4mo ago

What's your "weird" prep?

What is your unconventional prep. Something that you think is uncommon or weird, but will always keep extras of?

Personally I've been really big on keeping canned pumpkin on hand. While it's not the most nutrient dense food around it has the most fiber out of any canned item I can find and adds a new taste to everything. Goes great in mashed potatoes and soup.

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Uncommon because I don't hear it being pushed a lot for food, but oats. They're cheap (about the same price point as many beans, about $0.60-$1/lb), but are such a fantastic, well rounded food. Protein, fiber, carbs, are good for blood sugar and cholesterol, and can be eaten alone or used as a filler for breads, meatloafs, and other baked goods. They also don't take as much water to cook as dried beans do.
- What's the cook time on oats? I've heard they can be a pain to proccess.
  Also how's the shelf life?
  
  Sealed in mylar with O2 absorbers, steel cut oats easily have a 15 year shelf life. Cook time, maybe 5-10 minutes. Uncut oats can do 25+ years, but they aren't as much "pull out and cook" as steel cut are.
I have a ton of coffee filters. Way more than what I have coffee for.
- Coffee filters are super underrated - they're also perfect for covering food in the microwave when your power is out and you're running off a portable power station (check out GearScouts if you need to compre options with good LFP batteries).
- At the very least they can be used for first level water filtration in a system. They'd breakdown quickly though
  
  I thought so too but plain cold water doesn't seem to flow thru them very well. However, it would need to be then boiled anyway so might as well start by boiling it first and then filtering it.
I'll be making a post about this soon, but one of my weirder preps is that my partner and I pre-write obituaries for each other annually.
Among many other scenarios that we have planned out, we have put substantial time into ensuring that when one of us passes on, the hard work for the other is done.
It may seem morbid, but my partner and I find it sweet, all the things we get to say about each other. We usually have a cry, a laugh, and get a deeper appreciation of each other when we're done.

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