Homemade Chicken-Raspberry-Noodles-Jam

The title might be confusing but I'm just trying to efficiently mesh 2 recent THRIVE meal experiences. The post will be crystal clear!

Yes I'm making homemade egg noodles. It's an old family recipe I learned from my cousin when we were roomates at BYU back back back in the day.

It calls for one egg per person, flour and salt to taste. Very precise, I know. Through the years I've come to modify it a bit.

This time out I used all THRIVE ingredients. After all, if it's supposed to be able to feed my family in times of need/lazinessconvenience, I must use them in our favorite recipes. So out came the THRIVE FD (that means freeze dried for those new to my blog) chopped chicken. I love this stuff! It's already cooked, skinned, boned and chopped and rehydrates in about 10 min! Quick stuff! I used my THRIVE carrots, onions, celery and boullion which of course were added to the water in the pot. Next I rehydrated about 6 eggs. That's 1 TBS. of whole egg powder to 2 TBS. of water. Mix and you have liquid eggs ready to go! Then I added about 1 tsp. salt and flour until it was pasta like consistency.

Then they were rolled out very thin like in the first picture. Dust well with flour if you try this. Then roll up the pasta the short way. By that I mean you've rolled it in a sorta rectangular/oval type shape. Once it's rolled up, using a pizza cutter, slice through in about 1" sized pieces, unroll and add them too the boiling broth.

It turned out just as yummy and disappeared just as fast as if I had done it the way I learned in college and spent the WHOLE FREAKIN' DAY preparing this meal!! (There is no picture of the final product. It was fast Sunday and that large kettle of chicken and noodles was gone like the wind) So what about the raspberry jam mix thingie? I got some YUMMY fresh raspberries at the local farmer's market Wednesday. I had every intention of saving those fresh little sweeties for jam. But I saw then I noticed the ever shrinking bowl that no one claimed responsibility for. Anyway, I smashed up the 4 containers of berries. I needed 6 smashed up cups.

As you can or can't see here but trust me it's the truth, I am exactly 1 cup SHORT. I searched the freezer for some sign of frozen berry stuff. I did find some freezer burned strawberries which I took out and began to thaw. THEN I remembered that I had the bits, pieces and powders at the bottom of a large can of THRIVE freeze dried raspberries. Brilliant!

I pour the remnants into a measuring cup and added water just to rehydrate to a thick mush state.

As you can now see, my 5 cups of smashed raspberries now comes to 6 cups and I'm off to make my jam....Well I'm back and guess what? It's delicious and it's all sealed up just fine in my jelly glasses and put away in the pantry. So whenever you get in a pinch in the kitchen, remember your THRIVE products. They really can save the day even if it's not during a natural disaster!

Shelf Reliance: Thrive Drinks

With a new year coming up, I'm thinking about resolutions. One resolution I have is to eliminate additives and chemicals from my diet like preservative, artificial colors and flavors. This will include high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners:

And caffeine :( sigh.
And so many other unpronounceable (is that a word?) chemicals on the lists of ingredients.

That's why I'm choosing to stock up on these yummy fruit drinks. Yes there is sugar in them. But they will store well. Taste great. Give energy that will be needed if/when there is a food shortage. And provide some fruit nutrition as well.

This is just one of the reasons I'm loading up! The other reason is that with the winter season beginning, the price list of Shelf Reliance/Thrive foods will undergo a change. Happens 4 times a year. Hopefully the prices won't rise that much. Unlike my local grocery store! Have you seen the price of bacon lately? Wow!

Anyway, there is still time this week to place an order at the current prices. These have 85 servings in a one gallon size can (#10). The shelf life is 3 years unopened and 1 year opened. Your kids won't let it last that long. And there are many flavors to choose from:

Fruit Punch Performance
Mango Passion
Melon Berry Blast
Orange Bliss
Orchard Apple
Simply Peach

Easy to order. Delivered to your door. Save gas. Save time. Order here

Now to go take down the Christmas tree and finish the last of the sugar cookies and fudge...