If you come up with too much food, whether it's cooked or fresh, fruit or vegetable, the chances are that you can dehydrate it for future use. If you have a vehicle, place food (check to see if it needs pretreatment first) on trays or food safe screens (screens with cloth placed over them are fine) and set them inside a vehicle parked in the sun. Open a couple of windows an inch or so. Or set trays directly in the sun and cover them with loosely woven cloth to keep insects off of them. Sun drying takes a little longer, but it's a lot cheaper (as in
free)!
You wouldn't be a reader of the early Mother Earth News magazine would you? I love your ideas but have seen/read most of them in the early 70s & 80s MEN Mags. Of course, reading them that long ago means I don't really remember them until you remind me! Oh the joys of aging. Bellen
ReplyDeleteI have read and do read MEN occasionally, but they didn't invent those ideas; many of them are common knowledge to the old folks.
ReplyDeleteThat is such a good idea! Why haven't I ever thought of doing that in the car?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a little girl, we took a trip to the west (Arizona and New Mexico) and we "cooked" poptarts in the windows of our car as we drove along! That was about the only good thing I can remember about that HOT August sitting between my big sister and big brother with my feet on the "hump" with NO AIR CONDITIONING!!
Oh yeah, THOSE were the days!!