Advent 2011, Day Two -

[kyburg]

Got one of these?



Soak the label off that sucker. You've got someone on your list who needs a backup for dinner someday this next year.

This is what you do.

You take an equal amount of 7 different types of beans - suggestions run from pintos to anazazi, limas to lentils. Get colorful. Get creative. Open up a recipe for 7-bean soup and get inspired.

Then fill the jar, screw the lid back on it and put either a square of newspaper or brown paper bag over the top and tie it on with some twice. Build either a label or a tag that reads:

EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLY

In case of extreme lack of anything else to eat in 2012/2013 - take the contents of this jar and...

(Put your favorite 7-bean soup recipe here.)

You can fill it to the brim with one kind of bean, if you wish - me, I like the layers.

The idea is to make this look rustic AND groomed - not fancy like some jar of cookie mix. This is dinner, dammit. Serious, serious dinner.

Have fun - and see you tomorrow!

Comments

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

Something I've done is to add the spices, etc. to make that soup or cooked bean thing - a tiny bit of salt, some dried onion flakes and celery leaf ditto, maybe thyme and marjoram, or oregano and rosemary, or... oh! garlic powder or the little freeze-dried chopped garlic bits. Put this all in your smallest ziploc bag along with the recipe...

(I also do a homemade cocoa mix, using dry milk, using a recipe that a friend who was on welfare at the time gave me. For that one, you tie a couple/few candy canes around the jar. This isn't to replace something that can stave off hunger, but it is a comfort thing, y'know?)

[moropus.livejournal.com]

That's a really good idea for people who are trying to beat the crass commercialism out of Christmas. People who just want to have a good time without killing themselves.

[joggingguy.livejournal.com]

That sauce is the same one I always get too. Yummm. And be sure to write the date on the bottom with a sharpie :-)