New post! The holiday season can be a dream season for the prepper. The sales are usually pretty good during this time which makes it an excellent time to stockpile. One of the keys to stockpiling for your food storage is to use the sales to your advantage. This becomes especially true for baking supplies.
https://www.livinglifeinruraliowa.com/2021/11/how-and-why-you-should-be-stocking-up.html
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How and Why You Should Be Stocking Up on Baking Supplies This Holiday Season
The holiday season can be a dream season for the prepper. The sales are usually pretty good during this time which makes it an excellent tim...
New post! Winter is upon us again in the Midwest and the Plains. We just had our first snowstorm that lasted about 18 hours. However, many things can happen in 18 hours to make winter more dangerous and deadly if you are not prepared.
https://www.livinglifeinruraliowa.com/2021/12/35-things-you-need-to-be-prepared-for.html
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35 Things You Need To Be Prepared For Winter
Winter is upon us again in the Midwest. We just had our first snowstorm that lasted about 18 hours. However, many things can happen in 18 ho...
New post! January is an excellent month to do many things. Many people view the start of the year as a way to start over. I view January as a way to take stock of my life and see where I need to improve. I also find that January is an excellent month to tackle your food storage.
Some people would call this a pantry challenge. The general rules of a pantry challenge are that you try to go an allotted amount of time (i.e., a month) without buying any groceries or just buying milk and fresh produce. However, in these times, I don't feel comfortable asking anyone to stop stockpiling food and goods for the sake of a pantry challenge. So I'm changing the rules.
https://www.livinglifeinruraliowa.com/2021/12/the-pantry-challenge-reimagined-taking.html
Some people would call this a pantry challenge. The general rules of a pantry challenge are that you try to go an allotted amount of time (i.e., a month) without buying any groceries or just buying milk and fresh produce. However, in these times, I don't feel comfortable asking anyone to stop stockpiling food and goods for the sake of a pantry challenge. So I'm changing the rules.
https://www.livinglifeinruraliowa.com/2021/12/the-pantry-challenge-reimagined-taking.html
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The Pantry Challenge Reimagined: Taking Some Time To Clean Up and Eat Up Your Food Storage
January is an excellent month to do many things. Many people view the start of the year as a way to start over. I view January as a way to t...
In my last post, I wrote that I was rewriting the rules for the pantry challenge and I post what I was doing. I have not made it through my pantry yet to show you those things, but this is what I pulled out this morning.
Pic 1: I have a bunch of k-cups that need to be used up. Green tea is not my favorite tea, but I will get these used up as well as the coffee ones.
Pic 2: From home, I brought apple butter that was made in 2017 to have with toast, tea that was dated 2017, oatmeal that is dated Jan. 2022, tuna packet (2023), and an opened bag of craisins.
Pic 3: I also have a half bottle of creamer from the holidays to use up. No need to waste food. I had quit drinking coffee, but I will drink it til this is gone.
#pantrychallengereimagined is the hash tag I'm using. Please use it too so I can see what you are doing!
#foodstorage #pantrychallenge #foodwaste
Pic 1: I have a bunch of k-cups that need to be used up. Green tea is not my favorite tea, but I will get these used up as well as the coffee ones.
Pic 2: From home, I brought apple butter that was made in 2017 to have with toast, tea that was dated 2017, oatmeal that is dated Jan. 2022, tuna packet (2023), and an opened bag of craisins.
Pic 3: I also have a half bottle of creamer from the holidays to use up. No need to waste food. I had quit drinking coffee, but I will drink it til this is gone.
#pantrychallengereimagined is the hash tag I'm using. Please use it too so I can see what you are doing!
#foodstorage #pantrychallenge #foodwaste
In my last post, I wrote that I was rewriting the rules for the pantry challenge and I post what I was doing. I have not made it through my pantry yet to show you those things, but this is what I pulled out this morning.
Pic 1: I have a bunch of k-cups that need to be used up. Green tea is not my favorite tea, but I will get these used up as well as the coffee ones.
Pic 2: From home, I brought apple butter that was made in 2017 to have with toast, tea that was dated 2017, oatmeal that is dated Jan. 2022, tuna packet (2023), and an opened bag of craisins.
Pic 3: I also have a half bottle of creamer from the holidays to use up. No need to waste food. I had quit drinking coffee, but I will drink it til this is gone.
#pantrychallengereimagined is the hash tag I'm using. Please use it too so I can see what you are doing!
#foodstorage #pantrychallenge #foodwaste
Pic 1: I have a bunch of k-cups that need to be used up. Green tea is not my favorite tea, but I will get these used up as well as the coffee ones.
Pic 2: From home, I brought apple butter that was made in 2017 to have with toast, tea that was dated 2017, oatmeal that is dated Jan. 2022, tuna packet (2023), and an opened bag of craisins.
Pic 3: I also have a half bottle of creamer from the holidays to use up. No need to waste food. I had quit drinking coffee, but I will drink it til this is gone.
#pantrychallengereimagined is the hash tag I'm using. Please use it too so I can see what you are doing!
#foodstorage #pantrychallenge #foodwaste
The start of cleaning out my food storage. I started with my kitchen pantry shelves and accumulated this motley selection of items. I still have three cabinets to sort through in the kitchen and then I need to tackle the basement food storage.
This pantry challenge will be going on for a while. I needed to do this for a year or better. I'm making lists of what needs to be replaced, but I don't see a lot of this being replaced. My food choices have changed over the years.
We will be having some interesting meals and desserts in the next few months...
#pantrychallengereimagined #pantry challenge #foodstorage #prepping #preparedness
This pantry challenge will be going on for a while. I needed to do this for a year or better. I'm making lists of what needs to be replaced, but I don't see a lot of this being replaced. My food choices have changed over the years.
We will be having some interesting meals and desserts in the next few months...
#pantrychallengereimagined #pantry challenge #foodstorage #prepping #preparedness
The start of cleaning out my food storage. I started with my kitchen pantry shelves and accumulated this motley selection of items. I still have three cabinets to sort through in the kitchen and then I need to tackle the basement food storage.
This pantry challenge will be going on for a while. I needed to do this for a year or better. I'm making lists of what needs to be replaced, but I don't see a lot of this being replaced. My food choices have changed over the years.
We will be having some interesting meals and desserts in the next few months...
#pantrychallengereimagined #pantry challenge #foodstorage #prepping #preparedness
This pantry challenge will be going on for a while. I needed to do this for a year or better. I'm making lists of what needs to be replaced, but I don't see a lot of this being replaced. My food choices have changed over the years.
We will be having some interesting meals and desserts in the next few months...
#pantrychallengereimagined #pantry challenge #foodstorage #prepping #preparedness
Supper tonight: Depending on who you are, it's burrito bowls or roast chicken and rice. I have one kid who doesn't eat meat and one who hates beans with a passion.
One chicken roasted in the slow cooker (recipe on the blog). Red kidney beans that soaked for several hours and were cooked in the pressure cooker. Brown rice cooking on the stove with water, chicken bouillon, and butter.
From yesterday's pics, I used up a bag of red kidney beans and some chicken bouillon.I also have quite a bit of brown rice I would like to eat and replace.
For those of us who had burrito bowls, we topped ours with avocado, salsa (canned in 2019), and shredded cheese.
#pantrychallengereimagined #pantrychallenge #foodstorage
One chicken roasted in the slow cooker (recipe on the blog). Red kidney beans that soaked for several hours and were cooked in the pressure cooker. Brown rice cooking on the stove with water, chicken bouillon, and butter.
From yesterday's pics, I used up a bag of red kidney beans and some chicken bouillon.I also have quite a bit of brown rice I would like to eat and replace.
For those of us who had burrito bowls, we topped ours with avocado, salsa (canned in 2019), and shredded cheese.
#pantrychallengereimagined #pantrychallenge #foodstorage
This morning it was back to the cooking and baking grind. We are starting today with banana zucchini bread.
I had two bananas that were overly ripe. I have a lot of frozen shredded zucchini that needs to be used up. I also used pastry flour and superfine sugar from the pile of things I need to use up.
The recipe comes from Real HouseMoms. It's been my go-to banana bread for a few years now.
#pantrychallengereimagined #pantrychallenge #foodstorage #nofoodwaste
I had two bananas that were overly ripe. I have a lot of frozen shredded zucchini that needs to be used up. I also used pastry flour and superfine sugar from the pile of things I need to use up.
The recipe comes from Real HouseMoms. It's been my go-to banana bread for a few years now.
#pantrychallengereimagined #pantrychallenge #foodstorage #nofoodwaste
New post! Gardening and putting away food can be time-consuming. One year you have a high-producing garden and the next year you can't hardly grow a thing. When times are good, we need to preserve food like crazy so we can weather a bad year or something worse.
https://www.livinglifeinruraliowa.com/2022/01/why-you-need-to-grow-food-one-year-and.html
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Why You Need to Grow Food One Year and Preserve Food for Two Years
Gardening can be fickle sometimes. One year you grow enough for seven families and the following year, you barely have enough for your own f...