the oil/butter. Then pack, include a few bay leaves and dessicant packages, tightly seal, clearly label (especially with expiration dates of contents), and stack away.
We are packing with bottles of honey, big containers of spices, corn meal, flour, etc. I think we'll pack an extra bucket with our stored seeds to plant next Spring, maybe another with sewing supplies (to prevent rust), and then the ones with ... who knows!
Just look around at your local bakeries. If you strike out at one, go to the next. Some might charge a dollar or so, but we're getting ours for free. You probably can too.
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