September prepping

So what's everyone working on for September? Is anybody planting fall vegetables like broccoli or anything like that?   I am just trying to continue to stock up on more canned goods. A family member gave me a bunch of packages of powdered eggs  I was happy about that, I love using those for cooking!

First batch of dehydrated refried.
Sooo easy, good source of protein especially since I am afraid to dehydrate meat, except for jerky. Family loves bean burritos or just beans with onion and hot sauce. Gonna try to make another batch tomorrow night.

Yes fruit leather trays. I put NO OIL, FAT, OR BUTTER-MILK or anything that could go rancid!!!!!!!!!! VERY IMPORTANT   Just beans, water, salt, minced onion, and cumin.I start with about 3lbs of pinto beans, inspect, rinse, rinse. Then bring to a rapid boil, rinse and repeat. Then I put in a large crock pot, cover with water. Cook on high til very soft 8 hrs. Then drain some of the water (save) pour the soft beans into the old Kitchen Aid mixer with the whisk, let them mix for up to about 30 minutes checking every 10 or so. Then I add salt, minced onion and ground cumin seed. Mix a few more minutes. Allow to completely cool down. Then spread about bread slice thin layer  (mashed potatoe consist) on the Dehydrator trays (Excalibur) and let dry. They break up like dried icing, after drying= very light. To rehydrate pour a little boiling water over them and stir. I have no ratio, just by looking and mixing. You most likely will need to add more spices, but in the event of an emergency they are still awesome.

Littleraven.

I just love your posts.

All I do is buy tinned food, and powdered milk. I have drums of rice and beans, and need to stock up on sugar.

I like to open a can of tuna and mix in a spoon of curry powder, or Cajun spices and boil up some rice and mix it all together and have spicy fish and rice soup. Quick easy and delicious.

I just buy everything in in tins or dried. But some of it is years old so I am using it and replacing it with new stuff.

Thanks Kilt.  I like your easy fish and rice.  It sounds like my Ramen noodle egg fritters with a bit of curry and whatever vegetable walks by. Maybe add a little curry gravy.  In the winter I fry them up on the wood stove in an old iron skillet.  Ends up a bit like an egg fu yung fritter and really good--all comes from your dry stores.  I like the dry or dehydrated idea so much that I'm pretty much gradually going with almost everything that way for storage--not much in the freezer anymore.  Just got 3 bushels of okra vacuum sealed into about 17 quart jars.  Will keep for years as opposed to months in the freezer--no freezer burn and a tiny amount of space used in comparison. I really like that I mostly get the veggies for free from big gardens where people can't pick it fast enough and have put up all they can stand to and beg you to come and get it so it won't go to waste.  I also glean fields--after the crops are sent to the soup companies, there's plenty left and they let you come and get some of it before they turn the fields under. My daughter and her husband appreciate the dry stores too and always take some with them when they come to visit.  So now I'm looking for a way to be able to bake on my wood stove top.  I'm going to try one of those versions of a pipe stove or one that sits on the top and see if they work--I have a feeling that we may be in for the winter storms this next year and it sure would be nice to be able to bake breads etc.. when the power goes out.

Kilt- Crawdeads or crawfish. :)

Rice is great - its cheap and stores well and lasts for years and you can eat it with anything.

Crawdads, Crawfish that is what we call Yabbies - but thats just one species.

They introduced an American Signal Crayfish to the UK and its taken over and is now a pest but they are easy to catch and tastes great.

We have another species called Marron which are larger than the Yabbie but strictly hunted in season because they taste so good.

The thing is they are easy to catch and good food. I caught them as a boy with a bit of liver on cotton dangled off a foot bridge - slowly life the cotton up and put a strainer under and scoop them out.

I was thinking make up a big store of Cajun spices and then mix it with what you catch.

We have no gators here but Crocs - and very nasty animals they are - the Saltwater crocs - the Freshwater crocs are smaller and harmless - but the Salties as we call them kill people all the time and they are protected because they were hunted to extinction.

They farm them though and I have tasted the meat - delicious.

 

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Hatchi, I went to the Wonder Mill site and found the drill bit driver...LOVE IT!

I already have the WonderMill JR and never have used it yet purchased it just for if TSHTF. I just purchased the drill bit and will put it with the mill so that if we have electric I can grind flour easier.

Thanks for the site.