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Make sure you only store the freshest beans you can get. In other words, don't bring the salvage store beans home and plan to store them any length of time. Immediately upon purchase of fresh beans seal them in mylar with O2 absorbers and have the mylar inside a bucket. Store in a cool, dry place that does not get temperature extremes and do not put the bucket directly on concrete floors, put some 2x4s under the buckets so you get air flow. This keeps moisture from condensing and running to the bottom and molding. I've not tried the cook/freeze method, but that might help. I got tons and tons of epazote. The goats LOVE it and it grows thickly all over here.

I just ordered daughter some buckwheat flour from Amazon. 25# of organic for $25.82 with free shipping. I've never found it so cheap anywhere. Have to get it on the subscription, but I set it to every 6 months and you can either cancel an order or cancel the subscription if you don't want it again.

If they didn't soften with pressure cooking, they ain't a gonna. I've had some like that. Bean bags are good. Make some big enough to use for heating pads that you can stick in the microwave. I've also warmed them in a gas oven on low or on top a woodstove. Set the bag inside a heavy pot and put the pot on a trivet. Lid on the pot. The beans warm nicely and you can take the bag to bed with you.

Pickle those jalapenos!

So glad you are getting help with this. The load is too heavy for you to bear alone.

Plastic needlepoint canvas might work for you. Get the kind with the real small holes.

So sorry, hon. HUGS and PRAYERS.

http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/extpubs/Plans/6006.pdf Sure could use one of these!

Dark colored sheet would work to darken the room and you can use it on the bed later if you don't want it for curtains.

I've not come up with anything satisfactory in the bread or baked goods dept except for pancakes made with buckwheat. Been a while since I did any. You have to use plain buckwheat flour, eggs, salt, baking soda and you can use milk or water for the liquid. Use a non stick skillet because you really cannot cook them with any fat, it makes them heavy. Don't put sugar in the batter. They can be used to make sandwiches or make them thin for wraps. Stack several with filling and icing for a cake or serve hot with butter and syrup or jelly. I'm trying to learn to make rice noodles for daughter. Learning curve in effect! Rice flour can be used to make "Sandies" shortbread cookies. They are normally pretty dense and rice just makes dense baked goods. "GF" products nearly always have something in them that daughter cannot eat so I just cook everything from scratch and have done for years.

You can use the tomato sauce from the store.

I do have a manual meat grinder/chopper ordered, waiting for it to get here. She doesn't drink thick stuff well but I was thinking if I can use egg whites and perhaps some mashed beans and/or potato with ground meat, I can make something like nuggets. Something she can pick up and dunk in catsup perhaps. I've never heard of making crepes with just bean flour and water. Might try that later and see if she likes it. She does like buckwheat pancakes when I use them as 'bread' for sandwiches. The big problem, to me, is that you cannot use mayo for the sandwiches or butter either and that makes them too dry. Alas, I am at low ebb on the energy cycle right now. I've cut back as much as possible on the farm work and let much slide. No garden this year because I am too ill. Therefore, no fresh veggies except what I can get from the grocery and those trips are very few and very far between, sigh. I do have a fair stock of canned and dehydrated veggies though. Appreciate the tips.

Sorry not to answer sooner. I have been having major trouble opening pages at Mrs S in the last several days. Been trying all afternoon to get on this one. Daughter gets little fat except what is in the goats' milk, which is normally something easily digested. I've been relying rather heavily on the goat milk to make up for the carbs, protein and fat that is missing since she is on such a restricted diet otherwise. She doesn't chew well and will not stay at the table long enough to eat if it requires spooning too much in and chewing too long. She just gets up and goes to her room without finishing. Usually she will eat it readily if I take the dish to her in her room and watch her eat. I cannot let her eat in her room regularly and have to remove all dishes promptly due to fire ants. So the milk really has made a difference in her being able to get enough nutrients. Now, without it, I've had to be extra diligent and of course, she gets far too much sugar since she is drinking lots of juice for the calories. Still working on that. The separator will be more work, but if it helps with her nutrition, it will be worth it. She is already starting to improve. Seems to feel better and somewhat more alert. Celiac tends to be genetic, but daughter was adopted and I don't know if other family has problems or not. I cannot exist on the celiac diet myself. I tried, but it caused too many problems with my kidneys and gout and I just didn't feel well. Wasn't getting enough to eat because it just didn't set well on my stomach either. So I cook two entirely different diets for the two of us.

Mother, I'm so sorry you are having so much trouble finding anything you can eat. It is very frustrating. Daughter and I have such different dietary needs that I cook separate meals most of the time. At this point I don't know what fats she can tolerate, if any. I read that coconut oil in very small quantities may be the best tolerated so after her intestine has a recovery period, I'll try that. I'll share the 'book' when it is done. I'm trying to do calorie counts on the recipes so I'll know about how much each contributes. Right now, I'm trying to get the weight back on her that she dropped. So trying to bump the calories a good bit higher than normal. Hard to do without fat.

LOL, guess I better record the meal recipes then. I have some of the canned meal recipes written down. I am ever so grateful I put up huge quantities of home grown meat. I trimmed all the fat before canning and the process separated the rest of the fat so it can be scooped off the top before using. Have to put the jar in the fridge a while to harden it, but that isn't a big deal. I'm having to increase protein and carb intake for her to make up for losing the fat calories.

Objective symptoms are big, bulky, pale stools that float and unexplained weight loss when the person has not decreased calories, changed what they were eating or increased activity. Also oil floating on the surface of the water in the toilet. When all fat is withheld for several days the stools darken and look more normal. If you continue to eat fat it will damage the intestines until you have severe diarrhea called steatorrhea or sprue.

Thought I had a good handle on daughter's diet. Corn, gluten, soy free is what she's been on for several yrs and was doing ok. Now, all the sudden she cannot digest fat. So I'm trying to come up with corn, gluten, soy and FAT free foods that actually taste good and have a good mouth feel. This is NOT easy! All her meat, dairy and egg producing animals must also be gluten and soy free though she doesn't seem to have too much trouble if they are on corn, I suspect this could change too. I ordered a cream separator to make the goat milk fat free for her. Working on the rest.

Wonderful! So happy for you!

Aww, Mt Rider yelled 'Dibs' first! 'I' wanted that lovely empty cupboard!

Yes, it is fine. It may dry out a bit over time and get a bit darker, but it is still good and safe to eat. I would put the less full jars to the front of the shelf to be used first. Be sure to check seals regularly as when the food boils out of the jar, sometimes bits are left under the lid and cause the seal to fail.

I know somebody that could use it but she doesn't drive and neither do I.

You only need grow enough hulless to provide for the family. The animals will eat the regular varieties without any problem. Hulless is more prone to damage from insects. I would like to try some hulless oats though since that is something daughter can eat. She can't eat barley or wheat.

Canning milk. I had no kid crop to speak of this yr. Only 2 does were bred and I got 3 bucklings and 1 doeling. THEN 4 more does volunteered to produce milk without kidding so I'm awash in milk. So I'm canning excess. (Don't have a cow anybody, I'm hoping to get a pig or calf after I move so saving the milk for them.)

HOORAY FOR JORI!!!

Congrats on the moving! Hope you get connected soon at home. I'm much too distracted and absentminded to help right now, really sorry. Hopefully someone will offer.