A descriptive look at traveling and full-timing with our second RV, a fifth wheel toyhauler.
Laura and Sasha started this adventure in April of 2005
for a two week vacation in a truck camper.
Living Off the Grid
Can We Do It?
Wherever We Park It, That is Where We Are:
If you have a question, please send us an email: Email@Laura-n-Sasha.com
This is going to be slightly different from any of the other pages. I am going to put a couple of recipes here that I got from others, plus some of my own, and give you approximate amounts of the food stuff/fuel/other stuff that I think is important for living off the grid. I know that the Mormons do this sort of thing in case of the "end of the world" scenario, but we are doing it so that less time is spent at the grocery store and more time is spent on fun things.
Recipe from Ellie Hamilton on Dehydrated Pea Soup:
6 cups dry split peas
12 potatoes
12 carrots
1 bunch celery
4 onions
2 bulbs garlic
6 cans diced rutabaga including liquid
Water to almost cover
1-2 tablespoons liquid smoke flavor
Cook all till soft, then mash with potato masher.
It needed stuff. I added salt to taste (a lot), probably 3
tablespoons granulated garlic (honest), about 2 cups turnip
greens pureed in blender; finally, about half a cup of Dijon
mustard made it perfect.
Dehydrating
soup: 5 trays in the dehydrator for today, more in the pot
keeping cold on the porch, and a couple big containers in
the freezer. To dehydrate any kind of food: Spread on sheets
-- cookie sheets, bake in slow oven, about 150-200*, until
dry; dehydrator trays, plug in, process till done. It takes
4-12 hours depending on the food.
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While this sounds like a great recipe, Sasha
has the worry about how messy it would be, and the energy
cost of making it. If WinCo has this type of soup already
dehydrated, I think it would be better to buy it rather than
make it.
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This is the list so far, I have
broken it down to breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks rather
than just a list of stuff. As breakfast is the most
important meal of the day, we want to make sure we have all
the listed ingredients to make it as healthy as possible.
| Categories | Supplies | Amount Needed | Amount Have |
| Food | Oatmeal | ||
| (Breakfast) | Oat Bran | ||
| Wheat Berries | |||
| Dried Berries | |||
| Dried Apples | |||
| Dried Peaches | |||
| Flaxseed Meal | |||
| Coffee | |||
| Tea | |||
| Sugar | |||
| Hot Chocolate | |||
| Honey | |||
Obviously, this page needs more to it. I will see if I can get Sasha to make a list of the things he makes most often, and we will put the recipes up. AND, if you have a great recipe that you would like to share, please send me an email, and I will put it on this page.
THANKS!