prepper noun mainly North American
a person who believes a catastrophic disaster or emergency is likely to occur in the future and makes active preparations for it, typically by stockpiling food, ammunition, and other supplies.
Dedicated to SARS-CoV-2 for helping the world understand microbiology in a really direct way.
I’m just not that keen to have an intimate relationship with SARS-CoV-2.
Just letting you know I don’t have a stockpile of dunny roll. This morning as I finished a roll of toilet paper I literally had an anal sphincter clenching moment as I looked around for another roll.
For non-Australians, dunny means toilet.
Dunny roll is toilet paper
For those people though who feel we’re in the end times (not me by the way), here’s a meal made with no fresh food as an example of what you can do with tinned food.
To the surprise of many, I’m not cooking with spam (because I had some for breakfast anyway). I’m using tinned corned beef, curry powder, tinned peas, tinned corn, and tinned mushrooms in butter.
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Recipe
It’s important to read the recipe before cooking because the timing of processes needs to be understood.
- Tinned corned beef
- Tinned peas
- Tinned beans
- Tinned corn
- Tinned mushrooms in butter sauce
- Curry powder
- Whole black peppercorns
- Coconut cream
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Open the tins of beans, peas, and corn and empty the contents into a colander and keep the liquid in a cup for later.
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Open the tinned corned beef and empty into a frying pan and start to sauté on a low heat until it starts to brown.
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While the corned beef is cooking, put some whole black peppercorns into a mortar and grind them with a pestle.
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Add some curry powder to the corned beef and stir through.
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Open the tinned mushrooms in butter sauce and add to the curry corned beef and stir through.
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Add the drained beans, peas, and corn and stir through.
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Keep cooking until the corned beef begins to stick to the frying pan and then add the liquid from the tinned beans, peas, and corn and simmer to reduce.
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Add in the coconut cream and simmer to reduce to a consistency you want.
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Turn off the heat and then stir through the ground black pepper.
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Transfer the curry tinned corned beef, beans, peas, corn, and mushrooms to a bowl.
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Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
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Eat the meal.
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Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
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Write the recipe.
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Write the blog post.
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Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Disclaimer
I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.
Photographs
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Tins of corned beef, peas, corn, beans, and mushrooms. 
Prepper meal: Curry tinned corned beef, beans, peas, corn, and mushrooms. 
Close up. Prepper meal: Curry tinned corned beef, beans, peas, corn, and mushrooms.
Questions and answers
Are you a prepper?
No, but I am keen on redundancy. I always like to have a backup. I had enough Prepper meal: Curry tinned corned beef, beans, peas, corn, and mushrooms for two nights 😂
This isn’t really health food, is it?
Prepper meal: Curry tinned corned beef, beans, peas, corn, and mushrooms sounds healthful, doesn’t it?
Well, no. It’s high in carbohydrates from the beans and high in saturated fat from the corned beef coconut cream, and butter. I have no idea if tinned vegetables retain much fibre either.
How many times a week could you eat this?
Well, I made enough Prepper meal: Curry tinned corned beef, beans, peas, corn, and mushrooms for two meals. I reckon I could do it a couple of nights a week if necessary.
Final thoughts
- Have you thought through your meal planning if you don’t have fresh food if you’re in quarantine or in isolation?
- What alternatives would you like to corned beef?
- Are there any other tinned vegetables you’d use?
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I’m not a prepper but living in Florida where hurricane season lasts for 6 months, my pantry is always stocked. I don’t have corned beef but when I was young, my mother mixed it with mayo and horseradish and made lunch sandwiches.
Karen, when I lived in Darwin in the Top End we had an annual preparation for tropical cyclones and we’d stock up on food and essentials. I love corned beef sandwiches with mayonnaise and horseradish.
This one made me smile Gary! Such a change from your usual exquisite cooking — as an alternative to the corned beef, I suggest Spam…. Stay safe, stay healthy. Greetings to you from lockdown in Germany!
Thanks Jadi. Germany is doing well with good survellance and testing plus really good nurse to patient ratios. It’s been a good example to many countries.
There’s already been a lot of spam 😃
We have about a week’s worth of canned soups and macaroni and cheese for the family. If any catastrophe lasts longer than a week, well, we’re just going to have to be out of luck. We are not “preppers.” If our time is up, it’s up.
Gee, I hope it doesn’t come to that. I’ll miss your writing.
It sounded like a convenient tinned meal from you. Easy to prep. But you’re right. It’s not exactly health food and each tin is also probably high in sodium. I have heard good things about tinned tomatoes – that they are a good source of iron. I don’t mind doing tinned food meal so long as it’s not every day. If I find myself in a situation where I have to stay home or want to stay home for an extended period of time, I make sure to at least have some frozen meat and veggies in the fridge – and I don’t mean just things like dumplings, more so frozen chicken breasts or mince which you can defrost and make a relatively fresh food meal.
Thanks, Mabel. Sounds like you’re planning wisely.
We’ve stil got some fresh food but that will last a week before we get to tinned food although we are in voluntary social isolation so we can go and get fresh vegetables and fruit if we need them.
The pandemonium in local supermarkets is a bit ‘out there’. I’m used to a bit of this in the Top End when a tropical cyclone is forming and non-locals start panic buying, but the shops at the moment seem to be full of people buying stuff.
I think it is a good job you live on your own Gary!
In so many ways and for so many reasons 😂
What an appropriate meal for the current situation! I’m not stockpiling food as we always have a lot of tinned, dried and frozen stuff anyway. One of the supermarkets in this country is now rationing certain items and I think the rest of them are going to have to go down that route. My favourite tinned veggies are sweetcorn and mushy peas, also chickpeas for pulses. Stay safe!
Thanks, Emma. I couldn’t get over how crazy the local supermarkets are at the moment.
I know… it’s horrible.
Creative, but not my style, unless it was an emergency ration. Surprised you didn’t throw ….oops…place….a runny egg on the top 🤭🤣 Maybe on the leftovers, which are called ‘scrappies’ in England.
If I wasn’t focussed on a meal with nothing fresh or refrigerated an egg would be perfect. It may happen with the leftovers though 😃