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    I am a great grandma and while I am not going to be doing actual "wilderness" survival, I AM going to be moving to a 120+ acre farm with my daughter, SIL, and two grandchildren to live with my SIL's parents. If that's not survival, I don't know what is!! lol No, just joking, I get along very well with my SIL and his parents..........now. Ask me again in a year.......or maybe even 6 months.
    The whole idea of this was get back to basics, home school the kids, grow our own food, and put it up. We talked through each method of preserving food and decided dehydrating was the most economical, space saving, and if we lose power in the winter thru storms or ice pulling the lines down or God forbid, something happens like an EMP and we ALL lose power, dehydrated food won't thaw and spoil. Wonder how difficult it would be to dehydrate milk?


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    Welcome home. Dehydrated milk is easy peasy. Only three steps are required. Drive to store, take off shelf, pay for powdered milk. Dehydrated water is a bit more difficult (queue up the obligatory can of dehydrated water).

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    Quote Originally Posted by penster1947 View Post
    Wonder how difficult it would be to dehydrate milk?
    Hello and welcome.

    Milk is very difficult to preserve naturally which is why we have cheese and butter. They were the historical ways of preserving dairy.

    The very first product which was canned and offered for widespread sale to the public was evaporated milk! There was an instant drop in the infant mortality rate and less need for each family to have their own cow or two, allowing the population to move into the areas of the upper mid-west and the dry areas of the west.

    If you wish to preserve large scale foodstuffs for a large family then canning is the way to go. That has been proven over and over through the years. Some foods do not can well and you will need to use other methods, and getting completely away from frozen food, especially meat, is very difficult so you just have to learn to deal with it.

    There is no one method that will work for everything. Be flexible.
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    Hello and welcome from Pennsylvania.

    I can meats and they last a long time, I am planning in canning some seafood as well one of this days, vegetables are great canned, and you can even canned cooked food, just follow the tried and true recipes in the canning books.

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