Michael68

Thanks for all the great info.....I ended up ordering a book "Cooking with Home Storage" by Vicki Tate, that came highly recommended by many sources. I'll give everyone a followup after I recieve and review it.

My basics currently include pinto and black beans, red and white wheat, rice, potato flakes, powdered milk, quick oats, dehydrated onions and misc other stuff like flour, sugar, seasonings, canned: beef, tomatoes,green beans, and some hot peppers. Looking at that list, my simplisticness see's only a few options. Chili, refried beans, bread, mashed taters, and oatmeal from the "dry" goods. Variety is definately an issue....... For Pam: Recipe for tree bark soup: 2 quarts fresh spring water 1 large chunk of any bark Boil for 1/2 hour Season with old leather boot for flavor if needed There are probably better options out there!

Now that we have started our food storage, does anyone have any direction on good recipes? I could eat tree bark soup if I had to, but the family probabily wouldn't enjoy it much:rolleyes: We have the basics plus some pressure canned beef. Thanks..........

Isn't it great with all the differences of opinions in this thread, that God has blessed this country to be free enough to be able to talk freely (for time being) about this subject?

Interesting. Just a few weeks ago I met a guy who has a concrete-dome-cooker that stands about 6 feet tall at its tallest spot. We spent about a 1/2 hour looking it over and asking questions. He brings it up to 800 degrees and cooks pizzas in it, in 90 seconds! I think, not sure, that it takes an hour and a half or two to get it up to temperature though, which makes it inefficient for a small family. He is in the process of looking at making flat breads commercially with this. Once again going from a bad memory, I believe that he can bake 4, 18x18 pieces of flat bread every 75 seconds once he gets to temperature. If you are interested, I will contact him to see where he found his plans.

To start a drinking water storage program, say with empty-clean 2 liter bottles, and the water is ran through a carbon filter on the fridge, would I also need to add bleach? The water is very good. Also, even though it is pricey, there is a product out there that can mount on the top of a 4" well cap for deep wells. I think it is called a Bison Pump. Some models can draw water from 200' down by hand. If you Google "Bison Pumps", the facts will be there.