prairiewindmomma Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 What sounds good? There’s always a chance we might lose power, so I want to put some stuff together today and I am not craving anything. I will have a propane grill and a gas stovetop available if we lose power. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I didn’t think about power. I should probably make something too. Ugh, I have no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) Are y’all getting a storm? Fried rice in a large skillet? Fried potatoes? Edit: my ideas are for after losing power, to cook on the stove. Edited January 11 by Indigo Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 I am going to start some keto egg/bacon/veg baked stuff for dh and some sweet breads and hardboiled eggs so we have breakfast covered for a few days and I will check back. Hopefully someone has good ideas! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 Additional considerations if someone wants to advise me specifically: I have to do a weird colonoscopy prep starting tomorrow also for a week—no nuts or berries or seeded things (ground seeds ok for a few days), no red or purple foods. Dh cannot handle legumes or grains. Dairy is limited for him and a few others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faith-manor Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I usually make 3 or 4 soups/stews in advance and then if we lose power, we warm them in our camp stove. I also make breakfast burritos and cinnamon rolls. We like to have cinnamon rolls or something similar when the first big winter storm of the season hits. For my breakfast burritos, I brown cubed potatoes, diced red pepper, and onion in a skillet, then add some shredded spinach, stir till it wilts nicely, and then add the eggs, scramble it all of up (we also like garlic and red pepper flake in ours), warm the tortillas, fill, roll, and bag up for the freezer. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEmama Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 If you have a gas stove, there's really no prep necessary. I insist we will always have a gas stove in our climate (Northern New England) for food security; we lose power *a lot* and it totally reduces my anxiety knowing we can make coffee and cook almost anything (other than baking) on the stove. Prepping soup is always great, but as long as you have gas you're okay. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Chili, soup, spaghetti sauce—all in the freezer. Plus jugs of water in the freezer, too. Then you can take out the jugs and put them in the fridge to keep that cold if the power goes out, and put the foods in a cooler full of whatever ice or snow you have outside, and pull them out one by one to use for meals. They will keep milk cold for a while as wel. Also, make sure to stock bread, butter, jams, maybe scones for variety, peanut butter. Then you’re covered for breakfast and lunch. Dried fruit is good any time. Raisins, craysins, dried apricots, dried peaches, plum leather. Chips or veggie chips are a welcome salty tidbit. In my world we would make a ton ton of coffee in advance, because even cold medicinal tasting coffee is better than no coffee at all! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 13 minutes ago, MEmama said: If you have a gas stove, there's really no prep necessary. I insist we will always have a gas stove in our climate (Northern New England) for food security; we lose power *a lot* and it totally reduces my anxiety knowing we can make coffee and cook almost anything (other than baking) on the stove. Prepping soup is always great, but as long as you have gas you're okay. Yeah—this is more of a “everyone is going to all be home for a rare moment so let’s play board games and bond” moment. I want nice food either way, iykwim. Normally my kids would be scattered to various weekend activities. They may still be doing projects/work online if the power holds, but I bet I can tempt them away for a bit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Make sure you’re not overly dependent on electric appliances. Can you make coffee, open cans, and beat eggs without power? If not, plug those gaps. Get a Melitta coffee cone and some filters, an Oxo can opener, and a whisk and an egg beater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Well, in Michigan blizzard food is French toast….after all the stores are selling out of milk, bread and eggs. 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 37 minutes ago, Carol in Cal. said: Make sure you’re not overly dependent on electric appliances. Can you make coffee, open cans, and beat eggs without power? If not, plug those gaps. Get a Melitta coffee cone and some filters, an Oxo can opener, and a whisk and an egg beater. We’re good on this front. I grew up on a remote ranch where we had multi-week outages every winter after big ice storms. I am about to go dig around in the garage for our Mr Buddy heaters to keep our plumbing pipes warm if electricity goes. I wish we had a wood stove but Youngest has a severe wood smoke allergy so heat is actually our biggest concern. I still havent gotten around to getting a non-electric blower for our gas fireplace. Our solar generation today has only been 6.9kWh so there’s not enough to silo off of the grid and produce enough to do anything, and we still dont have batteries for our panel that I could fill up now to ease a gap. I also need to find our tire chains and go fill up our vehicles. Hopefully this prep is all for nothing, but if I dont do it we are going to get whammied, iykwim. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faith-manor Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 1 hour ago, Carol in Cal. said: In my world we would make a ton ton of coffee in advance, because even cold medicinal tasting coffee is better than no coffee at all! Wiser words have never been written ! 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 My favorite thing to do is to get a ton of Indian take out right before blizzards, but that works less well if we're likely to lose power. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 Ok, I am marinating chicken and shrimp for fajitas, and I will marinate some chicken thighs to grill with zucchini and I am precooking some chicken thighs for chicken and noodles (dh can have chicken + salad). I need to think about a few more meals since dh and kids all have Monday off, but I am making progress…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 Off to Costco for gas, meds, chocolate. I will pick up some 5 gallon jugs of water while I am out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 My costco is out of eggs, kale, and organic buttersquash and is selling 6’ tall propane tanks so Costco thinks we are doomed. 😂 Kale and wine are always big pre-storm sellers. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 (edited) The lady in front of me got the last of the squash. She’s buying 10 lbs of coffee. Clearly y’all are all in agreement about the coffee concerns. Edited February 1 by prairiewindmomma 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 1 hour ago, prairiewindmomma said: My costco is out of eggs, kale, and organic buttersquash and is selling 6’ tall propane tanks so Costco thinks we are doomed. 😂 Kale and wine are always big pre-storm sellers. Mine hasn’t had Power Greens or any kale since October. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 We don't generally lose power in a blizzard, but have had many days of a rush grocery run ahead of a blizzard which might prevent shopping for 5 days. I tend to just make sure we have some basic meals with ingredients like greens, carrots, potatoes, meat, milk, bread, eggs, cheese, PB, bananas, dried beans, and frozen pizza 🙂 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popmom Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I’m living vicariously through y’all. No blizzard here since ‘93. 🙂 This all sounds exciting! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momof4sweetkids Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 This is our second year living in a place where we lose power. We were living off peanut butter sandwiches and snack bars without power. Thankfully power is back on now but it's interesting to read this and have more ideas! We didn't prep firewood over the summer, lesson learned... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovinmyboys Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I love a good snow day in the house with board games! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faith-manor Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 We have the wood boiler going with a frolicking fire so we have decided that for dinner, Mark is going to make buffalo chicken. We have these evil rack thingies we can use inside the boiler to make fast grilled items. He set aside a couple of prices of apple wood for the occasion. If we have to face 50 mph wind and 8" of snow plus a 1/4" ice on the roads, then we are going to eat fun!! I have blue cheese dressing and celery sticks, and I am going to make chocolate chip scones before any chance of power outage occurs. He has homemade ice cream setting up in the freezer. Bring it on! 😂 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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