A year's supply of food storage.

A year’s supply of food storage is beneficial in several ways:
1. It provides peace of mind as we obey the counsel to store.
2. It helps ensure survival in case of personal or natural disaster.
3. It strengthens skills in preparing and using basic foods.
“Home Storage: Build on the Basics,” Ensign, Jun 1989, 39

Beware of those end of isle displays!

taken from Everyday Food Storage.

Some grocery stores actually cater everything around the “Grab and Go” shopper. The type that needs to get in and get out and doesn’t care about the cost. These end of aisle displays are meant for convenience in shopping. The same Oreo and milk grocery store by me always has milk, eggs, and butter by the cash registers. It’s brilliant, it saves you time, possibly reminds you of something you forgot and it removes the products from the competitor products so you can’t make a good judgment on whether it’s the cheapest option for you!

Chocolate Cake (Flourless)

gluten free



This cake is dense and moist from the chickpeas. Can also be made dairy and egg free.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup GF chocolate chips*
19 oz canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
4 eggs or egg substitute**
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup sugar

Directions:

In a small bowl, melt the chocolate chips in the microwave (or in a double broiler on the stove).

Combine the beans and eggs in a blender or processor, then add sugar, baking powder and melted chocolate.

Blend until smooth.

Turn into a nonstick single-layer cake pan. Bake at 350°F for 45 min. or until a knife in the center comes out clean.


*Chocolate Chips: for dairy free version, Trader Joe’s semi-sweet chocolate chips, Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips, and Sunspire Chocolate Dream Semi-Sweet Baking Chips are availble. If you can't find those brands, you can always use chocolate chunks/squares and break them up. Obviously, milk chocolate is not dairy-free, but good quality dark chocolate should only contain cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, lecithin, and sugar.

**Egg Substitute: 1 cup liquid egg substitute (i.e. Egg Beaters) or 6 tsp Ener-G Egg Replacer + 1/2 cup water (once batter is mixed, if it is too thick add 1/2 cup more water)

Lemonade gluten free Fresh lemons, and the best part - no sugar (or artificial sweetener) added! Ingredients: 4-5 lemons 1 Litre (4 cups) unsweetened apple juice Directions: Juice lemons and combine with apple juice - that's it!

Thai Peanut Chicken Noodle Salad 1 C. Asian Sesame Dressing (I use Ken’s Steakhouse light version) 2 Tbsp. soy sauce 2 cooked boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into chunks 2 Tbsp. crunchy peanut butter 2 Tbsp. honey 1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper 1 pkg. (1 lb.) thin spaghetti 4 green onions, sliced 1 cup chopped cilantro Directions Cook spaghetti as directed on package. Toss cooked chicken chunks with 1/4 c. Asian Sesame Dressing. Mix remaining dressing mixture, peanut butter, honey and crushed red pepper. Drain spaghetti. Add to chicken mixture with peanut butter mixture and all remaining ingredients; mix lightly. Serve warm or chill in fridge for 4 hours before serving. Not gluten free!!