Food Storage: 5 Qts. Cooking Oil
Extra Item: 2 Qts. Peanut Butter
Some Local Bargains:
Lin's
Crisco Cooking Oil - 96 oz. @ $12.69 (13.2 cents/oz.)
ShurSaving Cooking Oil - 42 oz. @ $3.85 (9.2 cents/oz.)
ShurSaving Vegetable Oil - 1 Gallon @ $8.19 (12.8 cents/oz.)
Western Family Corn Oil - 1 Gallon @ $8.99 (14.0 cents/oz.)
Western Family Peanut Butter - 64 oz. @ $7.99 (12.5 cents/oz.)
Western Family Peanut Butter - 40 oz. @ $4.99 (12.5 cents/oz.)
Smith's
Crisco Vegetable Oil - 1 Gallon @ $10.99 (17.2 cents/oz.)
Crisco Canola Oil - 1 Gallon @ $11.99 (18.7 cents/oz.)
Kroger Vegetable Oil - 1 Gallon @ $7.99 (12.5 cents/oz.)
Kroger Vegetable Oil - 48 oz. @ $2.47 (5.1 cents/oz.) ***Best Value***
Kroger Canola Oil - 48 oz. @ $2.51 (5.2 cents/oz.)
Kroger Peanut Butter - 40 oz. @ $5.09 (12.7 cents/oz.)
Kroger Value PB - 17 oz. @ $1.74 (10.2 cents/oz.)
Kroger PB - 28 oz. @ $2.67 (9.5 cents/oz.) ***Favorite Find***
Wal Mart
Great Values Vegetable Oil - 1 Gallon @ $6.28 (9.8 cents/oz.)
Great Values Canola Oil - 1 Gallon @ $7.42 (11.6 cents/oz.)
Great Values Peanut Butter - 40 oz. @ $3.54 (8.9 cents/oz.)
Algood Peanut Butter - 16 oz. @ $1.38 (8.6 cents/oz.) ***Best Value***
Car Kits: Blanket, two bread bags and four rubber bands (to keep your sleeves clean)
Family Preparation: Locate your electricity circuit box. Teach all responsible household members how to shut off the electricity to the entire house.
Spiritual Preparation: Read Ether 2:12. Show appreciation for the freedom we enjoy. Reflect on the blessings we enjoy as being Americans. Strive to live so you may continue to have these great blessings.
Food For Thought:
The book "Preparedness Principles" by Barbara Salsbury and Sandi Simmons has a section so good on oil and fats that we are quoting it in it's entirety:
COOKING OIL/FATS/SHORTENING
Fat is downright essential for good health. Our bodies have to have fat to function properly. Most of the energy needed by the human body is provided by fat. In addition to energy storage, fat serves as a protective cushion and provides structural support to help prevent injury to vital organs such as the heart, liver, kidneys, and spleen. Not only that, but some vitamins and nutrients are fat-soluble and can only be carried throughout the body in the presence of fat. Fat makes us feel satiated after a meal and it adds a great deal of flavor to food.
Our bodies have to have it, and our recipes have to have it too. It serves an important purpose, particularly in baked goods. Fat adds flavor and texture to baking products and is chemically necessary to achieve the proper consistency in cooking and baking. When you reduce or eliminate the fat from a recipe, chances are that the end product will be tough, flat, full of tunnels, and lacking in flavor.
For these reasons, it’s important to have some sort of fat in your long-term storage program. Exactly which kind you store will be determined by numerous factors; you have to sort through the pros and cons of each choice and figure out what will work best for you.
Vegetable oil refers to oils extracted from numerous sources — soybeans, corn, peanuts, cottonseed, safflower seeds, rapeseed (for canola oil) and sunflower. Cooking oils that are simply labeled “vegetable oil” are made predominantly from soybean oil or a soybean-oil blend. Most vegetable oil has a bland flavor that doesn’t interfere with the flavors of the recipe you’re making. Vegetable oil is readily available and affordable in any grocery store. The problem is it doesn’t have a very long shelf life — around twelve to eighteen months. Purchasing it in opaque containers rather than clear ones will extend its life a little longer, as will ideal storage conditions (that is, dark, dry, and cool).
If you have a choice, cold-pressed or expeller-pressed oils are preferred over those processed using heat, as typical high-heat processing may cause health concerns. Cold-pressed oils are usually more expensive and often more difficult to find than regular oil. Supermarkets may carry them in their natural foods aisle, or you can find them in health food stores. They have about the same shelf life as regular oils found in the supermarket.
Shortening is vegetable oil that has been hydrogenated (had hydrogen pumped through it), altering its chemical makeup. The advantage of this is that shortening will store for a long time—f1ve years or more, which is great for a long-term storage program. The bad thing is that the hydrogenation process turns healthy fats into trans fats, which create all kinds of health concerns. You may wish to use unhydrogenated oils on a regular basis, yet keep some shortening on hand in your pantry as a backup in case times get really difficult and you run out of healthier oils, or they have gone rancid and you can’t get any more.
You might want to look into coconut oil as a good choice for storage and daily use. It is a solid at room temperature (good for baked goods), and yet melts easily at 76° F. It has a long shelf life — five years or more. Because it is a saturated fat, it fell out of favor for a few decades, but scientists lately have acknowledged that it is not the same as other saturated fats. It is made up of medium-chain fatty acids (as opposed to long-chain fatty acids) and reacts completely differently in the body. It actually is very healthy for you. The drawback to coconut oil is that currently it is difficult to find and somewhat expensive. You can look for it in health food stores or through Internet sources (Internet search word: coconut oil).
If you regularly use lard, you’ll need to find another choice for your long-term storage. Lard has an extremely high rancidity factor and essentially has no shelf life outside the refrigerator.
One gentleman who survived the devastation and starvation in Europe during and after World War II recalled that cooking oil was the most valuable food item they could have. It was valued not only for its nutritional qualities but also because it could be traded for nearly anything else they needed. It was of such value that a quart of oil could be traded for several bushels of apples or several hundred pounds of potatoes.
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P.S. In reference to last week's mosquito and pest repellent we would just like to add this week that courtesy of the Carvers we have heard that Listerine is also an effective method. However, when you look at the ingredients it is not surprising as it is in principle somewhat similar to the natural repellents we mentioned previously.
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