we'll be buying up animal feed soon! No joke, a lot of it is edible for humans, we've just become fussy. I'll have to look into vacuuing, coz the insect thing pisses me off. eg I stopped buying any pasta that was PACKED outside of Italy, as those factories suck. Genuine Italian pasta, made and packed there, has never been infested.
RE: Free prepping help from the grocery store.
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Free prepping help from the grocery store.
Mind you, I'd rather have a ton of flour and make some quick bread - is really same as pasta, and there are even italian dishes made with chunks of bread instead of pasta.
I have stored a lot of pasta, but I've never seen bug problems there? But Packing pasta in jars and pulling a hard vacuum, would definably avoid it any egg problems!
Working on quick breads myself, not happy this far. Still need to build a wood fired oven too, but I do have a dutch oven I can cook with until the oven is built.
Keep on prepping!
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For "quick", I think one needs to cheat, using baking powder instead of waiting for yeast. Is more like flat bread, pittas or naan bread, rather than an actual loaf. I also like making white pizza, which does use yeast.
I plan to do pan flat bread, and I already bought the baking powder. I also want to make burrito wrappers with no Leven, until I get the malibar spinach growing leaves big enough to wrap with.
The bread will have to move to sourdough, as yeast will drop out when the SHTF! I have 3 powered mills, and 2 hand mills to make wheat into flour.
I looked today and I also have oats and rye in storage!
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Vacuum packing works well. I need pet food too, but I hope I've stocked in enough that I don't need to eat it for them. A 50 pound bag of wheat costs less than a 25 pound bag of dog food, so I'll be grinding a lot of whole wheat flour!
I found a coop that has that plus buckwheat, barley, spelt, and half a dozen other bags of seeds. I have happily spent a lot of cash there...but I'm planning to go back soon.
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And some of these "older" grains have not yet been GMO'd ; some are hard to find, while others have become "premium". lol.
And yes, I get dry pet food for my own laziness, but real meat is much cheaper if the cheap cuts. I avoid canned food as the cats have been sick on that shit.
I picked this coop specifically because it doesn't handle GMO seeds. If the farmers insist, they make them prepay, and unload them in the parking lot. They never being them inside, and they call him to come get them when they arrive!
I'm pressure canning as much meat as I can lately, but I see the rise in costs; and that might stop that prepping soon. I've been buying canned meat to store too, so we should be good!
But I do need to buy more dog food, for my spoiled rotten beasties, LOL! 😆 They do prefer what I eat over dog food anyway....
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smart dogs!
cats are smaller and I calc ages ago costs about half the price feeding them real meat - they also eat less of it as more nutritious.
when I did have dogs I'd buy bags of soup bones - dogs less fussy, as cats are strict carnivores.
They do like soup bones! I'd have to pressure can them, to put them on the shelf for later, but I'd end up with bone broth; so I may try that.
My dogs like people food best anyway, ROFLOL! They will eat anything I'm eating, which will help me feed them.
I have pressure canned several dozen quarts of meat in the last two weeks, but I'd like a lot more! I have experimented with pressure canning beans, because on solar power, crock pots are out....
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