Bumping this back up.

Let's hear some good quarantine, long shelf life food tips or recipes. I'm trying to balance stretching my fresh stuff out as long as possible without tapping into my LSL food too much. I bought a ton of oranges to prep for this and they're are off limits for all long as they stay pretty fresh. Fresh salad and greens are sparse these days, so I'm having to get a bit creative.

It's not fancy, but canned Hormel Beef Hash or Corned Beed Hash is pretty damned good. Fry some up and put a couple of fried eggs on top. Sure, it looks like cat food coming out of the can, but it's solid and easy. The sodium content is enough to kill any virus though - IMO.

I also made up about 20 big waffles the other day and froze those up for a rainy day. 6 - 8 minutes in the toaster oven to re-heat (when frozen). Piece of cake.

Next weekend, I'm going to make up a load of dog food. We save all of the inedible scrap meat, silver skin, tendons and fat from our venison. I freeze it up in the fall and then when I have time, turn into great chow for the pups. You don't need wild game, some butchers will give you their non-burger grind scraps.

Grind all of your scrap meat or chop way down if you don't have a grinder. COOK IT OUTSIDE - it smells horrendous. Fire up the propane burner. Add a good amount of olive oil to a large stock pot and then add your grind. Brown it down. In the meantime, cook up a boat load of brown or white rice in your kitchen. Also cook up large bags of frozen mixed veggies (corn, green beans, peas & carrots). NO ONION or GARLIC, seasonings, salt or pepper (dogs don't need that stuff). Pour the rice into the pot of browned meat and mix well. Then do the same for the veggies. Once totally mixed - it's done. Let cool completely outside. I then store it in those cheap round Glad Tupperware containers and re-freeze.

This makes a VERY rich pup food, so be careful of upset stomachs. To feed, I reduce their regular dry food by 50% and mix in 50% of my venison mix. They go CRAZY for it. My lab about strokes out.

Besides the expense from hunting, the actual food costs like $10 to make a LOT of dog food. I can stretch a normal 40 lb. bag of dry dog food out twice as long this way (~6 weeks instead of ~3). That saves like $25 - 30 month itself and is handy during social distancing and minimal dog food on the shelves.