Posts by allie

Thanks again! I will check out the group and maybe get a separate email for it.  That's what I had to do with another active group.  Changing the subject line isn't hard but I forget to do that myself...

I didn't even think of canning food for him. Now I feel really silly!  I know how to can vegetables and sauces so could easily learn to do more.  I have a pressure canner and lots of jars.  That's a great idea! ...

I saw dry ice yesterday at a local grocery store.  Theysell it by the pound and I think it was $1.19 but they were only recommending a day or so in a cooler.  Having never used dry ice, I don't know what kind of life...

  Brooke, that's why we haven't really given a lot of though to the convenience foods.  He would not touch ramen with a 10 foot pole.  He would eat CBRD ravioli but knows it's not any healthier than eating fast...

Those are reasons why he hasn't already taken my electric buffet ranges on the road.  When he was in the construction/refurbish side of the business, they would take along a small grill and cook burgers, brats, and stuff like...

The son and I had braised oxtails in a tomato sauce with carrots served over brown rice.

I'll check out those burners and talk to the people at the store.  I have boiled in the FoodSaver bags since that mishap. It takes more than one little problem like that to scare me away!  I was just hoping there might be a...

Where do you get these boiler bags? I have reheated pulled pork and stuff like that in the Food Saver bags dropped in a pot of boiling water, and it worked well every time except one when there must have been a tiny hole in the bag! I...

He drives an extended cab Sonoma and the front is packed with work stuff.  The back has a capper and has a generator, large truck utility box, and more tools and such for work.  He might be able to squeeze one of those...

My SO travels for his job. It's typical for him to be gone for a few days to a week at a time, every week. During this time, he does a lot of driving each day and it's a different town and motel every night. When he eats at home, he...