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Preparedness Nuggets 1 Beer Sourdough for Bread + Bread and Flour + Dutch Oven Baking + Outdoor Brick Ovens + Several Guys Shopping Lists in Several Categories + Solar Cooker +

Preparedness Nuggets 2 More Preparedness Lists + Basic Wheat Cereal Recipe + Dry Potatoes + Hard Candy, Canned Meat + Sources for bulk grains and beans + Pop Bottle Greenhouse +

Preparedness Nuggets 3 Acorns and Cattails + Alternative Power Explained + Eating Dandelions + Flowers but no Tomatoes? + Free internet classified ads + Free Plastic Buckets + Goats Milk + Baby Formula + How to hook up a generator to your household electrical system + How to Sell Your Home + Mulching with Hay + Oxygen Absorbers + Out of Print Books + Planting in Leaf Mulch + Quick and Easy Greenhouse + Underground House + Use all the fruit, including the apple cores and peach skins + Using Rainwater + Wild Onions + Wind Power

Preparedness Nuggets 4 Book on food storage + Food co-ops + First aid for dehydrated persons + Generators and extension cords + More on generators + More on back feeding generators + Planning Guide + Storing Kroger cans + Washing clothes + Where There Is No Doctor (book recommendation) + Woodburning Stoves +

Preparedness Nuggets 5 Basic Alternative Power/Battery charging info + Beautiful Outhouse + Christian Women's Comments + Deep-fried Dandelion Flowers + Don't store things in your attic + Checking a used wood stove you are thinking about buying + Greenhouse for under $100 + More on Greenhouses + Homestead Products + How-to Books, Carriages + Joseph in the Bible: how did he do it? + Kerosene Lamps + Log Cabins + Make your own lye + Mini-cellars + Mini-cellars and PVC pipes + Mormon cannery + Mormon company + Mulch gardening + Nonlethal home defense + Poison oak + Preserving yeast + Report from Vermont + Sites on hometeading + Small cheap cold frames + Storage food source + Water service letter + Where to get gold

Nuggets 6 Food Storage Book + Ezekial Bread + One Guy's Shopping List + Spiritual Preparation +

Nuggets 7 Adding Vitamin E to oils + Bakers Supplies + Basic food storage on a limited budget + Baygen Radios + Buying Bulk Foods + Can dispenser shelves + Canned vs Dehydrated foods + Canning + Canning Again + Catholic Simple Living URL + Catholic homesteading/spirituality newsletter + Charcoal for dutch ovens + Clay oven baking + Clothing + Cookbook for poor people + Cooking with a thermos + Dutch oven cooking + Fats and oils + Feed four cheaper + Food storage FAQS + Freezing white flour before storing it + Freezing herbs + Freshly ground dried corn and a hoecake recipe + RV sales store as source for solar cell equipment + Buying bulk Herbs and Spices + Homeschooling + Important considerations regarding electrical inverters + Just for fun: GLOOP + Killing critters in bulk items + Learn healthcare skills now + Low cost propane + Low-fuel cooking + LP gas freezers and refrigerators + MORE on canning + More on emergency refrigeration + Nutritious pancake syrup + Off-grid refrigeration + One month food supply in one box, almost + Outdoor bread ovens + Pressure canners + Olive Oil + Re-using newspapers, bags, and tin cans + Refrigerators + Seven major mistakes of food storage + Shelf life of canned goods + Small refrigerator run by a battery + Solar cooker + Start on a new "y2k" diet gradually + Storage of canned foods + Tomato and cheese mixes + Trash + Vaccum sealers/packers + Water + Water Wheel Plus + Windmills + Y2k site for women + "Farmette" Homesteader +

Nuggets 8 + Adult Tricycle + Canning Cakes + Coffee, Soup, Bleach shelf life + Is chlorinated pool water safe to drink? + Drying Potatoes + Dutch Ovens, Iron Cookware + First Aid Kit + Food Sealer + Freezing Pipes + Garbarge or sewer emergency needs immediate community response + Kerosene is very safe + Kerosene Lamps + More on iron cookware + Online health and nutrition newsletter + Diatomaceous Earth + Radio + Sample preparation plans + Sourdough + Staying in your community + Christian Homesteading + Things to do list + Think of helping others + Venison recipes + Water filters + Water filters II + Your y2k medicine cabinet

Nuggets 9 + Another Mennonite Company + Barleygreen and just carrots + Dried ground beef, sierra cups + Fasting bread + Home remedies: CAUTION + Home-made potato flakes + Live foods + Lloyd's home remedies + Make-your-own yeast + Mormon Cannery + Non-hybrid seeds + Out-of-print books + Plant meaty tomatoes for drying + Solar oven + Storage + Store your seeds underground + Tents and knive + Using hot water 3 times

Nuggets 10 + Anchor your RV + Banana bread in a jar + Building an outside bread oven + Canning a great zucchini salsa + Cash withdrawals + Corn cob jelly + Crank radio + Dried tomatoes + Egg storage + Free kombucha starter culture + Home remedy: Black walnut salve + No fail shortening soap recipe + Non-electric food dehydrator + One year food storage for family of 8 + Pallets for fire wood + Buy food now + Solar dehydrator + Storing eggs with waterglass + Store what you eat and eat what you store + Storing wheat + Storing brown rice

Nuggets 11 + Great zucchini salsa for canning + Grow potatoes vertically + More preparedness books + Nutrition data + Odd grains/make noodles + Bay leaves for storing rice + Rootbeer recipe + Salsa canning recipe + Scrounge the used book stores + Simplest solar cooker + Thermos cooking + Unusual recipes in old canning books + Using dried veggies + Water storage information + Well drilling +

Nuggets 12 + Another great non-electric catalog + Build your own water distiller + Cook perfect rice + Cooking pinto beans + Cooling home-made soap + County extension office for canning advice + Crank/solar radios + Dehydrated food + Drying seeds + Fall gardening + Foraging off the land + Forever foods + Our farmer friends + Free or cheap 5 gallon buckets + Glitchproof + Goatpaint and other products + Is lye soap harsh? + Mega-links for living green, off the grid + Milk and juice jugs for water + Mormon cannery + Planting store-bought potatoes? + Plastic food/water containers + Poison oak and ivy + Post y2k phone tip + Pump and seal + Pumping well water + Square foot gardening email discussion list + Storage food source + Storing eggs + Supplies and suppliers + Thermos cooking + Using those dried veggies + Vacuum sealer + Water in mylar-lined boxes + Water purification straw + Waterbeds for storing water? + Why not just buy water in jugs? + + Preparation info on the internet

Nuggets 13 + Famous Louisiana Beans + Best-selling y2k preparedness books + Care for those in need + Cellar eggs keep 6 months + Chickens and eggs + Cook brown rice like pasta + Cutting barrells for planters + Diatomaceous earth + Botulism worries + During the blizzard + Famous Puerto Rican beans + Feeding rabbits + Grains for breakfast + Heat-treating storage grains + How many briquets to bake bread? + If your garden has serious bug problems. . . + Instant roux and canned meats + More on cooking rice + List of Mormon canneries + Plastic milk jug mini-dome greenhouses + Practice your y2k eating + Pressure cooker pinto beans + Re-using tires safely + Two great SOURDOUGH sites + Sourdough bread baked in a dutch oven + Sourdough starter recipe + Beginning preparedness checklist + Vacuum sealer + Wheat varieties + Whole grains stored in donut buckets

Nuggets 14 Encourage Young Mothers to Breast-feed + Pressure Canning Milk + Pumping from a deep well + Sierra camp stoves and wood pallets + Small stock: the advantages of having friends + Soy and More Soy + Using water bottles for thermal mass + Bottling your own water + Burying potato stems + Canning Web Sites + Cooked Soybeans + Cooking jelly without pectin + Cooking Rice Right + Don't store water in your attic + Farm supply: water tanks + Grow and dry chili peppers as a healing herb + More cake-in-a-jar recipes + Newspaper Logs + Oil, Fat, and Grease + Planting potatoes in straw + Post y2k phone tip + Potatoes in the mulch + Smells in the kitchen + Softened soya grits + Solar water distilling + Soy cakes + Soy cheese + Soy spread + Soybean medley + Soybean paste + Soynuts + Square foot potatoes + Stock something for the babies + Storing beans + Storing gasoline + To ripen green tomatoes + Tofu: how to make it + Storing grains outside in freezing weather

Nuggets 15 2 liter bottles for water storage + A home-made, improvised grain mill + A thread of messages about changing ax heads + Antibiotic alternatives + Babies and diapers + Baby wipes: make your own + Barrels are beautiful! + Blood meal in compost + Brine + Browned flour: a solution for diaper rash + Buckwheat as a cover crop + Cabbage varieties + Canning spaghetti sauce + Cattails + Comfrey + Compost: cubic foot method + Compost: more basics and some books + Composting: another article + Creosote and chimney fires + Dandelion omelets + Dehydrating canned vegetables + Diaper soakers + Diatomaceous earth + Dried veggie and macaroni casserole + Drying herbs + Emergency diets for diabetics + Emergency heating tips + Energy glow breakfast + Extra can openers are necessary + Fiddlehead ferns + Food grade plastic buckets + Free source for syrup barrels for water storage + Gardener's sun punch + Gathering wood in national forests + Greywater: don't store it! + Herbal flu remedy + How to start a siphon + Jerky: make it without a salty marinade + Kitchen scraps and compost + Land for community gardens + Making butter + Making soap + Mop bucket laundry bucket + More on pest control + Mulching + Newspaper logs + Olive oil and parmesan bread spread + Pests and the garden + Pinecone firestarters + Pitch an inside tent as a heat shelter + Planning: essential to success + Put your propane tank downhill from your house + Recipe using canned hams + Seed saving details (brassicas) + Soil testing + Solar cooking + Sprouting + Sprouting pumpkin seeds + Teach the children first + Tobacco: alternative uses (not for smoking!) + Vienna bread + Warnings on buying rural property + Washing clothes by hand + Witch hazel + Wool: best for soakers. (Total pages this nugget when printed: 36)
Nuggets 16

100 LB/HOUR GRAIN MILL + 200 Gallon waterbags for storage + Advice on chickens + Aloe vera plant for healing burns + Bandages: a cheap and unusual source + Catholic preparedness organization + Composting manure + Container gardening + Cooking on a wood stove + Cooking pasta with minimum fuel + Cooking with a wok + Crockpot cooking + Dehydrating cooked beans and rice + Expert advice on starting seeds + Garlic growing details + How to make your own electrical generator + Insulin storage + Link to homemade solar panel site + Make your own inside window thermal shutters + Make your own tofu + Make your own well bucket + Making compost and growing potatoes + Making compost and growing worms (cheaply) + Netlinks on raising rabbits + One family's alternative energy setup + Oral Rehydration solution (WHO recipe) + Practical advice on storing whole grains + Rabbit Production Figures + Recipe for baby formula + Report on Breedlove/Harvest Ladle Foods + Salt Cured Country Ham + Saving and sprouting your seed + Saving bacon grease + Seed saving procedures + Shortening + Solar cooker suggestions + Solar living on-line newsletter + Storing cheese without refrigeration + The Three Sisters + Tomato Gravy + Troubleshooting Home canning problems + Winter hand laundry
Nuggets 17

100 useful items for emergencies/disaster relief + A food coop active in 30 states + A thread on cracked feed corn + A thread on stove top breads + Access to low-tech sustainable living information + Cleaning wheat + Coffee substitutes + Cooking and canning in a pressure cooker + Corona grain mill + Dehydrating spinach (plus some recipes and uses for spinach flour) + Dehydrating Swiss chard + Edible flowers + Excellent non-commercial site on drinking water + Gardening in bags of potting soil + HAMBURGER ROCKS (HOME DEHYDRATED FRIED HAMBURGER) + How to can butter + How to survive a heart attack when you are alone + Instant refried bean mix + Kiddie wading pool garden + Make your own ranch dressing mix + Mom's famous old Russian sourdough starter + Natural insect repelling plants + Organizing your food storage as meals + Outdoor baking ideas + Planting potatoes + Recipes for making your own pest deterrents + Shoe repair links + Smithfield hams + Tobacco based insect control + Using sprouts + Warning label to be placed on all people who think for themselves

Nuggets 18 Baking bread in a dutch oven + Biodiesel + Chicken soup without the chicken + Egg substitutes for baking + Growing indoor tomatoes + Ham radio advice + Homemade laundry detergent + How to make your own charcoal + Library of American Civilization + Salt cured country hams may be stored without refrigeration + Solar cooking in a wheelbarrow + The power grid + Using garlic as a natural remedy + Water storage in cisterns + Waxing hard cheese

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HAMBURGER ROCKS (HOME DEHYDRATED FRIED HAMBURGER)

I thought I would share my recipe for hamburger rocks with you. You take your hamburger and fry in pan, then pour into a colander and rinse under hot running water. Wipe out the skillet you fried the hamburger in and pour the hamburger back into the skillet. (Make sure all the grease is off). I then fry it again (slightly) crispy add onions, garlic (powders are fine) ( you may also add chili powder in some and/or Italian seasoning in the other) then you can either put it in you dehydrator trays, or cook in your oven under low heat for a few hours until it resembles hard little rocks.

If you don't have enough fruit roll up trays for your dehydrator you can use wax paper and dry till they turn into hard hamburger rocks. Afterwards I store them in sealed bags or in canning jars. I have kept it successfully for 1-1/2 years so far with no problem.

To reconstitute:

When I need hamburger meat for: hamburger helper, spaghetti sauce, lasagna, Mexican casserole etc....I just boil 2 cups water to 1 cup of hamburger rocks and let set till it rehydrates, then drain if any liquid and add to my mix. My family laughs at my hamburger rocks, but they have been eating it for over a year and not knowing. I recently made a mock lasagna dish using it for a Y2k ladies meeting and they were surprised and impressed. So start dehydrating your Hamburger Rocks today

Miles Stair on hamburger rocks: We have tried it, and it works, but we ended up with more "sand and gravel" than was desirable. So I ground rump roast and pot roast in a #2 universal meat chopper using the 3-bladed cutter, and now we get almost all rocks, very little gravel, and no sand. About 6 lbs of meat will dehydrate to only 1 quart of rocks. Miles Stair

How to make clarified butter

Clarified butter stores indefinitely without refrigeration (this is handy if the power gets cut off because of a storm, utility problem, lack of money to pay the bill, or y2k disruptions. It's also healthier, as clarifying the butter removes most of the cholesterol, but retains the delicious butter taste.

Melt the butter in a pan with a low heat and bring it to a slow boil. If any scum rises to the top, skim it off. Boil slowly (don't burn) until the white solids clump together on the bottom of the pan. The butter oil will be clear and golden. Skim off the butter oil into a clean jar with a tight fitting lid. You can collect the remaining oil and solids in the bottom of the pan, and strain it through cheesecloth or coffee filters, to collect the last of the oil. The solids are then discarded (or fed to animals). Lard can also be clarified by this method, and loses most of its cholesterol while retaining its taste.

Pickled Eggs

Without refrigeration, eggs will eventually spoil. Before this happens, pickle them: 1. Use quart mason jars. Boil the jars for 10 minutes and then keep them covered with hot water until they are used. 2. Hard boil the eggs and peel them. Take the mason jars out of the water and put the boiled/peeled eggs in them. You can add hot peppers and fresh garlic for flavor and color, also carrots, spices, herbs (cumin, dill, oregano, whatever you like). Anything added contributes flavor and is itself pickled. 3. Add 2 cups vinegar. Add water to fill to about ½ inch below the rim. Wipe the rims of the jars and put on a new lid and then screw on the ring finger tight. Note: lids should not be reused, but the rings can be used over and over again. 4. Put water in a deep pot (deep enough so the water comes up to the rims of the jars, look around for a boiling water canner). Place the jars in the pot so they do not touch each other (make sure they are up off the bottom of the kettle, some kettles have racks for this purpose, or you could put a towel in the bottom of the pot. Bring the water to a rapid boil, and keep the water boiling rapidly for 20 minutes. (This is called "processing time" and it starts when the water starts to rapidly boil, NOT when you turn on the heat). Use tongs to put the jars in the water and take them out. If you don't have tongs and can't improvise any, let the water cool naturally. Do not reduce processing time.

5. After the 20 minutes are up, turn off the heat and remove the jars from the water. Place them on a rack and allow them to cool naturally. Don't try to hasten the process by putting them in cold water. As the jars cool, , the center of the lids will depress slightly. This is a sign that a proper seal has been made. If the center of the lids doesn't depress, bring the water back to a boil and process for 20 minutes again. Once the jars are completely cool, store them in a cool dark place. You can remove the rings or leave them on. If you don't need them, might as well leave them on, that way they won't get lost and you'll always know where to find some. Let the jars sit for a couple of weeks before using them. Once opened, use within a few days, or keep refrigerated.

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SOLAR COOKING IN A WHEELBARROW

Re: Solar Cooking in a Wheelbarrow Prepare dinner at breakfast time when the day is over 23 degrees Celsius.

1. Wash out the wheelbarrow, then line with aluminum foil.

2. Select a sheet of glass to cover the top of the barrow.

3. Position in a sunny spot.

4. Place potatoes and veggies into a Dutch oven with lid and put them in the wheelbarrow on a couple of bricks, replace the glass. The article I read concerning this states the creative chef has also cooked baked custard in a stainless steel bowl, fried egg in a small pie dish (took about 20 minutes), a chocolate cake, shortbread. Her Christmas Cake took 2 days as it wasn't that hot, but was still tasty. When setting it up wear sunglasses as light reflects off the foil, wear oven mittens as it gets very hot. She also recommends an oven thermometer so you can gauge the temperature correctly

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DEHYDRATING CANNED VEGETABLES

I started doing it after I had bought pounds and pounds of vegetables in the large six lb. cans. One day I got thinking about y2k and these big cans. I remembered we may not have refrigeration at times and wondered what we were going to do with, i.e. six pounds of corn once it was opened. I knew we wouldn't want to sit and eat it all! So, I decided to see what would happen if I dehydrated it.

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Most of my items I no longer time. They are done when they are very, very crispy. We keep a pint jar on the kitchen table of one kind or another to snack on. My husband loves to put a bunch of canned corn in the palm of his hand with a little salt and just eat it. We also love the carrots. They seem sweeter when they are dehydrated.

So far I have done carrots (from fresh stock -- not canned) canned corn, canned pineapple, canned tomato sauce, canned peas and fresh green peppers. The carrots I blanch first and soak them in cornstarch water with salt. I have also done canned diced apples (the kind used for sweet pizza's).

At first I used a Walmart brand dehydrator but graduated to a nine shelf dehydrator. That is one of the most expensive items I have purchased. It was quite a decision for me to spend the $200. But I have never been sorry!

Also, I have rehydrated some of the vegetables and they are good! Right now I am storing them in canning jars. But, I figure if we have to go someplace or find a better place to store them where they can't be found, I will put all the vegetables in freezer bags (which I already have). They are VERY light weight! A lot better than trying to store or carry cans! Two six pound cans of corn will just about fit into one quart canning jar. I also vacuum seal the jars (sometimes) but it doesn't seem necessary.

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FIDDLEHEAD FERNS

Fiddleheads are picked very young while they are still tightly furled, then steamed like any vegetable. Yum.

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CAN DISPENSER SHELVES

A great idea to help with the rotation of our stored canned goods. When you put together your shelves,attach each right (or left) side just one notch lower than the other side so that there's a slight slant. Also attach with the lip up, not down, to hold cans securely. Lay cans on their side so they roll. It would be best to have only one layer per shelf. The shelves would have to be only about 6-8" apart. Then always remove from lower end and add to upper end to replace. Works sort of like a dispenser.

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Good ideas Z,thanks.We will try those dehydration tricks you mention,like the corn and peas especially.

Spuds:sheep: