This is my new favorite storage method! My kids are loving the dried fruit and I didn't know you can dry basically anything!! Did you know if you dehydrate tomatoes you can have your sun dried tomatoes and grate the tomatoes to a powder and mix with water to make the right consistency for tomato paste.
APPLES-before you dry the apples you can sprinkle jello on them for a candied apple taste or buterscotch pudding for the caramel effect!
Yogurt!!! did you know you can dehydrate yogurt to make a chewy fruit leather!!!
If any of you have favorite things you dehydrate let us in on your secrets!!!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
BRAT diet
Who knows anything about the BRAT diet? I got a glimpse of it but don't know what it is for. B: Banana R: Rice A: Applesauce T: Toast
What is is for? Long term? Short term? Just some questions to put out there:D
What is is for? Long term? Short term? Just some questions to put out there:D
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Cannery prices
The prices for food storage items at the church's Home Storage Centers (St. Paul Cannery) were lowered in June and Potato Pearls are back! Never had them, but apparently they were gone for awhile and everyone in my ward is over-the-moon because they have returned.
Click here for the price list: Food Storage Order Form
Click here for the price list: Food Storage Order Form
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Homemade Cleaning Supplies!!
Okay i just found a recipe for homemade Laundry Soap!!! I am really excited to try it cause it can work for top load or front load washers. Here is the website for it! http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/18-kids-and-counting/recipes/homemade-laundry-soap.html it is from Michelle Duggar! Now as you read this recipe you might think what the crap are these ingredients (I thought that) but they are easy to find online and i found the Borax at walmart and the other 2 at a local grocery store. I found all the ingredients at www.soapsgonebuy.com. The recipe says to dilute the soap mixture half and half before you use it, but my husband was wondering why you can't just use half as much??? Good luck and if this works for a family of 20 and lasts 2-3 months think how long one batch will last us with smaller families!!
this is my edit on it but i haven't had the chance to use it yet i have only made it!!!
1 Fels Naptha soap bar, grated
1 cup washing soda
1/2 cup borax
Instructions: Grate the soap bar into a small bowl. Fill a medium sauce pan with water heat to boil then add the grated soap. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring continually, until the soap completely dissolves.
Put washing soda and borax in a 5-gallon bucket. Pour in the hot, melted soap mixture. Stir well, until all the powder is dissolved. Fill the bucket to the top with more hot tap water. Stir, cover securely, and let set overnight. The next morning, stir the mixture. Mix equal amounts of soap concentrate and water in a smaller laundry-detergent dispenser or container. Shake before using.
Scott and are not going to dilute this mixture when we use it so we will use 1/2 cup for top load and 1/4 for front load. makes 320 loads (i figured)
For top-loading machines: Use 1 cup of the soap mixture per load.
For front-loading machines: Use 1/2 cup per load.
This is Laundry soap recipe i was given it takes less work but it costs $.04 so it does cost more. and it is in a powder form
2cups Borax
2 Cups washing soda (arm and hammer)
1 bar Fels Naphtha soap grated
Mix all together. Use 1 Tbsp. for a regular wash or 2 Tbsp. for heavily soiled clothes. (I used 1 Tbsp for my front load but we might be able to reduce a little more.) makes about 70 loads
This powder mix works well and both smell great!!
this is my edit on it but i haven't had the chance to use it yet i have only made it!!!
1 Fels Naptha soap bar, grated
1 cup washing soda
1/2 cup borax
Instructions: Grate the soap bar into a small bowl. Fill a medium sauce pan with water heat to boil then add the grated soap. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring continually, until the soap completely dissolves.
Put washing soda and borax in a 5-gallon bucket. Pour in the hot, melted soap mixture. Stir well, until all the powder is dissolved. Fill the bucket to the top with more hot tap water. Stir, cover securely, and let set overnight. The next morning, stir the mixture. Mix equal amounts of soap concentrate and water in a smaller laundry-detergent dispenser or container. Shake before using.
Scott and are not going to dilute this mixture when we use it so we will use 1/2 cup for top load and 1/4 for front load. makes 320 loads (i figured)
For top-loading machines: Use 1 cup of the soap mixture per load.
For front-loading machines: Use 1/2 cup per load.
This is Laundry soap recipe i was given it takes less work but it costs $.04 so it does cost more. and it is in a powder form
2cups Borax
2 Cups washing soda (arm and hammer)
1 bar Fels Naphtha soap grated
Mix all together. Use 1 Tbsp. for a regular wash or 2 Tbsp. for heavily soiled clothes. (I used 1 Tbsp for my front load but we might be able to reduce a little more.) makes about 70 loads
This powder mix works well and both smell great!!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Tillamook Cheese
If you buy Tillamook Cheese....it is sealed in a paraffin plastic. 'They' say that it does not have to be refrigerated. If you do open it though...you have to eat it in one sitting or refrigerate it after. But for food storage ideas....stock up.
Corn Meal
A friend shared with me that to make Corn Meal....you just grind popcorn in a wheat grinder. That simple.
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