If you traveled through even fairly large cities around the year 1900, you would often come across something now illegal in most urban areas: milk cows. Dairy animals were not uncommon in cities, and it was often the task of young children to lead the animals to whatever grassy areas …
These tips for storing winter squash will help ensure you have fresh vegetables from your garden long into the winter months. Summer is easy. Our gardens are overflowing with leafy lettuce, ripe tomatoes, and fresh ears of corn. As the temperatures drop, our gardens can still offer us a second …
Gamma seal lids are my kids favorite prep. After all, what kid wouldn’t love a product that alludes to keeping out gamma rays? I’m not sure why these lids have such a interesting name – they don’t keep out gamma rays! Perhaps it’s because gamma is the third letter in …
The short answer is maybe but probably not. I’m really not that fickle, I can give you a straight answer most of the time. However, like some things in life wheat flour is a little complicated, at least it has become that way in recent years. So let me back-up …
Remember the video that made the rounds a while back on how you could heat your home using just a flower pot and a tea light? I have yet to find anyone who actually got that to work, so I was a little skeptical when I heard about making a …
Why Store Food? To those that get it, this is almost a silly question, and up until about 75 years ago would also be considered a silly question to the average person. The fact is that humans have stored food for thousands of years because their lives would often depend …
There are so many options for storing food in bags that it’s hard to know what works best on any given day to store food for the short term, which makes long term storage in bags seem even more complicated. You may even be like me and try not to …
Storage Bags: Mylar, Vacuum or Plastic for long term storage. What works best? Read More
Firehouse Subs has a great deal on food grade storage buckets. They sell the buckets for two dollars and that money goes to a local fire station. This is really a great deal considering these buckets run anywhere between $6.00 to $20.00 online plus shipping. Yeah, I know you can get …
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Herbs and spices are an important part of food storage. Many of the food items that store well in long term storage are a bit bland in taste. Although, beans, rice, and grains might be enough to sustain life they definitely need a little something to make them taste good. …
Food Storage: Storing Herbs and Spices for Long Term Storage Read More