food, food, food!

Welcome to another week of our adventure in preparedness together!

The earthquake and devastation in Haiti and now Chile have really inspired me to be ready. I may not be 100% prepared- nor can I be in 1 day- but I can do something today to be more prepared,

As I mentioned last week, Let's talk about food!


Frank Davis, as you may or may not know, prepares ready made meals in mylar packaging for emergency situations. He has developed some new meals and has an "overstock" that is available for purchase. (It's actually a cancelled order that he will sell at cost.)


Here's the details: Each mylar pouch holds 5 servings of the particular food. Each large 5 gallon bucket contains 80 meals.

Each bucket has the following meal pouches:

• Blueberry Pancake
• Potato Soup
• Whey milk
• Chocolate whey milk
• Oatmeal
• Beef Stroganoff
• Mac n' Cheese
• Alfredo chicken
• Teriyaki chicken
• Basil Tomato soup
• Lasagna
• Chili
• Vanilla Pudding
• Chocolate Pudding
• Granola

Each pouch has 5 servings. This food has NO Animal Protein and is all soy based. (The lack of animal protein help it store/last longer.) Buckets are sealed and easy to stack and move.

The buckets are each $50- which makes each meal serving 62 cents.
Here's the catch: There are only 800 buckets. That's it.

If you're interested, please let me know. I will take all the orders, collect all the money and deliver your buckets. (It's easier with only 1 point of contact.)

Let me know!
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Another crazy idea:

What if you helped me write a cookbook based on food storage ingredients? If we tested 2 recipes per week, we could in a year's time have over 100 recipes.

But here's where I need your help: Would you be willing to test some of these recipes? Good cookbooks will have more than 1 tester cook the recipe in order to ensure a high quality product. So your part would be: that you would cook some of these recipes and give me feedback. If the recipe flopped, if the recipe needed to be tweaked, whatever.

This way, we could together create a great collection of recipes that had been tried and tested.


Would you be willing to be my partners in this?


I'm visualizing that by next year, I will have a collection of recipes both you and I have tested. I will compile them and provide them to anyone who would like. I'm also visualizing that each recipe will include your feedback on the recipes so we can all learn together.


So is everybody in? GREAT!!


Let's get cooking! Don't feel compelled to cook ALL the recipes if you don't want.

And please send me your recipes that you'd like us to try out...I love input!


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Hormel Foods Clarification

Hormel canned chili, canned meats, canned stews, etc. will last for a long time. (20 + years) This is due to their can metal thickness and their processing method (extra high temperatures combined with vacuum sealing). These canned foods are a great option for "instant" preparedness meals.

Here's their website: www. hormelfoods.com

Maceys grocery store has told me that they would be willing to order in any Hormel Canned product for us. Peek at Hormel's website and let me know if we have any interest in placing an order from Maceys.

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ABC Soup Mix

If you don't have any more 10# cans of the ABC soup mix, you can make it!

For 1 cup mix:

1/4 cup dry lentils

1/4 cup dry split peas

1/4 cup alphabet noodles

2 tablespoons long dry rice

2 tablespoons dried onion

Your ABC soup mix can be used for soups, meat pie, etc.

Basic Soup ABC recipe:

9 cups boiling water

8 tsp beef bouillon

1 cup ABC soup mix

Add everything together in pot. Cover & cook for 45 minutes. Serves
6.

Jazzed up ABC Soup
9 cups boiling water
5 tsp bouillon
1 cup ABC soup mix
Mix above ingredients. Cook for 30 minutes, covered. Then add:

1 15 oz can tomatoes
1 can beef chunks

Cook for 15 more minutes. Serve. (With fresh bread is best!!)
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That's enough for today.
Your action items: Talk to me if you want the food buckets. Give me feedback on the whole cookbook craziness. Have a great week until I talk to you again. ;)
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I can give you a six word formula for success: Think things through, then follow through.

Capt Rickenbacker

And in honor of Dr. Suess birthday (today!):

"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting... so get on your way!"

"The more things that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go!"