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Happy New Year
It’s time to start making our goals for the new year.
It is important to remember that preparedness must be a part of them. We have taken the following ideas from the Book Practical Preparedness and want to share them with you.
To make preparedness easier to handle we will list each for you each month a food storage, 72-hr kit, and first aid kit goals so that by the end of the year you will be practically prepared!
Just collect all the items listed each month and by the end of the year you should have a basic kit assembled.
Here are the ideas that we found for the month of January.
Food Storage Goal |
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| Sugar 60 lbs – per person this can include honey, sugar, syrup, etc. | ||||||||
| Water | Individual bottles | |||||||
| Salt 10 lbs per person | ||||||||
Shelf Life |
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| Honey indefinitely if in an airtight container with no additives. Some honey has water and | ||||||||
| sugar added this honey does not store indefinitely only 18-24 months | ||||||||
| Jams 2-4 years | ||||||||
| Molasses 12-24 months | ||||||||
| Sugar – indefinitely | ||||||||
| Salt – indefinitely | ||||||||
| Sugar – brown 2 years in an airtight container | ||||||||
| artificial sweetener 24 months | ||||||||
| Syrup – 18-36 months or longer depending on container. | ||||||||
72 Hour Kit Goal |
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| Fuel and lighting method (Charcoal, propane, etc.) | ||||||||
| Cooking apparatus (Dutch oven, BBQ, etc.) | ||||||||
First Aid Kit Goal |
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| Triangular bandage – 6 Per person | ||||||||
| 4 x 4 sterile pads 4 Per person | ||||||||
| After bite stick | ||||||||
Ideas for Cooking with Food Storage |
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| Cinnamuffins | ||||||||
| 1/4 C oil | ||||||||
| 1/2 C dark molasses | ||||||||
| 1 C applesauce | ||||||||
| 1 1/2 C whole wheat flour | ||||||||
| 1/2 tsp baking soda | ||||||||
| 1 1/2 tsp baking powder | ||||||||
| 3/4 tsp cinnamon | ||||||||
| pinch cloves | ||||||||
| 1/2 tsp salt | ||||||||
| 1/2 C raisins | ||||||||
| Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a muffin tin – Mix oil, molasses, and applesauce. Sift | ||||||||
| together the flour, soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Stir together wet and | ||||||||
| dry ingredients and raisins. Drop into muffin cups and bake 18-20 minutes. | ||||||||
| Peanut Butter Bread | ||||||||
| 2 C white flour | ||||||||
| 1/3 C Sugar | ||||||||
| 2 Tsp baking powder | ||||||||
| 1/4 tsp salt | ||||||||
| 3/4 C peanut Butter | ||||||||
| 1 C milk | ||||||||
| 1 Egg well beaten | ||||||||
| Preheat oven to 350 degrees F . Grease loaf pan. Put the flour, sugar, baking powder and | ||||||||
| salt in a large bowl and mix well. Add the peanut butter, milk and egg, mix well. Spoon into | ||||||||
| greased pan and bake for 50 minutes. Remove and cool on rack. | ||||||||
| Whole wheat pie crust | ||||||||
| Blend: | ||||||||
| 1 C butter | ||||||||
| 1 C whole wheat flour | ||||||||
| 1 T sugar | ||||||||
| Add: | ||||||||
| 1/2 C ground nuts | ||||||||
| Press into 9 x 13 pan and bake 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. | ||||||||
| Pioneer Hoe Cake | ||||||||
| 1 tsp salt | ||||||||
| 2 C corn meal | ||||||||
| 2 1/2 C boiling water | ||||||||
| Mix together corn meal and salt and then pour the boiling water over it, mix thoroughly to | ||||||||
| form thick batter. Grease griddle with bacon fat and spread out batter into cakes about 1/2 | ||||||||
| inch thick. Grease griddle between fryings, cook until golden brown and serve hot with | ||||||||
| maple or honey syrup. | ||||||||
| Buckwheat pancakes | ||||||||
| 1 C freshly ground hard red wheat berries | ||||||||
| 4 tsp baking powder | ||||||||
| 1 3/4 C milk | ||||||||
| 1 egg | ||||||||
| 1 C freshly ground buckwheat | ||||||||
| 1 tsp salt | ||||||||
| 2 T molasses | ||||||||
| Combine the wheat, buckwheat flour. Salt and baking powder. Add the egg and milk gradually | ||||||||
| while stirring. Add molasses. Beat until smooth. Lightly oil frying pan or griddle. Spoon in | ||||||||
| pancakes, when bubbles form and break on pancakes turn and brown other side. | ||||||||
This reminds me to create my Food Storage Goals as well for 2013.