Rebekah Harmon

Waffles again 😋 with hippo syrup.
4 plates

Breakfast today was a pound of elk sausage, 4 big spuds and tomatoes.
Sausage- 500cal
Spuds- 600cal
Tomatoes-200cal
1300cal or 2 plates

This is a new family favorite. Egg drop soup, with my homeade chicken stock and local eggs. Chives from my garden. The peas aren't local. I served it with a loaf of homeade bread and pumpkin pie! Pie used all local ingredients except sugar and spices.
Soup 780cal (65 cal per cup of soup. 12cups)
Bread 2,000cal
Pie 2,000cal.

9 plates.

Hello, Meal Prep Permies! I've made a mistake. I forgot about the silicone rule. Cold silicone is okay for food prep BBs, but using it for baking is not allowed. I've used a silicone baking matt and a muffin tins for some of my meals, and therefore shouldn't not count them. Ive gone back through this whole thread to adjust for the 9 posts and 18 meals this affected.

Thankfully, most of these were side dishes and were easily edited without a major affect to the entire meal count.

But it will affect the accuracy of my tallies along the way. At this point, I have 720 plates. 80 left to go.

I ran into trouble with the location. While the library board members thought it a great idea to put my seed library in the public book library in town, the librarian was overwhelmed with other projects and didnt feel she had the space to spare.

I worried for a week, contemplating other homes for the seeds, when the librarian got back to me about a space that would work. Under this potted plant! She loves the plant, but said it could sit on abother surface if I could make a shelf to fit that spot. So, with a tape measure in hand, I worked out the size of my seed library, enthusiasm renewed!

I'm happy to report that all the seeds have been loaded into envelopes. The lumber has been purchased, and I have an appointment with a cabinet maker tomorrow to help me develop the plan for the seed shelf, made to fit!

Hello, Permies!

A few weeks ago, Paul and I discussed a large BB, the Seed Library bb from the Community Sand badge. The point range in large, anywhere between 2 and 12. I reached out for help on planning for a "magnificent" BB submission.

Some notes from our meet up include:
Making an organizer for the seeds myself, "to fit" Paul suggests, means I'm not reusing any materials with unknown contamination or funky sizes with unusable space. With his suggestion, I plan to make a little shelf/cabinet from scratch. It will be made from jew dimensional lumber, focusing on simple joints/fasteners and finishing with natural oils.

We also chatted about inviting community members to donate seeds. So far, I've visited gardens all over my hometown, collecting veggie and flower seeds alike, inside addition to the large store of seeds I collect from my own plants every year.

Wheat berry cereal today, cut half and half with little barley grains. I sweetened it with local honey. My kids also like peanut butter in theirs, which isn't local. I like beans! 😝 my kids say I'm crazy. But its a great protein-packed way to start the day.

4 c. Wheat berries 1200 calories
1/2c. peanut butter 750 calories
1/2c. Honey 515 calories
1/2c beans 125 calories
2,590cal is 5 plates

The next batch of yogurt I made a little bigger; a gallon and a half. I also used a different starter, which thickened up much better. It fit into the freeze dryer trays wonderfully!

3,600calories, google says, for a gallon and a half. Thats based on 150cal per cup.

My freezer dryer came with mylar bags. At first, I just used glass jars, but ran out and thought mylar was more like the metal lining in milk cartons and stuff. They set off metal detectors, (I tried to take freeze dried apples through TSA...)so thats why I leaned that direction. I've also bought a lot of long-term food storage items in mylar bags, like MREs, peanut butter, instant potatoes etc.

They're more prevalent in the prepper world.

Sunday dinner was a small elk roast with potatoes, gravy and peas. The gravy had local flour and walking onions I grew in them. The peas weren't local.
1 pound roast 500cal
Potatoes 2,000cal
Gravy 600 cal
Oops, didnt get the peas in the picture. 6 plates