Food Storage

The Flour Dilemma

November 26, 2011

In MO, I was so spoiled having the Amish close by.  I could buy a 50 pound bag of Wheat Montana flour for $25 — that’s 50¢ per pound so when I look at King Arthur flour in the stores here for $4.49 for a 5 pound bag, that’s almost 90¢ per pound and I [...]

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Food Storage Tip

November 17, 2011

A blog reader left a comment about storing food.  Barbara had asked about the best way to store food and Janina wrote: I make single serve(2)pieces of lasagna in bread loaf pans.Line them with plastic wrap…make your lasagna,freeze,wrap with the overhang plastic.Pop them out of the pan and put in freezer bags.when you want to [...]

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Food Preservation & Storage

September 2, 2010

I hesitate to talk a lot about food preservation and storage on here for several reasons.  Because I’m getting lots of questions, I’m going to do this post but please realize that what’s right for me isn’t necessarily right for you.  My mom has a pretty well stocked pantry, though she seems to go to [...]

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Saturday Insanity

September 19, 2009

This day has been crazy . . really crazy, I tell you! After getting up early and taking care of the chickens, taking Speck for a walk, taking Jazz for a walk, I came back inside and thought to myself . . I didn’t get enough sleep so I went back to bed and slept [...]

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Just a Little Sewing Time

August 30, 2009

How many days in a row can you go without sewing before you start feeling a little stir crazy?  I think I sewed Friday.  Yes . . I know I did because I quilted the Rose quilt.   I had plans to get lots of sewing done this weekend but that wasn’t to be.  Saturday we [...]

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Flour & Wheat

May 30, 2009

The general store had white flour and Prairie Gold wheat berries from Wheat Montana.  I can’t believe the price they sell this for so I got a 50 pound bag of wheat and a 50 pound bag of flour.  Usually I stick the whole bag in the freezer for a few days to kill any [...]

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