Outdoor Cooking

I am really loving the look of this Camp Chef Explorer 3 Burner Stove. I want one!! It has a huge cooking surface and you can grill, griddle, boil, or fry. Would be great for using while camping. Would be great in a survival situation.

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Food Storage Recipe - Chicken Soup & Dumplings

This is such a quick and easy meal. My daughter gave me this recipe. She is in college and has very little money so she has come up with some great recipes. I am really proud of her thriftyness. I do think she got this from a cookbook of some kind though. Not sure. It is good and low cost though so I am sharing it on here.

Chicken Soup & Dumplings

3 cans of Progresso white meat chicken noodle soup

1 can chicken broth ,14.5 ounce

1 beaten egg

1 can of Grands biscuits

IN a 4 quart dutch oven, combine the soups and broth.

Seperate the biscuits and cut them in half. Dip those into the beaten egg, coating all sides. Drop them into the boiling soup and cook uncovered for about 10 minutes. Cover it and cook another 10 minutes or until the biscuits are light and fluffy. Carefully move the biscuits or remove them and ladel the soup into your bowls and top with dumplings. Yummy lunch on a cold winters day with a sandwich.

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Food Storage Recipe - Easy Beef Stroganoff Soup

This is so easy to make and a great frugal recipe to fill the family up. You will be making this often.

Easy Beef Stroganoff Soup

2 cups of water

1 and 3 fourths of uncooked medium egg noodles

1 pound of ground beef (I have even used my freezed dried ground beef in this.)

half a clove of garlic

1 jar of beef gravy

1 jar (those little 2.5 ounce ones) of sliced mushrooms

half a cup of sour cream

Bring the 2 cups of water to a rolling boil and add the noodles. Cook them until they are tender and DO NOT DRAIN.

In another pan cook up the ground beef with the garlic. Drain good.

Add the cooked ground beef, gravy,mushrooms, and sour cream to the noodles. Cook until heated through. Serve. That is a quick meal.

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Food Storage Recipe - Bean And Bacon Soup

This is so good. I am such a soup person. I can have soup everyday. This is a favorite in our house.

Bean and Bacon Soup

8 slices of bacon, cut into pieces

1 cup chopped celery

half cup chopped carrots

a fourth of a cup of chopped green onion

2 cans of navy beans, drained and rinsed

2 cups of chicken broth

1 cup water

Cook the bacon in a large saucepan until crisp. Remove and drain on a paper towel. Keep about 2 tablespoon of the bacon drippings in that saucepan. Add the celery, carrots, and onions. Cook until they are tender. Stirring frequently. Stir in the remaining items and let simmer until heated through. Add the bacon to the soup right before you serve it. Cornbread is good with this.

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Did Not Go As Planned (Reorganizing)

Well, we wanted to reorganize the stockpile room. So Saturday night we got everything out of the room. Piling it all in the living room, kitchen, and hallway. Then hubby starts griping that it is not all stored like he had wanted it to be. Which, I said was why we had it all out , so that we could get it organized like we wanted it. But, I ended up taking it all back into the stockpile room. LOL

BUT, We have got plans for most of it. I am going to buy some more totes and label them for :Pasta, Rice, Beans, Flour, ETC. We also realized that we don't have a lot of canned meat items. I go through it so fast. So now I need to double up on stuff like that. Our stockpile gets used , but added to all of the time. So all of the dates were good. That was a good thing. We do need a lot more medical items and things like that. We also are going to try and get some extra money so that we can invest in a good water filtration system. We get Culligan delivered right now, but we want to get out of that. Sometimes they don't come when we need it and I end up having to buy bottled water from grocery. I hate doing that. Getting too expensive. But we have to have good water - our city water is awful here. Can't even drink it. Smells so bad and EPA has been here so many times. So, much safer to have water brought in. But we need some kind of water filter that gets EVERYTHING out.

All in all our stockpile is pretty good. Not sure how it would score, but for us it is all right. Just add to it like I have been, double up on canned meats, and get a good water filtration system and it will be all set.

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