Favorite Store House Dry Pack item?

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Favorite Store House Dry Pack item?

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

Mmmmmm. Potato Pearls.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

We bought a lot of potato pearls at first, but over time my kids decided they don't like them much. It's harder to rotate them now than it used to be.

Refried bean flakes. They look yucky, but they are far superior to canned refried beans.

Cocoa - it's not a food storage item, it's a staple!

Edit: @%!! internet filter!

-- Edited by bokbadok at 12:46, 2006-09-12

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

We're going to try some of the refried beans later this month. Mrs. Cat Herder is skeptical, but hey, if they are better than the canned stuff you get at the store considering how infrequently our ward actually goes to the store house for family food storage dry packing and how even less frequently Mrs. Cat Herder has signed up to go on those occasions (always a RS thing and during the workday)... "Honey, better get a case of them refried beans!" "But no one will eat it." "I and the baby beserkers who take after my palatte shall consume them with delight, for behold, they have been likened unto ambrosia, like unto manna, like unto good eats..."

WAGONMAN · Member

bokbadok wrote:

We bought a lot of potato pearls at first, but over time my kids decided they don't like them much. It's harder to rotate them now than it used to be.

Refried bean flakes. They look in the, but they are far superior to canned refried beans.

"Cocoa - it's not a food storage item, it's a staple! "

Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Homestar Runner · Senior Member

We used to have "Food storage Tuesday" dinner, and a favorite staple was taco tvp, refried beans, the cheese sauce stuff, and cannery salsa. Complimented with non-food storage stuff like lettuce and burrito wraps.

Sweet Cornbread muffin mix is also yummy.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I like potato pearls better than fresh... (I have to agree with the refried beans too...)

I also like sugar, and flour, yeast and cooking oil, a dash of salt and hydrated water to make pizza dough! ;)

--Ray

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

The potato pearls and the refried beans hands down.

I thought the beans looked horrible but all you have to do is follow the directions and make sure they sit long enough to get fully re-hydrated. They are very, very good. My wife adds some salsa and sour cream to them and they are excellent. Much better than the old days when all we had was those horrid buckets of wheat that the sister would make into horrid tasting recipes such as wheat chili and wheat meat. What the fetch is wheat meat?

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

I too sing the praises of potato pearls and refried beans (try adding cream cheese). We also rotate regularly the rice and oats. Not as fast to go through, but we like the dehydrated carrots and onions. And wheat. And flour. And sugar. Actually, there's not much we don't use.

Melissa · Veteran Member

I guess we're kind of picky. I didn't like the can of refried beans we got and I gave it away to the Sister Missionaries right before we moved. I really don't care for the way the rice cooks up or tastes, so I've stopped using that. I don't like how sugar or flour tastes after being in a can.

I'm okay using the potato pearls. We actually really like them. The cocoa is great. That's about all we use. *shrug*

It's doesn't matter a whole lot anyway right now since we live nowhere near a cannery.

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

On the sugar and salt, we put it into a plastic bag before puting it into a can. This helps with the flavor. You might want to try it.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Mmmmmmmm... Plastic flavor...

--Ray

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Good point ray! I remember my old Bass O Matic and how plasticky the fish drinks tasted. Be sure to remove the bag before puting bass in the Bass O Matic.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Mmmmmm... bass-o-matic...

--Ray

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

rayb wrote:

Mmmmmm... bass-o-matic...

--Ray

It's Bassy!

arbilad · Head Chef

BTW, mylar bags are an option at the cannery, in case you don't like the taste that the cans give. Of course, it's easier for mice to get into mylar bags, but you can't have everything.
Also, did you know that modern rats still carry the plague? Wouldn't it be cool to call in sick to work with the plague?

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Not only rats but ground squirrels also. Out in northern Nazifornia they usually have an outbreak every year!

arbilad · Head Chef

salesortonscom wrote:

Not only rats but ground squirrels also. Out in northern Nazifornia they usually have an outbreak every year!

In Colorado it is illegal to kill prairie dogs. I'm not sure why. It's not like they're an endangered species or anything. There's a guy who owns a truck with a huge vacuum. He comes around and vacuums up all the prairie dogs and relocates them to an area uninhabited by humans. The environmentalists still complain because, they say, it is very traumatic to be sucked from your home and flung at high speeds at the (padded) side of a vacuum container.
A friend of ours raises Afghan hounds. Since they have the run of the yard, these "horrible" beasts kill the helpless prairie dogs. Since it's in their nature, though, there's nothing really that the environmentalists can do about it.

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

I heard that there is going to be a Praried Dog Fishing Tournament in Colorado this year. Now that's creative! http://www.lovelandnet.com/toms-place/writing/pdf/index.htm

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

I had visions of the contraption from Wallace and Grommet Curse of the Wererabbit when you described vacuuming prairie dogs out of their burrows...

So, does prairie dog make a good food storage item?

Well, looks like the drypacking trip to the Bishop's storehouse is off for everyone in the ward for at least a month or more. Seems the senior couple there were released from their mission and there is no replacement couple in place yet. That is pretty lame, if you ask me. Does that also mean that there will be no storehouse assignments or food deliveries to the storehouse's respective stakes' members in need in the interim as well? I was sad (but not terribly sad, just confused) when they pulled the processing of the peaches from this storehouse (like they pulled the processing of applesauce and strawberry jam from the storehouse down in Columbus) several years ago as that was always fun to be part of when occasion allowed, but it really is hard to feel like the storehouse system is there to help a family and ward family build up their food storage if the ability to purchase the commodities and make them storage ready is handled on such a seemingly random hit or miss basis.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

actually there are vacuum systems built to suck out prairiedog communities. (I lived next to Loveland for five years... prairiedogs, they're everywhere...)

--Ray

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

I guess if they just called Rothschild's Septic Sucking Service to do the job, that would really get the environmentalists mad. Possum Lodge would never see the end of the hate mail...

crazymom5 · Senior Member

CatHerder, are you by chance in MI? I am and I have a date for our ward's drypacking coming up in Oct, I called the storehouse today and they said that the new people should be called and in place Oct 9. I sure hope so, I have a lot of new people wanting to go this time. BTW, the people over the drypacking is different than those over the Bishop's storehouse part, so anyone needing food orders will still get them.

As for what we like: potatoe pearls, refried beans, hot cocoa mix.

-- Edited by crazymom5 at 19:17, 2006-09-28

Jeffery_LQ1W · Senior Member

I am now the High Priest in charge of food storage. The goal is to have 100% one year supply food storage for the entire High Priests Quorum by the end of the year. I was given that goal two weeks ago......

"Death where is they sting, grave where is they victory."

By the way, missed my 25 year high school reunion. No one wrote me, they thought I was dead.... Go figure

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

crazymom5 wrote:

CatHerder, are you by chance in MI? I am and I have a date for our ward's drypacking coming up in Oct, I called the storehouse today and they said that the new people should be called and in place Oct 9. I sure hope so, I have a lot of new people wanting to go this time. BTW, the people over the drypacking is different than those over the Bishop's storehouse part, so anyone needing food orders will still get them.

As for what we like: potatoe pearls, refried beans, hot cocoa mix.

-- Edited by crazymom5 at 19:17, 2006-09-28

Yes, we are. And, yes, I'm sure the family food storage / drypacking program is completely seperate from the welfare functioning of the storehouse. I was being a tad bit sarcastic in my frustration.

I sometimes get that way when I have to wade through administrative inefficiency.

Hey, do you know if it is a local calling thing, or is it a case of actually a church service missionary call thing? I was assuming the latter.

crazymom5 · Senior Member

It's a local service missionary calling. Last i talked to Bro Johannson the Ann Arbor Stake is now the agent stake, so I suppose the couple is from that stake. They are in the process of being trained, but I guess the official sustaining will be Oct 8. I was told to call back on the 10th to confirm our Oct 21st date.

BTW, what stake are you in? We're in the Westland Stake.

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

The real question is if the cannery has it's new Bass O Matic online yet? They really need these in every church cannery. I recommend that you all get one of the home versions for your emergency preparedness kits.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Grand Blanc.

We don't use a Bass O Matic... my kids prefer the Bologna Juicer.

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Cat Herder wrote:

Grand Blanc.

We don't use a Bass O Matic... my kids prefer the Bologna Juicer.

I prefer my Bologna juice from the store with all the extra preservatives but the food safeguards that the FDA has impossed. With that wild bologna you never know what you are getting.

crazymom5 · Senior Member

We used to live in the Grand Blanc Stake. We're friends of Pres. and Sis. Southwick. Before we moved downriver, we were in the Flint Ward. One of my very good friends lives in the Fenton Ward. Small, small world.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

We tried the indian scone mix from walton feed... it was most nummy...

--Ray

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

crazymom5 wrote:

We used to live in the Grand Blanc Stake. We're friends of Pres. and Sis. Southwick. Before we moved downriver, we were in the Flint Ward. One of my very good friends lives in the Fenton Ward. Small, small world.

Small indeed. Just spent the better part of the day a couple Saturdays ago with Pres. Southwick and Pres. Schilling and Pres. Pabst and all the other scouters in the stake that went to the Little Philmont training session.

Aaaaar! Shiver me timbers! Now I be revealing more clues about me alter ego!

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

crazymom5 wrote:

Pres. and Sis. Southwick

I had a roommate with that last name...it doesn't seem all that common, so I'm guessing she was related.

She was from Seattle though.

crazymom5 · Senior Member

Your roommate may have been related, but I know Pres. & Sis Southwick were both from SLC area.