Which dried foods are good for our long-term stockpile? どの乾物・ドライフードが長期備蓄に適しているのか？ First of all, if I’m being totally upfront, dried foods can end up costing a lot of money. But if you’re stocking up on high-calorie food with a long shelf life, for emergencies, dried food is a good way to go. If you start buying […]
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Which pasta and dry noodles are best for our long-term emergency stockpile? どちらのパスタと麺類が災害用長期備蓄に適しているのか？ Pasta and noodles aren’t everybody’s absolute favorite, but most people like them. Almost everyone can eat pasta and noodles without problems. Even picky eaters like them well enough. We don’t need to make homemade pasta and noodles from flour; we can simply
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Flour for our long-term emergency stockpile? 災害用長期備蓄に小麦粉 There are many ways to use flour: bread, pasta, noodles, cookies, crackers, cakes, cereals, etc. But do you expect you’ll be able to bake any of these examples in an emergency? But if we find ourselves in a prolonged, long-term emergency, we might miss eating bread. That’s
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Mochi for our long-term emergency stockpile 災害用長期備蓄にお餅 You may have seen mochi in the freezer section of your local grocery store. Everybody here in the United States thinks mochi is a sweet dessert, like mochi ice cream or daifuku, which is filled with sweet bean paste. For Japanese people, mochi has a long history, having
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Rice for our long-term emergency stockpile. 災害用長期備蓄にお米 It’s safe to say that rice is the most important food for Japanese people. That’s why I picked rice as my first choice for emergency food. Probably many other cultures feel the same way about rice that Japanese people do. But I am in the U.S. now,
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