It's not rocket science, just good common sense

Are you a member of Mensa?  Me either.  But I feel pretty darn smart when I take advantage of a great sale and even more smarter (!) when I channel my inner Boy Scout and utilize the motto: "BE PREPARED". 

 

You can be prepared this month for a big discount.  These are November Shelf Reliance discounted items.  They are only good starting 5 pm Nov. 1 - 5 pm Dec.1.  So if you need Gluten free products, check it out.  My favorite snack apples are on sale!  Freeze Dried Fuji apples beat everything I know of for crunch satisfaction and excellent flavor.

Check out the flyer below.  Then Call me, Dorie at 541-404-6363 to place your order and get the discount.  That is the only way. Let's get ourselves prepared before we are digging oursleves out of a Hurricane Sandy type event!!  Over and out.

Flyer: November Monthly Specials

PS.  For those of you who will read this all the way down to here, this is your secret 'heads up'.  BLACK FRIDAY is coming up for Shelf Reliance.  You know when!  To take advantage of this once a year inCREDable sale you need only get up at midnight on the designated day and go shop online in your PJ's at DorieSmith.shelfreliance.com.  +You don't need to call me to receive the lowest prices !!!  So mark your calendar.

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!

'Take your passion and make it happen...'

'Take your passion and make it happen...' I remember the lyrics of the theme song from 'Flashdance'.

I know that dates me BIG time. But something happened to me about 2 years ago and I didn't recognize it then. I do now.

I only WISH my food storage looked that good. No, 2 years ago I assessed the foods I had stored so diligently haphazardly under the stairs (and in the basement and under the bed and and - you get the picture). I realized that if I had to feed this to my family, 3 times a day for who knows how long, we would all die. Me of exhaustion from all the time consuming effort to prepare my wheat, beans, rice, sugar, milk and a few canned foods into something edible, and my family from the dramatic increase in fiber! I mean dramatic like the national debt the last 4 years... but I digress.

Shortly after that realization, Shelf Reliance came into my horizon. Like a cumulo nimbus, coming in from a distance... And my decision to become a Shelf Reliance Consultant ignited a passion within me to never have to face my family with an empty or meager pantry. I knew I wanted to be able to get my own food storage at the CONSULTANT price. I knew I could get it on a regular monthly basis and I knew I would also receive lots of free food in the bargain. What I didn't know was that from the very first month as a new and ignorant member of the SR team until this very month, I would make a profit as well. Imagine that? Food AND money. Could it get more logical, Mr. Spock?

The security I now have when I look at my food storage is miles from the false security I had 2 years ago. I'm no where near finished with my preparedness but I'm oh so much more in control. And that makes me a passionate promoter of the same sense of security to everyone I know. And that passion is spilling out all over this blog tonight as I extend my hand to you -

Let me help you find the peace of mind and the success I've found with Shelf Reliance. This is an out loud, open invitation to my family, friends and acquaintances to follow my lead. This is the TIME, today is the DAY! You can easily start your own profitable business selling something everyone actually NEEDS - FOOD! Click HERE and watch a 15 minute video on what this is really all about and then call me! Make Preparedness your PASSION and then watch it HAPPEN!

Grandkids and Callydoodles

2 of my 5 grandaughters were visiting with me several weeks ago, and as per my usual 'Dodo' activities, we decided to make cookies! The older of the 2 grandaughters, who considers herself most wise and authoritarian is Jaycee.

The younger middle of the pack child, Cally, who is going through the 7 year old geekypest stage and is AKA as 'little Dodo' wanted chocolate chip cookies (my personal choice ;)

But the older one insisted that they were too sweet. She chose Snickerdoodles (to me the sweetest cookie going but nobody asked me ;) This of course outweighed Cally's choice. Enter sad face, she's used to coming in second or third place :(

Enter happy face! Cally said 'Let's put chocolate chips in some snickerdoodles.' What a great idea, Cally YAY! How to make 2 girls happy with one recipe. I'm all over it. Until....Enter my BIG sad face...

I look in my cupboard and have no shortening, no butter, very little flour and no eggs! Chocolate chips I have plenty. So this is what any THRIVE grandma would do...

I get out Butter powder, Rice flour, Egg powder and Shortening powder, all in my THRIVE homestore. I mix them Snickerdoodles up quick!

(just tilt your head to the right to copy)

Roll them in cinnamon sugar...

Dot them with chocolate chips...

And Voila' you have CALLYDOODLES!! And 2 happy grandaughters! You can fill your own Homestore with these recipe lifesavors right here.

Now just add Milk! Or THRIVE instant milk if you have run out!!