One of the things that we have come to realize is that all the convenience foods we would normally buy can be made at home for a fraction of the cost.
Some things like tomato products are not easily made at home and the processing/packaging cost exceed any savings we would realize by trying to do it at home.
We have recently purchased two books to help us and they are definitely at two separate levels. One has the label already prepared - you just need to copy onto labels and apply, and the other is more advanced but still super easy (see reading list for these books).
Testing the products after they have settled a bit has been fun and easy. We made up scrambled eggs and ham the other day and while the egg was somewhat granular, as if the egg had been cooked with too much milk and chopped finely, it was edible and tasty with some cheese overtop.
This was a dehydrated egg product and freeze-dried ham in a jar; quantity for 4 people at 2/3 c. servings. Easy and improvable by adding ingredients.
Today we bought new Russian weather cloaks from surplus for our packs. Each makes a lean-to type shelter or if snapped together a 2-person shelter. If we had 3-4 the shelter increases in size. My partner was impressed by my find and was adamant to "buy 2". Yea, EBay.
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