| Food storage is not just tupperware and freezer bags, | | | | storage is basically just basic cooking ingredients that |
| it is an emergency preparedness concept of putting | | | | you would use in any recipe. So all I do is I just take |
| aside some extra food in case of a natural disaster or | | | | my favorite recipes and then start substituting out you |
| time of economic difficulty. Many people understand | | | | know say milk instead of milk put in powdered milk, |
| the concept of storing these life-sustaining foods, but | | | | eggs I put in powdered eggs, and onions I put in my |
| few people know how to actually use them. If you had | | | | dehydrated onions. So I'm not really always coming up |
| a time where you needed to depend on your food | | | | with new recipes but I feel like in my experience |
| storage to live, it would be so important to know how | | | | people are less likely to try it in their own recipes. They |
| to use it and to have your family be used to that type | | | | want to see someone who has already tried it and |
| of cooking. | | | | know that it's good. |
| This is the transcript of an interview I conducted with | | | | Jodi: That's how we are. |
| Crystal Godfrey from the blog Everyday Food | | | | Crystal: So I just put on the recipes that I try for my |
| Storage regarding how to start using your long term | | | | own family that I know my family already likes and |
| food storage in everyday ways. She is an expert at | | | | switch it out for food storage ingredients and then I put |
| using food storage in her everyday cooking and posts | | | | it on my blog for people to see look this one DOES |
| numerous recipe ideas on her blog every week so | | | | work. So hopefully it will builds confidence that then |
| she was an excellent resource to talk to about it. | | | | they can try it with their own recipes. |
| Jodi: Hi Crystal, we just have a few questions for you | | | | Jodi: That's a really good idea. That's good to know. So |
| today. To start out, what made you start using your | | | | I'm going to have to do that with mine now. |
| food storage for your everyday cooking? | | | | Crystal: Ya so don't stress! |
| Crystal: Well, I got my food storage and I didn't want it | | | | Jodi: But I like to use yours better! So how often do |
| to just be sitting there on my shelves all the time. So | | | | you cook with your food storage? |
| what I did was I thought, well my mom actually, when I | | | | Crystal: Every day! |
| grew up, used food storage ... so I knew the basics of | | | | Jodi: Every single day? Every meal of the day? Or |
| it. I knew it could be gross so I was a little timid in trying | | | | just you try to do something? is it conscious or is it just |
| it. So I just started trying a little bit at a time and I just | | | | natural? |
| started using it. And as I started using one thing and | | | | Crystal: Now it's natural. But i would say I mean it |
| being successful at it then it gave me encouragement | | | | depends. But I would say every meal. I mean I make |
| to try other things. And it just kind of snowballed until I | | | | my own bread so at lunch we have it, breakfast if we |
| was using it every day. And then I noticed that not only | | | | have cereal or something then it has the powdered |
| was I prepared in knowing that if there WAS an | | | | milk. And then dinner would have usually you know like |
| emergency that my family would eat what I made, but | | | | milk or onions or something. I mean I use it all the time. |
| that I was also saving money, saving time, and making | | | | Jodi: All the time. I don't yet! So with bread, can you |
| fewer messes while I was at it. | | | | make good sandwiches with your bread? |
| Jodi: So kind of the key is starting small? And working | | | | Crystal: Oh yes! Oh gosh yes! |
| your way up? | | | | Jodi: Ok I'll have to get your bread recipe. |
| Crystal: Yes, definitely. Which you guys know all about! | | | | Crystal: You need a bread maker. |
| Jodi: Ya ... right. We're at the small part right now. Now | | | | Jodi: I know! Julie has one but I don't have one yet. |
| where do you buy most of your food storage | | | | Crystal: You need to look at my tips for making good |
| ingredients? | | | | bread machine bread. |
| Crystal: Now when you say food storage ingredients | | | | Jodi: Alright we'll check it out. What aspects of food |
| your talking not the three month supply? | | | | storage would you like to learn more about? Or do |
| Jodi: Yes, like the long term food ... the wheat, stuff like | | | | you just know everything? |
| that. | | | | Crystal: No I DON'T know everything! No. I think you |
| Crystal: I buy most of mine at the LDS cannery. Which | | | | can always be learning, so I think the next thing I'm |
| if you don't have one just research, I'm sure there's | | | | going to try tackling is powdered milk yogurt. Because I |
| one near you, or you can buy it online. But that's where | | | | received a recipe from one of my blog readers where |
| I buy most of my items. | | | | you can make fat free frosting. |
| Jodi: Do you have a website that you would look at | | | | Jodi: Like for cakes? |
| maybe? | | | | Crystal: Mm hmm. I think it's supposed to taste kind of |
| Crystal: ldsprovidentliving.org | | | | like a buttercream or something but then it's fat free. |
| Jodi: And you can order it online from there? | | | | Jodi: So it's healthy? |
| Crystal: Yes, you can order some things online there. | | | | Crystal: Well healthier ... I won't necessarily say healthy, |
| Jodi: Excellent. What is your favorite food storage item | | | | but healthier. If you are going to make a cookie |
| to cook with? | | | | anyway you might as well add in extra nutrition with |
| Crystal: That one's hard because I have a couple. Can | | | | wheat or something like that. |
| I give you a couple? | | | | Jodi: This is true. And you kind of said in the beginning |
| Jodi: Ok. | | | | that it's really good to start small. But is there any other |
| Crystal: Ok. My favorite time saving one is onions, | | | | advice that you'd want to share with beginners? |
| dehydrated onions. Because I hate cutting onions. | | | | Because a lot of our blog readers tend to be people |
| Jodi: Are they different from the onion flakes from the | | | | just getting started and kind of heading into the long |
| store? Or is that what they are? | | | | term food storage is a hard step. So any other words |
| Crystal: No that's pretty much what they are but | | | | of wisdom? |
| they're a lot cheaper because you are going to buy | | | | Crystal: That's really what I focus on is the beginners. |
| them in bulk. And so no longer do you have to cut | | | | So what I would say is just pick one thing that you're |
| them but you just stick them in your spaghetti sauce | | | | going to start with. And one of the things I think is |
| and then they hydrate in your spaghetti sauce. I mean | | | | easiest to start with is powdered milk. Because you |
| it saves so much time and I always have onions on | | | | don't need to have a grinder and you don't need to |
| hand. And I've even done things where I've hydrated | | | | have all these special things to use it. You can just |
| them and grilled them so they've been like In N Out | | | | start cooking with it right away. And you can start |
| Burger's have animal-style (California is where it's at) | | | | putting it in desserts like sweetened condensed milk or |
| Jodi: They have one in Utah now | | | | like evaporated milk. And that way you know it's going |
| Crystal: Yes they do! But I've even done stuff like that | | | | to taste good because it has the sugar. Your family is |
| where I've used them as an actual onion substitute not | | | | going to want to try it because it's a dessert. |
| in something and they've been delicious as well. And | | | | Jodi: That's always key in MY family. |
| probably my other favorite would be powdered milk | | | | Crystal: And then when they see that it's good then |
| because I think that is the one that people are most | | | | they'll say "Oh ok well that's good". So then I can try |
| surprised still taste good even though it has powdered | | | | this and then I can try that. And the more things you |
| milk in it. | | | | try that build your confidence the more you'll be likely |
| Jodi: So you like to kind of trick people. I've noticed that | | | | to try new things and to keep using what you already |
| on your site. | | | | know. So my motto is to always start with a dessert. |
| Crystal: I do. I like the wow factor! | | | | Because your family will try it. And as long as you |
| Jodi: So what is your very favorite recipe of all time | | | | don't tell them that there's food storage in it until after |
| that you've created? | | | | and get the "wow" factor, then they'll try it and then |
| Crystal: Oh that I've created? Probably my Twinkie | | | | you'll see that they like it and that it's possible. Once |
| surprise cupcakes. | | | | you start seeing that it actually IS possible to cook with |
| Jodi: Oh I love that one. That one was good. That was | | | | your food storage and that your family will eat it then |
| the one on the Utah's Own ... What's the contest | | | | that will give you the confidence you need to cook |
| called? | | | | with it on a daily basis. |
| Crystal: Ya it was a runner up for the Utah's Own | | | | Jodi: My kids liked the Cookie Clay Dough. |
| Downhome Cook-Off. | | | | Crystal: Oh yes. |
| Jodi: We watched it on tv, she was awesome. At the | | | | Jodi: They thought that was fun and I wrote my name |
| Utah State Fair. So how do you come up with your | | | | and they were eating all the letters thinking it's fun. So if |
| recipes? Because this is hard for me, I always like to | | | | you want to have a look at Crystal's recipes at |
| have a recipe. I can't make them up myself so I'm | | | | Everyday Food Storage, check her out at |
| always impressed with you. | | | | everydayfoodstorage.net Thanks for talking with us |
| Crystal: Well I actually don't MAKE UP most of my | | | | today Crystal. |
| recipes. The way I look at food storage is food | | | | |