Destiny Survival

            It’s funny what you find on the Internet sometimes.  I wanted to share a certain article with you about gardening, but I couldn’t find the darn thing no matter how hard I tried.

            Instead, I found something else that’s very practical, and you ladies will appreciate this.  It’s from an older issue of "Backwoods Home Magazine" and it’s by Jackie Clay, one of my favorite writers on homesteading and self reliance.  In fact, you’ll see her blog linked on the right sidebar on this page.

            But enough of that already.  The article is about cooking with long-term storage food, and it include some recipes, too.  Jackie says it better than I can.  There is one tip she gives in particular, which I think is excellent advice.  Start experimenting regularly with recipes using storage food ingredients.  That way, in a time when storage food is all you have, you’ll be ready.  Your family will know what to expect, and you’ll be able to fix something that’s not so bland.  It’s like gardening.  You’ll have a few failures, but the experience you pick up now will really help out later.

Cooking from long-term
food storage

By Jackie Clay

 
All self-reliant families know they should have at least a year’s worth of food and essential supplies stored up in a large pantry. Unfortunately, actually eating from long-term food storage conjures up images of consuming endless tedious, tasteless meals of boiled rice and beans. You know—“survival” food.

But this is not how my household works. If I were to serve such meals, there would be total rebellion. After all, we’ve had at least two years’ food stored for twenty years, and we eat daily from this food. We are not martyrs, and we do not eat tasteless food in order to be “healthy.” Instead, we eat three meals a day from good tasting, comforting, healthy food, much of it home-raised, home-grown or harvested from the wild.

Read the whole article here: www.backwoodshome.com/articles/clay55a.html

Excerpt used with permission of Backwoods Home Magazine. www.backwoodshome.com 1-800-835-2418 

            Diane and I talked about this one time a few months ago, and you can read about it.  I told her then that Nitro-Pak has a cookbook I thought she should try, and you may want to get a copy for yourself.  You can also subscribe to "Backwoods Home Magazine" and read more Jackie Clay articles, too.