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  1. Can smoked or bratworst be dehydrated? I see huge sales on skinless smoked sauage and would love to slice it really thin and drying it like jerky and using it in soups later. Is that safe?
  2. http://mrssurvival.com/forums/index.php?sh...mp;#entry300865 Here is what we use for our garden. And last summer I got 46 pints of green beans, 60 quarts of tomato sauce, a bushel of onions, a bushel of potatoes, 40 pints of dill and bread and butter pickles, 6 quarts of frozen swiss chard, a whole summer's worth of lettuce, radishes for ever meal, a half bushel of green peppers and jalopeno pepers, and a pint of strawberries. Oh and a huge amount of zucchini! This year I am using the topsy turvy planters for the tomatoes so I can grow wheat and corn in the beds in the back. We grew enough food to feed my family and my brother and Dad's family. Yes you can grow enough, BUT I strongly suggest if you don't have a good fertilizer source that you invest in a pet rabbit. I got one last summer just for the "poop" and he has paid for the cost of his up keep. I am now gathering foods from my yard to dry to feed him this winter which will save us even more money on his upkeep. Also remember when planting in containers and beds you need to water more. Also plant up, not accross. Plant pole beans, plant tomatoes in cages or topsy turvy's, lettuce will grow in anything so grab any old container and plant them there. We added a new garden this summer for the kids, made out of their old kiddy pool that was cracked by ice last winter. It was a bigger one so we're planting mini pumpkins, a cherry tomato, carrots, green beans, and peas in it. All will be caged or string lined so they go up and the pumpkins will be used as mulch to keep the other plants cool and moist. But all the tenticles will be led to safe places to hold on so they don't strangle the other plants. OH and don't let anyone tell you it can't be planted in a container. I haven't found anything you can't grow in them including sweet corn. You just have try and see how it goes. Just have fun.
  3. 5 pounds of potatoes, 6 pounds of carrots, and 5 lbs of green beans. I plan to do 10 pounds more of potatoes, 2 stalks of celery and all my older onions this week. I also have a batch of juice to do too. You never know what smell the house will have when you walk in these days.
  4. We went to the zoo this weekend and I talked to the kids about the Pygmy goats. I showed them which ones were with child. They were fascinated. They kept looking and pointing and asking what about that one how about that one. At the end they could tell which ones were really with child. he he I personally had a blast watching the baby prairie dogs. They act just like my children I mean JUST like them...made wonder if I gave birth to two talking prairie dogs?
  5. I only grow my potatoes in barrels. I tried to grow them in the ground and the grubs and ground critters ate every potato that came out. I ended up with two small seed size potatoes and a pile of mostly eated shell of taters. So now I grow them in 1/2 of a 55 gallon barrel with nicer soil, no grubs and LOTS more potatoes! We planted 1 pound of seeds last year and got 10 pounds of potatoes. Well worth the effort. Plus since they are closer to the house I plant them way before last frost and cover them when it gets too cold so they have longer to grow. I planted 6 pounds of potatoes this year. Can't wait till we can pull them up. Right now the plant part of the spud is 10 inches off the ground and that is after we covered them with more soil!
  6. My kids learned a lot about planting gardens, when to plant, how deep to plant, how to water without washing out the seeds. How to carry a watering can without losing all the water, how to hoe, how to dig holes for tomatoes, how to drag and put away the hose, how to pull weeds, and best of all how to get dirty and have a blast doing it. The best part is we have all but one plot of land planted. We do beans tomorrow and we are done! I learned that giving kids seeds to plant in a "row" will get you a lovely zig zag pattern. he he We had a great weekend so far.
  7. Today I taught my son what happens when you push rules and being rude to your elders. He is writing "I will listen and obey" 60 times. We have other forms of discipline, but this one is used to re-enforce things we want him to really learn. Hopefully reading and writing "I will listen and obey" will get it into his head. Does anyone else use this method?
  8. Had a family member buy the kids some Cheeto's and after the bag was emptied and I looked inside and wondered can you re-use these? Are they safe to use for food? Might save some money if they worked. Not that we get them all the time, but hey if it's free we might as well use everything.
  9. Today I taught my son how to help with putting laundry on the line. He handed me the clothes and the clothes pins and helped watch his sister. When we were done putting up the clothes he asked when he gets bigger if he could put the laundry on the line all by himself. I smiled and said you bet! Oh yea get him hooked on laundry line fun and I'll never have to do it again. Yeah Right! HA! We are technically off school for the next two weeks since we will be starting up a new unit when my nephew if off public school. So we're working on home skills for the time being. I plan to teach him to sort clothes for each load, and he is learning how to cook and make his own sandwiches. He's 5 year old bye-the-way.
  10. I knew all 4 of my grandparents very well. I also was close with my step grandpa on my Mom's side. I also knew both of my great grandmothers on my Dad's side. One was a 102 when she passed and the other was 89. My Dad's Dad is still alive and kicking (like a 30 year old!), but all the rest are gone now. I was the first born of two first borns so I was lucky enough to have lots of time with my family.
  11. The kids are learning to make due with what we have. We are doing a pioneer / western expansion unit this summer. We plan to make a play house for the kids using "junk" wood from the firewood to make a log cabin. We are also planning to make a covered wagon using an old radio flyer wagon, some bartered welding, and some canvas fabric. To me the pioneer times are the total of survival. Plus the pioneer times are cool to learn about. We also plan to do a lot more projects for this unit (like making bread and butter etc.), but these are the big ones. We also plan to have a pioneer picnic in August with family and friends where we will make pioneer foods, play pioneer games, and have the kids preform a play and other projects from the summer.
  12. Microwave bacon cookers. Had the flat type. No matter how long you cook them you got charcoal or rubber. I saw the ones you hang the bacon on and that looked even scarier. Trust me an iron skillet and a fork is MUCH better! Electric coil type hair removers! Had one....tried it on one leg in one spot.... A pair of tweezers would be much cheaper and I think A LOT less painful! Oh there's nothing like having your leg hairs pulled out 40 at a time with an electric coil! OUCH! Colored nail polish (guilty of having many colors as a teen) but as an adult... Why? What does it do besides give you a head ache from the fumes. Clear I get since I've used it to stop runs in legging and to cover over stuff to protect it. High heal shoes! OUCH....OUCH....OUCH!
  13. QUOTE (Cat @ Apr 4 2009, 07:00 PM) Yup, yup, yup... Look in "Mare's collection of money-saving mixes (repost)" in this same section of the Kitchen. It's the first recipe, but you won't be able to stop *there*.... http://mrssurvival.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21482 I have now found my happy place. Thank you SOOOOOOOO much for these recipes!
  14. When I was a kid my parents were missionaries and they never had money for food so we ate a lot of refried beans and rice. Mom would soak and cook the beans with salty water then drain and mash them then add season salt. We would eat burritoes, rices with tomatoes and lots of other things with the two and sometimes we would get govt. cheese and oh was that great!
  15. QUOTE (Mouse Kitty @ Apr 15 2007, 07:43 AM) Let's see.... poverty cooking/eating.... I'd say the first year we were married (1988) would definitely qualify as a crash course for the 18 year old I was then about poverty and making do with nothing at all. A double box set of 6lb. Bisquik boxes cellophaned together, a 5lb. box of dried milk, a large bag of rice and two cheap stewing chickens could quite literally feed us for two weeks. (Add in stick margarine which is usually STILL found for 48 cents a lb or less.) We usually got these items from Sam's. We would make Chicken and dumplings. Pancakes or biscuits for breakfast. Biscuits with creamed chicken over them. Many nights we had pancakes (butter with no/little syrup) for dinner. Trust me - a thick, heavy Bisquik pancake for dinner can fill up even a hungry man very nicely. There was also a recipe on the back of the Bisquik box about making a breakfast casserole with Bisquik, eggs, milk and cheese. I don't remember what it was. But if I could afford or had the eggs and cheese I would make that and we would eat on it for two days or more. We also used to make a Bisquik-like shortcake (almost like a drop biscuit, really) and add a can of cheap pie filling as topping for a treat. For some reason I could almost always find a dented can of pie filling for next to nothing in the sale bins. Creamed chicken (if any was left) went well over the rice, or sometimes we saved some of the chicken after boiling for dumpling broth and made a rice and chicken baked casserole. Sometimes I had some sugar or brown sugar to make one of the other coffee-cake-like items listed on the back. They were always plain, but very filling. Let me stress that I made different Bisquik recipes according to whatever else I might have on hand or could afford - cinnamon, etc. In today's prices according to my pricebook: Costco - ONE 6lb. box of Bisquik - $4.35 (x2 = 8.70) Aldi's - ONE 5lb. box of dry milk - $7.95 Chicken - varies by store, but ranges from .49 -.99 a lb for various cheap chicken parts- I'll go overkill/protein-heavy and say spend 10.00 on chicken. Rice - medium bag for $2.50 Margarine - $1.00 for 2 lbs. Total - $30.15 There wasn't much variety, that is true, but we sure didn't starve. I STILL keep Bisquik on hand - I know I can make the same thing from bulk ingredients, but it's great in a pinch to have on hand. Sorry for the long, wordy post! You don't happen to have the recipe for making bisquik do you? We eat a lot of it here since it doesn't have egg in it and I can add egg substitute which works great with it.
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