A Famine Menu

Preparedness Daily ^ | 7/29/11 | The Survival Mom

[Kartographer]

This is a basic famine menu that will keep you alive. Variety of taste will come from supplementation from a vegetable garden, fruit trees, raising animals, bartering, spices and additional items you store. Each family must be creative to vary the taste of the foods and to add additional items that will make the basic foods most appetizing for you.

[GeronL]

powdered milk is horrible tasting, I can only eat it with corn flakes or if its used for something else besides actually drinking.

[Errant]

Vacuum pack your dry goods and bury them in your yard. If deep enough, they're hidden, protected and temperature stabilized for up to 30 years depending on the item.

Some items, like rice, need extra packaging. Put rice into a ziplock with one corner open and place the bag into the vacuum bag before sealing. Otherwise, the rice grains will puncture a normal vacuum bag.

[Uncle Ike]

” How well does ramen noodle store? The square kind. “

Aside from the usual problems with bugs ‘n’ critters getting into ‘em, those 12/$1 packets seem to last forever - I’ve got some in my ‘stash closet’ that’re 10 years old, and every once in a while, I’ll take one out and try it... The noodles get a little stale-tasting, but not bad...

Not a whole lot of nutrition to ‘em, though.....

[GeronL]

cool!!

[Errant]

powdered milk is horrible tasting

When you've been without food for a few days, it'll taste like your mother's milk! lol

Hunger has a way of making almost anything savory...

[SatinDoll]

Since I can’t have grains, guess I’ll have to kill and eat the neighbors.

[Kartographer]

That’s why you vaccum pack powdered chocolate milk powder! ;-)

[Kartographer]

Dak canned Ham and you favorite beans!

[Kartographer]

"Not a whole lot of nutrition to ‘em, though....."

A packet of beans, some dehydrated onion and a Dak canned ham. Hmmmmmmmmmm..........!

[mware]

Wonder if they still have powered eggs.

As a kid I remember eating them more than once.

[SatinDoll]

Actually, I’ve bought lots of canned chicken and salmon from Costco along with 16 lb. bags or yummy Basmati rice from India.

Availability of vegetables are not a problem where I live, and fishing is quite good, as well. I’m buy into shares of farm produce and they raise lambs for slaughter. Also, I’ve procured a lot of different vitamins and supplements, which are consumed but kept replenished.

Guess the neighbors are safe after all!

[Desdemona]

Nope. Sorry. Way too many carbs.

[Uncle Ike]

” A packet of beans, some dehydrated onion and a Dak canned ham. Hmmmmmmmmmm..........! “

Yep...

Us Southwesterners are very much aware of beans as a diet staple - and a ‘thousand-and-one’ ways to cook and serve ‘em... ;)

(Cheap dehydrated onions - look in the 2/$1 spice rack at the Dollar Store.. I not only store ‘em, but I’ve used ‘em for years in my daily cooking...)

[Kartographer]

O....K.... for now, but I don't think during SHTF that we will hear much: "No, no I can't possible eat that potato, could I have a nice tossed salad instead?"

[GeronL]

That’s why you vaccum pack powdered chocolate milk powder! ;-)

D'oh!!!

Of course!!

[Errant]

Local groceries can usually beat the price of dried beans, peas, onions, dry milk, meal and such by at least half of what it costs online.

I just packed up some extra black-eyed peas and Lima beans @ $1 Lb. One lb of beans will feed up to 10 people.

Don't forget a key item in most military MREs:

[Oshkalaboomboom]

bfl

[Kartographer]

"That’s why you vaccum pack powdered chocolate milk powder! ;-)
D'oh!!!

Of course!!

And I recommend not the sugar free kind!

[Errant]

It’s unreal what all is available powdered (e.g. butter, eggs, milk, bullion, ...) or freeze-dried. Freeze dried is expensive and getting harder to find thanks to others with money and Uncle Sam, I think.

[GeronL]

definitely