FOOD STORAGE TIP OF THE WEEK
Food Storage: 8 Cans of Fruit
Extra Item: 8 Rolls of Toilet Paper
Some Local Bargains:
Lin's
Western Family Assorted Canned Fruit - 15 oz. @ $0.88 (5.9 cents/oz.)
Western Family Applesauce - 46 oz. @ $2.79 (6.1 cents/oz.)
Seneca Applesauce - 47 oz. @ $2.69 (5.7 cents/oz.)
Cottonelle Toilet Paper - 12 Double Rolls @ $5.99
Angel Soft Toilet Paper - 24 Regular Rolls @ $5.99
Western Family Toilet Paper - 24 Reg. Rolls or 12 Big Rolls @ $4.99
Dollar Tree
Island Choice Pineapple - 20 oz. @ $1.00 (5.0 cents/oz.)
Anne Elise Pineapple - 20 oz. @ $1.00 (5.0 cents/oz.)
Smith's
Kroger Applesauce - 47 oz. @ $1.85 (3.9 cents/oz.) ***Best Value***
Angel Soft Toilet Paper - 16 Big Rolls @ $4.99 ***Best Value***
Family Dollar
Family Pantry Pear Halves - 29 oz. @ $1.50 (5.2 cents/oz.)
Family Pantry Mandarins - 11 oz. @ $0.65 (5.9 cents/oz.)
Family Dollar Bath Tissue - 24 Double Rolls @ $7.50
Big Lots
Del Monte Mandarin Oranges - 15 oz. @ $1.00 (6.7 cents/oz.)
Del Monte Peaches (artificially sweetened) - 19 oz. @ $0.80 (4.2 cents/oz.)
Del Monte Peaches (in syrup or juice) - 15 oz. @ $0.80 (5.3 cents/oz.)
Green Acres Pineapple - 24.5 oz. @ $1.50 (6.1 cents/oz.)
Libby's Pineapple - 20 oz. @ $1.00 (5.0 cents/oz.) ***Favorite Find***
Wal Mart
Great Values Peaches, Pears or Fruit Cocktail - 15 oz. @ $0.98 (6.5 cents/oz.)
Great Values Peaches, Pears or Fruit Cocktail - 29 oz. @ $1.68 (5.8 cents/oz.)
White Cloud Toilet Paper - 24 Double Rolls @ $10.98
Car Kits: Duct tape, electrical tape, tow strap and a couple of bungee cords.
Family Preparation: Start a savings program or review your existing savings plan. No matter how much you make or how much you have in savings already, you can save something for the future. Pay tithing and then pay yourself - even if it is just a little.
Spiritual Preparation: President Harold B. Lee gave some wonderful counsel that applies today. He said, "Take some time ... each day to have a quiet hour ... an hour of prayerful meditations where you can tune in with God and discuss with him problems that are too much for human understanding, too great for human strength."
Food For Thought:
I was at the library this week picking up a few mysteries for my mom to read when I ran across a book by Susan Wittig Albert called "An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries" - a treasury of stories, herbal lore, recipes and crafts from Pecan Springs. She has some fun recipes mixed in with her mildly amusing crime solving, one of them being the following using canned fruit:
Ruby's Applesauce Mint Bread
2 Cups Flour
3 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1 Cup Slivered Almonds, Chopped
1 Egg Beaten
1 Cup Applesauce
3/4 Cup Firmly Packed Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Vegetable Oil
1/4 Cup Chopped Fresh Mint (best with fresh, but if you must substitute, use 1 Tbsp dried)
Preheat oven to 350 Deg. F.
Sift the first five ingredients together, add almonds, and blend well.
In a separate bowl, combine egg, applesauce, brown sugar, and oil and stir to mix.
Add mint.
Add wet ingredients to dry, and stir just until blended (do not over mix).
Pour batter into two small greased loaf pans and bake for about 45 minutes.
Cool on rack.
Another interesting recipe comes from a lady named Kathy in Maine who gives us both the original recipe and her food storage version of the same thing both of which she says taste exactly the same:
Southern Fruit Cobbler (original recipe)
1 Cube of Butter or Margarine Melted
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Milk
1-1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1-1/2 Cups Chopped Fresh Fruit
1/2 Cup Water
1. Mix together melted butter and sugar.
2. Add milk and stir well.
3. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir until well incorporated.
4. Pour into a greased 8x8 in. pan.
5. Spread chopped fresh fruit evenly over batter.
6. Evenly pour 1/2 cup water over top.
7. Bake at 350 for 50-55 minutes.
Southern Fruit Cobbler (food storage version)
8 Tbsp Butter Powder
1 Cup Sugar
1/4 Cup Powdered Milk
1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Ground Whole White Wheat (white wheat has a lighter appearance and a milder taste than red wheat because the genes for bran color have been eliminated. It also has the same nutritional composition as red wheat but is better for cakes and pastries. 1/2 cup of hard white wheat equals just under 1 cup of freshly ground flour. It is also available at our Cannery).
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1 Cup Plus 2 Tbsp Water
1 - 30 oz. Can of Fruit, Drained.
1. Mix together all of the dry ingredients.
2. Mix in the water, stirring until all ingredients are well incorporated.
3. Pour into a greased 8x8 in. pan.
4. Spread fruit evenly over batter.
5. Bake at 350 for 50-55 minutes.
One of the extra items on our list this week is duct tape. Now, while I generally think of this as an item my husband would like to have in his toolbox, I have actually come across an application that we ladies might be interested in. When you are sewing for yourself, altering your clothes or mending them, have you ever wished you could have a custom-made dress form that was your exact measurements to work on? Well thanks to duct tape, believe it or not, now you can! Click on the following link to go to an excellent site on how to make your own dress form for just a few dollars. You can also go to Google, type in "duct tape dress form" and this site as well as several other good ones plus You Tube demos will come up to choose from. You can even make these for your kids if you sew for them. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, they even have duct tape with colorful designs that you can use to make them pretty - wow, pretty duct tape, who knew?
http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/3659/clone-yourself-a-fitting-assistant
