Happy November! For the Food Storage Made Easy newsletter this month we wanted to share with you some of our favorite Thanksgiving recipes and how we can "sneak" food storage into nearly every course of Thanksgiving dinner to save time or help with rotation. Our philosophy is that you should store GOOD food that
you love and know how to use and the best way to do that is by practicing cooking it in REGULAR meals. What better way to do that than in Thanksgiving dinner!
THANKSGIVING FOOD STORAGE IDEAS
Green Bean Casserole
Use freeze-dried beans to save time and rotate your beans, use
bean flour cream of chicken soup to make a healthier version with less fat and preservatives.
Sweet Potato Casserole
Some
people like whole baked sweet potatoes, others love the sugary sweet potato casserole. You can use dehydrated or freeze-dried sweet potatoes to save time in the kitchen, and it's a great opportunity to rotate some of your basic baking ingredients like powdered milk, eggs, etc.
Rolls
Cranberry Sauce
If you love cranberry sauce you will love homemade cranberry sauce even
more! You can easily make your own using freeze dried cranberries. So delicious!
Stuffing
If you are in a pinch on Thanksgiving Day and have forgotten to buy onions and celery, no fear. Food
storage to the rescue! You can use dehydrated or freeze-dried vegetables to complete your stuffing recipe. It may not be quite the same texture (smaller chunks) but you can save time on chopping and the flavor will still be delicious.
Turkey
Don't mess with your turkey! Here is how my mom and I do turkeys and they turn out awesome. Stuff your bird with a really wet stuffing, lots of butter in it. Then cook your bird breast DOWN. All the juice will flow into the breast during cooking and it makes the best most moist turkey you will ever taste. Give it a try!
Mashed Potatoes
My LEAST
favorite part of Thanksgiving is pealing hundreds of potatoes. (ok it just FEELS like hundreds, but still ...) If you are willing to give it a try, you can actually make really yummy mashed potatoes using food storage. The new Mashed Potatoes from Thrive Life are made of REAL potatoes and have no additives so they are a great alternative if you just can't face making real potatoes this year.
Gravy
My mom always sneaks in some mashed up carrot chunks into our turkey gravy to add a little bit of texture and some pretty color. If you want to try that but don't want to add another item to cook, just toss in
some dehydrated carrots. You may want to let them hydrate for a while first as they can tend to take a while.
Desserts
Desserts are one of the ways we recommend "sneaking" food storage into your meals if
you have family members that are picky or don't like to try new things. You can use freeze dried fruits in a fruit pie, or sub whole wheat flour or powdered eggs and milk into a cake or other baked good. Here are a few of our favorite holiday yummies that you can try yourself.
NOVEMBER GIVEAWAYS
In case you haven't seen them on the blog we have two awesome giveaways going
on this month. There are only a few days left to enter so check them out asap!
Learn how to make delicious homemade fruit leather and win a free dehydrator cookbook
For both giveaways you need to be a follower of Food Storage Made Easy on
Facebook and/or
Pinterest and then leave a comment on the respective blog post to be entered. If for some reason you can't leave a comment feel free to email us and we will add you to the giveaway. Giveaways will end November 7th and winners will
be announced that evening and contacted via email. Good luck!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
-Jodi and Julie
http://FoodStorageMadeEasy.NET
p.s. Stay tuned later this month as we will be sharing some AMAZING Black Friday specials on food storage and preparedness items from around the web. It's always a great time of year to stock
up!