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Angela

Contributing author and preparedness enthusiast

26 articles by this author (Including both blog posts and archived content)

Making Canned Milk Products from Powdered Milk
Food Storage

Making Canned Milk Products from Powdered Milk

<a href="/images/uploads/2010/01/sweetcondmilk.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2938" title="sweetcondmilk" src="/images/uploads/2010/01/sweetcondmilk.jpg" alt="sweetened condensed milk" width="260" height="260" /></a>When I started storing food, I thought it would be a good idea to store forms of canned milk like evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk.  I bought quite a few cans and have used most of them over the years.  However, I only have two recipes I regularly make that call for evaporated milk, and one that calls for sweetened condensed milk, so I did not use every can I purchased before they expired.  <!--more-->

Angela
2 min read
#Food #Food Storage #Howto +1 more
Country Living Mill Group Buy
Equipment Food Storage

Country Living Mill Group Buy

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2857" title="country living mill" src="/images/uploads/2009/11/country-living-mill.jpg" alt="country living mill" width="196" height="247" />You all know why you need a wheat grinder.  There's only so much you can do with all the wheat in your long term storage if you can't grind it into flour.  So just in time for the holidays we've got a special buy on the Country Living Grain Mill.  This is a hand crank grain mill that is built in the USA of industrial grade components and has a lifetime warranty.  It is relatively easy to crank as far as hand grain mills go.  My small kids can grind flour with it.  You can check out my full review, and see videos of the mill in action on <a href="http://selfrelianceadventures.blogspot.com/2009/04/country-living-grain-mill-review-sale.html" target="_blank">my blog post here.</a><!--more-->

Angela
5 min read
#Food Storage #gear #Group Buy
Growing and Harvesting Dry Beans
Food Gardening

Growing and Harvesting Dry Beans

One of my garden experiments this year was growing dry beans.  Most of the "survival seed" packs have a variety of beans in them.  I had five different kinds of dry bean seeds in addition to my usual favorite green bean varieties, so had plenty of beans growing in the garden this year.  The dry bean varieties I planted were Calypso, Jacob's Gold Cattle Bean, Jacob's Cattle Bean, Black Valentine, and Mayflower.  I also planted Blue Lake Bush Beans and Royalty Purple Pod Beans just for eating.<!--more-->

Angela
7 min read
#Food #Gardening #Reviews +2 more
Dehydrating Peppers
Food Food Storage

Dehydrating Peppers

Harvest season is upon us here in Utah, so I've been pretty busy preserving the harvest.  This year I grew pepper plants from seed and have LOTS of peppers in my garden.  Some are hot and some are mild.  This is a good thing if you like peppers a lot, but I do not.  Thankfully my husband does, but even a pepper lover like him can only eat so many peppers.  So what do we do with all those peppers?  We eat a few, put a few in salsa, and save the rest for later by dehydrating them.

Angela
3 min read
#Dehydration #Food #Food Storage +2 more
Making Better Char Cloth
TEOTWAWKI Survival

Making Better Char Cloth

When starting a flint and steel or striker type of fire, char cloth makes all the difference in being able to actually get the fire started or just making a bunch of sparks that never catch anything on fire.  Char cloth (sometimes also called charred cloth) is one of those amazing mountain man items that is still very useful today.  Char cloth is pieces of blackened fabric that easily catch a spark and burn similarly to the way steel wool burns--no big flame, but a nice ember burn that doesn't blow out once it's lit.  The spark lights the char cloth and the char cloth is used to light the other tinder.  I've been wanting to add char cloth to my fire kits and having used all my char cloth made by others, I decided to make a batch of my own.

Angela
5 min read
#72 Hour Kits #BOB #DIY +6 more
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