It’s been a long time since I’ve made Hamburger Helper… In fact, the last time was probably back when I was in the Navy and living in New London – that would be the late 80’s for those keeping track.
‘Burger Helper was a staple when I was growing up, which is probably why I’ve shunned the stuff over the years; connotations of hard times. But I have some Keystone canned ground beef in my long-term food stores that I need to rotate through and they had a sale on ‘Burger Helper “cheeseburger” and “stroganoff” running at my local grocers…
So tonight’s meal is post-apocalypse beef stroganoff – made with shelf stable canned ground beef, reconstituted powdered milk, and a box of talking-glove meat-mix… The only thing I didn’t use was one of the water filters, my camp stove, or the hexamine fuel to make it a truly SHTF meal.
Being former military and a bachelor for most of my adult life, I’ve eaten a lot of sketchy meals – and accordingly I’ve learned a lot of tricks to make pretty much anything palatable… For example, dill weed in small amounts is a savory flavor enhancer – so if you want to turn up the savory in a dish use a pinch of dill.
Ultimately my evening meal was probably indistinguishable from any other box meal and if I didn’t mention it no one would know it was all made with ingredients pushing five years old.
It’s nice to know that when the end times come I’ll still get a nice warm meal on occasion. 😀
Listening to "80's Love" by Moonrunner83