There's good news for people who have just newly discovered that they cannot have casein found in the milk from animals. And it's especially good for people who are novices in the kitchen.
The good news is that you can just substitute almond milk (which is what we use at our house or you can do stuff like soy or coconut or hemp or whatever floats your boat) straight for the recipe that calls for cows milk. If it asks for a cup of cow's milk you can just sub a cup of almond milk. It works for everything.
However it is best that you pick an unsweetened unflavored version to sub for most recipes. My husband discovered the hard way that sweetened vanilla almond milk makes for a weird white sauce. *smirk*
So, just remember to get the plain Jane stuff and switch the milk out! Switch away!
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Back In The Saddle
Woa. Time just FLEW by.
Durn kids. Keeping me so busy. *wink* *wink*
Let's give this another shot. I've been thinking some more about food storage. I actually heard somebody recently say, "Don't eat that, it's food storage!"
*facepalm*
It's food. And it's stored so we can eat it. I really don't see the purpose in spending all that money and time gathering all the good things your family enjoys and all the food that will keep you alive in emergency conditions, just to keep it for 10 years and let it go to waste.
And then again, nobody wants to eat powdered eggs for days on end either.
The trick is to use it a little at a time and work it into your daily life and schedule. My Mom went to see a presentation by the author Leslie Probert who wrote "Emergency Food In a Nutshell" and was excited to tell me all about it. Apparently the author did some calculations and if you use food storage for at least 2 meals a week, then you'd cycle through your whole year supply of food storage in about 2 years.
I just love that idea. I love that you learn to use the food you store and you can slowly replenish it as you use it up. That way it won't go bad and you'd be getting your money's worth. Plus you can see the strengths and weaknesses of your supply.
We are getting to do that right now as my husband is out of work and we are eating through our supply, partly due to a small budget and partly due to the fact that we need to downsize for a possible move for a new job. Hopefully.
So, stay tuned. I have some more to tell you about how we're making it work and I have some recipes I'd like to share that we've come to love from our food storage.
Durn kids. Keeping me so busy. *wink* *wink*
Let's give this another shot. I've been thinking some more about food storage. I actually heard somebody recently say, "Don't eat that, it's food storage!"
*facepalm*
It's food. And it's stored so we can eat it. I really don't see the purpose in spending all that money and time gathering all the good things your family enjoys and all the food that will keep you alive in emergency conditions, just to keep it for 10 years and let it go to waste.
And then again, nobody wants to eat powdered eggs for days on end either.
The trick is to use it a little at a time and work it into your daily life and schedule. My Mom went to see a presentation by the author Leslie Probert who wrote "Emergency Food In a Nutshell" and was excited to tell me all about it. Apparently the author did some calculations and if you use food storage for at least 2 meals a week, then you'd cycle through your whole year supply of food storage in about 2 years.
I just love that idea. I love that you learn to use the food you store and you can slowly replenish it as you use it up. That way it won't go bad and you'd be getting your money's worth. Plus you can see the strengths and weaknesses of your supply.
We are getting to do that right now as my husband is out of work and we are eating through our supply, partly due to a small budget and partly due to the fact that we need to downsize for a possible move for a new job. Hopefully.
So, stay tuned. I have some more to tell you about how we're making it work and I have some recipes I'd like to share that we've come to love from our food storage.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
One Giant Leap!
Okay, so this is probably not so momentous to anybody else but me.
However, TODAY is the day!
Today I started to piece together a blog for other weirdos, er, um, folks like me who cannot eat dairy or gluten. Or more specifically casein or gluten. I could give you all sorts of scientific mumbo jumbo about how it can be a legit problem and I probably will on some other blog post. Just for now you'll have to be satisfied that we were gluten free before it was cool.
Or at least worthy of being mocked by Jimmy Kimmel here.
Celiac disease runs in my family. I heard stories about how my grandmother was diagnosed in the 1950s just about all my life. Then I married my lovely Hubby who has a family history AND a long personal history of reacting VERY poorly to casein, the protein found in cows milk.
I also have another secret. I'm kind of a closet 'prepper'. I'm not one of those doomsday preppers who have a bomb shelter in the backyard. I'm just a Mom who has had to evacuate her family from a small town in New Mexico due to out of control wildfires so I have personal experience on what it's like to be stuck in an emergency. Luckily we were able to bunk with family for the duration but I always wondered how awful it would have been to be stuck in a shelter of some sort and only have food offered to us that would have made us super sick.
Plus, I remember watching the news about Hurricane Katrina and all the aftermath while I was living overseas. I resolved to always have an emergency getaway quick pack with at least 72hrs of food and supplies in it as well as have emergency supplies on hand for 'sheltering in place' if I ever had to hunker down at home for a while without power or water. I wouldn't be able to last more than about 2 weeks but at least that's something.
So, this blog is going to be about how to get a food supply for folks like us who cannot deal with gluten or dairy. I was raised in a church who also taught the principles of preparedness and self sufficiency but that usually meant buying 50 pounds of wheat to store in your basement.
Um...., no can do.
So, I started myself a little bloggy blog in order to see if what I've figured out may possibly help somebody else.
*fingers crossed*
So, here goes nothing!
However, TODAY is the day!
Today I started to piece together a blog for other weirdos, er, um, folks like me who cannot eat dairy or gluten. Or more specifically casein or gluten. I could give you all sorts of scientific mumbo jumbo about how it can be a legit problem and I probably will on some other blog post. Just for now you'll have to be satisfied that we were gluten free before it was cool.
Or at least worthy of being mocked by Jimmy Kimmel here.
Celiac disease runs in my family. I heard stories about how my grandmother was diagnosed in the 1950s just about all my life. Then I married my lovely Hubby who has a family history AND a long personal history of reacting VERY poorly to casein, the protein found in cows milk.
I also have another secret. I'm kind of a closet 'prepper'. I'm not one of those doomsday preppers who have a bomb shelter in the backyard. I'm just a Mom who has had to evacuate her family from a small town in New Mexico due to out of control wildfires so I have personal experience on what it's like to be stuck in an emergency. Luckily we were able to bunk with family for the duration but I always wondered how awful it would have been to be stuck in a shelter of some sort and only have food offered to us that would have made us super sick.
Plus, I remember watching the news about Hurricane Katrina and all the aftermath while I was living overseas. I resolved to always have an emergency getaway quick pack with at least 72hrs of food and supplies in it as well as have emergency supplies on hand for 'sheltering in place' if I ever had to hunker down at home for a while without power or water. I wouldn't be able to last more than about 2 weeks but at least that's something.
So, this blog is going to be about how to get a food supply for folks like us who cannot deal with gluten or dairy. I was raised in a church who also taught the principles of preparedness and self sufficiency but that usually meant buying 50 pounds of wheat to store in your basement.
Um...., no can do.
So, I started myself a little bloggy blog in order to see if what I've figured out may possibly help somebody else.
*fingers crossed*
So, here goes nothing!
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