I used to but this at trade shows before COVID and I think is 8 servings it really depends on what you at as protein.
Prep Genrl Weekly Prep Thread: August 22 ~ 28, 2021
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SouthernBreeze
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The package of each says 8 servings. I don't know if that includes the added ingredients list and the meat of your choice, or if it's 8 servings as is. I'll know more about it, once I get mine. Tracking says it's supposed to be delivered today.
If you've got room, you can freeze your tomatoes until you get enough for a canner load. I thaw the bags of frozen tomatoes and dump them in a large wire mesh strainer. Tons of excess water runs off, and the resulting puree (after running them through the Victorio strainer) is already thick enough for spaghetti sauce without any boiling.
Summerthyme
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Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Pouring rain here! (a blessing) -- I'm going to do Thursday errands when the storm passes. It'll be much cooler. It has been in the mid-90s. I harvested a lot of my potatoes before the heat hit. I'll probably have to replant the peas. I usually get a second harvest of cool season veggies if I get them planted in early August and it doesn't get too hot. However, we had a week of 90s. I'll see what happens. I think the tomato plants are toast.
Yes, I've got alternative sources that aren't the grocery store. I want to store at least a bushel of potatoes and several dozen winter squashes. It's not prime winter squash season yet -- need another week or two.
Yes, I've got alternative sources that aren't the grocery store. I want to store at least a bushel of potatoes and several dozen winter squashes. It's not prime winter squash season yet -- need another week or two.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
We had a catfish dinner last night at friend's house. We had such a nice time visiting. This is the cousin I talked to about taking ivermectin. They are both vaccinated but have regrets about it. My cousin and I argue all the time, he only gets his news from Fox, but they can't get OAN. They are also not online so he curses the internet. LOL He's a savy fellow other than that.
One of our dual fuel generators won't start. Unfortunately DH just leaves it out in the weather (talk about hard heads). He even made a cover for it but has not used it in over a year. He's out working on it now.
Elderly aunts use to send me scented soaps for Christmas when I was growing up, my mother unwrapped them and put them in my clothes drawers.
God is good all the time
Judy
One of our dual fuel generators won't start. Unfortunately DH just leaves it out in the weather (talk about hard heads). He even made a cover for it but has not used it in over a year. He's out working on it now.
Elderly aunts use to send me scented soaps for Christmas when I was growing up, my mother unwrapped them and put them in my clothes drawers.
God is good all the time
Judy
Gotta love that Victorio strainer. It is a lifesaver for me!
Oh, yeah! The only drawback to freezing the tomatoes is it seems to toughen the skins. We have to stop after every gallon bag or two, disassemble the Victorio and scrape the skins off the strainer cone before we can get it to work again. We designed a support for an electric drill (Hatbor Freight special!) and I got an Amish neighbor to fabricate a "drill bit" that fir the strainer in place of the handle. Saves hours and tons of pain!
Summerthyme
Oh thats a good idea! My sweetie has retrofitted a couple of things for me so that a drill powers the process. He made a gig for scraping corn off the cob that is unbelievable. Saves us hours! I think that maybe we bought something and he redesigned it. Not wanting to claim it as all ours!
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
RT 55 seconds -- use a power drill to peel apples -- I've used this method. Works best in the back yard! The crows come and gobble down the peels. It works with larger potatoes, too.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1hTKfkJtzM
We make bacon. We use pork belly. I am doing this from memory but we make a mix with Tender Quick and spices that you want. Then we put it in the fridge in a 2 gallon Ziplock and turn it every day for 7 days. Then we smoke it! It is worth the effort! There are a few you tube videos I think probably more than a few now that I think about it.
SouthernBreeze
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I just received my shipment of the assorted dry soup mixes. I took one out, and read the back instructions. This one is for Enchilada Soup. Apparently, it's the finished product that serves 8. The packets are the basic soup mix, but you'll have to add other ingredients as well, according to which soup you make. This one calls for 6 cups of chicken broth, 2 cups of cooked chicken, 1 cup of green chili enchilada sauce, and 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese. Optional is 1/2 cup of sour cream. Cooking instructions are included.
I'm looking forward to making the White Bean Chicken Chili!
I'm looking forward to making the White Bean Chicken Chili!
Old Gray Mare
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This morning I started building a grab and go food tub. It has enough food for our small family for about two weeks figuring on 2 meals a day. I've done this for other family members. The problem is keeping it light enough so that I can pick it up and carry it. It has a lot of dried and canned food with an eye to keeping water weight to a minimum. Now I need to include what I need to make the food; pots, can opener, ladal etc.
Edited to add: Just realized the plastic tote is transparent. Probably not a good idea for inconspicuous food storage on the go. Duh.
Edited to add: Just realized the plastic tote is transparent. Probably not a good idea for inconspicuous food storage on the go. Duh.
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prudentwatcher
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My foot infection saga has been taking up most of my time and energy. Still not resolved, but finally making some progress.
I have piles of bags on the floor in the den full of preps to put away. I get tired easily so only do a little bit at a time, then I go to the store and buy even more
No big purchases, but a lot of bulking up: deodorant, toothpaste, rice mixes, OTC meds, lots of snack foods, some puzzles, oatmeal, pasta, a few canned things here and there. I just put my honey purchase from a month or so ago (Sam's) into pint jars. I finally found some Morton Lite Salt (for replacement Gatorade) and bought 4. I have 1 in the first aid cabinet, but thought more would be good.
Publix has a few things that I will get this week. Blackberries are on sale, so I will get some of those. I will have enough berries frozen for a couple of batches of mixed berry jam (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries) if I need to clean out the freezer in a hurry. Everything else is stuff like granola bars, cereal and soups. I certainly don't look like a prepper if you see my grocery cart.
We just went on Chewy.com and made a huge order, about $250. Lots of kitty litter and enough canned food for 2 months (we use 3 small cans each day). A trip to Publix by my better half also stocked up on one of their favorite treats for a couple of months as well. This will put us back at the 6 month range, which is about as far ahead for the pets as we can ever get.
I have piles of bags on the floor in the den full of preps to put away. I get tired easily so only do a little bit at a time, then I go to the store and buy even more
No big purchases, but a lot of bulking up: deodorant, toothpaste, rice mixes, OTC meds, lots of snack foods, some puzzles, oatmeal, pasta, a few canned things here and there. I just put my honey purchase from a month or so ago (Sam's) into pint jars. I finally found some Morton Lite Salt (for replacement Gatorade) and bought 4. I have 1 in the first aid cabinet, but thought more would be good. Publix has a few things that I will get this week. Blackberries are on sale, so I will get some of those. I will have enough berries frozen for a couple of batches of mixed berry jam (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries) if I need to clean out the freezer in a hurry. Everything else is stuff like granola bars, cereal and soups. I certainly don't look like a prepper if you see my grocery cart.
We just went on Chewy.com and made a huge order, about $250. Lots of kitty litter and enough canned food for 2 months (we use 3 small cans each day). A trip to Publix by my better half also stocked up on one of their favorite treats for a couple of months as well. This will put us back at the 6 month range, which is about as far ahead for the pets as we can ever get.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
Old Gray Mare, I know I need to do something like this but I just don't want to face the possibility of having to leave.
Prudentwatcher: Your living room sounds like mine. I've got 8 cases of canned foods still in my van from Monday, just not much energy to get them out. Doing a little and a little there does make progress.
God is good all the time
Judy
Prudentwatcher: Your living room sounds like mine. I've got 8 cases of canned foods still in my van from Monday, just not much energy to get them out. Doing a little and a little there does make progress.
God is good all the time
Judy
Marseydoats
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Just line your tote with an old tablecloth if you have one. That way it looks like extra clothing.
amazon
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With Saudi Arabia and Nigeria signing agreements with Russia and the USA looking weak, I'm concerned the end of the petro dollar will be coming. I can't even imagine how bad that will look. So, another run to Aldis and Sam's. Made a couple of online orders. Sams had less than they had one week ago and was full of people who usually frequent the least desirable WM in our area. I guess spending their child tax credit windfall. Note to self, only shop at Sam's during Plus hours.
I did get 3 LG packs of chicken thighs. Will can 2 of them. Also need to can 20 lbs potatoes. I took an extra day off at Labor Day to go through all my stuff and make a list of what's really needed.
Very saddened and angry about what happened in Afghanistan today. I think we're watching America fall from superpower status before our eyes....
I did get 3 LG packs of chicken thighs. Will can 2 of them. Also need to can 20 lbs potatoes. I took an extra day off at Labor Day to go through all my stuff and make a list of what's really needed.
Very saddened and angry about what happened in Afghanistan today. I think we're watching America fall from superpower status before our eyes....
WanderLore
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I am too I am just sick about it just sick.
WanderLore
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I took the boys to work at the food pantry today we have gone way down in the amount of people that come there I think maybe 15 today. But they still enjoy going we did go to the lake 2 days in a row that was nice. It has been so awful hot daughter still canning constantly. We use a lot of bread and milk that's what we have to go to the store for a lot so I'm trying to think of ways to get around that.
I'm so disgusted angry and sick and trying to read everything on here about what all is going on I just don't have any words
I'm so disgusted angry and sick and trying to read everything on here about what all is going on I just don't have any words
It's been a week. Had jury duty Wednesday - it took them all day to pick the jury, but I didn't make the cut (thank goodness!).
I did get a medical exemption for the vaccine, so I won't lose my job over it. I really thought that would help with my anxiety and general icky feeling, but it hasn't. Still feel like I'm under the sword of Damocles.
I did get a medical exemption for the vaccine, so I won't lose my job over it. I really thought that would help with my anxiety and general icky feeling, but it hasn't. Still feel like I'm under the sword of Damocles.
aviax2
Veteran Member
I had another sleepless night again, ugh.
I canned 10 quarts and 1 pint of green beans yesterday so that makes 30 quarts on the shelf for this year and we have another 27 pints along with a few quarts from 2019. I told hubby to go ahead and pull the vines as they really aren’t the best beans we ever had.
I’m planning on canning potatoes from the garden since our potatoes usually don’t store for very long. And I’m also going to can some carrots. After that I’m wanting to get started back on meats.
Speaking of canned meats, have any of you used Walmart’s canned Great Value brand pulled pork with barbecue sauce? I bought 1 can to see if we would like it and last night I opened the can and yuck, it was mostly sauce with a little bit of mushy meat and one little chunk of pork that would have fit in a tablespoon. I was expecting actual pulled pork with a bit of barbecue sauce, not that. Neither of us wanted to eat it so it got tossed. I told hubby maybe it was the last of a batch and we just got “lucky” with that can. Anyway, I opened a pint jar of home canned chicken, drained the broth and heated it in the microwave then added some barbecue sauce and heated a little more. Made a great sandwich that we had with oven fries.
Those soups that some of you are talking about sound really good. I think I’ll look into them.
Some good news from all the bad news lately in my area, an anonymous man from out of state has paid for all 20 funerals for the victims of the flooding in the next county this past Sat. May God bless him for helping these families.
I canned 10 quarts and 1 pint of green beans yesterday so that makes 30 quarts on the shelf for this year and we have another 27 pints along with a few quarts from 2019. I told hubby to go ahead and pull the vines as they really aren’t the best beans we ever had.
I’m planning on canning potatoes from the garden since our potatoes usually don’t store for very long. And I’m also going to can some carrots. After that I’m wanting to get started back on meats.
Speaking of canned meats, have any of you used Walmart’s canned Great Value brand pulled pork with barbecue sauce? I bought 1 can to see if we would like it and last night I opened the can and yuck, it was mostly sauce with a little bit of mushy meat and one little chunk of pork that would have fit in a tablespoon. I was expecting actual pulled pork with a bit of barbecue sauce, not that. Neither of us wanted to eat it so it got tossed. I told hubby maybe it was the last of a batch and we just got “lucky” with that can. Anyway, I opened a pint jar of home canned chicken, drained the broth and heated it in the microwave then added some barbecue sauce and heated a little more. Made a great sandwich that we had with oven fries.
Those soups that some of you are talking about sound really good. I think I’ll look into them.
Some good news from all the bad news lately in my area, an anonymous man from out of state has paid for all 20 funerals for the victims of the flooding in the next county this past Sat. May God bless him for helping these families.
They sell spray paint for plastic. I've used it for outdoor planters- it help up very well. Or just line 8t with an opaque garbage bag...
Summerthyme
SouthernBreeze
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I've got 6 cans of the Great Value BBQ pulled pork on a pantry shelf. It's not something we would eat every day, but Cary does like it ocassionally for a BBQ sandwich. Yes, it has a lot of sauce, but the cans I've opened in the past have more pork in them than what you described. So much so that I take a fork, and pull it all apart. I've stopped buying it, since I order the cans of Keystone pork, now. I use that to make my own BBQ pulled pork.
SouthernBreeze
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Silly question, but I really don't know. What is heavy cream? One of my soup mixes (loaded potatoe soup) calls for 1 cup of it.
Heavy cream is whipping cream... 36% butterfat. You find it in the dairy section near the half and half (which you almost certainly could substitute if you're concerned about fat...)
Summerthyme
TxGal
Day by day
Another way for a quick bbq sandwich I learned from coworkers back in the day is LIbby's Canned Corned Beef. Put it in a sauce pan with your favorite bbq sauce, use forks to shred it as it heats up, add bbq sauce to your preferred consistency. Surprisingly good, and very easy.
SouthernBreeze
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Thank, Summer. I was thinking it was something along those lines. I don't guess there is something I can substitute this with that is shelf stable? I wanted these soup mixes for storage, but didn't know I would have to stock some ingredients, before I could use them, like this heavy cream.
Actually, while i haven't tried it (having always had a milk cow), there's something called ?NIDO? I *think* that is a shelf stable heavy cream. You might want to ask on Main... I know you'll get some good answers.
Summerthyme
WanderLore
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That's sometimes sold in big lots store, along with a dry shelf stable sour cream you had vinegar or something to it.
SouthernBreeze
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We don't drink milk, but Cary uses it with his cereal. I use it a lot in cooking, though, so I have cases of evaporated milk stored up. I was wondering about using that. I think NIDO is whole milk, isn't it? All I could find was whole milk powder. I think the Potato soup mix calls for the heavy cream in order to give it that smooth creamy texture.
My mom's homemade Potato Soup recipe calls for cream cheese and regular whole milk. It has a very creamy texture. Cary won't touch anything that has cream cheese in it, so I don't make homemade using Mom's recipe.
aviax2
Veteran Member
SB-You can buy heavy cream powder, I have some but haven’t tried it yet, it’s Hoosier Hill Farm that I bought on Amazon. There is also Nestle Creama table cream in a can that should work for you. I too believe milk would work well. Thanks for the info on the canned pork, I must have got the tail end of the batch. But at over $3 a can I won’t buy it again. I was mostly wanting to see if it was something I would want to can. I‘ll probably just can the pork without sauce to make the meat more versatile.
SouthernBreeze
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I'm going to buy a couple of cans of the Nestle creama to try, and also I'm going to try a can of evaporated milk, then decide which one works best. I just hate wasting food if neither one works.
All of the other soup mixes call for things I already have in storage.
All of the other soup mixes call for things I already have in storage.
I canned 1 pint and 9 half pints of Pear/Apple Jam today. Tomorrow I am canning Mincemeat. I like to look at different recipes and then make my own recipe. My concoction is 8 cups diced pears, 20 oz can crushed pineapple, 7 oz. figs, 6 oz. cranberries, 20 oz raisins, 1 orange and 1 lemon juiced (making candied peel from them and will add that tomorrow), 1 cup sugar, 2 cups brown sugar, 1 cup ACV, 1/3 cup lemon juice, 1 T cinnamon and 1 T Allspice. Would love to be canning meat but sold 3 American canners at my auction when I left Illinois four years ago. Happy to be back at my house but starting from scratch prepping is nerve racking.
SouthernBreeze
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Thanks All, for the recommendations on the cream! I'll be checking to see what I can find when I go shopping next. I already have a good stock of evaporated milk in storage, and if everything else fails, I'll use that. Won't know how it will turn out, until I try it. My next order from Anderson House, I'll only order the soup mixes that I only have to add meat to, not all these other ingredients.
I've spent all morning doing laundry, and hanging them outside to dry, before the rain gets here. I also took some time to do a bit of cleaning and rearranging in the pantry room. Vaccume sealed up some more dehydrated hash browns, too. I removed 6 cans of whole potatoes that expired in 2012 from a shelf. I don't know if they are still good, or not. I'll open a can to see, later. If not, I'll chuck them, or open for cat food. They loves potatoes.
I've spent all morning doing laundry, and hanging them outside to dry, before the rain gets here. I also took some time to do a bit of cleaning and rearranging in the pantry room. Vaccume sealed up some more dehydrated hash browns, too. I removed 6 cans of whole potatoes that expired in 2012 from a shelf. I don't know if they are still good, or not. I'll open a can to see, later. If not, I'll chuck them, or open for cat food. They loves potatoes.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
While we most likely will be getting some of the bad weather but I'm not wanting to go to the grocery store, there is nothing I need or want..
the generator that did not start the other day, after DH cleaned the spark plug and something else its working fine. That's good, a new one would not have gotten here in time before Ida does. DH is not from hurricane country so he's not concerned. I think he forgot how hot we got last summer with a week of power outage.
working on laundry and keeping the kitchen clean.
God is good all the time
Judy
the generator that did not start the other day, after DH cleaned the spark plug and something else its working fine. That's good, a new one would not have gotten here in time before Ida does. DH is not from hurricane country so he's not concerned. I think he forgot how hot we got last summer with a week of power outage.
working on laundry and keeping the kitchen clean.
God is good all the time
Judy
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
We're stocked up on gas, and Cary will be cranking our generators, today, just to make sure. He and DS are cutting up firewood this morning. Another good oak tree down.
Dinghy
Veteran Member
I’ve been canning up a storm the last couple of days. So far 11 pints of jalapeños, 3 pints banana peppers, 8 quarter pints of pimentos, and 9 quarts of potatoes from my garden. Today I’m cooking sauerkraut with jalapeños and some sweet peppers, and will can that.
I made kraut with jalapeños a couple years ago, and we really liked it.
I made kraut with jalapeños a couple years ago, and we really liked it.