New
Product at the Home Storage Center:
Seychelle water bottle
You can now
buy a small, personal size water bottle with a filter for about $12. It will filter up to 200 gallons of
water. These are on the current Home Storage Center order forms. These can be found at each Home Storage Center as well as at www.providentliving.org and search for the order form.
What to
buy this month: This is the last month that you can
find really good deals on fresh strawberries.
The best months were April and May.
You may be able to buy them “by the flat”. Wash, cut and freeze them or make into
strawberry jam. This is also a good time
to start stocking up on canning supplies and sugar and buy your Ball Blue Book
of Preserving if you don’t have one yet.
Uses for
dehydrated onions and diced red and green bell peppers
These two
products are some of my favorite dehydrated foods to use every day. The onions are so handy! I just throw a handful in most things that I
am cooking. If I don’t have fresh onions or I am in a hurry and I don’t want to
chop fresh ones, I just use these. The
Bell peppers are actually a great buy if you consider the cost of buying fresh
bell peppers and chopping them. I like
to use these in soups and casseroles, homemade spaghetti sauce, add them to
dehydrated hash browns to make O’Brien style hash browns. I also use the onions and the bell peppers
when canning spaghetti sauce, sweet pickle relish and salsa. They are a big time-saver.
Fire
Extinguisher Care
You should
have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen for sure. It is a great idea to also have one in your
garage and near your utility room as well.
At the CERT training that some of us recently had, we learned a couple
things that we did not know about home Fire Extinguishers.
·
If
you use your fire extinguisher but did not use it up completely, you can put
the pin back in it and save it for future use again. It would be wise to buy a
2nd one to have on hand though.
·
1-2
times a year, check the pressure gauge on the extinguisher. As long as there is plenty of pressure in it,
no matter the age, it should still work.
·
If
you have had your extinguisher for several years and have been lucky enough to
not need to use it…pick it up and gently dump the extinguisher
upside-down. You can hear the powder
inside of it. If it sounds like it is in
one big clump…go ahead and turn it upside down and back and forth several times
to break up the clump inside it. Once it
sounds soft again it should be good as new. The powder compacts as it sits.
·
To
use: Remember P-A-S-S Pull the pin, Aim toward the BASE of the fire, Squeeze the trigger and then Sweep
side to side until fire is out.
Product
Highlight of the Month: All American Sun
Oven www.sunoven.com
To be
honest, this is the most expensive item by far that I have ever
highlighted. There are other sun ovens
on the market at different price points.
I will talk about this specific one because that is the one that we
have. This one can be bought for a little
less at some preparedness expos and also with a coupon on particular websites
and Facebook pages such as through www.foodstoragemadeeasy.net
Facebook: Sun Ovens
International, Inc. If you are reading
this newsletter at the end of May 2015, Sun Ovens International, Inc has an $80
off coupon on their website right now.
Like the
name says, it only uses the power of the sun for fuel. Free Fuel!
It can even be used in the winter as long as there is a good deal of
sunlight. It will not get up to high
enough temperatures if there is a lot of cloud cover. You can bake, boil, sterilize and dehydrate
with it. This oven is actually very easy
to use and weighs about 22 lbs. It has handles attached to make it easy to
carry. If you choose, you can spend more
up front and buy pots and pans made to fit inside. If not, you can look around for some that
will fit. The only thing I would change
would be to have the inside of the oven larger to fit most of my pans. It comes with a self-leveling rack on the
inside and an adjustable leg for the back to get the best sun angle. It has a
built in thermometer right in the front.
It also comes with a booklet for use and a CD full of recipes and
helps. A side note: It will not burn your food. It acts like a giant crock pot and you can
leave the food cooking all day and it won’t burn. The food stays moist.
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| The All American Sun Oven |
banana bread in my sun oven
·
Place
in a really sunny location if possible.
Focus it toward the sun. The
booklet shows you how. (They also have
videos and a CD.)
·
You
need enough sun to cast a shadow. If no shadow, then you don’t have enough sun
for it to work. Cold temperatures and
snow on the ground does not affect the cooking. Only the amount of sun.
·
Depending
on where you live, from May-Sept. you may not need to use the leg on the back
of the oven for focusing.
·
Allow
time for oven to pre-heat. Keep the door
latched!
·
Put
food inside and close the door quickly.
When you open the door, the temp drops 75 degrees.
·
Do
not open door except to remove food.
This is why a see-through lid is best.
·
To
maintain highest temperature and cook the fastest, refocus oven every 30 mins.
·
If
your pan is too tall, remove leveling rack from the hooks and place on the
bottom of oven to create a little more room.
·
Use
dark metal pans for the fastest cooking.
Use a lid, (glass), to keep the moisture in the food and keep oven door
from having condensation. This
condensation will lower your temperature and it will take longer to cook.
·
You
can hard boil up to 2 dozen eggs at a time.
Cook them right in the cardboard egg carton they come in. No water needed. It takes 1 hour.
·
For
perfect bread, let dough rise to ¾” to ½ “ below the top of bread pan. Spray top of dough with water and then bake.
·
If
you want to buy pans on your own be sure to measure the inside area of your
oven first. I have found a couple pans
that do fit. I found them at major “big box” stores. One is the Corning Ware French White Oval
Entre baker with a glass cover, 2.5 qt size.
I also found a small round enamel ware stock pot with a lid. (black with white specks). You will need to put rack all the way on the
bottom for this one to fit. I also
bought a set of 2 glass lids for using with pans in this oven.
To be honest, after all that work trying to find
lots of different pans that fit….I would just buy the ones direct from the co
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