That's a really good idea. That's good to know. So I'm going to have to do that with mine now. So how often do you cook with your food storage?
Every day!
Every single day? Every meal of the day? Or just you try to do something? Is it conscious or is it just natural?
Now it's natural. But I would say every meal. I make my own bread so at lunch we have that, at breakfast if we have cereal or something then it has the powdered milk. And then dinner would have usually milk or onions or something. I use it all the time.
All the time, wow, I don't yet! So can you make good sandwiches with your bread?
Oh, yes! Oh, gosh yes! You need a bread maker and you need to look at my tips for making good bread machine bread.
Alright, we'll check it out. What aspects of food storage would you like to learn more about? Or do you just know everything?
No, I don't know everything! No. I think you can always be learning, so I think the next thing I'm going to try tackling is powdered milk yogurt. Because I received a recipe from one of my blog readers where you can make fat-free frosting for cakes. I think it's supposed to taste kind of like a buttercream or something but it's fat-free.
So it's healthy?
Well, healthier ... I won't necessarily say healthy, but healthier. If you are going to make a cookie anyway you might as well add in extra nutrition with wheat or something like that.
This is true. And you kind of said in the beginning that it's really good to start small. But is there any other advice that you'd want to share with beginners? Because a lot of our blog readers tend to be people just getting started and kind of heading into long-term food storage is a hard step. So any other words of wisdom?
That's really what I focus on is the beginners. So what I would say is just pick one thing that you're going to start with. And one of the things I think is easiest to start with is powdered milk. Because you don't need to have a grinder and you don't need to have all these special things to use it. You can just start cooking with it right away. And you can start putting it in desserts like sweetened condensed milk or like evaporated milk. And that way you know it's going to taste good because it has the sugar. Your family is going to want to try it because it's a dessert.
Article comments
1 - Bruce
Wet-packed canned food from the grocery store will store FAR longer than the expiration date states.
Twice in our history, canned food that was over 100 years old was found, once in England and once in the Missouri River. While it wasn't pretty anymore, it was found to be edible ... and the Missouri River canned food was even declared to be still nutritious (by a testing lab).
You can read both articles here.
Best regards!
Bruce