Tag: Cooking

Off-Grid Ways You Can Use A Fresh Pumpkin This Fall

Off The Grid News

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Off-Grid Ways You Can Use A Fresh Pumpkin This Fall Fall is pumpkin season. Time for jack-o-laterns, pumpkin spice lattes, and pumpkin pie.  However, they can be used for so much more! I like pumpkin pie, but really how many pies can you eat?!  Off the Grid News provides …

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18 Homemade Meal Mixes That Should Be In Your Pantry

Some posts may contain affiliate links. 18 Homemade Meal Mixes That Should Be In Your Pantry Many cook using mixes adding a bit of this and that to make it their own. Not everyone begins as a scratch cook, nor should they be. Scratch cooking is time consuming. Many of those who are the primary …

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5 Easy Ways To Preserve Food Without Electricity

Some posts may contain affiliate links. 5 Easy Ways To Preserve Food Without Electricity The most likely utility to be down after any crisis event is electricity, It can be taken out via rain or wind storms, an EMP,  traditional bombs, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes and flooding etc..  No matter the disaster, we will still require …

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40+ Edible Flowers and How to Use Them

40+ Edible Flowers and How to Use Them

Some posts may include affiliate links. 40+ Edible Flowers and How to Use Them Food security is always a concern, or it should be even in times of prosperity. Knowing what around you that is edible is always important as tomorrow can never be for told. What today is a novel edible garnish could be …

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Home Canning Meatballs (With Recipe)

Home Canning Meatballs (With Recipe) Canning meat can be an option to storing protein in ways other than jerking or salt curing.  This meatball recipe also gives you the convivence of canned and the goodness of homemade. See the recipe and the canning instructions from The Iowa Housewife at the featured link below Home Canned …

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12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk

12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk

12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk   The expressions “Got Milk?” or “Milk builds strong bones” are well known in north American countries. But if like me, you don’t drink milk nor have small growing children, should you still store a large quantity of milk? Yes! There are so many other uses for milk.  I …

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25 Powerless Appliances for The Homestead Kitchen

25 Powerless Appliances for The Homestead Kitchen

25 Powerless Appliances for The Homestead Kitchen Powerless appliances are becoming more and more popular among the younger population to save on energy costs. Preppers of course have always known that power could be taken away at any time for any amount of time. So powerless appliances are just plain smart and could make your …

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DIY Ammo Box Grill

DIY Ammo Box Grill

DIY Ammo Box Grill I do like the recycling and reuse of an ammo box. They just seem too sturdy and useful to toss away if not being used as originally intended.  I have seen them repurposed to faraday cages, storage boxes, and even a mini bar. This post has it’s reuse to being a …

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Eating Lilacs

Eating Lilacs

Eating Lilacs Lilacs are one of my favorite blooms. I have several bushes in my yard. But I wondered… Are they edible?  is this a plant that will benefit my family should we have to forage or eat only what we grow? I didn’t have an answer, so I went searching for blogs that would …

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Long Term Storage Opened 30 years later

Long Term Storage Opened 30 years later

Long Term Storage Opened 30 years later Who hasn’t wondered if they purchased long term storage products if they would actually be usable when the time came? I know I did. I purchased some long term storage items from a company that no longer exists over 10 yrs ago. I decided to try them out …

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