cheese, shelf stable (no fridge)

[Kaylee]

The last three times I've made this, I've used powdered milk. Without a fridge, it's too much hassle to keep anything but small expensive bottles in my van.
The good news is, there was no degradation in taste. I couldn't tell the difference.

Next, I cracked open a couple of #2 cans of freeze dried veggies: Green Peas, Sweet Yellow Corn.
Their main contribution is improving the health factor.

Here's what the ingredients look like before adding water:

I've now made this enough that I measured the pasta, just guesstimated the milk powder & veg, then added enough water to somewhat more than cover everything else.

Here's the final ready-to-eat:

I was down to just one picture left in my camera, so that doesn't really showcase the veggies as well as the above pic. The quantity is somewhere in between.

(That's for Queen, to prove it can be even healthier! )

If I have enough time later today, I'll upload even-more-cheese options pics.

[Kaylee]

Completely forgot about spray cheese!

Here's Dollar General's house brand (front of can beside cheesified-crackers, nutrition & ingredients label):


Here's a closeup of the cheese deployed on a (low sodium) Triscuits cracker:


The generic brands cost about two and a half dollars for about a half pound of, um, cheese food "product".
Name brand is about a dollar or so more.
I can't tell the difference.

Shelf life is about one year. I have not yet stress tested much beyond that.
One big plus is that you can start a can, and it auto-seals (i.e. the product hardens in place & plugs the nozzle), and keeps very well. I started this particular can about 3 months before I finished it.

Nutrition is... "meh".
Morale factor is decent to excellent, depending on your nutrition & cheese orientations.

There's a small selection of different "flavors", which pretty much taste the same, to me.
One possible exception is Bacon infused.
I have one can I bought (on sale) last fall, and plan to open it, soon. I'll report back on it.
I plan to try it in grilled cheese.

In general, I don't stockpile this, and usually only use about one can per one to two years.
If I see it on sale, I'll buy a single can, though now that I'm a dweller I might bump that up to two.

[maki2]

In the days before electricity and refrigeration the people who were doing the "European tour" would stop in Italy and buy wheels of parmesan cheese for their travels as it keeps without refrigeration.

[highdesertranger]

do you want to hear a story about cheese in a can bomb. sure you do.

so we were traversing the Mojave Trail from east to west. we stopped for lunch, it was so long ago I really can't remember exactly where.

I had the tail gate of my truck open and we were using it like a serving table. the truck had a carpet kit that was about 1 foot above the tail gate.

my girl friend and I were eating cheese in a can and crackers. so there we where happy as can be enjoying the time and place. one of us sat the can of cheese on top of the carpet kit.

well somehow the can of cheese got knocked off the carpet kit and hit the corner of the tail gate just right. KABOOM I kid you not that can blew up. it was like a claymore mine, everything in it's path got doused in cheese shrapnel. I turned right before it hit so I had it on one side of my body from boots to hair. girl friend saw it falling and tried to grab it, she got a full frontal, same thing from boots to hair. there was a semi circle around the back of my truck where everything got nailed. it exploded in the direction away from the truck everything in that semi circle for about 15 feet out had cheese on it. bushes, rocks, us, everything.

so standing there looking at each other we starting laughing uncontrollably. girlfriend grabbed a cracker and scooped some cheese off the side of my face. needless to say that stuff is super hard to clean off of hair and clothes without a shower and washing clothes. it's super oily. I think you could do a lube job with it.

highdesertranger

oh almost forgot the Mojave Trail(Road)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Road

[Kaylee]

do you want to hear a story about cheese in a can bomb. sure you do.

Y'all need a "LOL" button!

Thanks & she sounds like a Keeper.

[highdesertranger]

no keeper I should have added that was at least 30 years ago. LOL highdesertranger

[Kaylee]

no keeper I should have added that was at least 30 years ago. LOL highdesertranger

Ah, but was she worth keeping?!?
A sense of humor in the face of a cheese bomb, is definitely one of the true signs of awesome... at least, it should be up here in the Land of Cheeseheads.
(aka Wisconsin)

P.S. Twice I've had the privilege of inadvertently becoming involved with Keepers, but have always known that my own Path led in a different direction.
I still feel privileged to have fallen for/by even one awesome person.
You clearly still have warm thoughts about Lady Cheese, even three decades later. That's a Good Thing in my book.

[Kaylee]

Just received a "CamelCamelCamel" Amazon price tracking alert that Augason Farms Freeze Dried Shredded Mozzarella Cheese is at a new historical low of $33.82 for a 1 lb 14.19 oz #10 Can:
https://www.amazon.com/Augason-Farms-Fre...01MYAJ41C/

I don't have the money for it, but would definitely buy it if I did.
Cheese rulz!

[Cammalu]

So funny HDR!


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[highdesertranger]

I would never speak in a negative way about any former lady friends. actually I have fond memories of them. highdesertranger