FAMEAL-Famine Chow

FAMEAL: Famine Chow

Ohhhhh   we have something we feed starving refugees called FAMMEAL which is also a corn bean mix with more additives. Here's the recipe.

FAMEAL: Famine Chow is a good way to introduce storage foods into your diet.

This is a slang word for WSB or CSB (Wheat-Soy-Blend or Corn-Soy-Blend) used by NGOs in their feeding programs. Most Americans have never heard of (much less tried) this stuff. This is the same gruel fed to starving people in Africa and elsewhere. The only word that describes it is "foody". It's delicious. You can eat it as a thin paste or thicken it up and make dumplings or bread out of it. You can add it to soups and casseroles or even make cookies out of it. Best of all, it's healthy and cheap and made of storage foods. The NGOs buy it pre-made in big dog-food bags so they can just add water. The pre-made mix is extrusion cooked so it's easier to work with under primitive conditions. You are not going to find this stuff at your grocery store but here is how you can make your own:

50% (by volume) Corn meal or wheat meal. (I prefer meal to flour, but both work) 30% (by volume) Bean meal. Any kind..even soy. I use lentils because the are easy to grind. 10% (by volume) Oil. Any cooking oil works. 10% (by volume) Sugar or honey or syrup if you prefer. Add salt to taste. You can also add vitamins by grinding a tablet with the mix. (With multi-vitamin supplement, this is a fairly well balanced diet).

To cook it (it will be a powder) mix it slowly (it clumps) with boiling water (three cups of water per cup of meal). Turn off the heat and cover it and allow it to cook for 10 minutes. If you add the powder to the water and then try to heat it, it burns to the bottom of the pot, but a microwave oven works great for cooking the wet mixture. Or, use the powder just like flour for baking. It makes an awesome bean bread. It also makes a wonderful cake mix if you add more sugar and other flavorings. You can vary the amounts of everything, including water to suit your own tastes.

Try it. You may find that you really like it. It's fairly tasty, filling and satisfying. My friend's kids ate an awful lot of fameal muffins while they were growing up. They freeze well and make a good quick breakfast food if you are in a hurry.

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