oh how can I forget - a Presto pressure canner, 4 boxes of wide mouth pint jars, 2 books on canning meat. Plus hubby made meaty spaghetti sauce, so I...

6 boxes of wide mouth canning lids; a roof, windows, doors on the summer kitchen and a 1930s Findlay Condor cook stove - all for my birthday, yippeee

20 meals in a jar for 2 and a hand pump for the large water bottles

Awesome post, looking forward to trying this. I'm retiring (too young to retire at 45) next year and looking forward to having more time to learn mor...

Farmgal, any suggestions on confit, ie particuler fat to use? best meats to try etc?

10 meal in a jar mac and cheese dinners for two, and had one for dinner!

oh oh oh !!! ive been looking for that article - thanks for the link.I have a great pizza dough reciepe, I'll dig out and post just for motivation!

I used the ceramic knife when I cut the banana, normally the slices would start browning right away with stainless steel but that didnt happen. No ma...

I'm making banana chips right now and decided to use my little ceramic paring knife. What is interesting is the banana slices didnt turn brown like w...

Well, I seem to have become slightly obsesed with the summer kitchen plan. Hubby blames Mr & Mrs for that ;)The plan has always been to fix up th...

I know for me I would like to hear ideas for both scenerios. My one concern is in a post SHTF scenerio the need for OPSEC and security, its pretty ha...

PrepHer, sounds like backups to backups! I also have a military M2 burner , it runs on gas which is ok for a short time just need a stand for it. It ...

It appears the concept of a summer kitchen is coming back. I googled and loads come up though outdoor kitchens are more the high end BBQ entertaining...

I think I may have put this on another post but since we're talking cooking etc .... Anyway, we have a Pacific Energy wood stove in the living room (...

Awesome! Thanks for the link. Cheap is always good!