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On this episode of Living Essentials from BYU we prepare delicious meals with food storage items. We give tips for cooking with beans, lentils, rice, wheat and more. Our experts demonstrate their recipes and discuss how you can adapt your own recipes to food storage. Cooking with food storage actually increases your health. Some of our recipes may become your family favorites! |
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Lisa Harkness is an author and lecturer on food storage. "Learn to cook with your food storage now as an important part of being prepared. Food storage will not last forever. It represents a financial investment, so you don’t want to let it sit too long. You actually are going to have to get into it and use it, which is called rotating and replenishing." |
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Leslie Probert is also an author and lecturer on food storage. "The foods recommended for food storage are at the top of the list of healthy foods recommended for us to eat. Once you have a pool of good-tasting recipes, if you will eat food storage meals just two days out of the week, you can have a whole year’s supply rotated in three and a half years. Planning this way you don’t waste any food and you enjoy rotating what you’ve stored. Don’t be surprised if some of your food storage recipes actually become your family favorites." Contact Leslie at aussiefive@iveracity.com. |
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Plan to Cook with Food Storage
Learning to cook with your food storage is an important aspect of being prepared and also can provide tasty and healthy meals for your family. Begin by modifying your existing recipes, such as soups, stews and casseroles with food storage items. Turn the experiment into a family affair by letting your family vote on their favorite modified recipes. Start incorporating the winning recipes into your meal plans to effectively rotate your stored food. Once you have a pool of good-tasting recipes, prepare just two food storage meals a week to fully rotate your storage within 3 1/2 years.
Use these handy charts to begin planning your food storage meals:
Estimated Food Storage Needs For One Year
Basic Food Storage Plan
Recipes from the Show
Mexicali Bean & Rice Salad
Super Quick White Sauce Mix
Fettuccine Carbonara
Beef & Barley Stew
Bean & Lentil Rice Pilaf
Split Pea Soup
Easiest Whole Wheat Bread
Fast & Easy Batter Bread
Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies
Dried Beans
Rotate Your Supply of Food
An important element of storing food is rotation. You should constantly rotate your stored goods to ensure freshness and to keep track of what you have.
An easy way to keep track of your food is by keeping a permanent marker in the same place where you store your food and marking the date immediately on any new food you bring home.
View the Shelf Life of Food Storage Items chart to calculate how often you need to rotate:
Cooking without Electricity
In many emergencies, electricity will not be available for cooking so it is a good idea to learn how to use alternative fuels like charcoal and propane. Both of these fuels will store indefinitely, eliminating rotation. To learn how to effectively use charcoal and propane along with other creative cooking methods, follow the links below:
Tips for the Applebox Reflector Oven
- We have baked with the AR oven for many years at camp in all kinds of weather with great success. Think of having fresh home-baked cookies in the out-of-doors!
- In most windy weather, putting a rock on top of the box is all that is needed. It is also possible to bend the heavy-duty ground foil up loosely around the base of the oven to offer a little shelter to the charcoal. Bending up the foil under the chimney charcoal starter is a great help in lighting the newspaper and keeping it lit. I n severe wind, you would need to rig up a shelter, or set up ovens on the protected side of your house.
- In rainy weather, when the ground is wet and cold, it is necessary to stretch a tarp over the ovens and to add an extra charcoal or two for best baking results.
- In freezing weather, a piece of woolen blanket, doubled over and put on the top of the oven allows the oven to bake with fantastic results. You may also choose to bake in a Dutch Oven on those days when the weather is severe.
Further Reading
Emergency Food in a Nutshell
by Leslie Probert & Lisa Harkness
Eating Off the Grid: storing and cooking foods without electricity
by Denise Hansen
Cookin' with Food Storage
by Vicki Tate
Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook
by James T. Stevens
Don't Get Caught With Your Pantry Down
by James T. Stevens
Cookin' with Home Storage
by Peggy Layton
Web Resources
Provident Living: Food Storage & Emergency Preparation
Emergency Essentials
Provident Living Center
Walton Feed Food Storage
Deseret Book
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