About Everyday Food Storage

Thanks for helping me to finally feel like food storage is something I can master! I love this site!

I was wondering if you had any recipes on Wheat Meat. I heard you can make a meat substitute with wheat and it takes on the tastes of the meal and really tastes like meat.

Crystal;

My wife and I were called to manage the Brecksville Home Storage Center
last August. We have had so many new members and non members wanting to start their storage and did not know where to turn until I found your web site.
I hope that you don’t mind me giving it out as a reference of what to do with your food storage once you start it.

Thanks

Elder Kesweder

what is the address I need to unblock?

Crystal,

I am so excited to have found you!

I help put out a monthly food storage/emergency preparedness newsletter for two wards. What a blessing and an asset you are! You appeal to ALL ages and with your youthful enthusiasm, recipes and ideas, you help to not only motivate people to start their food storage (as our leaders have told us to do for years now) but you make it interesting and fun.
I can’t wait to get your book. You are inspiring!

Hey girl I just wanna tell you how much I think you ROCK, thanks for sharing all your knowledge with the world. I am getting crazy for food storage and love trying the new recipes I find here…can’t wait to make more. Thanks again !

Boo-Hoo! Amazon says they’re not shipping your book until after Mother’s Day. I ordered one for my daughter and one for each of my three daughters-in-law. I guess they’ll get their gift late.

i love your recipes and your technique. this is the easiest and the softest whole wheat bread ever. my only question is that in some of my loaves i get a big hole towards the middle of the loaf. what causes this?

I’d like to share my tried and true granola recipes. I made both recipes today andI used a total of 24 cups of instant oats today. This is the best way to rotate those oats. It will all be gone by next week, especially the peanut butter one. My 15 year old daughter takes some to school with her every day. It is her breakfast and snack during the day. The peanut butter is also very good in chocolate pudding or on ice cream. So here are the recipes:

PEANUT BUTTER GRANOLA

Mix & heat in 4-cup glass jug for 4 minutes on HIGH:
1-1/2 c white sugar
1-1/3 c margarine
1/2 t vanilla extract
2/3 c peanut butter
1/2 t salt
1 c water

Mix in large bowl:
12 c rolled oats
1 t cinnamon

Pour wet ingredients over dry and mix quickly and well.
Put onto two small greased cookie sheets.
Bake at 325 degrees for 25 minutes.
Exchange cookie sheets in oven, cook 10 minutes.
Turn oven off and let granola dry for several hours.
Store in closed jar on kitchen counter and watch it disappear.

CRUNCHY GRANOLA

1 ½ cups brown sugar
½ cup water
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ teaspoon salt
8 cups rolled oats
¾ cup pecans, coarsely chopped
¾ cup almonds, coarsely chopped
½ cup sunflower seeds, unsalted
½ cup shredded coconut
dried fruits, if desired (tropical fruit is good, raisins, blueberries, cranberries, cherries are all great.)

Heat oven to 275 degrees.
Combine brown sugar and water in a 4 cup microwave proof cup.
Microwave on high 5 minutes, or until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Remove from microwave and stir in vanilla and salt.
In a large mixing bowl, mix oats and nuts.
Add the brown sugar mixture.
Mix thoroughly.
Spread onto 2 cookie sheets and bake for a total of 45 minutes or until golden brown.
After 25 minutes, stir and put back in the oven for the rest of the time.
When granola has cooked completely, add dried fruits.

I found your video on you tube, have never been there before. Copied your recipe for bread. I made it today and am so excited. It is cooling now. I was worried because it had big bubbles and I didnt know what to do. I made in bread machine and used white sugar on dough setting. Needless to say measurements weren’t exact. I think yours was for whole wheat with honey. I have never made such a pretty loaf of bread and must commend you. Also never used vinegar. Dou you have a website, I would like more of your recipes. Also I would love a northeastern sub roll recipe. Seems you can’t find one anywhere. Thanks again you made my day!

I wondered if you would be so kind as to put the egg conversion chart & magic mix on your site as a printable handout like the milk conversion chart is? I like the magnets, but I prefer to put the charts as labels directly on my containers. I would greatly appreciate it. By the way, I just bought & read your book over the weekend – it was great!

Although I am not LDS, I have been getting things in order for over a year now, and have our year, plus. We can, dry, garden, and shop very wisely. My sister and mother also do this, so we are in decent shape at this point. We use our storage. I have been unemployed for almost 6 months, and we haven’t made a dent in what we have. Five weeks ago, my sis’s husband had a freak accident and broke his neck, and they are using theirs full time right now. I can’t imagine living any other way. My LDS friend, a blessing from God after we started this journey, sent me this link tonight, and I already love your site. Thank you!

Crystal,
Your book is WONDERFUL!!! I have been waiting years for a book like this to come out. This is just what our ward has been waiting for to encourage useable food storage!! Thanks for a job WELL done!!!

Hey, I live in GA and LOVE using your website. Granted I don’t get all the supplies because I don’t have the great stores like Macey’s and such. Anyway, I am doing a food storage class for RS and we are using some of your recipes. I was wondering if you happen to know some places I can order powdered eggs. I have looked at a few online, but they seem a little expensive.

Thanks!

Love your website and all of your YouTube Videos!!! The Costco in my area has discontinued carrying the Kirkwood canned roast beef. My local Sam’s doesn’t have anything like this either. Do you have any suggestions for another source for canned roast beef? Has anyone ever tried “Yoder’s” brand? I’m wondering if I should just try to can some beef myself? Thanks for your help in this regard.

I wanted to let you know I discovered a wonderful way to make powdered milk taste GREAT! At least my three Granddaughters LOVE it! I put a pretty big dollup of French Vanilla coffee creamer in the milk after I mix it all up and then put it in the frig to get nice and cold. Give it a try and I’ll bet you will never use vanilla again!

What is magic mix?

Hey Crystal,

I was wondering if you had done anything on home made yogurt? Can it be made with food storage (except for the ‘starter yogurt’ you need from the store)?

A provident living person said to me that she has made yogurt and then learned how to make CREAM CHEESE with it! NO KIDDING, she said it tastes awesome!

Anyway…just curious if you were planning on doing a yogurt webisode, or if its possible to use food storage to make it.

Thanks

Debbie Jo

Howdy.

I found you through Tip Junkie and this was exactly what I was looking for. I have a couple of questions that I hope you can help me with.

I’ve heard the cannery mentioned more than once and visited http://providentliving.org/ . However, I’m not LDS and was curious if non-members can purchase from them. I’m looking for powdered eggs and mix for my food storage and haven’t found a good place in my area to get these things.

Any suggestions?

Hey! you did a fabulous job at our ward’s enrichment day (Bful-14th). i went out the next day and got your book at costco! it’s going to really help! so, thanks! now to a question. . . i went out to blue chip last year with a friend. i purchased honey powder b/c the guy said i could substitue white sugar with the all natural honey powder. needless to say, i have not cracked it open yet and was wondering if you’ve ever worked with it? what is the substitution? thanks!!!!

I am hooked! I’ll admit, I was very skeptical. I tried the beans in the brownies first. They got rave reviews from the kids. I tried the Mrs. Field’s type cookie recipe, whole wheat and all, subbing half black bean puree for butter (I figured it would look like chocolate shavings.) My son repeated over and over “Mom, these are so awesome, these are the best cookies ever!” Even my nephew, who is 13 and picky, devoured the cookies and brownies. This is the same nephew who wouldn’t touch the beans in the taco soup at dinner! I tried subbing half white bean puree for oil in the pancakes and waffles, along with half whole wheat flour, with some flax thrown in. Devoured! Everyone loved them. I used half white bean puree, and half whole wheat flour in the zucchini muffins, Devoured!

I use powdered milk and powdered eggs in all my baking now.

I am no longer a skeptic, but a true convert!

Thank you for making food storage easy and delicious!

Crystal -
I enjoyed meeting you at the La Jolla Deseret Book store. I bought your book and went home and made your EZ Wheat bread. It was wonderful!! My husband likes it better than my recipe. The only thing is — it makes only one loaf. Is it possible to quadruple the recipe? I told you that my son eats a whole loaf of bread daily. I don’t have the time to make bread each and every day. Would it be possible to just put in the bosch 4 times of each ingredient. I am leary of all that yeast.
Thanks for your hard work and sharing with everyone.
Judy

I saw a little thing on the side of the web page about a free class “Using Wheat Without a Wheat grinder” on 7/31 in Utah. I don’t live in Utah but I am the Provident Living Specialist in my ward, I am in charge of teaching and preaching and exhorting people on food storage and emergency preparedness. Are you going to make the same information available here on your website? I have been searching for ways that people can use their wheat without a wheat grinder.

hey Crystal, I just post a new post to my blog and included some links to your website. I am using your bread recipe for over a month now. I tweaked it a bit since I don’t use the dry storage items. Thank you so much for your tutorials. the bread is a hit with every one here at home. We even have peanut butter sandwiches with it.

Okay, so I don’t ‘get’ blogging but I wanted to ask you a question:  have you ever used food storage to make pasta? My family and I love homemade pasta and wondered if it were possible to make from food storage and whether or not it had better storage options once made.  Also, if pasta is made by conventional method, can it be dehydrated and stored in an airtight container?

Also, I so appreciate your doing this website!  I dislike grocery shopping so much that it does my heart good to be able to shop once a month and actually have everything I need to ‘create’ in the kitchen!

Dear Crystal,
Hello, I have seen your video’s on youtube several times and love them!  Like your husband my husband was out of work a little over 2 years ago and I was pregnant at the time.  We then when we could started buying more number 10 cans of things like tomatoes and corn, green beans etc….  I am a mother of 6, stay at home mom and homeschooling mom.  I would really like your help on what exactly I should be buying to keep in a food storage that I could use in everyday recipes.  This would help our family so much, just having things on hand would make my life a lot easier!  God Bless, Mandie

I actually just keep track of when I go through some thing so I know how much to get the next time I’m at the cannery.

Keep a clipboard & pen on a hook near your food storage. When you take something out, right it down. Next time you go to the store (cannery, etc.) take the list with you and replace the items removed from your storage. put the replacement items at the “back of the line” so that you rotate in order. Hope this makes sense!

Im a texas mom and have been using food storage for a year now!! I am making the ez bread recipe. I am getting very frustrated. It tastes wonderful but I keep getting like a floating crust. Huge holes thru a large part of my bread. Can someone please help!!??

hello Crystal, I watched a channel 5 program that you did and have some questions for you, program was good. Do you deal in creating a food storage for people that can’t have wheat, dairy, soy. Some people that i have spoken to think “oh” just use gluten free products and you’ll be ok. I can’t have whole grain wheat or dairy products along with products that have soy in it. It is very hard to fine anything but rice that I can eat. I live here in Vernal and have found a lot of people that can’t have Whole grain Wheat . We Need Help.

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