Things that will last a while. We have a ton of canned vegetables with the dates as far away as the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025. We do the same with canned tomatoes and beans just check the best before dates most go quite a while into the future. Also canned fruits we bought several large jars of peaches with best before date 2025. All this stuff will keep at least until the dates and most long after the dates. If you dont have a home and live in an apartment this is the best way they dont have to be refrigerated. We also started growing our own stuff this year but as we are first time growers we dont know if it will work out well. We have many seeds for next year and most can start to grow inside before they have to be planted. We also bought a wood stove I live on an island so we have billions of trees and the wood stove is in case they shut the power down in the winter. We also have a BBQ with lots of propane stored in case we need something to cook on. Plus we have our trailer in the back yard, which has a propane stove a propane fridge and microwave. There are many things you can do to get read make sure you have a light source that is not electric.
You can apparently use the dehydrator to make just add water meals of stews and things. I haven't tried it yet but I'm aware of the concept and it is interesting to me.
Makes sense as I've bought noodle packets etc that are basically just that.
By locking down my flour supply I can do almost anything. Like, I can make fucking noodles if I am home all day with the power out. Lol. I have a pasta machine from Goodwill that I paid $8 for that will make some respectable fettuccine.
I have all the canning stuff, dehydrator, vacuum sealer, sauce master, etc I just need some help to do it all.
I buy top round on sale for like $8-9 and cut and marinate it in teriyaki and get a pound of passable beef jerky for basically the cost of the meat. Just finished my last bag as I had two pounds that were gonna get freezerburnt if I didn't use for something
Honestly I bought this teriyaki sauce in a gallon jug from a food outlet for 2.99 and its just about perfect. Tried next to some made with worcestershire sauce it seems a bit less salty which is cool bc I have high blood pressure anyway
Absolutely you need a Piteba oil press. Cooking oil goes rancid quick. Piteba will make oil from anything. I bought a bag of black oil sunflower seeds and got 4oz oil out of 8oz seeds
The sunflower seeds? No they go thru the press in the hull. The expeller squeezes the oil out and the press cake (everything not liquid) gets pushed out the end of the unit in a big wormlike structure similar to those fireworks you light and they make a coiling snake while they burn. Easy peasy.
Yeah the sunflower oil blew my mind it ran out like you turned a faucet on. And it was a relatively cheap setup at like $150 for the press. If I had chickens you can even feed the presscake to them as it's high in protein.
Things that will last a while. We have a ton of canned vegetables with the dates as far away as the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025. We do the same with canned tomatoes and beans just check the best before dates most go quite a while into the future. Also canned fruits we bought several large jars of peaches with best before date 2025. All this stuff will keep at least until the dates and most long after the dates. If you dont have a home and live in an apartment this is the best way they dont have to be refrigerated. We also started growing our own stuff this year but as we are first time growers we dont know if it will work out well. We have many seeds for next year and most can start to grow inside before they have to be planted. We also bought a wood stove I live on an island so we have billions of trees and the wood stove is in case they shut the power down in the winter. We also have a BBQ with lots of propane stored in case we need something to cook on. Plus we have our trailer in the back yard, which has a propane stove a propane fridge and microwave. There are many things you can do to get read make sure you have a light source that is not electric.
bacon fat in candles
sacrilege!
Yes as a guy who has made candles from tallow and bacon grease your bacon needs some wax or something to make a better candle.
Candlewic in Philly sells some great bulk candle making stuff
You can apparently use the dehydrator to make just add water meals of stews and things. I haven't tried it yet but I'm aware of the concept and it is interesting to me.
Makes sense as I've bought noodle packets etc that are basically just that.
By locking down my flour supply I can do almost anything. Like, I can make fucking noodles if I am home all day with the power out. Lol. I have a pasta machine from Goodwill that I paid $8 for that will make some respectable fettuccine.
I have all the canning stuff, dehydrator, vacuum sealer, sauce master, etc I just need some help to do it all.
I buy top round on sale for like $8-9 and cut and marinate it in teriyaki and get a pound of passable beef jerky for basically the cost of the meat. Just finished my last bag as I had two pounds that were gonna get freezerburnt if I didn't use for something
Honestly I bought this teriyaki sauce in a gallon jug from a food outlet for 2.99 and its just about perfect. Tried next to some made with worcestershire sauce it seems a bit less salty which is cool bc I have high blood pressure anyway
High BP...then avoid processed table salt. Use other salts all you want. Sea salt, celtic gray, or Himalayan.
Absolutely you need a Piteba oil press. Cooking oil goes rancid quick. Piteba will make oil from anything. I bought a bag of black oil sunflower seeds and got 4oz oil out of 8oz seeds
Did you spend 8 hours shelling them though?
The sunflower seeds? No they go thru the press in the hull. The expeller squeezes the oil out and the press cake (everything not liquid) gets pushed out the end of the unit in a big wormlike structure similar to those fireworks you light and they make a coiling snake while they burn. Easy peasy.
Yeah the sunflower oil blew my mind it ran out like you turned a faucet on. And it was a relatively cheap setup at like $150 for the press. If I had chickens you can even feed the presscake to them as it's high in protein.