So Crystal at EveryDayFoodStorage.NET is always recommending adding food storage to meals and not telling your family since they may not give it a fair chance.  Well my husband works from home and knows how and what I’m cooking so I haven’t been able to use that trick.
Well tonight I hosted a little dinner party [...]

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Honey Whole Wheat Bread Recipe

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 package quick rise yeast
¾ c. milk (can also use powdered milk)
¾ c. water
2 T. honey
2 T. vegetable oil
2 c. whole wheat flour
Directions:
Combine 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, salt, and yeast in large mixing bowl. Heat milk, water, honey and oil until hot to [...]

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We have recently discovered that beans really ARE the magical fruit. As you know, Julie has been on a mission this year to learn more about beans and to use them more in her cooking. If you have followed us at the Fun With Food Storage Network, and here at Food Storage Made Easy, you [...]

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I don’t know about you, but with the weather changing the last thing I want to be doing is spending too much time in the house cooking.  I have been trying to come up with some ways to be more efficient in the kitchen.  Of course when it comes to tips in the kitchen, make [...]

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This recipe is a family favorite of my husbands- they call it Cowboy Delight. He asked me to make it one day, but I had no Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. A few weeks ago, I had bought some powdered cheese blend in a #10 can to give a try one day and had forgotten [...]

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Ultimate Meatloaf
Ingredients:
1 1/2 lb lean ground beef
1/2 c. crushed Ritz crackers
3/4 c. shredded cheddar cheese
1 oz. pkg. dry onion soup mix
1/2 qt. of lentil sprouts, pureed
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 c. ketchup
2 T. Worcestershire sauce
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place the ground beef, crushed Ritz, cheddar cheese, and onion soup mix in a large bowl and [...]

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So here’s a little update for you on my New Years Resolutions. For those of you who don’t remember what they are (because really, why would you memorize my resolutions) here they are:

I want to cook more with DRY beans and quit being so afraid of the soaking concept
I want to plan dinners ahead [...]

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I’ve always loved my mom’s homemade mac n cheese and using the advice of Crystal from http://everydayfoodstorage.net I have learned how to tweak this recipe to use different food storage items in two different versions:

Homemade Mac ‘N’ Cheese (w/ grains and powdered milk)

Ingredients:
1 lb macaroni noodles (Step 5 : Grains)
1/4 c. butter
1/4 c. flour (Step [...]

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When Julie and I first started our food storage adventures we thought that buying a wheat grinder was very scary and expensive. I started out by grinding a bit of wheat using my friends WonderMill. But I really wanted to find other ways to use my wheat that didn’t involve grinding. Back in July I [...]

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