Freeze Dried Foods

Oatmeal, applesauce and baby weight

Truth be told I have never liked oatmeal. I still don’t really LOVE it. I tolerate it and find it a good alternative to sugar cereals and breads for breakfast. Today I’m going to share with you how adding freeze-dried applesauce to my oatmeal has made it so much better!

IHOP Country Griddle Cakes

Many many years ago I was working the overnight shift at IHOP for a little spare cash. I would always eat there during my shift and got to love lots of the foods. My favorite pancakes were the country griddle pancakes. I swear I could eat them every day! Well I stopped working there and […]

Chicken Tortellini Soup – Thrive Style

My mom has a fabulous tortellini soup recipe that is a family favorite in my house. It used to be quite a production to make it since I had to thaw and cook chicken, chop and brown celery and onions, and that’s assuming I have celery on hand which is a rare occasion. One day […]

Add Some Lasagna to Your Life

What we love most about having a home store is always having ingredients for things we love to eat. We’ve been known to say “If a true crisis hits, as long as I have cheesy meals, I’ll be OK!”. Well one of our favorite meals is lasagna. This month we did some fun posts on […]

How to Make Ricotta Cheese from Powdered Milk

I’ve started a new little challenge for myself. Every week I pick a new recipe from a favorite blog, cookbook, cooking magazine, etc. and try to make it completely out of items in my “home store” pantry. That means nothing from the fridge or freezer, and I have to have it on hand already. It’s […]

Whole Wheat Spinach Noodles (aka HULK noodles)

I’ve been making homemade spinach whole wheat noodles for awhile now. They taste so much better to me than store bought whole wheat noodles. Store-bought whole wheat lasagna noodles tend to taste like cardboard to me. I’ve always made the noodles with fresh spinach until last fall I tried them with freeze-dried spinach. I was […]