Graham Crackers-from Karen in Chubbuck, ID
1/3 cup shortening
3/4 cup plus 1 T. sugar (I use brown sugar)
3 T. honey, warmed
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup plus 2 T. water
I add in 1-2 t. cinnamon

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Combine shortening, sugar, honey and vanilla.
Blend until smooth. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl, and then
add dry mixture to the wet ingredients and blend well with electric mixer.
Slowly add water to the mixture while beating. You may have to mix by hand
until the mixture forms a large ball of dough.

Divide the dough in thirds and roll one third out on waxed paper till at
least 1/16″ thick. It should be very thin. Use a knife to trim into a
rectangle slightly smaller than the sheet pan you will be using. Grease
the baking pan with a light coating of shortening. Turn the dough over
onto the baking sheet and remove the wax paper.

Use a knife to score the dough into smaller crackers. Use a toothpick (or
fork) to poke holes over the entire surface of the dough. Bake for 22 to
24 minutes, or until the dough begins to turn light brown around the
edges. Turn the baking sheet around halfway through baking time for even
browning. Cool the crackers before breaking them apart along the scored
lines. Repeat process for remaining dough. If desired, you can sprinkle a
cinnamon/sugar mixture over the dough before baking to make cinnamon
grahams.

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Okay, whether you’re routing for the Packers or the Giants-this weekend is a great excuse to use some food storage!  If you know me, I love chili dogs-it’s one of those guilty pleasures I have. The only problem with chili dogs is that they are SO messy!  (And anyone who knows me, also knows I have a problem with messy foods…in that I tend to make them messier!)  So I thought, how perfect to encase the chili like a pig in a blanket type idea….and it worked out wonderfully!  I think this is a PERFECT dish for any football parties you may be having this weekend…or any basketball games you may be watching  plus it uses food storage!

It would be easily served with Tator Tots or potato chips and then a vegetable tray where they can pick their own veggies.  (Notice I filled half my plate with them to try and make up for my chili dog creation!

Chili Dogs in a Blanket
1 can Chili (or homemade chili)
2 T. dehydrated onion
1/2 C. Shredded Cheese (optional)
2 oz. Cream Cheese (optional)
4-6 Hot Dogs (cut into thirds-lenth wise)
EZ Bread Dough (Click HERE for the recipe)

Mix bread dough according to directions and let rise until doubled.  In the mean time, combine chili, dehydrated onion, and cream cheese and heat until the cream cheese is melted.  Roll dough out to 1/4 inch thick and using something circular (about 5 inches in diameter), cut out circles from dough.  Keep rolling dough out and cutting until dough is gone (like you would for biscuits).  Put a thin layer of chili mixture on dough circles, followed by cheese, and a hot dog piece.  Fold side pieces together and pinch all edges together.  Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

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FINAL WAY TO ENTER TO WIN THE BOSCH!

It’s here! The final way to enter to win yourself a FREE Bosch Mixer (What a great Christmas Present?!) Simply visit my Facebook page and “share” the contest link! SUPER EASY!

MAKE SURE YOU ENTERED ALL THE WAYS POSSIBLE

Week One
Week Two
Week Three

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

This giveaway ends Sunday, December 4th 2011. Check on Monday, December 5th 2011 to see if you won! I’m only able to ship this to the United States (sorry!). Check back every Monday for a new way to enter to win (READ: There will be lots of ways for you to get a lot of chances to enter win!)

BOSCH DETAILS

• 6 1/2 Quart Bowl
• 4 Speed Settings
• Cord Storage
• Suction Feet
• 800 Watt Motor
• Removable (mixing bowl) drive shaft
• Whip holder-dishwasher safe
• Speed setting one is slower
• Speed setting four is faster
• Higher dough capacity
• Sealed Transmission
• Refurbished 1 Year Motor and Transmission

DON’T KNOW THE GLORIES OF A BOSCH?

They can do amazing things like shred chicken, mash your potatoes, make many loaves of bread at once, and yes, they can make cookies (lots and lots of them!).

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First of all, make sure you check back tomorrow for the FINAL way to enter to win yourself a FREE Bosch mixer for this Christmas!

Second of all, I hope you were all able to take part of some amazing Black Friday and Cyber Monday specials!  Here are the winners of the FREE copy of the NEW Michael Buble Christmas CD…

1. Charly Diaz
2. Jessica Kern
3. Pamela Steadman
4. Maurine Baucom
5. Cheryl Saylor

Please email me at everydayfoodstorage(at)gmail(dot)com with your address so I can get these shipped to you ASAP!  Congratulations to the winers!

© 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

Sorry, I’m a day late on this post.  I just returned from Kanab, Ut (the greatest earth on show!) for my grandfather’s funeral.  I appreciate all of your condolences to me and my family.  He was a great man who loved God, his country, and his family (especially-there are a lot of us!) and he will be greatly missed!  In keeping on the family theme….our family is known for huge Thanksgivings-growing up my mom would cook Thanksgiving dinner for 40+ people (all family from out of town-that is how good her Thanksgiving dinner is).  So in case you’re in charge of any part of Thanksgiving Dinner, I hope you find these tried and true tips, recipes and food storage helps handy this weekend!

Also, make sure you are signed up for my mailing list (over on the right hand side of my blog) so you can get an early showing of the Black Friday food storage specials and information on how you can win a copy of Michael Buble’s newest Christmas album this weekend!)

FOOD STORAGE THANKSGIVING HELPS!

• *MOST IMPORTANT* Download my Thanksgiving Time Saving Tips Handout for more recipes and tips!
• Del’s Pie 101 Mini Class
• Food Storage Mock Pecan Pie (made with, you guessed it BEANS from your food storage!)
• Blender Impossible Pumpkin Pie
• Del’s Sour Cream Apple Pie
• Easy Butterscotch Creme Pie
• Classic Pumpkin Pie-Food Storage Style
• Berry Apple Pie
• Easy Dutch Apple Pie
• Aunt Naomi’s FAMOUS Rolls (a Thanksgiving CLASSIC at our house) including a video on how to shape the rolls.

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Have you ever had the deliciousness that is Great Harvest Pumpkin Bread? Have you ever wished you could re-create it….at home…using your food storage? Well maybe I’m the only one that wishes for making it at home AND food storage but at any rate, I found a great recipe (from extreme dinner makeover) that solves both problems and tastes just like Great Harvest pumpkin bread. (Please excuse the lack of the cool recipe feature…working on getting it to work with the new layout)

FOOD STORAGE GREAT HARVEST PUMPKIN BREAD

2 1/2 cups white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
3 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
16 oz cooked or canned pumpkin puree (not pie filling)
1 cup oil (or 1 cup bean puree)
4 eggs, beaten lightly (1/4 cup dry egg powder + 1/2 cup water)
2/3 cup water
1 cup semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips ( I did mine with out, not a huge fan of pumpkin and chocolate)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two (9×5 inch) loaf pans or three (8×4 inch) loaf pans.
Mix flours, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a large bowl; set aside.
Mix pumpkin, oil, eggs, and 2/3 cup water together and stir into dry ingredients. Stir in chocolate chips. Place batter in prepared pans.
Bake 60 or 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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Many of you may have seen my homemade food storage tortillas post and watched the video that is included with the post to show you how to make them.  Since then I’ve had a lot of questions about turning it into a whole wheat recipe.  Lucky for me, Yolanda sent me a recipe from the Lean and Free 200 Plus Book.  She said, “I went to your class  - really enjoyed it.  I love the bean substitution idea.  My kids don’t even know. Thank you for your time and energy!

Whole Wheat Tortilla Recipe

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Recipe type: Dinner

Prep time: 7 mins

Cook time: 2 mins

Total time: 9 mins

Serves: 20

A yummy whole wheat tortilla recipe to use your food storage!

Ingredients

• 4 c whole wheat flour
• 1/4 t. baking powder
• 1 1/2 t. salt
• 1/4 c oil
• 1 c warm water
• I actually use more water to form the dough and I like to add 1 t. of Mrs. Dash Seasoning Blend to give it a small kick. )

Instructions

1. Knead 5 min.
2. Dough should be stiff.
3. Shape into about 20 balls and roll out thin.
4. Cook on hot, non-stick griddle.
5. Cook 1 -2 minutes on each side.

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Top Reasons You should have Duck Tape in your 72 Hour Kit and Beyond:

1. You can mend shoes.
2. You can mend clothes with it.
3. It’s great for holding cotton in place on blisters.
4. It can help fix bumpers…or anything else falling off.
5. It’s great for attaching dryer vents
6. You can even make a wallet with it!
7. Mythbusters proved you can make a boat with it (and a bridge for that matter)
8. It can replace windows

If you really want to do it Grandpa style-you also throw in a little bailing wire to really make things work!

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THIS WEEK’S TWO WAYS TO WIN YOURSELF A FREE BOSCH!

1. OFFICIAL WAY TO ENTER #1: Do you remember my Grocery Shopping 101 Mini Class from last year? One of the best ways I mentioned that you can save money on your groceries is to sign up for a FREE two week trial to Deals To Meals, a website that will break down your grocery shopping for you, makes it possible to capitalize on the best sales of the week and to makes it SUPER easy to price match at Wal-Mart.  Well, one of the ways you can enter to win is actually a win-win for you!  Did you know this is when there are so many great sales to help you stock up your food storage?  I want to make it easy for you and make sure you do you take advantage of all these great sales going on now through the end of the year.  So…

   SIGN UP FOR A FREE TWO WEEK TRIAL TO DEALS TO MEALS and not only will you get great help for your grocery shopping, you’ll also be one step closer to a FREE Bosch mixer!  THE DETAILS: Make sure when you sign up that you select Everyday Food Storage when asked how you heard about them.  After you’ve signed up-shoot me an email at efsgiveaways(at)gmail(dot)com to let me know. They are only available in 12 states-if your state isn’t covered OR your already subscribe to Deals to Meals, then just shoot me an email telling me what sale you did stock up this week to help grow your food storage.

2. OFFICIAL WAY TO ENTER #2: Share the Food Storage LOVE!   Remember, the best way to not have people knocking on your door in an emergency is for THEM to be prepared as well. 

   SHARE YOUR FAVORITE POST, RECIPE, HANDOUT, OR VIDEO FROM MY BLOG ON YOUR BLOG! You’re not only helping your friends…but inching towards that FREE Bosch Mixer! THE DETAILS: 1) Share a post about a favorite post, recipe, handout, or video you’ve found on my blog and why. 2) Make sure you include the word food storage once or twice in your blog post and link it to my blog (http://everydayfoodstorage.net). 3) Shoot me an email at efsgiveaways(at)gmail(dot)com with a link to your blog post (if you have a private blog, don’t worry about inviting me just make sure the title of your blog post is telling of your post).

After you’ve done one or all of these, shoot me an email at efsgiveaways (at) gmail (dot) com to let me know which you’ve done. You’ll get one entry for each item you do!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

This giveaway ends November 30th 2011. Check on December 1st 2011 to see if you won! I’m only able to ship this to the United States (sorry!). Check back every Monday for a new way to enter to win (READ: There will be lots of ways for you to get a lot of chances to enter win!)

BOSCH DETAILS

• 6 1/2 Quart Bowl
• 4 Speed Settings
• Cord Storage
• Suction Feet
• 800 Watt Motor
• Removable (mixing bowl) drive shaft
• Whip holder-dishwasher safe
• Speed setting one is slower
• Speed setting four is faster
• Higher dough capacity
• Sealed Transmission
• Refurbished 1 Year Motor and Transmission

DON’T KNOW THE GLORIES OF A BOSCH?

They can do amazing things like shred chicken, mash your potatoes, make many loaves of bread at once, and yes, they can make cookies (lots and lots of them!).

Good Luck!  And make sure you check back on Wednesday for this month’s Food Storage Cooking Club!

© 2011, Crystal. All rights reserved.

Have you ever gone a day with out power?  Ever just given it a dry run to see how it would go?  Well that is exactly what my neighborhood did last week.  It was actually a lot of fun.  I didn’t know when the day would be until I got THE EMAIL stating what the “disaster” would be (we have two more coming….time to make sure my water is good!)  Lucky for me, I had just watched a Curious George about the power going out and solar cooking with my preschooler-so she was totally game for it!

Here were the rules: 1. No electricity 2. Turn the heater off 3. Only open the fridge 3 times 4. No cell phones (YIPES!) 5. still had access to water

To be honest, I thought about making it really fun and eating ice cream for breakfast…after all if you knew the power was going to be out for a couple of days wouldn’t you eat the ice cream before it melted?  Also, I was pretty sure my preschooler would think I was the coolest mom EVER-but I did refrain.  First thing on the agenda was to break out the Sun Oven (YEAH FOR GOOD WEATHER!)  I knew I would have to cook lunch and dinner in it since I had used the last of my bread the day before feeding the masses.  We warmed hot dogs for lunch and I tried a NEW Sun Oven recipe for dinner which was actually a great way to use some food storage and solar power.  I spent a whole day with my kids unplugged, made some Halloween decorations to hang in the kitchen and had a wonderful day.  The kids loved playing with the flashlights (you know the ones that go off when the power is out) but here were the things I learned

1. I officially learned how to exit the garage with no power!
2. I forgot that the fridge water wouldn’t work with out electricity (meaning no super nice filtered water)
3. I need to learn how to apple box or dutch oven cook-because what would I have done if the sun weren’t out?
4. Living life unplugged for a day was awesome!

You’ll notice we used the flashlights as our candles and had a wonderful dinner!  If you want to try it in your Sun Oven here is the recipe.

Hearty 6 hour Stew

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Recipe type: Dinner

Prep time: 30 mins

Cook time: 6 hours

Total time: 6 hours 30 mins

Serves: 4-6

This is a perfect meal for your sun oven and to use some of your food storage food!

Ingredients

• 1 lb. beef stew cubes
• 4 carrots, sliced
• 4 medium potatoes, cut in large chunks
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 (1oz.) pkg. lipton dry onion soup mix
• 2 (10.75 oz.) cans cream of mushroom soup
• 1 (8 oz.) can tomato sauce
• 1 (10 oz.) package frozen green peas

Instructions

1. Grease pan. Place beef cubes on the bottom. LAyer carrots, then potatoes, placing bay leaf on top. In a separate bowl mix remaining ingredients and pour over beef and vegetables. Cover with a tight-fitting lid. Set out in your Sun Oven for 4-6 hours. YUM!

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p.s. check on Monday for TWO ways to enter the Bosch giveaway!

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