Rainy Day Foods

No meal is complete without vegetables – whether as a side dish or as an ingredient in the main entrée. Likewise, no food storage supply is complete without a variety of vegetables. Dehydrated and/or freeze dried vegetables are a great way to include vegetables in your food storage supply. When stored properly in air-tight containers, vegetables will store 20 to...

Continuing with our Hot Meals for Hunters segment, we’ll be using Rainy Day Foods Signature Meats Beef Chunks. I like to refer to this as, “A Hunter’s Soup”. It’s everything you would find in a soup minus the noodles. We start with a little prepping. You can either use fresh veggies if you have the time to cut them up...

Fall is in the air! And you know what that means—it’s hunting season! Some folks take their camper and stay out in the woods to hunt while others go out early in the morning and return home once it gets dark. Either way, it’s very hard to know when the hunter will return for a meal. He could come back...

Now that you have begun your food storage plan with the essential grains, it is time to add additional staples to the list. These staples include beans, legumes, rice and pasta. These are great staples to include in your food storage supply because of their long shelf life. Stored in an air-tight container (such as cans or buckets), these items...

Dutch Oven Peach Cobbler Labor day weekend--the final weekend of summer has come and gone. School is back in session. The final three-day vacation of the season has just finished up, and everyone’s back home. For us, what better way to spend our last summer vacation than to go camping. To celebrate our last night away from reality, we...

Rainy Day Foods wheat September is National Preparedness Month and food storage is a major component of preparedness along with emergency supplies and non-food items. Having a supply of food can bring great peace of mind in times of economic hardship as well as those times of natural calamity. One of the staples of food storage is grain. Grain...

Creamed Garden Vegetables Here it is August already and we are starting to enjoy some of the fresh vegetables from our garden. We seem to wait impatiently for the day that we can pick peas and eat them while sitting under a tree. If you are like me and love to grow a garden, you might want to consider...

  Country Fair Days We are in the season of fairs-county, city, and state are just a few.   This week we celebrated the raspberry festival fair and I passed the funnel cake booth.    It reminded me that for the past few years we have supplied our dried eggs to several vendors for their food booths.   I confess that I tried...

Congo Bongo Bars It’s that time of year when you are going to reunions and family get-togethers. Of course they always involve a lot of food. If you are like me, you want something delicious to take but easy to make. Here is a yummy bar cookie that fits the bill. I don’t know why they are called Congo...

White Chicken Enchiladas There’s one thing that my entire family loves to eat……that’s Mexican food! So I am always looking for yummy new recipes to try. I found this one and it was an instant hit. It really is delicious and quite easy to prepare. (That’s my favorite part.) Here is the recipe: White Chicken Enchiladas Mix together: 2...