FREE GIVEAWAY & Yummy (and easy!) Lemon Squares-Food Storage Recipes!
Okay, you’ve heard me talk about how much I LOVE the cookbook series 101 Things (to do with almost anything!) but especially the 101 Things to do with a Cake Mix. Stephanie Ashcroft does an awesome job with easy and delicious recipes (which you all know are my favorite!) Anyway, I’ll get to the good stuff. She is doing a giveaway right now on her blog (Savvy Savings) for a FREE copy of 101 Things To Do With A Cake Mix. Make sure you go and enter the giveaway and try this very delicious recipe she sent me to share with you! Click HERE to enter Stephanie’s giveaway and click HERE to check out her AMAZING series of cookbooks.
Lemon Squares from 101 Things To Do With A Cake Mix
1 lemon cake mix
2 eggs (2 T. dry egg powder + 1/4 C. water)
1/3 cup vegetable, canola, or olive oil (anyone brave enough to try beans instead of the oil ? 
Powdered Sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, mix together cake mix, eggs, and oil. Mixture will be stiff. Spread mixture evenly into a greased 9 x 13-inch pan. Bake 13-15 minutes until slightly golden on top. Cool, then sprinkle powdered sugar over the squares.
p.s. I added in the information about using food storage…see…it is easy for recipes to be FOOD STORAGE RECIPES!
Also, to those of you in the San Diego, CA area-MARK YOUR CALENDARS-I’ll be doing an Autograph Party for my book “I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage” at the La Jolla Deseret Book filled with fun, samples, and answers to your questions on July 10 from 11:30-1:00 p.m.
Great Review!
I love hearing from all of you about my book. The positive feedback has been wonderful…and makes all of those very, very long nights writing it all worth it! Here is one review I couldn’t pass up from Jim at EverythingPrepared.com!
Here is what Jim had to say…
I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage is a great book I highly recommend. How would you like to have your home food storage and actually be able to eat it too?
The “Rock Star of Food Storage” finally reveals the methods she uses to simply and deliciously use her food storage in her everyday meals. This book is a must have for for anyone with food storage. You will not have to wonder any longer about how to use your home food storage as Crystal provides simple, step-by-step examples that will help you use it instead of lose it. I wish I had this book years ago.
I have to admit, when Crystal contacted me about reviewing I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage, I was a bit skeptical, but excited too. I had learned about the book through Twitter (eatfoodstorage) and the Food Storage Network. They have some great information on their sites so I was interested in seeing what Crystal had to say in her book. I had initially contacted her about reviewing it, but hadn’t heard anything.
When Crystal did contact me, I looked forward to receiving the book. After all, I enjoy reading about food storage and emergency preparedness and have a small library of books on the subjects.
There are 7 great things I noticed about this book:
- It is easy to read and follow.
- It shows you how to decide if you are a menu person or a themed person.
- It teaches you “tricky” ways to sneak food storage into your meals so your family will be wanting second and third helpings (We used this in our family with great results even before I read Crystal’s book).
- It is well researched with addresses (linking info) to key resources you can use right now (this save you a lot of time).
- Key questions about food storage are answered with tips and links to helpful videos.
- It is written for LDS readers with quotes and thoughts from LDS leaders so the LDS population won’t have to search for them.
- Best of all…there are over 100 tried and “kitchen-tested” recipes in I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage.
Side Bar: Thank you Matt (Crystal’s Husband) and Kate (her daughter) for being the taste testers.
Bonus: You’ll love the conversion charts. It makes it easy to convert measurements, and it takes away the guesswork and time to do math calculations.
There was only one thing wrong with the book. It didn’t include our Home Food Storage Supplies website as a place to purchase products online (just a little humor). Maybe I can talk her into adding it to her next edition of I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage.
All kidding aside. This is an outstanding book I highly recommend.
I believe everyone should have this book.
James Medina
President
Everything Prepared, LLC
http://www.everythingprepared.com
Mother’s Day Giveaway Winners and E-Card!
Thank you so much for entering the Mother’s Day Giveaway for the Conversion Chart Magnets. It was so fun to read what you are using and how your family is enjoying it. You are truly doing an amazing job! Now, as for the winners…
Carrie, Albuquerque NM
Christie Christiansen
Laura Fisher
Congratulations to the winners, please email me at everydayfoodstorage[at]gmail[dot]com with your shipping address.
Now, if you’d like to give these magnets as a Mother’s Day gift (maybe as the perfect compliment to my book “I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage“) it’s not too late! I’ve created a printable Mother’s Day card (click HERE to download then print and fold) explaining the gift and that they will arrive in the mail in a week or if you’ve really procrastinated (don’t worry, I won’t judge you! 
I’ve created this e-card that you can send to them! (After it is done playing, simply copy and paste the “URL” into an email and send it to your loved ones) Now all you have to do is order the magnets and look really creative! (Make sure when you order the magnets, that you change the shipping address)
To order your set of Food Storage Conversion Chart Kitchen Magnets, click HERE.
Also, if you want to send just a fun video to mothers you know, click HERE. It is a great and hilarious true to life video for moms announcing they are mom of the year! Just click the “Send a customized video to all the moms you know” button to the side of the video playing.
Mother’s Day Giveaway!
THIS GIVEAWAY HAS CLOSED, THANKS FOR ALL THE ENTRIES! CLICK HERE TO SEE IF YOU WON!
We as women are so lucky that we have the opportunity to mother and help those around us! Sheri Dew said, “Motherhood is more than bearing children. … It is the essence of who we are as women.” I truly believe that. You are doing a wonderful work! Especially with food storage, keep it up. By learning how to use and teaching others how to use food storage you are literally saving lives. It is the best gift you can give to your friends and family.
The Giveaway
Since I consider you my friends I want to give you the same gift and more specifically with my Mother’s Day giveaway! I’ll be giving away THREE sets of conversion chart magnets. These are great if you don’t have a set yet, or if you do, a great FREE gift to give someone else. For more information on the magnets, click HERE.
How to Enter
It’s simple to enter, simply email me at everydayfoodstorage[at]gmail[dot]com with the most recent food storage item you’ve used. From those emails, I’ll select THREE random winners and I’ll post the winner’s name (or nickname if you’d like me to use that) on FRIDAY.
Helping Others
Now, if you’d like to give the gift of food storage to more people, help me spread the word about food storage by doing me a quick favor…please email one (or all) of the following places requesting to have me on their show and how my blog has helped you (hopefully it has, right? . Part of realizing food storage is doable is to SEE how doable it really is….and that food storage has an audience!
Click HERE to contact Good Things Utah
Click HERE to contact Studio 5 (Utah)
Click HERE to contact BYU TV-Living Essentials Program
Email showcomments@rachaelrayshow.com to contact Rachel Ray (Wouldn’t that be AWESOME to see food storage on Rachel Ray?!), it may be nice to send a link to a recipe you’ve liked.
Thank you so much, your support makes this part of my life so meaningful and rewarding. It’s great to have a whole bunch of food storage friends!
