diy. dehydrated mushrooms can be rehydrated easily in hot liquid. If you have a microwave available, some stock and the dried mushrooms and a few minutes to get some heat into the shrooms and then leave it on the counter for a short while until the mushrooms look real again. If you don't have power available, put the mushrooms into a thermos style bottle and add leftover boiled water. When we have bike camped we don't waste the water after we have used what we needed for coffee or dishes, but put it into a thermos and rehydrate dinner. You can easily dehydrate onions (they freeze as well when they are chopped), celery keeps very well and can be added directly to a stew or soup pot even though they look like little green caterpillars, carrots cut into coins dehydrate well and rehydrate well in soups as well. I have dehydrated green peppers, red peppers, and lots of other vegetables from the garden and from the store if they are on sale. Most fruits dehydrate quite well, but will require some form of ascorbic acid to keep their colour from going brown.
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7 gal of water for drinking
1cass of 24oz bottles of water
4 bags of rice 5lbs each
3bags of beans
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About 10 minutes ago I bought a 41 quart All-American canner. Cant wait to get it!
Local Independent Grocer had all kind of canned goods on sale for $1 each. My kind of sale.
10 1/2 pints of "coleslaw" base (pickling syrup, cabbage, carrots, onions) and 4 pint jars of raspberry-peach jam.
I'm the lady you're stuck behind in the grocery store with the over loaded cart filled with cases of tuna, peanut butter, huge bags of rice and the weary looking husband
Thanks for the tip ICRCC! I'm checking out their online flyer right now!
The sale end tomorrow (Thursday). I went back again today and filled up a cart.
Please check the best before date, a lot of companies put on the big sale to get rid of the 1-3 month left cans. Made that mistake, too many times. 😳
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Thanks for the warning Ranger , it is one we shouild always keep in mind. I always check the best before dates. All the supplies I purchased this week had dates between mid 2013 to 2015. Many of these were not even Presidenat choice produsts but were from companins like Del Monte and were less than half price. Hard to beat that.
48 cans Campbell's vegetable soup (5.89 a dozen exp 2014) and 13 dozen 1 litre canning jars with 10 dozen replacement lids.
Have done 57 jars of salsa, 28 jars of v5( like v8 only fewer veggies) and tomorrow will be tomato juice
Oops almost forgot - did 2 loads of celery in the dehydrator
Garage Sale...
1 dz pint jars $4.00
1dz quart jars $4.00
Giant Tiger...
2 x 890ml salad dressing (fake mayo) $1.50 because the company changed the label. Exp. June 2013
We will be shelf building and canning garden tomatoes this weekend.
sorted out all scrap lumber from renovations and have about 2 cords for kindling.
Great find Denob! I always keep looking at garage sales....
I re-stocked: Apple Juice (1.05 litre @ $0.99 Food Basics)
toilet paper (always buy every week)
Campbells Tomato Soup ($0.79 Food Basics)
Peanut Butter ($4.99 1K Food Basics and $2.50 for 500 gms Your Independant Grocer) - boy, has Peanut Butter
EVER gone up in price!!
Froze Tomatoes (whole in their skins) for winter use. I can't eat the fresh ones fast enough! I find it easier to freeze whole tomatoes rather than 'can' them - I just hold the frozen tomato under the tap and the skin just spits off and I peel it easily. Then I can just cut and pop it into my recipe.
ICRCC - I couldn't find bulk salt at our Independant Grocer here. I guess I'll have to go to the Superstore next time I'm in the city.....
Whoooooops! It's garage sale weekend in my neck of the woods...
1 metal washbin - $5.00
1 galvanized pail - $1.00
1 am/fm/sw/cb/wb/pb radio - $10.00
1 large tool box - $8.00 (and it had some misc.screws and stuff in it too)
2 3 gallon food grade buckets w/lids - $1.50 each
More sales to visit tomorrow!
More water plus, switched out the water stored in June.
8 - Peanut butter
4 - Cheese Whiz
10 lbs yellow & orange peppers, washed, diced, vac packed & frozen in 1/2 cup bags.
made 4 cups of greek salad dressing herbs mix, vacpacked into small bags (1/4 cup).. just add oil & vinegar
10 boxes soda crackers
24 cans of Campbell's soups
5 bottles of ivory dish soap (is mild enough to use as laundry soap when washing by hand yet gets the grease out!)