Our thoughts and prayers are with Boston...

...and all those affected by the events at the Boston Marathon.

Another month, another post...

Whew, February is almost gone! Seems like I need to give myself another goal and project to make myself post on time--sometimes I think of things to blog about and then wait too long to post them, so that's not helpful at all...

However, the end of the month did make me go looking for more food storage recipes to try, and I came across this post today, over at Jamie Cooks It Up!, which has ideas for food storage as well as 40 (yay, 40!) recipes you can try. Granted, I have not checked all of them out, but I will probably try the pretzel bites one first, so far at least. I love new ideas to try for food storage ingredients, and look forward to exploring the Jamie Cooks It Up! blog more thoroughly. Thanks to the author there for the information! If you try any of the recipes there, let me know how it works out!

Thanks to anyone and everyone who has come back to read--hope everyone is doing well!

Let the rotation begin...

On Sunday-Monday we got quite a lot of snow. Enough for me to think, especially after last year, "Ah, now that's more like the Idaho I know..."

And then some, because we actually got a snow day on Monday. Looking for something for my children to eat, I found that the kind of soup that one of them probably likes best was available in my BY stash--the potato, ready to eat variety. So, I am now short a couple of cans in my BY stash, but I will replace them soon. Have you started to use your BY cans yet? Don't let them get so old that you would question their edible quality once you really needed them...

And I found this link to economical meals recently--important to make your money stretch as food prices go up. I haven't tried these yet, but a couple of them look like great possiblities for eating here. They aren't necessarily good for food storage per se, but the more you save on your every day food, the more you have for the food storage budget, and if you aren't using your food storage yet, you could intersperse these meals with food storage ones--work into it gradually until your food storage meals are just part of the meal rotation, and maybe the entire rotation... :)

Just an idea--hope everyone had a great January, and thanks for coming back after my looonnng break!

The final BY: #53

My BY for the day: Can of evaporated milk

If I were adding anything to go along with this, it would be: This one has been visited again and again, but I would say that adding water would make it stretch for your cooking/drinking purposes...

Happy New Year, everyone! Wishing you all the best for 2013!

Buying ahead, blogging ahead: BY #52 for Dec. 30

My BY for the day: Can of chili

If I were adding anything to go along with this, it would be: For fun, I would say corn chips. Don't think I have mentioned that yet--hard to say without going back through 51 other BY posts. 51! Hard to believe that we are almost there... I personally like chili because it's filling and goes with a lot of other things like the previously mentioned (or not :) tamales, tortillas, hot dogs, and the like. I do think I have mentioned all of the above, except maybe the corn chips, but sometimes repetition is good, right? :)


Hope you are having a great weekend!

BY #51: More soup...

My BY for the day: Salisbury steak with mushrooms and onions soup (ready-to-eat)

If I were adding anything to go along with this, it would be: I would probably put it over potatoes, as previously mentioned on another similar BY, but I did want to mention that if you have similar-but-not-same soups, they can go well together. Ever open a can of chicken and rice soup, and a can of chicken noodle soup, when you meant to open two of the same kind of soup? This, or something similar has happened around here, and it has turned out ok. I would mix beef based soups together, or chicken based soups together, but I would hesitate to mix totally different soups together. They might turn out, but they might not. Haven't tried any weird combinations, but if I were hungry enough, I'm sure in an emergency I would eat them anyway...

Wow, only 2 BYs left! Anyone care to share something they added that wasn't a can? Or something that I haven't thought of that was? 

A miscalculation--and an opportunity

When I started the BY series, I said that if you did it daily, you would end up with 53 cans. Yesterday was BY #50, so with today, tomorrow, Sunday and Monday, you would end up with 54 cans if you are adding a can daily until the 31st (or enough for one daily). I could skip a day. I could have waited until Monday to say, "Oops--my mistaken math skills mean that I now have a day off! Woohoo!"  But no--I chose today, because tomorrow is Saturday, and if you have added a can today, it means you can add anything you want to tomorrow to your food storage, and it doesn't have to be a can.

Naturally, that is and has been and will always be true, since there is nothing binding you to the BY series. However, I think that tomorrow, when I am adding another can to my storage, it might be a good day for other people to get, may I suggest, water? Or oatmeal? Or wheat? Or beans? Or salt? Or oil? Or yeast? Or meat? Or powdered milk? (If you haven't heard about potentially rising milk prices, you might want to look at this article for an idea of what might be coming.) I'm thinking about adding more stuff to my food storage outside the BY series as well...

Or, you could take a day off. But may I suggest, perhaps, getting more water in your storage? Yeah, I would definitely suggest water.

Have a good Saturday!