Sweetened Condensed Milk - From Food Storage

An important part of your food storage is...dessert.

Ok, maybe it's not an important part of your food storage plan, but it is for mine. When the SHTF, my wife would rather die on day one, than go without her sweets. Because of this, I have to make sure that I have enough sweet stuff to tide her over.

Sweetened Condensed Milk (like Eagle Brand) is one of the items that are essential for my wife's sweet tooth, but it doesn't really have a great shelf-life.

My wife found a recipe to make your own from your basic food storage ingredients.

Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk

1/2 cup cold water, 1-1/3 cups nonfat dry milk powder, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Directions: Stir powdered milk into cold water.

Cook on stove top or Microwave (45 seconds to 1 minute) until steaming.

Stir in sugar & vanilla. Refrigerate till cool before using...makes 1-1/3 cups (1 can).