This newsletter will provide food storage guidelines, acquisition plans, shelf life information, cooking and food preparation ideas, and buying and storage tips. These ideas are gathered from numerous resources. Further food storage ideas can be found at http://www.nursehealer.com/Storage.htm
Food Storage Plan for One Person for One Year, LDS Monthly Plan to Acquire Food Storage and 72-Hour Kit in One Year with Monthly Goals, & 52 Week Acquisition Plan to Acquire One Year’s Storage - http://www.nursehealer.com/Storage.htm
This Month’s Food Storage Guidelines:
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This Month’s FOOD STORAGE 52 Week Acquisition Plan to Acquire One Year’s
Storage:
Week 1. Grain & dehydrated potatoes or other potato items (50 lbs.
each)
Week 2. Juice (6 gallons)
Week 3. Oil-vegetable oil or shortening (20 lbs.)
Week 4. Light source (batteries/flashlights, candles/matches, lanterns,
etc.)
Week 5: Water (14 gal. per person is 1 week supply.)
Shelf Life for This Month's storage items:
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The soft grains (Barley, Oat Groats, Rolled Oats, Quinoa, Rye) will
keep for 8 years at room temperature sealed without oxygen. The hard
grains (Buckwheat, Corn, Flax, Kamut, Millet, Wheat, Spelt, Triticale)
will keep 10 to 12 years or more at room temperature sealed without oxygen.
Dehydrated vegetables will also keep 8 to 10 years under the same circumstances.
- from http://waltonfeed.com/grain/life.htmll
Fruit juices (canned) keep 18 to 36 months in a cool, dry place.
Salad oils keep 6 to 9 months. - http://www.ces.uga.edu/pubcd/b914-w.html
(More shelf life information: http://www.mycpc.com/shelflife.html or http://www.nursehealer.com/ShelfLife.htm )
This Month’s LDS Monthly Plan to Acquire Food Storage and 72-Hour Kit
in One Year
(with Monthly Goals)
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"If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear." D & C 38:30
Spiritual Goal---Attend the Temple one more session than you normally do this month.
Provident Living Goal---If you normally do not grow a garden, plan to grow at least one vegetable this year. if you already have a garden either 1)grow a vegetable you haven't tried before OR 2) try a new method or technique this year.
Storage Goal:
2 pounds yeast per person
2 pounds baking powder per person
1 pound soda per person
1 gal vinegar per person
10 cans evaporated milk per person
10 pounds peanut butter per person
spices, condiments and vanilla
72 hour kit:
4 granola bars per person
2 sticks beef jerky per person
1 package chewing gum per person
hard candies or lollipops--at least 12 per person (note these items
will be rotated every 6 months--see Oct.)
This Month’s Cooking with Food Storage Ideas:
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HEALTHY CORNBREAD
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3/4 c Corn meal
1 c Whole wheat flour
4 t Baking powder
3/4 t Salt
1/4 c Honey (or use molasses!)
2 T Applesauce
3/4 c Soy milk, milk or water
1 Egg (or 1/4 cup egg Substitute) beaten
1/2 c Water *
Sift together corn meal, flour, baking powder and
salt. Add remaining ingredients; mix well with a spoon. Pour into a 9"
round teflon baking dish (or spray a 9" round glass baking dish with "oil
& flour" non-stick spray). Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, or until
golden brown. - from http://soar.Berkeley.EDU/recipes/baked-goods/breads/cornbreads/healthy1.rec
WHOLE WHEAT BROWNIES
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3/4 C. vegetable oil or melted shortening
2 C. sugar
4 eggs
1 C. applesauce
2 tsp vanilla
2 C. whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 C. cocoa
Cream oil or shortening and sugar. Add eggs, applesauce,
and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt,
baking soda, and cocoa. Grease 13X 9 pan and pour in batter. Bake
at 350 for 35-40 minutes. You can add chocolate chunks, fruit, or
nuts for variety. NOTE: If you have a grain mill, grind your
wheat on the finest setting. They are more like a cake than a brownie,
but are still good.
Frosting:
1/2 C. melted margarine
2 T cocoa
2 C. powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Mix with milk to spreading consistency. (from food-storage
email list)
(More Food Storage Recipes: http://www.nursehealer.com/Recipes.htm )
This Month’s Suggested Books:
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"PDR for Herbal Medicines" (First Edition) (From the publishers of
the Physician’s Desk Reference)
ISBN: 1-56363-292-6 $59.95 (This is a must-have for the home
natural pharmacy!)
"The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest" by Carol W. Costenbader
ISBN: 0-88266-978-8 $18.95
(More Food Storage ideas are at http://www.nursehealer.com/Storage.htm )
This Month’s Date Code Info:
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Capri Sun (800)227-7478 Capri Sun - Juice in pouches
CODE: First digit is the year (8 = 1998). Next three digits is the
day on Julien calendar
SHELF LIFE: 18 months
Motts (800)426-4891 Apple juice
CODE: After WA, first number is year, second two are month, next two
are day.
SHELF LIFE: One year
Welches (800)240-6870 Grape Juice - Plastic bottle
CODE: First number is year, letter is mgt plant, next 2 numbers is
day of month, next letter is month A=Jan, B=Feb, etc.
SHELF LIFE: One year
(More date codes: http://www.waltonfeed.com/sett/lid.html )
This Month’s Frugal Living Tip:
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These tips were posted to the Y2KSurvivalFood email discussion list:
Arthritis tonic and treatment; 2 spoonfuls of apple cider vinegar and
honey in a glass of water several times daily.
- 60 Uses of Vinegar - http://www.familyfunzone.com/vinegar.html
For an invigorating yet gentle facial scrub, refresh tired skin. Apply
a paste of 3 parts Baking Soda to 1 part water in a gentle circular motion
after washing face with soap and water. Leaves skin deep down clean.
- Using Baking Soda - http://www.armhammer.com/join.htm
To make your own baking powder, stir and sift together 2 parts of Cream
of Tartar to 1 part baking soda and 1 part cornstarch.
- 60 Uses of Baking Soda - http://forfree.com/rep_household/hhold050.shtml
Test the freshness of eggs in a cup of salt water; fresh eggs
sink; bad ones float.
- 60 Uses of Salt - http://forfree.com/rep_household/hhold048.shtml
(More Frugal Living resources: http://www.nursehealer.com/Frugal.htm )
This Month’s Additional Buying & Storage Tips:
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Food Storage Central has a fabulous article
on storing grains and legumes at http://www.foodstorage.net/guides6.htm
Walton Foods has more on the hows and whys
of wholegrains at http://waltonfeed.com/grain/
All you could possibly want to know about
powdered eggs or powdered milk can be found in the Sports Solutions newsletters.
You can join their email list at http://www.sportssolutionsinc.com/y2k-products.html
If you’ve not on their mailing list, you can read the newsletters online
from the links at the bottom of http://www.sportssolutionsinc.com/y2k-food.html
An excellent publication on maintaining food
quality in storage is http://www.ces.uga.edu/pubcd/b914-w.html
Battery care tips can be found at http://www.execpc.com/industrialelectronics/duracell/propcare.htm
(More food storage ideas and resources http://www.nursehealer.com/Storage.htm )
More ideas:
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or money order, write:
Net Zero
P.O. Box 3009
Thousand Oaks, CA 91359
Many blessings,
Mary Catherine ("Cathy") Miller,
Hurst, Texas LDS First Ward Food Storage Specialist
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