Foodsaver and Dry Food ( Rice and Bean) storage
This weekend I finally opened up the 50 lb bag of Brown Rice I purchased, and used the vacuum pack food-saver unit to pack it into smaller bags of about 6 cups of rice per bag . The foodsaver vacuum pack sucks all the air out, and makes a rock-hard vacuum packed bag of Rice, - I hope/assume this vacuum packing will mean the long term storage of this brown rice will be better than what it would have been leaving it in the "open to air" original 50 lb plastic sack it came in.
Questions/ Looking for suggestions, ideas...:
1) Any suggestions on a creating a mix of this dry rice and dry Beans, and maybe adding a dry seasoning, other dry vegetables ( dried peppers, onions, garlic ? chile powder ?) , etc. that would result is a vacuum packed complete recipe mix for a good Beans and Rice mix ?
Other Questions:
1) I've purchased the Ezekial Bread grain/bean mix from Walton Feed- and I like the bread it makes. I'm looking for ideas or suggestions for other uses of this - either unground, and made into a soup or stew....or ground up to a flour mixture and used in...????
Finally got the Wife involved and interested, agreeing to the strategy in stocking up and prepping, to have about 2 to 3 months of store-shelf type food ( cans, and dry foods), and other essentials ( paper goods, seasoning, Olive/cooking oil, etc..). We;re planning to use that 2 month list from survivalblog.com as a starting point, and she plans to replace weekly what was used from the storage, so that she always has the backup . We purchased some wire shelve racking from Lowes, and now have some nice storgae space, with good visibility to arrnage what we have ( not much so far) and catalog/manage the inventory.
Thanks,
LT
This weekend I finally opened up the 50 lb bag of Brown Rice I purchased, and used the vacuum pack food-saver unit to pack it into smaller bags of about 6 cups of rice per bag . The foodsaver vacuum pack sucks all the air out, and makes a rock-hard vacuum packed bag of Rice, - I hope/assume this vacuum packing will mean the long term storage of this brown rice will be better than what it would have been leaving it in the "open to air" original 50 lb plastic sack it came in.
Questions/ Looking for suggestions, ideas...:
1) Any suggestions on a creating a mix of this dry rice and dry Beans, and maybe adding a dry seasoning, other dry vegetables ( dried peppers, onions, garlic ? chile powder ?) , etc. that would result is a vacuum packed complete recipe mix for a good Beans and Rice mix ?
Other Questions:
1) I've purchased the Ezekial Bread grain/bean mix from Walton Feed- and I like the bread it makes. I'm looking for ideas or suggestions for other uses of this - either unground, and made into a soup or stew....or ground up to a flour mixture and used in...????
Finally got the Wife involved and interested, agreeing to the strategy in stocking up and prepping, to have about 2 to 3 months of store-shelf type food ( cans, and dry foods), and other essentials ( paper goods, seasoning, Olive/cooking oil, etc..). We;re planning to use that 2 month list from survivalblog.com as a starting point, and she plans to replace weekly what was used from the storage, so that she always has the backup . We purchased some wire shelve racking from Lowes, and now have some nice storgae space, with good visibility to arrnage what we have ( not much so far) and catalog/manage the inventory.
Thanks,
LT