Home made flexible ice bag - 1 cup water to 1/2 cup rubbing alcohol; freeze. I use a freezer bag for these. If it's not flexible enough, increase the amount of rubbing alcohol.
And while I'm throwing out recipes, I'll re-post this one since we're going in to hot hot hot weather here:
Homemade Sports/Rehydration Drink
1/2 gallon water
1 or 2 pkts of Kool-Aid powdered drink mix
1/8 tsp Morton Salt Substitute or Morton Nu-Salt (main ingredient Potassium Chloride)
3/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
Hubby uses 1 packet of Kool-Aid; I make it for him to carry to work with him as it gets pretty hot in the shop. The grandsons and I use two packets; we have been refilling the 24 oz twist top type of Gatorade bottle with our homemade stuff to take to older grandson's JFL practices since we've only found it in blue raspberry flavor and that's not our favorite flavor.
Peanut butter: we get jars of generic PB in commodities. We also don't eat PB very often. I also use to buy the natural PB, IMO its a pain to stir, but I did it for a long time and then cut way way back on my PB consumption.
sometimes we get up to 4 jars a month. I just gave two jars away yesterday. I also have two 3 1/2 buckets of jars of PB stored in my second bathroom. That bathroom is somewhat climate controlled. I've opened older jars and the smell fine. I've had opened jars in the cabinet get smelly and out they went.
If I had my druthers I'd prefer the ground peanuts from whole food. But I don't live near whole food and also don't eat PB very often anymore. I don't remember why I stopped eating PB, it was probably when I was on a low fat diet years ago. The woman I knew that owned a health food store told me a low fat diet was unhealthy. She was correct, it changed the skin on my face and it barely recovered from that.
God is good all the time
Judy
And while I'm throwing out recipes, I'll re-post this one since we're going in to hot hot hot weather here:
Homemade Sports/Rehydration Drink
1/2 gallon water
1 or 2 pkts of Kool-Aid powdered drink mix
1/8 tsp Morton Salt Substitute or Morton Nu-Salt (main ingredient Potassium Chloride)
3/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
Hubby uses 1 packet of Kool-Aid; I make it for him to carry to work with him as it gets pretty hot in the shop. The grandsons and I use two packets; we have been refilling the 24 oz twist top type of Gatorade bottle with our homemade stuff to take to older grandson's JFL practices since we've only found it in blue raspberry flavor and that's not our favorite flavor.
Looks like that video is from July 29th of this year. But I could be confused which is my usual state of mind!Judy- Doing a little here and there is the only way I can get much of anything done any more. Slow and steady is what works for me. In the video you posted, is he expecting this winter to be especially cold or is this an older video.
I canned 7 more quarts of stew veggies today but used chicken broth in it. I’ll probably hold off on doing anymore until I open some and see how we like it. I think tomorrow I’ll be working with corn again, not sure how that’s going to work with 3 kids underfoot?! As I was putting the jars in the canner today, the older two were on their devices and DH rocked the baby while she listened to nursery rhymes as she fell asleep. I hope tomorrow goes as well.
Between canning, 3 kids and 3 meals today, I’ve got the dishwasher going for second round. Still a couple of cast iron skillets to be done but I’M done for the day.
Finally got a shipping email on my canning jar order, the wide mouth jars are leaving Salt Lake City, Utah to come all the way to little Podunk town in TN. Still no word on the regular mouth jars, SMH!
The video was just posted yesterday.Thanks for the recipes Renee T!
Looks like that video is from July 29th of this year. But I could be confused which is my usual state of mind!
Our wood is in a barn and out of the weather, I know he's got some in there that is a good three years old. That wood will burn fast. We have a lot, although we only have one wood burning heater/stove. We use it along with the furnace and he uses a propane heater in the bedroom, which gets way too hot for me.Heat index of 114, yesterday, and today is suppose to pass that! Cary is trying to get the weed eating done, before it gets any hotter outside. He got the yard mowed just after daylight. He doesn't like to mow when there's a heavy dew, but in this heat, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. He cleaned the mower good after he was finished. He wants to finish splitting and stacking the load of firewood, so he can go after another load, and is planning to finish this load this afternoon IF it cools down enough.
I'm still nursing my thumb, but it's a lot better. The blistered part has gone down, and I've been having to take a cool shower each morning, just to keep the warm water from hitting it. I'm not complaining too much with this heat. I'm also still using the cold Aloe Vera gel on it all during the day. I did manage to cook supper last night, although Cary still had to help. He also washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen for me. He's a sweet heart!
I liked the video, Judy. Our wood shed is 12x40 and is full. All the firewood Cary is dealing with now will have to be stacked with a tarp over it. I sure hope the man is wrong about us having a bad winter! We try to keep, roughly, a 3 year rotation going.
Our wood is in a barn and out of the weather, I know he's got some in there that is a good three years old. That wood will burn fast. We have a lot, although we only have one wood burning heater/stove. We use it along with the furnace and he uses a propane heater in the bedroom, which gets way too hot for me.
God is good all the time
Judy
We have our wood stove in the first room that was added onto our old mobile home. It gets very hot in that room but does not heat the whole house. Our furnace is electric and our bill is very high, but part of the problem with that is Dh is very cold natured and if he doen't get warm he tends to get bad chills. The propane heater is portable so he can take it in the bedroom. He gets cold and then he sweats, its a never ending battle. Even though we are in Louisiana it can get very cold here and the older houses are not insulated very well if at all.It does make a difference in how much one has to store depending on how it's used. We heat with wood only, and from time to time, I cook with wood on my wood stove. Before it gets cold enough to fire up either one, we have a small propane wall heater we use. We only used 60 gals of propane last year out of 250 gals.
We have our wood stove in the first room that was added onto our old mobile home. It gets very hot in that room but does not heat the whole house. Our furnace is electric and our bill is very high, but part of the problem with that is Dh is very cold natured and if he doen't get warm he tends to get bad chills. The propane heater is portable so he can take it in the bedroom. He gets cold and then he sweats, its a never ending battle. Even though we are in Louisiana it can get very cold here and the older houses are not insulated very well if at all.
In the other two rooms he's added on I have those radiator type electric heaters. I also have one in the she shed and my camper, just enough warmth to keep those places from freezing.
God is good all the time
Judy
Oh, Southern Breeze, hope that finger is doing better now!Today has not turned out well for me at all today. After the bread fiasco this morning, I accidentally poured hot boiling, off the stove, chicken broth all over my right thumb! Dang it! It hurts! After rinsing it under cold water, I smeared ice cold, out of the fridge, aloe vera gel all over it. Cary had to finish making supper. I'm sitting here trying to type with one hand. It's already blistered up. What a day......
SB, you might try coating that skin with some honey. I just have a bottle of it I got cheap I think dollar store. I take it on hikes.
It will dry like a glaze over the burn and heal quick.
You can get fancy and buy the expensive stuff. But for that I just use what I got. It does work good
Sheree, if you have a dehydrator, figs dehydrate well. Homemade fig bars are soooooo good too. All our figs are having to come back from the roots after our winter storm.
I use my oven as a dehydrator sometimes, but it does heat the house up.I don't have a dehydrator. I was thinking this morning that I would look to see if I can find some simple recipes for them.
I use my oven as a dehydrator sometimes, but it does heat the house up.
I have used the car to dehydrate stuff. Window down a little on each side. I guess people use a screen but I just put mine on piece of cardboard