Week 14 deep Pantry/ Food Storage Challenge

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A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 27:12
Don’t forget to share what you were able to do this past week to have a deep pantry/food storage. Let’s encourage each other. And if you have a question feel free to ask or if you have the answer to a question feel free to answer. If you have a tip or idea you can share that also. As I said let’s make this a place where we can share and encourage others to get that deep pantry.

 

Remember having a deep pantry isn’t just about having extra food on hand. It is also about having the means to survive in an emergency situation, having all the extra food isn’t going to do you much good if you can’t cook it when the power is out.
10 pounds Pasta / Baking Soda, Baking Powder

 

10 Pounds of pasta, Wal-Mart has most of their Pasta for a dollar a pound. You can also make your own noodles, super easy to make, I do store some macaroni and spaghetti noodles just because they are a lot harder to make. I leave mine in the original package and put into buckets that I put in my outside shed so they can freeze during the winter.

 

Baking Soda/ Baking powder, as I have said before I get my baking soda at the local feed store ( IFA). It is 13.00 dollars for 50 pounds, at Wal-Mart it is 1.98 for 64 ounces.If you make your own you will need to store cream of tartar, by doing this you don’t have to worry about the baking powder going flat, and it doesn’t have the extra additives added to it.
How to make your own Baking Powder.
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
Use right away. If you are not going to use right away add 1 teaspoon of cornstarch.

 

The extra item this month is to work on alternate cooking sources such as a solar oven, thermal cooker, wonder oven, rocket stove, a bbq grill or even on your wood stove. This way if the power is out you have a way to cook.

 

The action item this month is to learn to can, if you don’t know anyone that can teach you, there is a ton of info on the internet, and u-tube has a lot also. Start with water bath canning then move up to pressure canning. You can pick up a nice pressure canner for under 150 dollars and you can also use it to water bath can. Wal-Mart has a water bath canner for about 40 dollars.

 

Add a little more to your money stash. Like I say every little bit helps.

 

Put back some more water.
So what did I get done this week?

2 Replies to “Week 14 deep Pantry/ Food Storage Challenge”

  1. Vicky in Ky

    I appreciate your blog so much. Just wanted to say, I love to can. It is so enjoyable plus it adds to your pantry!!

    1. watkinsranches@yahoo.com Post author

      Vicky,
      Than you so much. And I love having a full pantry it is such a good feeling.
      Have a great day
      Connie