A decent online bulk foods source

Dyany · Senior Member

A decent online bulk foods source

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

what exactly does one do with cabbage powder?

beefche · Profuse Pontificator

rayb wrote:

what exactly does one do with cabbage powder?

Use it when diapering your Cabbage Patch baby.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

crazymom5 · Senior Member

Dyany, check with your home storage center because I think you are not allowed to bring in stuff from outside to drypack there anymore, that was the message I received from our storage center guy. Unless of course you get the machine and do it in someone's home, then you can drypack what you want from outside sources.

arbilad · Head Chef

Cabbage powder would be used for flavor, much like you would use onion powder. We have a lot of spices in our cupboard, because we figure it'll make it easier for us to stomach wheat and rice. If you go to Sam's Club, for instance, just pick up a big bottle of spices for $6-$7 each trip (we've been going monthly lately). It adds up.
During the food rationing in WWII, pepper was hard to get and thus very valuable. And it's still cheap to pick up 5 pound bags of it right now.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

crazymom5 wrote:

Dyany, check with your home storage center because I think you are not allowed to bring in stuff from outside to drypack there anymore, that was the message I received from our storage center guy. Unless of course you get the machine and do it in someone's home, then you can drypack what you want from outside sources.

Yeeeeahhh.... like drypacking money or silver or gold coins for part of my coolio solve-the-mystery treasure hunt for Mom's inheritance when I die.... My kids will get into that.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

Yea they have the jawbreakers I have been looking for. Now the question is how many pounds to buy...

I've only looked at their candy, I will have to look into their other products.

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

Drypacking money...that sure beats stuffing it in the mattress!

I really, really need to get around to my storage inventory and revised storage plan, because I have all these cool ideas and very little current plan.

Dyany · Senior Member

I wasn't planning on taking it to the cannery, our ward does dry packing projects where we borrow a dry packer from the cannery and use it at someone's house with each person's own goods. But thanks for the reminder anyway. :)

I'm going to buy turbinado sugar in bulk and dry pack it. It's cheaper there than my local grocery store, and I have heard that natural sugars like that are a smidge kinder to insulin resistant individuals like myself (and besides it tastes better). And egg powder. It's great for recipes and adding protein to stuff.

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

Egg powder...

Dyany · Senior Member

As long as you don't smell it or think too hard about it, it works great! Though once when I was babysitting I ran out of eggs and had to use egg powder to finish a cake. Worked fine, but the egg powder smelled SO bad before we put it in that the kids were afraid to eat the cake! (though the cake smelled fine too.)

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

I was thinking of trying egg powder in cupcakes or pancakes or something first and see if anyone noticed "anything different."

dianoia · Senior Member

Is egg powder dehydrated eggs, or an egg substitute? I've got an egg substitute for baking, and it doesn't smell at all.

(Boy, sometimes being on these forums makes me feel stupid. I've had to ask about fry sauce and enchilada sauce, I didn't know what a concealed permitty thing was ....)

crazymom5 · Senior Member

Well, I just ordered a few things from there to try. I ordered $75 worth to get the free shipping. Thanks for the link to the website!

Jen · Senior Bucketkeeper

Dyany did you happen to price check against Winco's bulk section?

Dyany · Senior Member

Dianoia -- egg powder is actually dehydrated eggs. And I don't know about the stuff from this website, but the stuff I got from a local food storage place was supposedly the same stuff and it smelled ICKY. But tasted just fine.

Jen -- only on one, and that was turbinado, because I actually sort of remembered the winco price. On that one, if you get the BIG amount (50 lbs) it's quite a bit cheaper from the site. My guess is that on some of the cheap stuff winco will still be better priced, but there is a TON of specialty stuff (like dried vegetables) on that site that I have never seen at winco but I think would be good for food storage.

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

I've used that dehydrated egg stuff. Nasty. And I could taste it in stuff that I baked too. I was almost relieved when my son dumped the stuff on the family room carpet and I had to throw it away. Almost.

By the way...don't try vacuuming it...it sticks to the inside of the vacuum/hose/whatever you use. At least, try to get as much up as possible before vacuuming.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

For the record, powdered egg whites are far less stinky than the whole eggs. I use them for smoothies.

That site looks interesting, Dyany, thanks!

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

But can you bake with them?

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

They don't replace whole eggs, no.

I've done a little bit of baking with them. I bought them with smoothies in mind and they working smashingly well for that.