We Be So Lucky!

Yummm

A while back in this blog, I posted a video about reconstituting freeze dried cheese. It's easy, tasty, yummy, mouthwatering, ooey-gooey comfort food.

Yeah.

Well to be honest, the freeze dried cheese is almost a luxury item to most budgets. I admit it. I use it sparingly to make it last and to show at my tasting parties. But I still use fresh because it's available and I can buy it in bulk.

Flash forward to the zombie apocolypse post....
That's when my freeze dried cheese and some cooked macaroni noodles would be my comfort food of choice.
And I would need the protein to maintain muscles as well as my brain. I like that little rhyme 'maintain my brain'.

Chicken and hamburger would also fill my protein tanks. Again expensive to buy, hard to store.

Well the most incredible sale has just begun at Shelf Reliance that has me dancing all over! I'm sharing it here because we all need protein and storing it is really difficult to do especially if you have extended loss of power. The cheese will store unopened for 20 years! And the meat for 25 years!!

This is good news for those of us who love all things meaty and cheesy. Good for my muscles (outrunning zombies) and good for my brain (outthinking zombies). This is how I will look while I outskate them!!

I know, right?

Below is the sale flyer. I am ordering these for myself. That's how good this sale is! WE BE SO LUCKY!

New! Shelf Reliance FD Meat 6 Pack and FD Cheese 6 Pack SALE! From 37-44% off!

Feb 20th – Mar 17th

FD Chicken and FD Ground Beef 6 Pack - 44% off!!
Catalog ID: 25421
Retail: $255.99
Sale Price: $144.60
Avg $/can: $24.10
3 Chopped Chicken (FD)
3 Ground Beef (FD)

FD Cheese 6 Pack (all shredded)- 37% off!!
Catalog ID: 25347
Retail Price: $244.00
Sale Price: $154.65
Avg $/can= $25.75
2 Cheddar Cheese (FD)
2 Monterrey Jack Cheese (FD)
1 Mozzarella Cheese (FD)
1 Colby Cheese (FD)

Here is where you can leave me a message in the comments box so I can get in touch and get you this discount.

You have until Lucky Leprechaun day to order!

By Small and Simple Steps

So how is your progress on your New Year's Resolution going?


I thought so. Me either. Especially that one we all love/hate to break.

Good intentions aside, what would it really take for me to successfully accomplish this NYR that I make every year and fail at? How can I put it behind me instead of constantly blocking my progress in another area?

What would it take for you? If you haven't guessed yet I'm talking about weight loss, fitness, body transformation, whatever YOU want to call it. I'd like to move out of Fat City and into a small little suburb far from those city limits.

So here are some tips that I am planning to implement into my daily routine. Starting tomorrow (of course)

1. Eat a good breakfast. This comes straight from Dr. Oz. Protein, complex carbs, no sugar. So eggs and oatmeal, low fat milk, maybe high fiber toast. Keeps your metabolism running strong through the day.

2. Small healthy snacks throughout the day. I love crunchy stuff (potato chips, corn chips followed by a soda)(bad me). So here's what I'm going to do ~
MORE OF THESE

EASY TO DO IN THIS FORM, AND CRUNCHY,TOO!

3. Increase exercise. I'm already swimming a couple miles per week. My treadmill is set up again and I will try for a reasonable amount of walking on it per week.

4. Wander on over to 320 Sycamore's blog and enter to win a Fitbit! It's a clever gadget that I think would be a great addition to your concious effort to increase activity, burn calories and count steps. If you want to enter her contest, she's giving one away for free. Very clever indeed!

5. Drink lots more water. *sigh* After age 50+ you enter the shrinking bladder stage of life. It coincides in a sinister way with the sneeze-cough-laugh at everything syndrome that also comes with a tiny bit of wisdom. Not sure if it's a fair exchange. But water it is. *sigh* please don't make me laugh.

6. To make meal preparation easier on me and get me out of the kitchen and into the pool or on the treadmill, I will continue to use all of these.

If you would like to try these delicious, nutritious and easy to use foods, it's easy to order them here.
Leave me a comment if you think I have a fighting chance at *WINNING* (think Charlie Sheen or Courtney on the Bachelor).

Sensible Q People Needed

You know how I'm always talking blogging about the Q? The monthly shipping program which Shelf Reliance put into place for those of us who don't have that proverbial money tree growing in their backyard?

Well it really makes great sense! So I'm looking for 10 sensible people who would like to invest in something that can pay off in great dividends. My goal in the 12 days is to find you, the sensible ones and help you redirect some of your current food bill to the Q. How could this possibly be accomplished?

Easy peasy. Do you make impulse purchases each month (Big Gulp, Red Bull, Monsters, candy bars, ice cream etc.)? Do you throw away food(It's really amazing how much food gets plopped onto a little kids' plate that gets washed down the kitchen sink)(Portion control begins with toddlers!)? Do you eat fast food unnecessarily? (I know sometimes it's a life saver. But most times it's impulsive.) Can you identify and locate $25 per week that you could redirect towards THRIVE foods? I bet you can.

So here's what you do:
*You make a list of foods that are staples.

*You make a list of foods that you use often in your regular recipes:

*You make a list of foods you would NEED to comfort yourself in times of hardship.

List 1 will have things like flour, sugar, beans, wheat, milk, rice, salt, meat, eggs, water.
List 2 will have things like onions, peppers, ground beef, tomato products, bananas, pancake mix, butter, strawberries, boullion, celery, pasta, chicken, powdered drink mixes.
List 3 will have things like fudge brownie mix, mangoes, mushrooms, cheese, cherries, grapes, coconut macaroons, ice cream, chocolate drink.

The cool thing is that no matter what you put on your list or how much you put on it, YOU are in control of it on a monthly basis! Which means you can rearrange what is being sent each month. You can add or delete products on your list. You can pause or cancel your shipments after 90 days. You can even change your budget amount after 90 days! It's not a long term contract. Yay for the average American pocketbook!

So are there 10 of you reading this that are game? It's not a game really. It truly is serious. I've heard many stories of food storage getting people through hard & unexpected times. But there are at least 10 of you sensible enough to sit down and get serious yourself.

Those first 10 will be getting a gift from me as a thank you. Not sayin' what it is except something related to emergency preparedness. (Okay. I'm saying what it is! A free pantry can of 6 grain pancake mix. Yummmm!)

There are 12 days left in this month. It's leap year. Sensible people will know it's the right time to LEAP!

Same Bird/2 Blogs

On this blog I'm known as 'Dorie', as in 'Thrive with'. Verrrry Professional!

But I have another blog for my personal, random stuff. You can find it here. Or if you need to know, it's officially called 'dodozhouse.blogspot.com. You are welcome to both blogs. Because I'm AKA Dodo!

Garden of Eden? Or Garden of Needin'?

We've had such amazing weather this year! Many warm days and the sun shows up all the time while the rain holds back. Very out of the ordinary for the coast of Oregon, where we measure our rainfall in FEET insead of inches!!

So what have we been doing? Cleaning up our garden area. We get a tremendous amount of produce out of our little plot and we really enjoy it. In fact we dug up a bunch of carrots last Friday that had wintered over. Just look at all that carrot yumminess! We have been juicing them and they have the most mellow flavor. We even found the King Daddy of carrots out there! Gardens are a great addition to your nutrition!

But we just suppliment our meals with our garden produce. Once in a while we have a meal that's maybe 95% from the garden. We pat ourselves on the back and sing 'Farmer,Farmer' (from the 'Seed's, a rock group from the 60's) (You had to be there).

But really, if we had to eat every meal out of that garden we would be in a world of hurt.

Now I have stood out there and gorged on fresh sweet peas, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, strawberries and blueberries on a summer day. We've had fantastic green salads and sweet corn on the cob as well as thick slices of tomato and cucumber. But 3 meals a day? Vegetables and fruits run right through you like a 50 yard dash, leaving you empty and craving Big Mac's. And what would you eat in the winter?

And what if you had nuthin' to eat but you had all these seeds? You'd still have to wait for them to grow and ripen. That means we'd eat lots of radishes for a long time before the other stuff was ready.

This concerns me.

On the other ear, if you have plenty of meat, beans, and grains in your food storage, the garden would enhance any meal you made. And it would save your life while you waited for those little green tendrils to shoot forth from the earth. (Whilst battling slugs, birds, moles, flood, wind, salt air, lack of heat, weeds, crop failures, etc)

That's why I am on the Shelf Reliance Q. It's a monthly shipment of my favorite and most necessary foods, delivered right to my door and within my monthly budget. It's beginning to really add up! And I am getting pretty spoiled by actually using it (SO super convenient! Prewashed and chopped veggies are the best!) and rotating my foods.

So I'm thinkin' my garden of eatin' will not leave us beaten or needin' & as long as we keep seedin' it will be like Eden. And with THRIVE foods in our cupboard, we will be succeedin'! You best be believin'!