Rebekah Harmon

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

In this meal, I made peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches in my whole wheat bread. I also served a jumble of summer squashes and walking onions. The butter in tue squash and the peanut butter weren't local.
Bread 1200cal
Jelly 600cal
Squash jumble 200cal

4 plates.

Cinamon rolls for breakfast, with local milk and flour.  300calories per roll, 3,600cal or 7 plates.

The other day I dried pumpkin, plain. Its not safe to can at home for some reason. Something about acidity? Or lack thereof? But you can freeze dry it! I decided to try pumpkin pie filling. Here is filling for 6 pies, 1,000caloroes per pie.
6,000 calories.

3 years ago, I started growing evening primrose. Their seeds are a wonderful, sustainable home crop for omega 3 fatty acids.
This year, I've grown my largest patch yet. I saved 14cups of seeds! Ill use them in oatmeal and smoothies like chia or flaxseeds. In fact, I will likely mix them, grind them together to have a ground seed meal ready for any sprinkling I need.
800cal per cup is 11,200 calories.

Next I'm starting a series of freeze dried yogurt. I can now get cow milk at the greenhouse from a local ranch. Yay! Im.so proud of how hard Tara's Market Garden is working to bring us locally made goods. Check out her website!

I attempted to freeze dry one batch of 1 gallon of milk. It didn't quite fill the trays. But 1 gallon of whole milk yogurt is 3,040 caloroes. This is based on an estimate google made of 190 calories per cup of whole milk yogurt.

I had 129,145 calories left.
Plus 21,123, that makes
150,268 calories actually left to go.