How Will You Cook It?

Brandy Mohammad will be holding a class on Thursday, March, 26 at 7:00 .m. at the church. She will demonstrate how to make an apple box oven and actually cook in one using food storage items! If you have any questions please email Brandy at brandymohammad@verizon.net or call her at 503-278-7025

Don't forget about the rocket stove order we are putting together - questions on this contact Leigh Anne Wilkes at leighanne.wilkes@gmail.com or 503-629-5950

Just a few thoughts on Preparedness by Leigh Anne....

Food Storage is just not about food. You need to have a way to cook your food.

In an emergency situation it is quite possible that you may have no electricity or natural gas. How would you cook your food?

If you have a barbecue grill be sure that you have stored extra charcoal or propane. We have two propane tanks for our grill and always keep the extra one filled.

If you have a Coleman propane camping stove be sure that you have extra canisters of propane stored.

If you have a rocket stove be sure that you have wood (you may not want to cut down a tree :) or charcoal stored.

We also have a Volcano stove and it burns charcoal - note to self - buy more charcoal!

300 pounds of charcoal will last a family of 6 for 12 months.

In a survival situation, 25# of briquettes will cook 2 meals a day for 2 weeks in a 12" (6 quart) Dutch oven for up to 12 people.

You may also want to consider purchasing a dutch oven or two if you don't have one. You can cook over a wood burning fire or with charcoal and it is a great way cook or bake when you have no oven.

Do you have matches in your storage? You will be going through a lot of matches if you are cooking with wood or charcoal

If you have any other ideas on cooking without power or items that we should be including in our storage please leave a comment below