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Corn muffins were good also. The only complaint was they were white and not yellow. The guys think cornmeal should be yellow but they ate them all and wondered if there was more. Next batch I will use yellow cornmeal.

Okay pulled out the brownie mix last night and made a batch of brownies following the recipe. If you like cake type brownies you will love these. The batch I made yesterday is gone. The guys like more of the fudgey type brownie so I will decrease the eggs and add a little more oil maybe even throw in some chocolate chips. Using the cornbread mix today. I am making corn muffins. Stay turned for an update!

Originally Posted By: Pixie I have one toilet that the chain was always falling off the lever. It just hooks on, but does not stay for long. I took a piece of thread and wound it around the ball chain and the lever so that it is stuck firmly in its groove. I have not had any problems with it since. I have the cup-type assembly in my tanks, not the float ball. Tha is one thing i still have to add to the preps, is the toilet repair kit. Dental floss or fishing line works wonders. We had the same problem and hubby was on the road and I did a mommy fix on the toilet. Actually I think when we moved out of that house it was still tied up with dental floss.

Originally Posted By: HappyCamper45 This is such a great site...Can't thing of a better site..I'm preparing for the pandemic and When in fact it does happen these recipes will really come in handy... Most of them will save me a lot of money... The items that don't have shorting in them...Can you keep them in the old fashion mason jars...or just zip locks...Why do you keep them in the freezer, which I think is a great idea but, can you keep them with out a freezer if the power goes out for any lenth of time. How you don't mind my asking... I put mine in the freezer because I made up such a large batch and didn't realize it before I started I only had large ziplock bags and only pint jars. So I just put all the brownie mix in one bag, muffin mix in another and the bisquick in a 3rd bag. I knew it would take several months (possible 6 months) and I didn't want it to start tasting "old" In the recipes it says you can store them on the shelf. I see no problem storing them in jars.

Originally Posted By: Darlene Also adding whole carrots (how many depends on how big of a pot you are making) accomplishes the same thing the sugar does, but in a more natural manner. We cut a potato in half and cook in ours hubby said it helps no more heart burn.

UPDATE ON MANUAL!!!!!! We are rolling again; we hope to have a draft ready to proof around the end of March. Then there will be a special spot here just for the manual where members of Mrs. S. can go and print their own copies. The goal is to have this ready so everyone will have their own copies before the shindig at Darlene's next year. Please be patient we are working just as fast as our little computers will let us.

Originally Posted By: Grace&Violets I'm glad someone bumped this thread. I hadn't seen it yet. It reminds me of the blizzard we had in CO a few days before Christmas 2006. We couldn't get out of our cul-de-sac for days. No one could. My BIL & SIL finally were able to get out of their house and get to us so we could get to the store. I was hosting Christmas dinner at our house and didn't have everything to make my meal, yet! We could have survived for a couple of months on what we did have, but it wouldn't have been our traditional Christmas dinner. Plus, we were out of fresh milk for the kiddos. Anyway, we got to the Safeway and the pictures that were posted in the first few posts were pretty close to how things looked at our store. Except our store was way worse. There were about 2 packages left of toilet paper, just a few gallons of milk left, NO water, NO fresh veggies, although there were some frozen, which is what I bought. There were NO canned veggies, except maybe some okra(which may be big in the south, but not here). I've never seen anything like it in my entire life. Even though I prep, it pretty much freaked me out! This was just a few days without deliveries. I started imagining what it would be like if it lasted a week, or more than a week. They would have to close the store. I heard from some workers there, that they were real close to closing the store, but they had just received a delivery from a truck that braved the roads and it gave them enough stock to keep open one more day. It was actually creepy. Made me glad that I keep so many preps. DH teases me that we could tp our entire town with our preps, but he also knows that he will be happy, if anything does happen. I know our neighbor family was happy, because we ended up feeding their entire family the first night. They had been planning on being out of town for Christmas, so they had not bought groceries and had made sure they had NO food in their house. Not hardly a can! I can't even imagine! At any given time the most stores have on hand is 3 days supply. That is what is scary.

Don't forget the hex's. I bought hubby a set that had a about a bazillion of them tenny tiny stars to the ones about the size of your little finger

This is awesome Nana. I look forward to your postings. I have my pencil ready also...wait let me load it with paper. There it's ready. Post away Nana!

Originally Posted By: Cat (With apologies to Shari Lewis...) ~~This is the thread that never ends; It just goes on and on, my friends... Somebody started writing it, not knowing where it'd go, And now it just keeps going on forever, don't you know...~~

Thank you thank you...I have been looking for some of these. I have added this to my "watched topics" so I can find easier. My printer is out of ink so I will have to wait till I get back to work to print this off.

I just noticed the title of this post....Poverty cooking? :swoon: SHHHHHHHHHHHH don't tell the guys they grew eating this way and I still cook this way. Its the only way I know to cook.

http://www.bulkfoods.com/search_results....chParamTxt=4747 Here is a bulk supplier that sells it in 25lb bulk edited to say oops thats 50lb bags not 25

hummm weiner dog stew hummmm. Neighbor has two of them and hubby keeps mumbling something under his breath about becoming grease spots. I like the look of that volcano. I have always just set my dutch oven down in our little webber.

Thanks for recovering this. Westbrook...I can plant potatoes in a garbage can huh?....hummmmmm. Well I game, I will give it a go. Do they need full sun or partial sun?

Nana this is awesome. I have seen many list and some times I wonder what was going through their mind when they made that lest. This one is more "eater friendly" I am going to use your list as a guide.

I know you are all busy with your preps. But from a newbie please don't abandon this project. I need all the help I can get

I know you can not use the All American on flat tops, because they are too heavy. I not sure about Presto brand. I was reading up on the All American and it had in BIG RED letters NOT FOR USE ON CERAMIC OR FLAT top stoves that the weight would cause the top of the stove to crack.

I can't wait to try this recipe. Hubby LOVES salsa. It is a staple at my house. This sounds wonderful.