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  • D&DD
    D&DD Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    Evening my lovelies :D
    Been a stupidly busy week with the boys home,nice weather(!!) past few days and the garden starting to produce by the bucketload..
    Will catch up properly tomorrow when I have an empty house but wanted to ask Lyn before I forgot a question.

    I've dried some spinach today for powder and want to make triclolour pasta I've already got the tomato powder soo after I have made it I want to dehydrate it so I can store it,have you ever done this with your excalibur or just dried pasta in it even?

    I hope everyone is well and will read all your news in the morning I'm still supposed to be sowing seeds! *shh*

    XX
  • ginnyknit
    ginnyknit Posts: 3,718 Forumite
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    Did you make the tomato powder in the de-hydrator too, I havent tried that, sounds interesting as Im thinking if I dry all my odds and ends they could be added to OH's food to boost the vitamins etc.
    Clearing the junk to travel light
    Saving every single penny.
    I will get my caravan
  • daz378
    daz378 Posts: 1,050 Forumite
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    been eating from freezer mostly and out occasionally , so my tinned stock as only fell slightly...today popped in farmfoods for a bit of chopin , bought extra beans and tomatoes and shared between daily cupboard and prepp cupboard.... dented tins put in daily cupboard and also restocked good old diet coke ... looking forward to day off tomorrow
  • Evening D&DD I've never tried to dry pasta in the dehydrator but I've a couple of instruction books on how to dehydrate just about anything and the instructions for pasta and noodles are spread slices in a thin layer over the trays and dry at 145degF/65degC until crisp stirring(I expect it just means moving about) occasionally. Noodles and thin pasta will dry in 4 to 6 hours. Have a go and see how well it works. I've dried leaves very successfully and they crumble to powder in your hands. Your spinach should be ideal, let me know how you get on with it, I'll have a go myself if it's a success, good luck Cheers Lyn xxx.
  • craigywv
    craigywv Posts: 2,342 Forumite
    evening all, the only ornamentel thing in my garden is my cauldron!!! love it , it started life as a bbq and now has strawbs growing in it, I cant fit another thing in my garden its full of things growing weather seemstobe better this year so hoping for a good crop of everything as its just soooo dearto buy anything now. my sweetheart cabbages are really growing I so proud lol I can grow !!! it is more of a nessescity Lynn (I thinktwas yerself said tht) and every year I growing a bigger variety of things. also eating out of freezers as rally need to defrost 1 of them......its a long laborious challenge forcing myself to make food out of whats in there rather than going out and buying something handier. well I off to look in my tomatoe house have a good night all xxx
    C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater :p I dont suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!!.:)
  • Rosemary_Jane
    Rosemary_Jane Posts: 189 Forumite
    I've just seen this site, I think it may be useful to keep an eye on it as a future home technology.

    http://www.gekgasifier.com/

    "Our project started in 2008 with the open source Gasifier Experimenter’s Kit (the GEK), supporting research, education and DIY hacking in biomass thermal conversion. Five years later the GEK has evolved into the Power Pallet— a fully automated solution for personal scale biomass power generation."

    "Our motivating goal is to deploy at scale a new type of energy product– a personal scale waste-to-energy appliance. Imagine a “PC of energy”, or a “washing machine of power”; a machine which intakes the waste biomass all around us, and converts it to multiple forms of power and products, right where they’re needed. Instead of hauling the biomass to a central utility for conversion, we’re bringing the machine to where the fuel already is, right where the users and needs already are."

    If our weather is really changing, we may well need power after tshtf, even if it's just for growlights for our food plants, maybe bringing them indoors.

    R
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    :) Evening all.

    Loving the garden talk. By co-incidence, have been exchanging garden-talk this aft with my second cousin and second cousin once removed, both professional gardeners from a displaced farming family. Lovely to discuss horsetail with someone who feels your pain.

    Mojo, oh well done. It is so lovely to hear that a newcomer has got away to a flying start. More power to your elbow.

    One thing which has concerned meabout the past two very difficult growing years is that newbies will have tried it, had bad experiences, and chucked the towel in as too difficult to manage.

    Whereas the truth is that peeps with 60 years' experience have struggled. My Dad will always remember 2012 as The Year of No Parsnips, f'rinstance.........:rotfl:

    I operate on the principle that things are programmed to grow and will do so if given anything like a chance. Other things are also programmed to dine on them, but for that, we have remedies. Or even kosher salt, in ginny's case........

    We who prep have to give thought to vermin control in our homes, which might be those things which are not to be named in polite society (4 legs, tail, run quickly, esp with the family cat in hot pursuit) as well as more prosaic things like pantry pests. It's crucial that we protect what we have from spoilage now, to avoid waste, financial loss and nuisance.

    If SHTF, many of us will be doing small-scale domestic farming and home food preservation, so that knowing how to manage critters will be key to our health and well-being.

    I once read the percentage of human foodstuff believed to be lost to spoilage and vermin between harvest and plate and it was something of the order of 1/3rd!

    Soo, gather ye m****traps whislt ye may, encourage any furry friends to take up hunting. Terriers, anyone, or a boot-faced tomcat with shoulders like a boxer and a serious attitude problem?
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • daz378
    daz378 Posts: 1,050 Forumite
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    D&Ds Pasta post ...prompted me to check on my best before dates....most of my pasta and noodles run out beginning of 2014.... factor that in.....probably will start to research dehydrating food , mainly reliant on tins for my prep at the moment
  • D&DD
    D&DD Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    ooh you just don't know how nice my hottie feels on my back tonight :rotfl: my hot water bottle that is, not my old man :o

    Daz I never worry about pasta dates unless it's wholemeal then it can go a bit hard/weird but normal should be fine for ages hun. Amazon sometimes have nice and very cheap pasta.

    Ginny yes tomato powder is just blitzed from last years Romas I dried they are great for powdering down and using as tom puree too when reconstituted. I hide all manner of veg by drying and blitzing it just don't tell my kids! :D


    Thanks Lyn Spinach smells divine all powdered and ready to go,I've caught up a bit in the garden now so can dabble in the kitchen tomorrow.
    I bought a pasta thing for my Kenwood and haven't christened it yet..much like the sausage thing I really need to have a 48 hour day then I'll be fine !!
  • D&DD if you find out where they sell the 48 hour days will you share the address with us please, I could do with some of those right now, Cheers Lyn xxx.
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