by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
A couple of days ago a Press Preview copy the latest Lakeland catalog dropped onto my doormat and this is yet again one where there should be a number of items that should interest the readers.
Ever wanted to make your own bread from scratch, that is to say including milling your own flour? Now you can without having to send off to the United States for a grain mill.
Lakeland had a grain mill in their latest catalog and, hopefully, we shall be featuring a review of same here in due course.
Until now you basically had to get one from the States if you wanted to mill grain at home so we can but hope that this mill will remain in the Lakeland inventory. You find the grain mill on page 9 of the catalog.
Also in this new catalog, and found on page 22 and 23, are a good number of different slow cookers, also known as crock pots and the humble crock pot sure has come a long way.
Cooking in a slow cooker is a healthy and especially a very economic way to cook and roast as the cost of running one are so very low and in addition to that you have to be standing over it and watching it all the time. Start it up before you leave to work in the morning and by the time you come home at dinner time dinner is done and ready to be served.
In addition to that this latest Lakeland catalog has hundreds of different kinds of storage containers so you can really “love your leftovers”. And this is also good so for way too many leftovers are thrown into the garbage needlessly, often simply because people have no idea how to keep them and in what.
Those containers are also great for BYO lunches to work and school and a neat little container set is found on page 71 in the form of the Bento Boxes, which are a step up from the Indian stainless steel lunch pail things in that the Bento Boxes keep food warm for up to five hours.
Aside from the straight forward, so to speak, green and homesteading ideas that will be of interest to the readers of the GREEN (LIVING) REVIEW, I am sure many other items too could tickle the fancy of one or the other reader, I am sure.
So, if one of those catalogs drops onto your doormat don't discard it without having a close look at it first. I am sure you'll find something of interest and if you don't get the catalog hop over to their website and get yourself onto their mailing list.
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