Monday Message

"Start now to create a plan if you don’t already have one, or update your present plan. Watch for best buys that will fit into your year’s supply. We are not in a situation that requires panic buying, but we do need to be careful in purchasing and rotating the storage that we’re putting away. The instability in the world today makes it imperative that we take heed of the counsel and prepare for the future." (L. Tom Perry)

Yes, do watch for sales and try not to waste anything - dry it, freeze it, whatever just don't toss it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg84PXfab5w - I was watching this podcast and she used a gravy packet and that reminded me I need to share this with you...

I would pick up quick cooking magazine free from the library, I loved them, they had a section on bread machine recipes and one on making mixes. I love their gravy mix. I thought I would look it up and here it is...https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/ready-gravy-mix/ I keep a quart jar of beef and a quart jar of chicken on hand all the time right next to the SOS mix.

https://extension.usu.edu/sanpete/files/Soup_or_Sauce_SOS_Mix.pdf  - this is the SOS mix.

The more we can do for ourselves, the better things will be for us with prices going up.

If you wanted to make gingerbread cookies for example, do you have all the ingredients in your house right now to make them? Or chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies?

Could you make brownies or cake from scratch? Can you bake bread? Do you have enough ingredients on hand to make your own? Do you have something to put on homemade bread? Homemade jam - yum! Could you make cinnamon rolls? Do you have the ingredients to make chili or homemade chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles? Do you know how to make crackers?

Do you have pots and pans? A rolling pin? You might think it a funny question but eating out used to be cheap, so people would just eat out and did not even have the equipment to make macaroni and cheese.

If you find yourself not having pots and pans, be going to thrift stores to get what is needed...cake pans,  bread pans, cupcake/muffin tin pan, bowl and wooden spoons for mixing. Do you have measuring cups and measuring spoons, sauce pans?

I know everyone is in a hurry to get rid of items when cleaning out but think twice before getting rid of things. Make sure you don't need them first. It will be a lot harder to fix food without them. Find pans used by going to yard sales and thrift stores, be on the lookout for any winter clothing you might need too as it is starting to be that time of year.

Now that the temps are falling, ingredients to make soup is a great thing to have in your storage.

One of our favorites is...

Busy Day Soup Mix

To make up...

In a pint jar, layer three to six chicken or beef bullion cubes

1/4 c. Lentils

1/4 c. ABC pasta

1/4 c. yellow split peas

1/8 c. barley

1/4 c. green split peas

1/4 c. wide noodles

1/4 c. dry onions

Add a few bowtie pasta in the top.

Store in the jar.

Cook 1 pound hamburger or chicken in six c. boiling water, to this add contents of jar.

Simmer about one hour season to taste.

So since this is something we like to have, I make sure I have all the ingredients on hand to make it, plus I make up jars of it ahead.

I still am organizing here, I put looms on the wall behind the big loom.

Learn your sewing skills even if to just sew on a button.

The garden is starting to slow down so I do what I can.

We need to keep working on storage and skills.

Missy says get some yarn and see what you can do with it.

Gus says ponder what you have in house and what you need to add to it.