{"id":2392,"date":"2015-07-04T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2015-07-04T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T16:35:23","slug":"saturday-4-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/07\/04\/saturday-4-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 4 July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
Happy Birthday USA!<\/span><\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/div>\n
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More work on science kits today.
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12:35 –<\/span> The only prepping I did this week was relocation-related stuff. Oh, that and I bought 35 pounds (4.5 gallons) of soybean oil at Sam’s Club yesterday.
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Last night, Barbara cooked dinner purely from food storage. A pound of pasta ($0.90), a 14.5-ounce can of Keystone canned chicken ($4.44)<\/a>, and a 15-ounce jar of Bertolli Mushroom Alfredo sauce ($2.12)<\/a>. It made enough for two meals for us, so she froze the excess. It would easily feed four people, for just over $7 total.
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In any emergency that lasts longer than a few days, pasta meals and skillet meals will be important. Pasta can be cooked fuel-efficiently simply by transferring the dry pasta to a pre-heated Thermos bottle, adding boiling water, and allowing the pasta to cook in that hot water. And whipping up a skillet sauce is pretty simple, particularly if you have shelf-stable commercially-packaged sauces or flavoring packets on hand. We keep enough of those on hand to produce several skillet meals a week for the two of us plus a couple of guests to last at least one year, and I’d suggest you do the same.
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Incidentally, Barbara gave her seal of approval to both the Keystone canned chicken and the Bertolli Mushroom Alfredo sauce. That’s significant, because she has pretty strong food preferences, while I’m not very picky.
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Happy Birthday USA!<\/p>\n

More work on science kits today.\n<\/p>\n

12:35 – The only prepping I did this week was relocation-related stuff. Oh, that and I bought 35 pounds (4.5 gallons) of soybean oil at Sam’s Club yesterday.\n<\/p>\n

Last night, Barbara cooked dinner purely from food storage. A pound of pasta ($0.90), a 14.5-ounce can of Keystone canned chicken ($4.44)<\/a>, and a 15-ounce jar of Bertolli Mushroom Alfredo sauce ($2.12)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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