Posts Tagged ‘Food
Mylar Bag 20″ X 30″ 4.3 Mil Thick for Long Term Food Storage
In today’s world of financial instability, food shortages, possible inflation and rising commodity prices Long Term Food Storage must be considered by any prudent individual or family. Food grade metalized Mylar bags, when combined with oxygen absorbers and buckets are considered the best way to store large quantities of food for 20 – 30 years. These Mylar bags block sunlight and provide an oxygen and moisture barrier. To seal Mylar bags simply take a hot iron and iron the opening shut.
These Mylar Bags are 20″ X 30″ and fit 5 – 6 gallon buckets. Bags are food grade and 4.3 mil thick.
20 – 300cc Oxygen Absorbers for Dried Dehydrated Food and Emergency Long Term Food Storage
Each Bag contains 20 – 300cc oxygen absorbers. When used with proper packaging and sealing, the oxygen in the packaging is greatly reduced. Our absorbers bring the oxygen level down reliably to .01% or less. These Absorbers are perfect when combined with one gallon (10″x14″) Mylar Bags. The benefits of using oxygen absorbers are as follows:
* Significantly improves keeping qualities of polyunsaturated fats and oils
* Helps retain fresh-roasted flavor of coffee and nuts
* Prevents oxidation of spice oleoresins present in spices themselves and in seasoned foods
* Prevents oxidation of vitamins A, C and E
* Extends life of pharmaceuticals
* Inhibits mold in natural cheeses and other fermented dairy products
* Delays non-enzymatic browning of fruits and some vegetables
* Inhibits oxidation and condensation of red pigment of most berries and sauces
The oxygen absorbers come in a clear Mylar bag that can be re-closed with a hot iron to save any unused absorbers sti (more…)
The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator (Paperback)
The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long—with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography—wherever gardens grow—this well-illustrated book includes: • Complete step-by-step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily available materials • Solar energy design concepts • Food drying tips and recipes • Resources, references, solar charts, and more Eben Fodor is an organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering. He works as a community planning consultant in Eugene, Oregon.
About the Author
Eben Fodor has a background in renewable energy, specializing in high efficiency passive solar heating systems and solar-heated saunas. His professional work is as a commu (more…)
The Everyday Gourmet Cooking with Long-term Food Storage (Spiral-bound)
The Everyday Gourmet takes stored foods into the gourmet realm with recipes using common ingredients that you would proudly serve company. These recipes are easy to follow for even the beginner cook but they taste like hours of work in the kitchen were required to produce them. The Everyday Gourmet lays flat since it is spiral bound and it is a convenient size for small working spaces. It features nineteen, different, tabbed, food categories illustrated with full color photos – filling 350 pages.
Don’t Leave Home Without It! (grin)
As the originator of the term “life assurance” and having been in the preparedness and disaster business for over twenty years, a recurring question that kept arising was the desire from thousands of people for a greet cookbook with delicious recipes based on the ingredients that are available for long-term food storage purchases. Up until The Everyday Gourmet was formulated and written by Shari Haag, everything else was basic, plain, and (more…)
Cruising Cuisine: Fresh Food from the Galley (Paperback)
Let’s face it. To the uninitiated, the confined and often animated galley of a cruising boat lends itself to creating such less-than-mouthwatering delicacies canned beef stew served over a bed of reheated noodles. After all, there’s no storage space, very little in the way of modern appliances, and limited, if any, refrigeration. Cruising Cuisine will put a flavorful end to all that. Longtime cruiser Kay Pastorius offers everything a cook needs to know to adapt to the very different world of cooking at sea, in strange ports of call, or in deserted anchorages far from supermarkets. Far more than a collection of recipes, Cruising Cuisine is filled with advice on mastering fine cooking techniques guaranteed to produce delicacies everyone on board will relish. The simple and exciting recipes in Cruising Cuisine–everything from crowd-pleasing appetizers to tempting sauces and sinful desserts–are fresh, modern, healthful, and tailored to save cruisers time, energy, and (more…)