This month’s live cooking class included SIX great recipes featuring the April specials including some bonus recipes based off of the annual SPRING SALE. We cooked up a storm so set aside some time today to learn our tips and tricks for cooking with freeze-dried food. You may be surprised at how easy (and delicious) […]
Freeze Dried Foods
Chicken Alfredo Meal-in-a-Jar
Thrive’s April monthly delivery specials made me think of a yummy creamy pasta recipe and my kids are big on fettucini alfredo these days so that’s what I came up with for this month’s jar meal! Check out what all the April Thrive Life monthly specials are!To view the complete sale flyer click here Chicken Alfredo […]
Treats & Eats March Cooking Demo
This month’s live cooking demo featured FIVE great recipes including soups, a smoothie, and some sweets. There is a flash sale for St. Patrick’s Day from March 16-20 so we featured a bonus recipe using some of those ingredients too. Here are the details for the flash sale. March Cooking Demo Video March Recipe List […]
Granny Cake Dessert-in-a-Jar
Thrive’s March monthly delivery specials had a few fruits that I thought would make for a yummy dessert. I have heard of granny cakes where you substitute the oil in a cake recipe for canned fruit and decided to make a jar meal version using freeze-dried fruits. It’s nice to have meals in an emergency but […]
Superbowl Treats & Eats (Cooking Demo)
This month’s live cooking demo featured six yummy treats and snacks to make for Superbowl Sunday. Using Thrive Life freeze-dried foods makes it so much quicker and easier to have a wide variety of foods for your parties making YOU look like the real MPV of the Superbowl 🙂 Superbowl Recipes Featured Mountain Man Snack […]
Beef and Bean Burritos Meal-in-a-Jar
Thrive’s February monthly delivery specials definitely invoked a Mexican food vibe. I thought it would be delicious to use both the refried beans AND the beef in one recipe so my beef & bean burritos were born. Usually when you think of a burrito you envision putting all the ingredients in layers, but I mashed them […]





Hi there! I’m Jodi. I created Food Storage Made Easy to help make food storage and emergency preparedness feel simpler and more doable. This site is home to the tips, recipes, checklists, and resources I’ve created and shared over the years.