Canned Chicken

Chris and I will be canning some whole chickens on Saturday September 19th. If you would like to watch or can some yourself please come on over. We will start canning at 9am.

Share your knowledge

Sisters,

Please feel free to post any knowledge or tips dealing with food storage like buying it, storing it, preparing it, ect. If we put all our knowledge together we will be great. Send me an email or comment and I will get it posted. Thanks

September Food Storage Challenge

Sorry for the delay, I have been out of town without the internet. I would love to here how people did on their August food storage challenge. My family did Macaroni, and with a little patience and prayer I was able to get them .25 cents a box. I was very pleased. Alright so on to this month. The challenge for you this month is to get a three months ( or as much as your budgeted amount allows) of a canned good. You may choose canned fruits, soups, tomato sauce (maybe it goes with your last months) soups whatever you might need and use in a can. If you do not purchase items from the store in a can, pick something from the cannery that you use. Here are the instructions in case you forgot.

-First decide how much you can spend out of your budget.
-Second I will help direct you with. This month you will work to increase a canned good. If your budget is a little larger and you think you can get 3 months worth of more than one thing go for it.
-Third Pray for help. Ask Heavenly Father to help you be able to increase your storage, maybe where to shop, or the right timing, or ask for a sale on a specific item. Ask him to have someone let you know of a sale, or help you find some coupons.
-Fourth Before the end of the month make your purchase.

Food Storage Helps

Whitney Wertz came across this website and has found it very helpful in organizing, gathering and using food storage. Go explore it at http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/

If you find something specific that you think it good or has worked for you remember to make a comment or email me so I can post it for all the sisters to read.

Give them a try receipe's

White Bean Frosting- Rachael Smith

Makes enough for double layer round cake, ready in 12 minutes,

• 1 1/2 c. Crisco= 1 1/2 c. cooked, drained & pureed white beans
• 1 t salt
• 1 T vanilla
• 3/4 t butter flavoring
• 1 t almond flavoring ( i just added extra vanilla!)
• 3 T dream whip powder ( 1 pckg)
• 2 pounds powdered sugar
• 1/8-1/2 c water (depending on bean moisture, frosting should be spreadable but not runny)
  

Mix first six ingredients, then add half the powdered sugar. Add the rest of the sugar. Beat for 1 minute then and add water a little at a time until spreadable, but not runny. Beat for 6 more minutes until fluffy. Ready immediately.

Peach Spice Cake (really yummy with the white bean frosting!)
Makes 13 x 9 pan, ready in 2 hours, Rachael Smith

• 1 quart (32 oz) Peaches
• 1 C. sugar
• 1 C. oil
• 2 Eggs.
• 4 C. flour
• 1 t. salt
• 4 t. baking soda
• 1/8 tsp. allspice
• 1/8 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. nutmeg

Put the peaches, juice and all, into the blender and puree. Add in sugar, oil, and eggs into the blender and mix together.In another bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda, spices. Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix together.

Bake in a greased 9x13 pan at 350 F. for 35-40 minutes. Cool and frost.

Sweet & Buttery Cornbread

Makes 13 x 9 pan, ready in 45 minutes, Rachael Smith

• 3 C Bisquick
• 3/4 t baking powder
• 3/4 C sugar
• 1 1/2 C milk
• 3 eggs
• 4 T cornmeal
• 3/4-1 C melted butter

Mix all together.

Bake 25-30 min @350 °(or until you push on top & springs back up, sometimes it takes 40 minutes, I use a glass pan)

Super Easy Chili

Serves 8-10 adults, ready in 45 minutes, Rachael Smith

• 1 lb ground beef or sausage or cracked wheat sausage
• 1 onion
• 1/2 t pepper
• 1 can kidney beans
• 2 cans pinto beans
• 2 cans chopped tomatoes
• 1/8-1/4 C chili powder
• 1 t cumin
• 1 can green chili
• 1 T sugar
• 1 T Worcestershire
  Brown meat & onion, combine all & heat through. Serve with sour cream & cheeseserve with Cornbread

Pinto Bean Fudge

Makes 9 inch pan, ready in 3 hours, Cannery

• 1 c. cooked, drained & mashed Pinto Beans
• 1/4 c milk = 1 T milk powder + 1/4 c water
• 1 T vanilla
• 2 pounds powdered sugar (more if you beans are moist)
• 6 oz unsweetened chocolate= 1 c + 2 T cocoa + 6 T shortening
• 6 T butter or margarine

Nuts, chopped (optional) (but a wise choice if there might be beany chunks in your fudge! the lady that made it for our class said if there were chinks, she'd prefer to think it was a nut! not a bean!
In a large bowl, stir beans & milk together to resemble mashed potatoes in consistency. Stir in Vanilla. Melt chocolate & butter and stir into bean mixture. Add nuts. Gradually stir in powdered sugar until well blended.Spread into lightly buttered 8or 9 inch pan. Chill 1-2 hours. Cut into pieces, serve.

Cracked Wheat Sausage

• 2 c cooked cracked wheat (cook wheat like rice, 1c wheat to 2 c water)
• 2 t beef boullion
• 1 t parsley
• ½ t sage
• 1 t salt
• ½ t black pepper
• ½ t thyme
• 1/8- ¼ t crushed red pepper
• opt ¼ t MSG (accent flavor)
• 4-6 drops liquid smoke
• 2 t oil
• 2 eggs

Stir all together. Form into 1 inch balls & flatten into patties. Cook in oil over med/med hi heat until brown (just like sausage!)-you can also just put it in a pan and cook it up like you would hamburger meat, it separates more thatn hamuberger does, but still works! ps, don't tell your husbands if you feed it to them! i put some in spaghetti, and dave was going for his 2nd helping before i told him what it was, then he was all weird about eating it! but it was really good!

A Challenge for your Food Storage

Hello Sisters,

Food storage might not be on your high priority list, or you might be struggling with how and when you should purchase it. So to aid you in starting or adding to your food storage each month I am going to be challenging you to try and get at least 3 months (or as close as you can) worth of one specific food storage item. Here is your challenge.

-First decide how much you can spend out of your budget.
-Second I will help direct you with. This month you will work to increase an ingredient(s) that has to do with pasta. So you could buy noodles of plenty variety, you could buy top-o-ramon, hambuger helpers, macaroni and cheese. Or you could buy spaghetti sauce or stuff to make your own sauce. So decide what it is you want to purchase. If you don't have much to spend, pick only one thing. If your budget is a little larger and you think you can get 3 months worth of more than one thing go for it.
-Third Pray for help. Ask Heavenly Father to help you be able to increase your storage, maybe where to shop, or the right timing, or ask for a sale on a specific item. Ask him to have someone let you know of a sale, or help you find some coupons.
-Fourth Before the end of the month make your purchase.

Sisters I can't promise that you will get 3 months worth, but I know if you are trying and asking in faith for the Lord's help that you will see a definite increase in your storage and you will be blessed. So please accept this challenge and if you have suggestions for next month let me know. Also if you want to share what you bought and how much storage it gives your family that would be great.

Food Storage with Small Space and Budget

The following quotes are taken from the book Follow Me (Relief society personal study guide 4)



For more than fifty years, the church has told members that they need to be able to sustain themselves with a year's supply of food in times of emergency. " Recent surveys of church memebers have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a years supply of lifes necessitites. Most members plan to do it. Too few have begun" (Thomas S. Monson.)



In many circumstances, having a year's supply of these commodities is not possible because of limited budget or space. However, a smaller supply of a few essentials is possible in most situations. It is wiser to have food for only a few days, weeks, or months than to have no storage at all.... Our food storage should be adapted to meet our individual needs.



"The key to successfully storing food is to remember that it shouldn't be a one-time expensive purchase, but it must be many small purchases forming a regular habit, much like daily prayer and scripture study, ect. We supplement our basic storage by setting aside a small amout of money in our house hold budget for regularly purchasing a pre-planned variety of food items"



President Ezra Taft Benson said: " You do not need to go into debt...to obtain a year's supply. Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each pay-check"



Food can be stored in limited space. Some member use space under beds and stairways and in closets and corners. Stacked containers can be covered with cloths to make nightstands and accent tables. Containers can be stored underneath window draperies, behind sofas, and even in space made available by other family members and friends.



Store canned goods in the coolest, darkest, and driest place possible.

Cereal Sale

There's a sale on Kellog's cereal this week at Target. Miniwheats, Cocoa Rice Krispies, Special K, etc. are $1.88. If you buy ten or a combination of 10 Kellog's products you can get a $10 rebate by mail. So that makes it a pretty sweet deal. I don't have the link to download the rebate form right now, but you can look it up. It's something like Kellog's fuel for school rebate.
Bobbi

Thanks for sharing Bobbi. 10 is a lot, but if anyone wants to combine forces and share the rebate just post a comment

Food Storage tip of the week

You food storage should be built up with food that your family likes and cooks with. If you don't have a wheat grinder, and aren't planning on getting wheat, don't store it. Store flour instead. If you don't like lentils, store a different bean instead. You should be rotating 0ut your food storage because you are eating it. Replenish as you go. There are a lot of good sites that have how much of different things to store. Each has a specified amount for Grains, sugars, beans, etc. You can take that and make it to fit your family. Use the suggestions and than modify it. Here are a few different site. Find one that works for you. Also if there are others out there that you like please leave a comment.

http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blcalculator.htm

http://www.trackmyfoodstorage.com/default.aspx

http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/2009/04/26/food-storage-shelf-life-2/

Next weeks tip, ways to organize your food storage. If you have any thoughts or something that has worked for you, please send me an email so I can post it in next weeks tips.

Bashas

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