When you are planning your food storage, remember Store what you eat and eat what you store. We love hot chocolate so. I make hot chocolate mix and keeping in my food storage, use it and replace it. We need to keep an inventory of what is on the shelf and how much we need for a year to survive.
My recipe for hot chocolate Mix is as follows:
HOT CHOCOLATE MIX
5 ½ Cups powdered milk (good measure)
5 Cups sugar
1 ½ Cups cocoa (good measure)
1 Teaspoon Salt
2-3 Cups Creamer (coffee-mate, etc.)
Mix real well. Store in closed container. To serve – add boiling water to 4 heaping teaspoons . Mix in a cup. Enjoy.
We make it by the gallons and keep it on the shelf and replace it when we only have one gallon left.
That is what we should do with everything we eat. Store plenty and replenish it frequently.
Last night was family home evening. For you folks who don’t know, that’s a Latter Day Saint thing. Every Monday we meet together with the most important people in our lives, our family. We eat together, read together, study the scriptures, sing together, etc. Some of us empty nesters have started having it together. I have been making it a habit to always try to make something with my food storage so that we all learn to use and eat food storage. I believe that if there is some food shortage, economical shortage, etc . That, if we have never eaten what is on the shelf, we may not like it or eat it when it is all we have. If I don’t like something I believe I would just starve, rather than just eating the same thing that I hated day in and day out.
My neighbor said to me after dinner; “Emma you are a good cook.” “I hope you live a long time, because I would probable starve to death is hard time came and I had to live on my food storage.” What I serve was a creamy pea and potato soup, with rice pudding for desert. I had mixed some dehydrated foods with fresh foods. They could not tell what was fresh and what was freeze dried.
