Here's my latest food experiment: Hoosier Hill sour cream powder

Last winter, when I started prepping for van life, Amazon had a sale on "ReadyMeal" retort meals, so I had bought a lot. Frankly, they've all been "meh", so I decided to buy something to pump 'em up.

Here's a "Santa Fe style steak" pouch beside the sour cream container:


closeup of what the powder looks like:


both prepared, ready to eat, on a (store bought) tortilla:


It definitely improved the taste, and added a bit of protein & calcium.
As some of the Amazon reviews mention, there was a moderately odd after taste, but I did not find it bad.
It was easy to prepare just one serving worth, so is ideal for non-refrigerator folks.

It costs about $14 for a pound at Amazon (around $12 if bought as part of a 5 item subscribe & save order).
There were cheaper options, but I like the square space optimizing container, and had wanted to try a Hoosier Hill product.

In a few days, I'll take another picture beside a better scale item and showing the "Nutrition Facts" label.

As I mentioned, I am doing a month-long cell-only trial with T-Mobile.  No data.

Someone said that you can check your Gmail even without have Internet service.

Is this true?  It doesn't sound right... Google is internet.  Am I missing something?

Not mine.
https://springfield.craigslist.org/cto/d...75006.html

https://easttexas.craigslist.org/rvs/d/1...42812.html

Not mine.

I've been lookin' at this off and on for a month.

1994 Dodge 1 ton work van 360cu,  automatic,  221k, newer ladder/roof rack, original owner.

It looks like it has two recessed areas in the front bumper.  Maybe pullin' or towing points?  
IT'S RED!    I LIKE RED  

It's sitting in the guys shop and doesn't look  wrecked/dented & the paint looks good
The owner sez it runs and drives great, good tires and brakes.

I'm thinking that with a 360 I should be able to drag just about anything that I'd ever want to down the road with it.  Flat roof with rack in place for a solar system.  No conversion van add ons taking up interior space, the rear ac/heat in the Safari is nice though.  The Dodge is probably big enough that I will not need a T.T..  With a roof rack and cargo carrier I sould be O.K

I spoke to a loan officer at my Credit Union last week and as long as I stay under $10,000 and 250k miles I'm good.  I told her I was looking at mid 1980s as the oldest but mainly 1990s or newer and she said the age wouldn't matter as much as the condition of the vehicle.

So what do ya'll think?
Be gentle....remember that I'm a Delicate Southern Flower....Older Than Dirt and known to Shoot Folks in the Butt.........With a Good Reason of course 

Delicate Southern Flower is Where Friends & Family often say " OMG! Whatever R You Up To Now!! "

Jewell Ann

I feel like what I did these last 12 months was to complete a circuit.

Left Grand Junction last Thanksgiving and after spending the winter in the desert of AZ...visited a few parks in NV and UT.  

In April I had a few upgrades done to the RV, and then departed for the “East Coast Friends and Family Tour”.   6000+ miles later, returned west to Albuquerque to look at some properties.

Returned to Grand Junction to get another round of repairs (primarily nuisance items...except for smoking my brakes on the way in).    

Which brings me full circle.

I plan to spend a fair amount of time by Lake Mead once I leave here next week.    

I’d like to hook up with people looking to do Canada this coming summer...(Vancouver to PEI?). 

See ya all in the desert!

It is down to $44 from $53. I pd $53 just before Hurricane Florence came through, now they are on sale through tomorrow for 30% off.  Oh well but maybe someone wil benefit.

I actually like mine, its the no air compressor model but has two 12v outlets and a 2.1 amp usb connection. The 17 amp hour SLA battery took about 2 hrs to fully charge and then I left it on another 6 to make sure. I checked it a week later, its at 13.1 volts (reading off the booster cables)., so I presume its at 100% SOC. Seems a bit high but that could be the multimeter as well.

Anyway, if it helps someone, great.

I have been using Cricket wireless since going Nomad. It is a prepaid cellular company that uses AT&T towers. I have a $60 ($55 with autopay) a month plan with unlimited talk/ text/ data. It has deprioritazation at 22gb of data I believe. I have never experienced a slow down on my phone and have often gone over the 22gb.

Cricket is now allowing folks with unlimited to add hotspot tethering to their phone for an additional $10 a month. The tethered devices can use up to 10gb of high speed data and are then throttled to 128kbps.

So with autopay, for $65 a month, on AT&T towers, is unlimited data and 10gb tethered hot spot usage.


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Some folks seem to be unaware of the standard NFS signage. This is what we have in the Six Rivers National Forest. Burn permits are always required. You get them at the local NFS office and they are free. It is a way to make sure you know the fire regulations in the area. When one type of burning is banned a line is seen across the activity.

The activities are a campfire, BBQ with coals and a propane BBQ.




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https://driving.ca/subaru/forester/auto-...-treatment
1998 Subaru gets the shock treatment as a ‘self-charging’ EV
87-year-old Vancouver mechanic believes he has the answer to range anxiety with his home-made system

Joe Mizsak wears a lab coat like a professor from another era. His is blue instead of white and he looks very much the part of a learned old man. He should as he holds a U.S. patent from 1963 for a safety device that all modern cars have today: the brake wear indictor with a dash light shining bright red when a sensor on the brake lining detects problems.
This very clever Joe was also the first in Canada to build a practical natural gas-powered car. And then there is the Retro Electro: an all-electric 1958 Chevrolet Apache pickup truck he put together for Steam Whistle Brewery to deliver beer in a very green way.
Now Joe, who is originally from Hungary, believes he has found a practical solution for converting regular ‘lunch bucket’ gas-guzzlers into fully electric vehicles.
The big difference with his system is that his electric car is self-charging and can be plugged into any 110-volt household electrical outlet for additional charging.

• This All Wheel Drive 1998 Subaru Forest with air conditioning and five-speed manual transmission has been converted to an all-electric vehicle.
  
• A simple battery charger purchased from Canadian Tire using plug-in home power charges the batteries when the vehicle is not in use.
  
• A readily available digital screen provides information on all functions of the electrified Subaru Forester.
  
• The original five-speed manual transmission has been retained so the electric motor doesn’t waste battery power.
  
• This inexpensive charge meter provides information on the state of the batteries which are charged individually through solenoids.
  
• The batteries and bank of solenoids weigh less than the full tank of gasoline they replace.
  
• The Subaru Forester looks completely unaltered with the original panels in place.