i need help with food preservation…. thanks!!!
its already covered in chocolate powder… but the next day the powder melts and it starts to grow mold… what should i do??
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hi! im making chocolate filled mochi but im having a hard time figuring out how i can make them last longer.?
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Tagged chocolate, food, food preservation, hard time, mochi, preservation, time
Do you know how to preserve a bonsai in chemical for indoors?
I have been doing this for a few years. I started using NeverSayDye chemical for the preservation, then started making my own with glycerin and water and food dye. Does anyone have any great recipes for this hobby? FYI, I have started a preservedbonsai group at Yahoo if you want to stay in touch.
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Does the preservation method of irradiation slow growth of bacteria or destroy cells completely ?
Irradiation is a way to preserve foods. When you use this method to keep a food fresh, does it slow the growth of bacteria growing or does it completely wipe out all bacteria?
Thanks!
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Tagged CELLS, food, growth, growth of bacteria, irradiation, method, preservation, preservation method, way
Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & Preservation
- ISBN13: 9780865716520
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Hard times aren’t just coming, they are here already. The recent economic collapse has seen millions of North Americans move from the middle class to being poor, and from poor to hungry. At the same time, the idea of eating locally is shifting from being a fringe activity for those who can afford it to an essential element of getting by. But aside from the locavores and slow foodies, who really knows how to eat outside of the supermarket and out of season? And who knows how to eat a diet based on easily stored and home preserved foods?
Independence Days tackles both the nuts and bolts of food preservation, as well as the host of broader issues tied to the creation of local diets. It includes:
- How to buy in bulk and store food on the cheap
- Techniques, from canning to dehydrating
- Tools—what you need and what you don’t
In addition, it focuses on how to live on a pantry diet year-round, how to preserve food on a community scale, and how to reduce reliance on industrial agriculture by creating vibrant local economies.
Better food, plentiful food, at a lower cost and with less energy expended: Independence Days is for all who want to build a sustainable food system and keep eating—even in hard times.
Sharon Astyk is a former academic who farms in upstate New York with her family. She is the author of Depletion and Abundance, the co-author of A Nation of Farmers, and she blogs at www.sharonastyk.com.
Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & Preservation
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For those of you who advocate family preservation over adoption…?
I’ve read a lot of questions and answers in the adoption forum from people who say that, if they’d been given the choice, they’d have chosen their birth mothers over their adoptive families. That’s fine. I was not adopted so I don’t know how those people feel. What I want to know is: what are those people doing to help preserve families worldwide? Do any of you sponsor children in other countries through organizations like Christian Children’s Fund? It’s not an adoption agency; it provides food and education to children who desperately need it. Are you sponsoring some of these kids so that they aren’t adopted or do you just like to complain?
Magic: your answer was thoughtful and kind. I think it’s great that you do those things! My question was asked in kind of a snarky way (I realized that after I published it) but you weren’t snarky at all. Aloha to you!
Gershom: You just assume that I don’t care about your answers but I wouldn’t have posted a question if I didn’t want to hear what others have to say. As for what I do, thanks for asking. I’m a single mother to a child I adopted from foster care — not that that should matter, but apparently it does to many of you — and I work full time. I donate food items year round and gifts at Christmas — all for people who wouldn’t otherwise have those things. However, if you had read my question you would see that I am asking for answers from people who are pro family preservation and not adoption. I am obviously pro-adoption since I adopted my son. The county and the courts attempted several times to reunite my son with his birth mother but were unable to. Is family preservation always best? No. And that is why children like my son are adopted.
Sunny: Well, isn’t that wonderful of you! Supporting the family you made. I made my family too, though my child wasn’t born to me. I guess in your eyes that makes me someone who lusts after others’ babies. Please. As for having car washes and bake sales, what are you talking about? Who does that? I don’t and I don’t know anyone else who does either…unless it’s a junior high school group trying to earn money to go to Washington D.C.
Please educate yourself about religion and birth control. Not ALL religions are anti-birth control. You may not be a Christian and that’s your choice, but don’t generalize by saying that Christianity does not support birth control.