I don’t know what I was expecting.

When I started down the road of using up Mom’s prepper pantry I had no clue what was coming. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it sure wasn’t this.   Before I get to that, though, a quick update on how I fared the first two months that I had going before everything…

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Dehydrating food: Mushrooms

I had some stew beef that I canned last winter that I wanted to use up, so on the way home from work yesterday I stopped and got a few things to make beef stroganoff. My local grocer had several packs of sliced shiitake mushrooms on sale for stupid cheap. Thankfully I have my dehydrator…

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Drying food: Banana “jerky”

Over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t like raw bananas. Put them in bread and you’re on. I also don’t like the fried-then-dried ones from the store. Then I found the dried mini bananas at Trader Joe’s. The only problem is the price. So I figured out my own version of…

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