5 Reasons Not to Rely on Beans and Rice
I’m a huge fan of beans of just about any kind. We also rely on beans and rice as part of our food storage. But are beans and rice the best choice for you to use as a backbone of your food storage? There may be legitimate reasons you should not have beans and...
5 Survival Foods for Everyday
I know, I know. Survival Foods. Those two words sound completely scary and overwhelming. When I first started learning about food storage and preparedness, I came across the phrase survival foods and totally balked. I mean, seriously, that sounds so…paranoid....Preserving Food
Ginger commented on this post about doing more canning and preserving in order to build up food stores. This is something that I think about and hope to implement too. I haven’t done much canning (why is it called canning when we put everything in jars?...How to fit 18 Chickens on one Shelf of a Side-by-Side Freezer
Recently, I wrote an article on food storage. I mentioned in that article that we use our freezer as part of our food storage plan. We have a large chest freezer and the side-by-side freezer that is part of the refrigerator/freezer combination. This past year to...Garbanzo Beans: Cooking and Favorite Meals
Garbanzo Beans or Chick Peas are part of my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan. They are our Stretchy Bean for week 1. Garbanzo beans were not something I grew up eating other than occasionally on a salad ‘fresh’ out of a can. When I started cooking with them a...
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