I made an egg scramble this morning. I had 4 potatoes left and shredded two of them for breakfast. I mixed up the equivalent of 5 eggs using the scrambled egg mix. I chose to add mixed bell peppers. I have fallen in love again with Thrive’s mixed bell peppers. They are so good. And a #10 can lasts forever! I also added freeze dried onions, and freeze dried sausage and some freeze dried green chilis. All Thrive of course.
Chicken Enchiladas and a Smoothie
After school today I made the kiddos a tortilla with cheese. They also ate Thrive mangos, and a smoothie. I keep kefir grains and make the kefir into a smooth when its ready. I save the powder from the bottoms of my fruit cans to mix into the smoothies. The freeze drying process removes 98 % of the water from the food. Some of the fruits have turned into powder at the end of the can from jostling around during shipping.
I Love Left Overs!
Some people don’t like left overs but I love them. It means less time cooking for me. Its like residual food. You make it once and you can keep eating from it time and time again. Up to a point of course.
I am addicted to Downton Abbey. My good friend loaned me season 3, the first three episodes. I was up much later than is good for me last night watching several episodes. This morning I was sluggish about getting breakfast made. So when Julz asked, “what’s for breakfast?”. I asked her, “do you want quiche, oat bar or waffles?” Three choices!! And we are living on our food storage! I had some natural leavened waffle batter going on my counter from the How To video I made about it, which you can view below. So that was easy to throw together. I used Thrive eggs instead of fresh in the waffles.
Coconut Mango Chicken
Heather Lorimer is a Platinum Thrive Consultant, a mom of soon-to-be four, and a former home economics teacher. She has a fabulous blog about cooking with her food storage. I have been eyeing the Chicken Mango Stir Fry on her blog for several months now. Tonight I cooked it up with some modifications. Yes I am a modifier.
Rather then telling you the differences between the two recipes. I am simply going to explain what I did for dinner, inspired by Heather.
Fruit Oatmeal Bar–Healthy
This is not what I was thinking when I was searching high and low for a recipe. I did want to have a oat bar that Julz could eat, meaning it had none or very little sugar. I found this recipe at Kath Eats and used it.
Finally a Quiche
It has been in my plans to make a quiche for breakfast (I know its not a breakfast food necessarily) while I am living on my food storage. I had two Marie Calendar pie crusts in my freezer. I could also make a pie crust with flour, oil and water, but frozen are easier. Since I have them, I might as well use them. Every time I’d think about baking up the quiche I couldn’t decide what ingredients to put in it. Finally this morning after my run I decided. Yay! The quiche would have, spinach, mushrooms, onions, sausage, and cheese of course. We love Thrive freeze dried sausage.
Sprouts
I am a salad girl. I love a big green salad with all sorts of fresh vegetables, nuts, seeds, fruit, a little blue or feta cheese. A light homemade vinaigrette. Unfortunately storing lettuce is difficult if not impossible to do. I was cleaning out my plastic food container drawer when I found a green wire mesh lid for a wide mouth canning jar. This triggered a memory of when I bought a small packet of salad sprout seeds. I had never done anything more with those seeds. Now that I am doing my food storage challenge I dug out the packet of seeds and watched a youtube video on how to sprout seeds.
Steel Cut Oats, More Waffles, Taco Soup
Growing up my mom would make oatmeal for breakfast and I hated it. Despised it. I would NOT eat it. I am very mindful of my experience as a child and allow my children to listen to their body when it comes to food and eating. We have healthy food available and not a lot of junk. Especially these days. Yesterday my kiddos were snacking on Thrive fuji apples and freeze dried peach slices. I am confident they are getting the good vitamins and minerals they need.
Cinnamon Rolls
I found a recipe from the blog Moms Who Think. I have never made cinnamon rolls without yeast. But those take 2 1/2 hours or longer to make with the rise time. We wouldn’t have been able to eat them until 9:30 at night or later. This quick bread recipe worked out well. I didn’t use all the butter, I only used 2 tablespoons and the rest of the butter I substituted with oil.
My Reese was satisfied. I have in my fridge some honey nut cream cheese I used to make the frosting. It was all good enough, but I still prefer my yeast cinnamon rolls. Next time I will start them earlier.
Natural Leavened Waffles, Left Overs, and Broccoli Rice Casserole
Mr Incredible and I went to a natural leaven bread class last year, it was a date I planned. We actually really enjoyed it. Now I have natural leavening and use it for quick breads like waffles and pancakes. The following week was a class about how to make loaves of bread using natural leavening. But we had a conflict. So I never graduated to making loaves of bread with natural leavening.
I love these waffles with real maple syrup and butter. I make them with brown rice flour. Lately, I love to grind my short grain brown rice into flour for these waffles.