I haven’t checked for a few days as I have been busy. Over the weekend, my area got hit with a lot of snow, ending snow total was about 30 inches, then followed by numbing cold, wind chills down in -40s! It was bitter.
If the SHTF during the winter, I won’t worry about anyone coming this way. They will be frozen icicles by the time they wade through the feet of snow. I had to get my snowshoes out for this last one.
As I am getting thawed out, I have been doing ok on the scratch challenge. I live my life making more and more items, but times like this last snow I didn’t do everything by scratch. The one day it was so wicked cold, I used my electric baseboards to get it a little warmer. Truth be told, I was running low on wodd inside and didn’t want to lug wood in the extreme cold. Lol.
I did make most of my meals from scratch, except for the pasta. I was running low on my flour and didn’t want to break into my stores. I made some rigatoni with spicy sausage and peppers one night that I had for several days of leftovers. One of my neighbors makes the sausage. Add crusty bread (homemade) to the meal and it was great.
@amydixon. You asked how to make some of the bland meals (AF) more palatable. I soak everything for a bit as some of the freeze dried veggie and such need a little more time reconstituting. I would also suggest Tabasco sauce. I also have added tons of different spices. This is one thing I learned from this months challenge, I need to store more spices.