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This review is from: It's in the Bag a New Approach to Food Storage (Paperback)
I really, really wanted to like this book. Before I started cooking from it, I would have given it 4 stars. The complete bag meals idea is a great one, as is premixing baking mixes rather than buying them. The additions of making your own cheeses and canning meats, etc. are also great thoughts, though if you want to do any of the above, you will need more detailed books since they are not quite as simple as this book would lead you to believe. (For example, don't attempt to can meats until you have thorough understanding of the science behind canning and what is needed to can them safely. Botulism is not anything to mess around with.)
However, as soon as I started making the recipes, I realized that the book would be next to useless. The muffins are greasy and brick-like, even making them properly without overmixing, and the supper recipes from canned/boxed/dried ingredients are tasteless and sub-standard. As a matter of fact, this book reminds me of the old 1950's... Read more
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This review is from: It's in the Bag a New Approach to Food Storage (Paperback)
Storing complete meals in a bag is a great concept. I enjoyed reading the authors process of determining which meals to store and the 100 recipes they have converted to use in this system. The recipes are quick and easy. The additional instructions for canning etc. are easy to follow. The authors use this system to store food for an entire year. I plan to use this system to store a 3 month supply and will continue to work on storing 1 years worth of wheat and other long term storage items. I think including a dessert of some sort would be a nice addition. Especially if we had to use these meals exclusively. This book has inspired me to look at my own recipes and find ways to convert them for use in this system. As I do not live in Utah, finding the dried ingredients will be more difficult. I plan to dehydrate some myself and purchase through Honeyville Farms which ships any size order for $4.49. Overall, this is a great book. I highly recommend it for anyone just... Read more
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This review is from: It's in the Bag a New Approach to Food Storage (Paperback)
I went to the store to find a book on food storage. I have been storing food for an emergency for many, many years. I was always bothered by the fact that I didn't know how to make my stored food into a complete meal. I had random foods such as evaporated milk, tuna fish, powdered milk, wheat and so forth. If I was to feed my family from this food, how would I concoct a meal? So I went to the store to find a recipe book that would help me find a solution for my random canned goods. I read this book in one night. I couldn't sleep! I was too excited! I wanted to start right then! I am going to share this idea with all my friends! What a great concept!
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Learn how to save space and time by organizing your food storage using this convenient new bag system. With over 100 gluten-free recipes for breakfasts and dinners, you're sure to find something even your pickiest eaters will enjoy. When you're finished, you'll be able to simply grab a bag, follow the recipe, and enjoy a delicious meal your family will love!
This review is from: Gluten Free Food Storage, It's in the Bag (Paperback)
I was disappointed when I got this book. It has a good portion of the recipes from their 1st book just "converted" to "gluten free" by substituting "gluten free pasta" etc. I guess that is common sense. Had I known that, I wouldn't have bothered. I bought this book because I have a friend, who is gluten intolerant and I try and accommodate her allergies when she comes over. ( Not because my family or I, actually need it.)So take this review with a grain of salt.I don't fit the demographic that needs this book. For the record, I really love their 1st book. I have been inspired to convert other recipes to the bag system.
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Do you have a three-month supply of food for your family? Are you building up and using your long-term food storage? In I Can't Believe It's Food Storage , author Crystal Godfrey explains how to transition common food-storage items (such as powdered milk, whole wheat, and dried beans) into your own recipes. Godfrey also provides over 100 kitchen-tested recipes for you to try. In addition, you'll learn how to put together a personalized three-month supply and how to involve your entire family in planning and preparing meals. And as for that vitally important long-term food supply, you'll learn what to store, and you'll be using it every day to make meals your family will love. All you have to do is follow the easy step-by-step program outlined in the book. When you taste the wonderful meals you'll effortlessly create once you follow the program, you'll be saying, "I can't believe it's food storage!"
This review is from: I Can't Believe It's Food Storage (Paperback)
This is a book geared toward, but not limited to, the Mormon population and it focuses on the products available from their church canneries. If you use it understanding these factors you can get a lot out of it. The recipes are basic family-friendly fare; delicious but not gourmet. I found the book, and Crystal's website, shortly after buying several food storage items that I planned to store for 20-30 years, and then throw out and replace if I didn't have to use them. The money was spent just to have a back-up, but now I'm using at least one or two items on a daily basis and I plan to use all of them and replenish as I go along. This is a much better use of my money and storage space.
There are positive and negatives about this book. First, the positive aspects:
You will learn how to actually USE your stored food on a daily basis. This really is the focus of the book and the web-site, not how to survive without power. Not only will you save money by not wasting... Read more
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This review is from: I Can't Believe It's Food Storage (Paperback)
I will concur with all reviewers who have previously noted that this book is clearly written by a person with a particular religious (Mormon/LDS) orientation and outlook.
Since I am a Jew, I hope I won't be accused of giving this book a good review just for being friends with the author. ;) Frankly, there is stuff in this book that is very far from my interests, but that doesn't make the book less useful in its own little way.
Fundamentally, this book is IDEAL as an introduction to how one might use one's food storage as part of daily cooking. It is actually arranged into chapters based upon adding food storage items into your daily cooking, one at a time. That means there is a chapter on Using Powdered Milk, Using Powdered Eggs, and Using Dried Beans. It also means that the recipes aren't arranged in the more typical way--based upon types of food like breakfast or dessert. Reading through the bean section then, one skips from recipes for cake to psuedo-sausage... Read more
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This review is from: I Can't Believe It's Food Storage (Paperback)
This is an excellent book and a great resource for those of us who are buying food in bulk, beefing up our food storage and generally learning to cook with food storage ingredients.
Two notes that I didn't see in other reviews.
1. This is very much an LDS book in the very introduction. There is a whole section in the front of the book about having a Family Home Evening, for example. There is an assumption that you will agree or be saving food storage and learning to use it because you are LDS. This is a small portion of the book but if you are not LDS and are not interested in this, it might help to know about it.
2. This book is heavy on the dried milk, dried eggs, and similar ingredients. It barely, if at all covers things like cornmeal, whole wheat flour, and other ingredients that are a bit more difficult to cook with/grind etc.
Those two items were not an issue for me. However, my friend who is not LDS but has much in the way of... Read more
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