We’ve been sick…
I’m so sorry! I know I told you I’d have information about the neighborhood gifts starting today (Monday) but my family got sick and after a trip to the ER and Urgent Care, being out of town and celebrating Thanksgiving, I got a little behind. (This also applies to any emails I haven’t responded to…sorry I’ll get to them ASAP)
Check back tomorrow (Tuesday) and I’ll have everything ready. I’ll also be unveiling my Fanatic Friday Giveaways that will be happening this month and how you can get entered in on the fun to win yourself some great stuff! You won’t want to miss it!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support and helping me get the word out about food storage. All of the kind emails and words of encouragement have made all of this worth it!
Make sure you check back on Monday, December 1st to see some great neighborhood gifts using food storage and packaged in things you would normally throw away (frosting containers, peanut butter jars, 12-16 oz. tin cans and the #10 cans from your food storage), after all you’re paying for it…you might as well use it! And, of course, I’ll make it easy for you and have tags and labels for your to download to make your job EASY!
Thanks again for everything…and have a VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Thankful Turkeys: Family Home Evening Lessons
Growing up we always had an Family Home Evening before Thanksgiving where we made Thankful Turkeys. I think it’s a great way to talk about gratitude with kids and to really make it a focus this week. I want the same for your family, so I found hte thankful turkey craft, a gratitude FHE lesson and a super cute treat to make with your family.
To download the thankful turkeys craft click HERE
To go to the FHE Gratitude lesson click HERE
And for the treat…Thankful Turkey Cookies!
This idea (and picture) is from Pillsbury. Isn’t is so CUTE?! I love it! And let’s be honest…if you’re cooking Thanksgiving on Thursday, this is a great everyday emergency and purchasing the dough may be a great time saver tip click HERE for a coupon (unless of course you freeze your sugar cookie dough and have some in the freezer 
Thankful Turkey Cookies
INGREDIENTS
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies (or your favorite sugar cookie recipe..don’t worry I’ve supplied one down below)
1 container (16 oz) chocolate creamy frosting (I would use vanilla and tint it orange with food coloring which would negate the decorating icing and gel)
Candy corn
Orange decorating icing
Black decorating gel
Miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits (or find some M&Ms in your kids Halloween candy)
DIRECTIONS
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies as directed on roll. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.
2. Spoon chocolate frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom corner of bag. On each cookie, pipe frosting on outer edge of half of cookie. Arrange candy corn over frosting for feathers.
3. Pipe orange icing onto each cookie to resemble turkey face and feet. Use orange icing to attach baking bits to turkey face for eyes. Pipe black gel on baking bits for centers of eyes.
Sugar Cookie Recipe
This is my mother-in-law’s recipe (the real cookie queen)
Sugar Cookies
¾ c. shortening
1 c. sugar
2 eggs (1/4 C. Dry Egg Powder + 1/2 C. Water)
½ tsp. lemon flavoring or vanilla
2 ½ c. flour (1 C. Whole Wheat Flour & 1 1/2 C. All Purpose Flour)
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Mix shortening, sugar, eggs and flavoring thoroughly.
Stir flour, baking powder, and salt together; blend in.
Chill for 1 hour.
Heat oven to 450 degrees.
Roll dough 1/8” thick on lightly floured board. Cut with 3” cookie cutter.
Cook 6-8 minutes.
For more tips and tricks for using food storage in your everyday recipes, please visit www.everydayfoodstorage.NET
Fanatic Friday: Sour Cream Apple Pie: Dehydrated Apples Food Storage Recipes
Here’s to another GREAT apple pie recipe. I just LOVE apple pies. (Can you tell?) This recipe comes from my wonderful neighbor Del. Everything she makes is DELICIOUS! This is her mother’s recipe and her favorite kind of apple pie. We brought it to a recipe swap at Relief Society and come home with a completely empty plate…not even crumbs! Give it a try…and of course we changed it to include food storage.
Sour Cream Apple Pie
Preheat oven to 375
1 pie crust for 9” pie
2 eggs (*Note from Crystal 2 T. Dry Egg Powder + 1/4 C. Water)
1 cup sour Cream
1 cup sugar
4 TBS all purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp salt
3 – 4 cups peeled, chopped and cooked apples (*note from Crystal, it is faster to re-hydrate dried apples. Place 2 1/2 dehydrated apple slices in 3 1/2 C. boiling water and let stand for five minutes, discard excess water )
In a large bowl beat eggs then add sour cream and sugar. Put in 4 TBS flour, vanilla, & salt and mix well. Stir in apples, and then pour into pie shell.
Bake at 375 for 20 minutes
Crumb Topping
3 TBS butter – melted
¼ cup brown sugar
6 TBS all purpose flour
Mean while combine brown sugar, flour, & butter with wire whisk or whisk on mixer until crumbly (should look like small peas)
After 20 minutes cooking take pie out and top with crumb topping, then return to oven and continue cooking for 20 – 25 minutes.
Cool, cover and store leftovers in fridge.
Are you a Fanatic?
Share your successes! E-mail me at everydayfoodstorage@gmail.com with a picture (don’t we all eat with our eyes first?) and recipe of your food storage successes to be highlighted on Fanatic Fridays!
OR
If you’re really proud of all the food you’ve made with food storage and want others to benefit from it as well, you can proudly display this button on your own blog! Just copy and paste all of this html code (it requires scrolling down to copy everything) into your blog (Just add an html widget to your layout and paste this text in it!)
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