If you wanted to make shelf stable snacks that didn’t cost a lot but delivered on umami what would you make?
My first thought was corn nuts or baked chickpeas. A low cost main ingredient and a minimal amount of home grown herbs and MSG as a seasoning would do the job.
What else can you come up with other than beef jerky?
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Yeah, that’s fair. I just buy powdered broth online, along with most ambient ingredients/foods, it’s cheaper and more accessible for me.
Now you need to get into making miso, that also gives you homemade soy sauce. Idk what we did to deserve soy, must have been something good.