Re: homemade jerky

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At 06:43 PM 9/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>Dear list members,

>

>Thank you all for your suggestions for my hypoglycemic sons snack. I made

>jerky with round stake, fermented soy sauce and sea salt. I will add cheese

>with it and we will see what happens.

>

>I am figuring out ways to keep fresh proteins to last:

>1) freeze a bottle of filtered water the night before and include it in with

>the protein. 2) Maybe I will try freezing the protein and sending it to

>school; it should thaw by lunch time.

I sent sausages to school with my daughter when she had

access to a microwave (yeah, I know, microwaves, but hey, it's a hot lunch).

I just used a freezer lunch bag with a cold blue-ice block: they DO keep

things cool all day. But if you have a kid that likes cold hot dogs or

some other sausage (I did, as a kid) that works. Hot dogs aren't exactly

NT, unless you make them, but they are protein.

My Mom used to freeze bags of lunch meat (or any sliced meat that tastes

good cold) and put it in my lunch, so your idea should work. This was

Los Angeles in 90 degree weather, with no ice block.

Also, I just picked up a Thermos wide-mouth lunch thing for my

child. I forgot about those. Mom used to have hot soup in them

for us: it actually stayed hot til lunch time. I haven't tried it yet.

Target had stainless wide-mouth thermoses on sale this week: they look

great! Not plastic, and unbreakable!

I also picked up two beef hearts: they were $1.29/lb, no bones,

no fat -- easy to dehydrate. They are dehydrating now! So far

so good. Beef hearts are too low-fat to work by themselves

as a lunch, but maybe combined with something. Or made

into pemmican. I'm playing around with the idea of adding

some cocoa powder to melted coconut oil, ghee, coconut,

and chopped nuts with a teeny bit of sweetener or dried

fruit, and making " chocolate " to go with the jerkey.

Heidi