Smart Start Month 1: THIS IS WHAT YOU GET!

Cool as! So many things to try and a recipe book comes with it as well. This is not my order. No not yet. I borrowed this picture from Becky Powell's FB page and I was so excited I had to repost it just so's you all could see it. Mine arrives later this summer. This makes such good sense for starting on your 'food insurance' journey. The Q was a brilliant idea to begin with. Kinda like netflix but instead of movies you make your list of foods and once a month like clockwork there it is on your doorstep. The only difficulty with the former system is that when you are only getting a couple cans per month, you don't accummulate much until many months go by. Then you may not want to open a gallon size #10 can of butter or eggs just to try them. With Smart Start you get 17+ smaller cans per month to test out. Yeah for the genius who thunk that one up! So here's what's in this order: And here's where to order: Month 1 Smart Start Pack
17 Thrive pantry cans
Cornmeal
Salt
White flour (3)
White sugar
Instant Milk (3)
Baking Power
FD Pineapple Chunks
Fudge Brownie Mix
Shortening Powder
FD Colby Cheese
Chopped onions
FD Strawberries
FD Banana Slices
Simply Peach Drink mix
Entree - Creamy Beef and Noodles
Entree- Hearty Chili with Beans
Entree- Pasta Carbonara
Entree - Baked Potato Cheese Soup
5 Recipes: Cornbread (made 2x), caramel sauce, cheese bread, strawberry banana smoothie, strawberry puree
And just to tell you how Smart it is, at every tasting party I've done since the first of May, every single person who has joined the Q has begun with Smart Start! These customers were very SMART indeed! You can be too!

Pizza on the fly

Okay I have to admit that I'm a lazy chef. REALLY L-A-Z-Y. I don't like to spend that much time in the kitchen. Even though chefery (is that a real word?) seems to be all the rage and helps people 'overcome stress', 'find their niche', 'master their demons' and ad infinitum, I am not one of those persons. I want to grab something tasty and quick and that's what I want to prepare as well. Cereal and milk? You get where I'm coming from! So yesterday after thrift window shopping for much of the day, I returned home and felt guilty about my hard working husband and felt I should at least prepare something good for him. So I took this.... Split it into two lengthwise, lightly buttered it and topped it with this... I used one can of tomato paste, one can of water from the tomato paste can, one tablespoon of THRIVE powdered tomato, large pinch of oregano, 2 tsp. of sugar, 1/2 t. salt, pinch of anise seed and a heaping tablespoon of Italian salad dressing and heated it in a pan. I used lukewarm water to gently rehydrate 3 cups of FD Mozzerella cheese. I also rehydrated about a cup of FD green bell peppers with 2 Cups of FD sausage crumbles (all THRIVE foods). So I spread the pizza sauce on both of the bread halves, topped it with the drained sausage/bell pepper mix, and then crumbled the softened cheese over the top of it all, spreading it evenly. Okay at this point it has maybe taken me 10 minutes!! I turned on the oven to 400 and put the pizza in for about 12-15 minutes. And this is what I got! And very soon it was gone. Gone, gone, gone (you have to say that like Jeff Bridges in True Grit). But it was yummy, quick, I was the hero of the night and now you can be as well. Pizza on the fly. That's just code for AWESOME LAZY-WOMAN MEAL.

What happened in May stays in May

All I can say is I THRIVED in the land of ALOHA.