Our General Store…Let’s Get Baking…New Request…Family Experience with H1N1
Let’s begin today with the H1N1. It is really an awful illness and if you don’t know anyone who has had it consider yourself very lucky. Yesterday I spoke with a 23 year old woman who experienced for herself the H1N1 the last two weeks. She reported that she has never been so miserable and would rather have a cold for an entire year than the H1N1 for a week. Every joint in her body hurts, every muscle ached. She could not get out of bed and she coughed constantly. All this AFTER she was given Tamiflu.
A family of eight reported that they all got the H1N1 at the same time. Mom and dad were so weak that they moved their mattresses to the same room and laid on sofas and mattresses for almost two weeks. This is exactly the reason we have discussed foods that are easy to prepare and can be made by any family member, just in case mom and dad can’t lift their head. If this should happen to you please call a family member, church friend or neighbor and ask them to bring you a meal. They can leave it on the doorstep and you can retrieve it after they have gone. Be sure you have talked to someone now about your plan and offer to do the same for their family.
This family was not forced by anyone to stay home for two weeks but they did out of necessity, a self quarantine. This is what we have been preparing for. Yes, this could happen to you. Are you ready? Do you have the items needed for re hydration? Do you have easily digested foods in your General Store? Do you have items to help pass the time, books, DVD’s, games, and crafts? It is almost the holiday season so purchase these items now for gifts and if the flu passes you by Christmas gifts are done. If you get the flu in your home you will have items to help take everyone’s mind off the discomfort. Get out your copy of Prep Not Panic TODAY and copy all the charts, forms and information sheets and place them in a binder or tape them into a kitchen cabinet where they can be easily referenced by all family members. Also remember to copy Friday’s post on the Signs of Pneumonia.
There is lots of breaking news on H1N1 today and I will post on the yahoo group as I get any more info.
Since the H1N1 is not the only emergency we are preparing for, let’s move on to our General Store for the week. This is the week to store yeast and salt. Salt will be necessary to make any rehydration formula and it can also be used in canning and obviously, cooking. Store one pound per family member and you will have plenty for 3 months no matter how addicted your family is to salt. Yeast is a little harder. If you bake bread every week then you know how much you would need for a three month supply. If you don’t bake then purchase one pound of yeast and take this opportunity to have someone help you learn to make your own bread. Remember toast is an important part of a recovery diet. Just the smell of homemade bread will help cure everything.
Now for the request. This weekeknd I made some amazing peach salsa. I will post the recipe tomorrow. Now there are no longer fresh peaches available but this was an experiment with rotating food storage. I used my store bought, canned peaches. It is so good…we had some with cream cheese on crackers and also with salmon and I used some as a dressing on a salad. Yum…This would be a perfect gift and also help you rotate your canned peaches. I would like to know what you have done with food storage items to rotate them in a unique way. Please go over to our yahoo group or share them here. I will compile them all and iniclude them in the November newsletter.
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Thanks for posting the Yahoo link. I have enough salt for a year! It was .35cents a container (?) at Fresh & Easy (grocery store here in AZ) so I’m set on that
I dont bake bread so I maybe have 3 little packets of yeast but thats it. Thanks for the article and im excited for the recipe for peach salsa!
I’m eating the cookies, I have stored. Can’t have them go stale!
Trying to eat up the food in the freezer first so it doesn’t get freezer burn. Once that is gone I plan on using the canned meat I did in menus this winter when we are snowed in and don’t want to go to the store. I also have lots of dehydrated vegs and ones I canned as well.
Eating up cookies sounds good to me! We need some good recipes for using that canned meat. Care to share a few?
Sure thing: besides the obvious shepard’s pie with ground beef, or chicken pot pie, or beef stew . A favorite in our house is
Tex-Mex Chicken N Rice
2 cups converted rice uncooked ( ie Unc Ben’s)
28 oz diced tomatoes, wi juice
6 oz tomato paste
1 pkg taco seasoning mix
1 – 2 med onion chopped
1 med green pepper
1 bottle chicken cut into cubes
4 oz can green chiles
3/4 tsp garlic pepper
1/2 cup Cheese (opt)
In slow cooker mix tog all ingred except last four. Cover and cook on low heat for 4 to 4 1/2 hrs until rice is cooked don’t over cook or rice will be mushy. In the last hour add the cubed chicken (no juice from jar), to get it warm. Last 1/2 hr add chilies, cheese and garlic pepper. Serve with sour cream.
Chili Mac
1 jar ground beef
1 cup chopped onion
2 cups (16 oz) canned diced tomatoes
1 can 10 3/4 oz can tomato soup
1 cup tomato juice
2 tsp chili seasoning
6 oz can red kidney beans rinsed and drained
1 cup elbow macaroni
Spray a slow cooker with pam combine onion undrained tomatoes soup juice and chili seasoning. Stir in kidney beans and uncooked macaroni, add 1 bottle of ground beef. Mix well to combine. Cover and cook on low 6 to 8 hours. Mix well before serving. Serve with cheese if desired.
Mongolian Beef
1 jar bottled beef with juice, cube meat
1 pkg mongolian beef seasoning mix
1/4 cup soya sauce
1 bunch green onion
Cooked rice
Drain juice from jar into a sauce pan, add soya sauce and Mongolian beef seasoning mix stir til thickened. Add the cubed meat and heat til warm stir in green onions, serve with cooked rice.
Spicy Orange beef
2 bottles (pints) beef cubed of cut into strips with juice
1/3 cup sugar
2 TBSP soya sauce
1 TBSP cornstarch/water
1TBSP oil,
1 medium onion cut into wedges
1 smal red or green pepper cut into chunks
1 pkg spicy orange beef seasoning mix
Cooked rice
Blend seasoning, mix sugar, soya sauce, and juice from meat, set aside. Add oil to Large fry pan and stir fry onions and pepper, add cubed or strips of beef, cook til hot, add seasoning mix and stir fry til thickened, if not thick enough add cornstarch to water and add to stir fry mix. Serve with rice.
If you can’t find the spicy orange beef sauce mix here is a recipe to make it.
Sauce:
2 tablespoons water or low sodium chicken broth
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
3 teaspoons Ketchup
a few drops sesame oil
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper, or to taste
1 fresh orange, including the peel
1 1/2 teaspoons granulated sugar
Other:
2 slices ginger
2 cloves garlic
6 dried red chili peppers
To prepare the sauce, in a small bowl combine the water or chicken broth, dark soy sauce, rice wine or sherry, ketchup, sesame oil and white pepper. Squeeze the juice from the orange and add to the sauce, along with the sugar. Set aside.
Remove all white pith from the orange peel. Cut the peel into thin strips. Peel and mince the ginger and garlic. Stir these with the peppers and onions. Follow rest of the recipe above
Sauce recipe for Mongolian Beef if you can’t find mix pkg
Sauce:
3 TB hoisin sauce
2 TB water (use juice from Bottle)
1 TB dark soy sauce
2 tsp rice vinegar, or 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
1/4 tsp chile paste, or to taste
1 tsp sugar
Mix together the sauce ingredients in a frying pan, add drained bottled beef and onions heat til hot. Serve with rice.
Debbie these look great. I am going to try the Mongolian beef for dinner. Can’t wait!
These recipes look incredible…I’m going to try them out myself this week. Thank you for sharing them!
Thanks for all the great recipes. I am glad we have the web because I would have writters cramp if I had to sit and write down all these wonderful recipes. Thanks for sharing.