Here's an easy recipe (if you have tomato powder, which I've not seen before, but I'm assuming its a long-term storage product that other people might have)
Lifted from:
http://www.survivalcommonsense.com/2011/10/13/catsupfeed/

Catsup*

1 c tomato powder
2-1/2 c water
1/2 c brown sugar
3 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp dry mustard
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp cloves
1/4 c cider vinegar
1/4 tsp garlic granules
pinch cayenne pepper

Combine and bring to a simmer, and allow all ingredients to combine. Simmer for five minutes and then cool and put into a jar with a tight-fitting lid. Refrigerate.

*same as Canadian ketchup. lol.

Recently paintergirl and I were talking about what to use to in baking after a long shtf situation when our flour supply ran out. Just about anything can be dried and ground into a flour-like substance. How well it'll bake up is another thing. Wheat flour has gluten, which I gather is what binds a loaf of bread together, so most recipes suggest extending regular flour with something else. Anyway I was thinking besides harvesting wild plants (acorns for acorn flour) what could we grow in abundance? Squash !! Googled squash flour and whaddya know, people do it. Not to mention the recipe for squash vinegar just below it. Very good website!

http://www.pinoynegosyo.blogspot.com/2006/10/flour-and-vinegar-from-squash.html

Was reading the recipe for squash vinegar more closely. 😳
It says you need a "vinegar starter", so I found a recipe for that at this site:

http://breaddaily.tripod.com/vinegarstarter.htm

I came across this set of youtube videos surfing one day, Clara's Kitchen. Clara did a series of videos on Depression era cooking from the time she was 91 to 96 years old. The recipes are simple and good, made from scratch and she is a charmer to watch! I enjoyed her so much and she reminded me of a few recipes my grandma used to make as well. You can't beat depression era cooking for simple tasty meals from basic pantry and garden ingredients. I hope you enjoy her as much as I did!

http://www.youtube.com/show/greatdepressioncooking?s=1

http://lifehacker.com/5880197/make-your-own-rice-milk
Now if you have no power it may be a bit more difficult but I think if you had a decent mortar and pestle to grind and blend the soaked rice, you could still manage it.

Was thinking of paintergirl when I stumbled across this little gem, but I bet there's lots of chilichoco-olics out there that will appreciate this link:

http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2012/02/packin-heat-chilichocolate-brownies.html

😀

Almond Milk

1 cup of almonds (must be salt, additive free we use the ones from bulk barn)
water
stevia or agave nectar
vanilla or chocolate flavour.

Soak almonds in water (I use a 2 litre container, add almonds to it, then top it off with water) for at least 12 hours but 24 hours is best!
Drain the almonds, add 4 cups of water to them, place in a blender and BLEND BLEND BLEND! I usually blend for about 3 minutes then I pulse off and on for a few just to make sure they are pulverized!
Pour through a metal(mesh) strainer into 2 litre container. Save the almond meal for cakes, pasta sauces and chili! (I just freeze it in a freezer bag) Rinse out the strainer and strain the almonds again, I repeat this step about 4 times.
Add sweetening agent (I prefer stevia) and flavour!
Shake before each use and the milk lasts about a week refrigerated.

Oh and this blog has some sweet ideas for "prepped" meals!

http://www.rainydayfoodstorage.blogspot.com/p/recipies.html

Several vegan web sites have good recipes for just about everything but keep in mind, the food DOES NOT taste the same. This also holds true for gluten free (basically wheat free) recipes. It takes a lot to get used to. Practice is key to being able to eat gluten free. I have tried to do so for years and once in a while I breakdown and have "real" bread.

Here is a link to one of the better gluten free sites for recipes:
http://www.celiac.com/categories/Gluten%252dFree-Recipes/

A paleo diet is already free of all that stuff. No grains at all. Veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, meat. It's hard to get used to the idea that all this tasty stuff is dieting. Once you do it for a while and your energy level goes up while the pounds fall off it gets easier to accept. I still have the odd slice of bread, the one thing I thought I would miss but I don't.
Makes storing food harder, all the long term fillers like rice, dried beans, wheat etc are off the list. I still have them, I could trade them if needed, sprout the grains I guess.

I thought beans were part of that diet. What about quinoa?

Fresh beans yes while they're still living food. Freeze or dehydrate them in that state. I think quinoa is considered a seed not a grain. One laymans test is to try it without cooking, if it's gross, it probably ain't paleo. We're genetically evolved to eat uncooked food(that makes perfect sense to me).
It's about the whole food pyramid thing, according to the paleo theory, 1/3 of your plate really shouldn't be a starch.

I'm new at this, if I'm wrong and die next week of a heart attack, don't sue me. Make your own choices based on your research.
Seems to be working though.

Does it seem strange that nobody has mentioned the easiest grain out there to use, RICE. The first thing that I started buying for food storage is rice and canned tuna/salmon. Buy rice at the Asian market for the lowest price, why? Because they buy it by the pallet, the one market that I visited had one wall stacked 6 ft high with bags of this stuff and re-order monthly. Think of all the thing that rice is put in, soups, cookies, casseroles, puddings, fried so many different ways, and a few the some men would like, BEER.

One last thought before I'm told to shut up. How many of you have a solar oven. I just built one last year, with just a 4ply corrugated cardboard box, Mylar from potato chip bags, a discarded pane of glass, a small wire rack, some wire and a few woodscrews. Oh and an old wind up clock…used to track the sun, lazy I know. On a clear summers day I cooked a one pot roast beef meal in 4 hours with nothing but sun light. Check it out on Google, Solar ovens.
Imagination will keep you alive longer than anything else you possess.
Remember "We Prep to live after a downfall, Not just to survive" JT 😉

ranger2012: your Did-It-Yourself solar oven sounds awesome! I've been thinking about trying to mcgyver one too. :geek: 😀

You got me thinking about the Rice Beer thing, I found a recipe for that and Rice Wine at ehow.com

http://www.ehow.com/how_5817865_brew-beer-rice.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2059791_make-rice-wine.html