Stockpiling beyond an extra can of something...

**Thevail** · 05-17-2010, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by Grainlady

Tomato Powder…

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Tomato Powder

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Try a small jar to see how you like it, and how many things you can use it in.

By using tomato powder I can eliminate a number of canned tomato products in home food storage. I supplement tomato powder with dehydrated and frozen homegrown tomatoes. You can stuff an incredible amount of dehydrated tomatoes into a quart jar – for efficient food storage.

Benefit: it lasts indefinitely, and the only ingredient in the product is “TOMATO”, for those of you who are avoiding high-fructose corn sweeteners in tomato products, or want to make something sodium-free.

I store it in the refrigerator in a jar with a screw-top lid to prevent the powder from caking (there are no anti-caking ingredients in it). A refrigerator is a dry environment due to the frost-free function. I also place a silicon “pillow” (recycled from a nutritional supplement) in the jar of tomato powder to absorb any moisture from opening it to use from the jar.

Tomato Paste: for thick tomato paste mix 3 parts water and 1 part powder.

Tomato Sauce: 4 parts water and 1 part powder.

Pizza Sauce: 3 t. tomato powder + 3 T. water. Add-ins: balsamic vinegar, sweetener of choice (I use honey or agave nectar), spices (Italian Spice Mix), use your imagination….

Add it to soups, color and flavor pasta, tortillas and wraps. I use it to make BBQ and spaghetti sauce. Even a fairly descent replacement for ketchup.

You can also make your own tomato powder.

How to:
Tomato Powder - Dehydrator - 390224 - Recipezaar

How to Make and Use Delicious Tomato Powder | eHow.com

This stuff works!! And it 's really helping in an unexpected way.. It's saving me so much space!

**savvy_sniper** · 07-06-2011, 09:34 AM

I am bumping this thread up. Lots of good information. GEE I miss grainlady!

**wanderlusting** · 07-06-2011, 10:03 AM

thanks for bumping this Mary. I miss grain lady too

**NikoSan999** · 07-06-2011, 07:47 PM

Careful ladies, I started a thread once about who do we miss and it got pulled. Just saying...

**shp1055** · 07-07-2011, 09:14 AM

Does anyone know what happened to Grainlady, if she's ok?

**dekabyenoh** · 07-23-2011, 02:29 AM

The whole idea of stockpiling is going a bit south for me. I recently became single. Now I have lots of pantry food, but am really barely going through it. I often have more food than I can actually manage. So, it's nice to have an extra large bottle of cooking oil, a couple extra pounds of butter, rice and beans. A closet full spaghetti sauce, tuna, may, ketchup, mustard, flour, tomatoes, beans and pasta. Stock up on tissue and toliet paper and light bulbs, but beyond that, it's more than I can honestly stockpile for a year and actually go through.

**thefrug** · 07-23-2011, 03:22 PM

As long as the food is in a cool dark place it can stay good well past the "use by" date. So I wouldn't worry about not being able to go thru it fast enough.
Have you considered stocking up on panties, bras, socks, office supplies,duct tape,tarps, have a tool box, all those sorts of things? Are/ will you be able to have clean drinking water in case something happens and none comes out of the tap?Have an alternative method of transportation in case gas gets so high that you can't really afford it? You never know *shrugs* What about for any pets?
Do have a backpack to fill in case you have to leave your place for some reason? Leaks of all kinds of chemicals happen all the time in places.