pandemic

Stay The Fuck Home Make Your Own Nut Butters & Plant-based Milk Edition

Along with toilet paper, one of the first things to disappear from the shelves in grocery stores was nut butter and milk. For many years now, I’ve been making my own nut butters and when in need I will also make my own oat or cashew milk. Heck I’ve even made my own soy milk. All of these things are really easy to make AND a lot cheaper cost wise than buying the store bought versions. To make nut butters you will need either a food processor or a blender, though I strongly suggest a food processor, only because it is easier to get the nut butter out of the container. For plant-based milk you will need a blender.

Below are some YouTube videos and recipe links.

Nut Butters

Minimalist Baker https://minimalistbaker.com/how-to-make-nut-butter/

Simply Quinoa

Skinny Taste https://www.skinnytaste.com/how-to-make-nut-butter/

Downshiftology

How to make almond butter.


And if you want to change it up, here is a video on how to make Nutella!

Plant-based Milk

Sustainably Vegan

Simply Vegan Blog https://simpleveganblog.com/9-easy-plant-milk-recipes/

One Green Planet https://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/make-creamy-nutritious-plant-based-milk-home-ingredients/

The Green Creator

The Edgy Veg

The Whole Food Plant-based Cooking Show

Stay The Fuck Home Shop Your Pantry, Fridge and Freezer Edition

We all have those items in our pantry that we bought ages ago and forgot about. A can of palm of hearts, a box of chana masala mix, that box of gluten free macaroni, that spice mix that you were going to make a dish with… and you can’t remember what it was, the can of pineapple rings about to expire… you all get it. A few of us will also have a few staples such as rice, few cans of beans, tomatoes and some tomato paste. Heck there might even be some flour in there.

I am trying to keep our grocery shopping to a minimum. Because of that we will be shopping our pantry, fridge and freezer to stretch all of what we have to hopefully keep us fed for the next couple weeks. The less we are out, the less likely we will catch COVID-19.

Below are some links to fun YouTube videos on how to shop your own pantry or make recipes with what you have in your fridge. Enjoy and share your yummy dishes with me!

Stay The Fuck Home The Canning Edition

During times like this, it is handy to have certain skills, we’ve covered breadmaking and now this post will have some links on how to can/preserve food. Many of us will have grandparents who lived through the Depression and knowing how to be creative with food staples was part of what helped them survive. One thing that helped was stretching out fresh produce, by canning them. It’s a skill we need to bring back. That way, when food hoarding begins, we will already have our own stockpile of foods we prepared ourselves.

Below are some links that will show you how easy it is to preserve your own food.

Stay The Fuck Home The Bread Making Edition

When this all began, there was a wave of panic shopping that cleared the shelves of toilet paper, disinfectant everything and bread. We didn’t participate in any of the chaos. In fact I stood back, shaking my head in confusion, wondering why the fuck are you hoarding toilet paper? Shouldn’t you be buying non-perishable or shelf-stable foods? Our cupboards are always full of staples and canned goods. I have lots of flours and dried beans. I also grew up with a mother and grandmothers who practiced buying 2 of something when it’s on sale. They also knew how to preserve food and bake bread. Thankfully, I paid attention. Over the next few posts I am going to have helpful information on how to bake bread, cook dried beans and preserve. A series of homesteading posts if you will.

Currently, one of my favourite channels on YouTube is Glen & Friends. This channel focuses on easy to follow recipes and on Sunday’s post Depression Era recipes. Currently Glen is posting Pandemic focuses recipes, where the content focuses on using what you have in your cupboards and fridge. Glen also has several videos on how to make bread, including no knead bread. This type of recipe is for those who are new to bread making. Below is a link to that video.

If you are a little more adventurous and want to learn how to make your own sour dough starter I have written a blog post about that and the process of making sour dough bread. Click here.

Sour dough can be a time consuming process. If you want the shorter version, Glen & Friends also have a video for that.

If you want to get extra fancy, this channel has a play list you will like.

I go back and forth between using a bread machine and making sourdough from scratch. I gotta tell you, two of the things, I am really grateful that I own right now are three appliances, my breadmaker, Instant Pot and the pasta maker. Once people clued in that they couldn’t eat toilet paper, they started hoarding dried pasta as well. Below are a few breadmaker recipes, for those who have or who are going to buy a bread maker.

You can also do sour dough in the breadmaker.

Heck you can even make dessert breads in a breadmaker.

And pizza dough and doughs for rolls.