Back to School Week!
Back to School Week-August 31-September 4
Your kids aren’t the only ones going back to school! Don’t quite understand the difference between instant and non-instant milk? Not convinced on using powdered eggs in your recipes? Still pondering which tastes better, red or white wheat? Can’t think of any other way to use beans than in chili? Well then this week is for YOU…and anyone you know that has these same questions. Each day I’ll be highlighting a different food storage category and explaining everything you need to know about it. There will be a lot of videos and a lot of FUN! You won’t want to miss it!
10 Reasons Why You Should LOVE Whole Wheat!
With benefits like these, it’s amazing more people don’t LOVE whole wheat!
1. It’s more nutritious, providing several more minerals, vitamins (18 more to be exact!), and natural photochemicals than white flour.
2. Relax! It has More B Vitamins which are known to help with nerves & stress.
3. Get cleaned out. Whole wheat provides more fiber, preventing constipation & diverticulosis. The American Dietetic Association recommends 20-35 grams daily, the average American consumes only 12 grams.
4. Lose weight and keep it off! Whole wheat has a lot of fiber which has almost no calories, keeps you fuller for longer, absorbs 3x it’s weight in water, cuts absorption of calories, cleans out impurities, requires more chewing, and takes 1/2 as much to fill you up and takes longer to digest.
5. Reduces your risk of colon cancer & other diseases.
6. Lowers blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and risk of adult on set Diabetes.
7. Cheaper! It will lower your food costs by at 30% to 50%!
8. Lowers doctor visits, bills, & medications.
9. Lowers Dentist Bills by cutting down on tooth decay.
10. Eating Whole Wheat keeps your body both emotionally and physically used to wheat.
Peanut Butter Granola Brownies-Long Term Food Storage Recipes
This is such a FUN twist on brownies and it is SO delicious-not kidding! It uses something from every category of food storage (grains, powdered milk, powdered eggs, and beans) It is SO easy to do and, personally, I haven’t seen anyone make this kind of brownie…so you could be the first on your block to start a CRAZE. I made this recipe when I had some left overs around that I needed to use up, so you can see my creativity at work…jk…my “creativity” doesn’t always turn out as good as this recipe. 
Peanut Butter Granola Brownies
1 pkg. brownie mix (follow directions on back of box substituting powdered eggs and needed water for fresh eggs and bean puree for the oil-for more chewy brownies use 1/2 bean puree and 1/2 oil)
After pouring the brownie batter into baking dish top with Peanut Butter Granola and drizzle with Homemade Caramel Sauce-directions below (the same sauce I use for my Gourmet Blender Wheat Banana Nut Waffles)
Bake brownies according to directions on back of box.
Hot Homemade Caramel Sauce
1/2 Cup buttermilk (1 1/2 T. dry powdered milk + 1/2 C. water then add 1/2 tsp. vinegar or lemon juice)
2 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup Butter
2 Tbs. Corn Syrup (not essential but it will help your syrup keep longer with out going grainey)
2 t. baking soda
1 tsp. Vanilla (do not add until after removing from heat)
Mix ingredients in a pot and boil for 3 minutes, the sauce will turn to the carmel color towards the end of boiling. (Essential Tip: mix in a pot one size larger than you think you will need. The syrup will be frothy in the beginning and it is awful cleaning up a burnt sugarey mess on your stove…trust me!)
Hachacha Salad: 3 Month Supply Food Storage Recipes
Alright, I think most people call this salad Taco Salad but growing up we called it Hachacha Salad…which I love because a) it’s really fun to say and b) it’s sounds better than plain old taco salad. The theory is the same though and I love to serve this for guests in the Summer time because they build their own (and I hate it when people don’t like what I made or pick around my food) and you can use a lot of items from your 3 month supply as well as your garden. Here are some ideas of what you can put on your salad….
Hachacha Salad
- lettuce
- chili (or any kind of beans but I like it spicy)
- tomatoes
- avocados
- olives
- green onions
- cheese
- jalapenos (I love any good excuse to put jalapenos in my food
- sour cream
- salsa
- corn
- fritos or tortilla chips
- Ranch dressing (I think this is optional but some people don’t think it’s a salad without an official salad dressing
- name your own topping! Anything you would put on tacos would taste great on this salad.
