January 25, 2025
Day 1,212 of the Adventure
For the past week, or maybe two years, I've been on an economics rant concerning food growing, preserving and storage. This past year, we've added a garden to the Campfire Trail property along with a freeze dryer, water bath canner, pressure canner, freeze dryer and now a vacuum sealer. We've always had deep freezers and have been carrying around a dehydrator that we haven't actually used for quite some time. Each has its own purpose, and each is better for some things than others. The vacuum sealer we added today is probably best for things that should be frozen. Although dry goods that do not need refrigerated or frozen are just as appropriate. Our biggest reason for wanting a vacuum sealer was for preparing larger quantities and sealing the bilk of them for later use. Our first item was breakfast sandwiches. We used biscuits and croissants along with egg, cheese and either sausage or ham. When making these for a single breakfast, it takes about as long to make two of them as it does to make a dozen of them. Just freezing the leftovers alone has always attracted frost and freezer burn. Today, we made up about 15 of them and sealed each one in its own package. The only additional step we found necessary was to pre-freeze them prior to vacuum sealing simply to keep the croissants and biscuits from collapsing under the negative pressure of the vacuum. Today we vac sealed more than a dozen breakfast sandwiches, a couple of French Bread Pizza's, a big batch of our garden sweet potatoes and four big servings of Ham and Bean soup. The soup was pre-frozen in silicone containers in the shape of bricks that popped right out of the trays and slipped easily into the freezer bags. All in all, I'm impressed with the results and look forward to adding more of that method of preservation to our pantry and deep freezers. Just one more "do-it-yourself, self-sufficiency" tool in the war against high prices and "grocery store only" options. (There is a link below for vacuum seal bags with a 10% discount)
Adventure Quote: “People who are frugal understand the value of a dollar and make informed and thoughtful decisions. People who are cheap try to spend as little money as possible.” ― Frank Sonnenberg
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