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    Can you help ? What is Jicama?

    P.S they are delicious ;) They are readily available in the US.
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    Can you help ? What is Jicama?

    It's called yam bean there. I copied and pasted this for you from Wisegeek. Jicama is a crispy, sweet, edible root that resembles a turnip in physical appearance, although the plants are not related. Jicama has been cultivated in South America for centuries, and the vegetable is quite popular in...
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    I'm back

    Been thinking you were missing from here, welcome back! What about aquaculture? I think there is great possibilities and a fun learning experience for your son ;) I am homeschooling this year and will be purchasing supplies for our science class doing this... As for more inspiration it sounds...
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    Dehydrated/Freeze Dried Meat/??????

    If he's picky good luck with TVP, my husband knew right away it was not hamburger (I did half and half) and was not happy with me for trying to sneak it in. I got rid of the two cans I had because we are avoiding soy products now. I have a Nesco gardenmaster dehydrator and it works great, I have...
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    Favourite ways to cook kale

    Food.com was a 100 times better when it was Recipezaar, now I just get frustrated :P
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    Favourite ways to cook kale

    It's on this thread http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9716 I only used about a 1/4 tsp of salt though and sprinkled with parm and garlic powder, it was tasty and they disappeared in no time at our house!
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    Favourite ways to cook kale

    The kale chips posted on here are fantastic!
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    TanksHill...Roll on!!

    Great use of space and I :love seeing pics of pantries!
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    Damummis'- Auf wiedersehen

    SunSaver we are in Arizona, the fire turned one block length from our house! Great advice about marking the animals, I forgot and we got our livestock back but no halters, leads, no supplies we left with them, they were lost in the chaos! Mark them.
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    Damummis'- Auf wiedersehen

    During the local forest fires this year we were on mandatory evacuation orders, we had just sold our horse trailer so I had to call a rescue organization and they hauled livestock out for us and would not take a cent! Of course I made a donation to their organization after the whole ordeal. We...
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    Moving with canned goods?

    Thanks everyone I appreciate it :D
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    Is Irene New York City's "Katrina"

    This is exactly what my extended family needed to start finally prepping, they are buying like crazy...:weee
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    Its canning season! Jar Nazi!

    Too funny! I checked and he does have some fabulous jars on CL still :D I did not see any warnings against him on their though.
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    Dehydrated/Freeze Dried Meat/??????

    I have them but they are so expensive I have not opened them, I figure I won't be too picky if I need them :D Sorry I can not be of more help :)
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    Butcher School???

    I would think the best thing he could do is apprentice maybe part time weekends or something at a shop to learn the cuts, etc. I am not sure there are many trade schools for it other than the some culinary arts degrees which cover it but you would have to take the entire program I am assuming.
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    Butcher School???

    I don't have any information other than an acquaintance just opened up a shop and does mobile also I believe and they are SUPER busy! They bought used equipment from other businesses and have built clientele rather quickly. There is definitely a need, we had a hard time finding a reasonably...
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    Val's SS journal- Fair food! Yea!

    You should try using Pomona's Universal Pectin, I just ordered some from Amazon. An example recipe off the box: Blueberry Jam Low Sugar Blueberry Jam [makes 3 pints or 6 cups] 6 cups of mashed blueberries (about 9 cups of blueberries) 6 tablespoons lemon juice 1 1/4 cups organic cane sugar 1...
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    Quail_Antwerp: Words from the Barnyard...

    Our daughter came home last night and NEEDED jeggings, I am like what the hell (yep, I said hell :hide ) are jeggings? huge sigh on her part "they are jean material leggings and everyone has them" I told her the skinny jeans she had to have were going to have to be good enough, unless she wanted...
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    Moving with canned goods?

    I am going to go ahead and can some candied jalapeno's tomorrow and take my chances! I have the bug and dehydrating is not cutting it :D Snapshot do you leave the rings on?
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    Moving with canned goods?

    I was going to leave the rings off because I would not know if they broke the seal then and reset in the heat possibly?? I am torn whether I would be wasting my time or not. We are traveling over a three day period and I am not sure how many mountain passes we go over and if the up and down is a...
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