Here are some wonderful food and water storage programs by Lana Nelson who
lives in the Bigfork Ward - Kalispell, Montana Stake
Baby Steps To Preparedness
Milk Class Hand Out
Simple Water Storage Program
Meet Storage: Meat
Preservation With A Smoker
Here are some of the tips I have found on food storage, storage shelves,
rotation plans, quantities needed per person, etc:
Food
storage and food rotation article by Utah State University
Rotating Shelves
and Steel Mouse Proof Cabinets
CAN YOU FREEZE MILK, CHEESE, OR BREAD?
I have been asked that a lot. We go to the day old bread store all the time
and buy less expensive bread and then freeze it. One day after it is frozen
it is the exact same bread that you would pay full price for at the store.
We also freeze cheese all the time. When it is on sale we buy 5 or 6 of them.
I have had cheese frozen up to a year and it was still good. It is a little
crumbly when you thaw it out, but the taste does not change.
I did something interesting a while back. I wanted to know if you could freeze
milk. So I put a gallon in the freezer. Then I forgot about it. We fill empty
milk cartons with water all the time and put them in the freezer to use as ice
in our ice chest for camping. That way as it thaws out it does not leek water
on the food like Ice Bags do. Well over the Memorial Day weekend we went to
Portland and I went to the freezer to get some ice and noticed one of the cartons
was really yellow not like regular ice. I took it out and low and behold it
was that milk I had frozen ... So I decided to thaw it out and drink it and
see how it tasted. HOW OLD WAS IT? Well see for yourself:
That os right October 2005!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this is June 2007!!!!!!!
I simply forgot it was in the freezer.
So just for history sake I sat it on a calendar to show today and then:
I put it in the fridge on Sunday night June 10th. By Tuesday, June 12th, when
I took these pictures it was partly thawed out. I tasted it. It tasted just
like normal milk. Maybe a little heaver because it has separated the cream out
a little. I have let it sit for a whole week and it still tastes good.
Something that I do with powdered milk is store a lot of chocolate or Ovaltine
to put in it. When it tastes a little different some times it is hard to drink.
With Nesquick or Ovaltine in it, it tastes like normal chocolate milk. So here
is my 2 year old milk made into chocolate milk.
You can also use powdered milk or milk like this that is a little different
tasting in cereal and kids or people will find it easier to eat. Especially
if you put fruit or honey on the cereal. So here is cracked wheat cereal, frozen
milk, and chocolate drink mix all from my food storage read for a wonderful
breakfast!
If you are going to freeze milk, I would recommend you freeze it in smaller
containers like one quart so you can use it all up in one day after you thaw
it out. There are families who have special health needs or small children who
need to have fresh milk. There is your solution. This jug of milk has gone through
2 power outages in the past 2 years. One was 3 days long and the other one was
9 days. We used the generator to run the freezer for one hour in the morning
and one hour in the evening and every thing kept fine INCLUDING MY 2 YEAR OLD
MILK!!!!
Please be patient. It will take me a while to get all the materials here. I
have lots of material to put here ....
More good things to come, because we will make them come !!!!!!!