Help #1 Using food from your Food Storage...Now!

This week our Self-Reliance Challenge focuses on using something from your food storage that you don't already know how to use. You may be wondering how to use all that powdered milk, beans or wheat. I pulled together some recipes from last year plus a few new ones from other websites, using the items sold at the cannery, to help you start to use them now.

Give something new a try! It's better to know now that you love/hate it than in a true emergency!

Apple Slices

• Apple and Rice Breakfast * (March)
• Oatmeal Breakfast Packets * (April)
• Applesauce, Applesauce Oatmeal Cookies, Apple Crumb Pie, Granola Bars, Applescotch Crisp **

Beans (Black, Pinto, White)

• Cooking Beans (Overnight, Quick Soaking, Cook Soaked), Cooking Times for Beans, Storing Cooked Beans, Alternate Uses for Beans) * (May)
• Bean Chocolate Chip Cookies, Baked Beans, Pinto Bean Fudge, Chocolate Chip Cookies (made with white beans), Awesome Food Storage Brownies **

Tips on using Beans in your Recipes:

(1) Get in the habit of soaking your beans overnight to make cooking them easier the next day
(2) Beans can replace the fat in your recipes and still taste good!
(3) Try sprouting your beans for added nutrition
(4) Grind your beans to use as thickener in soups (make sure your grinder can do this)
(5) Whenever you are using ground beef...add black beans to extend it
(6) Start now adding beans to your diet so your bodies are use to them in an emergency

Carrots

• Whole Wheat Carrot Muffins **
• Make a carrot cake from scratch!

Fruit Drink Mix

• Use in a Smoothie

Non-fat dry milk

• Use in everyday substitutions like Sweetened Condensed Milk, Evaporated milk, Buttermilk, Magic Mix (makes White Sauce, Pudding, and Cream of Chicken Soup) * (February)
• Prize-Winning Brownies, Bean Chocolate Chip Cookies, Rice Pudding, Honey Oatmeal Bread, Curry Chicken Rice Salad, **
• Other purposes: yogurt, cheese, smoothies, bisquick mix,
• Using Powdered Milk with Everyday Food Storage lady, Crystal (previous post-includes a video)

Tips for using Powdered Milk:

(1) Use powdered milk in your baking. Anytime a recipe calls for milk use your powdered milk.
(2) Use half the powdered milk and half regular milk for drinking
(3) Add a little vanilla and sugar to powdered milk to improve taste if needed
(4) Always allow milk to cool in the refrigerator before serving

Quick & Regular Oats

• Homemade Granola, Oatmeal Breakfast Packets, Oat Topping * (April)
• Apple Crumb Pie, Appplesauce Oatmeal Cookies, Bean Chocolate Chip Cookies, Honey Graham Crackers, Applescotch Crisp, Honey Oatmeal Bread **

Potato Flakes

• Make Shepherd's Pie, Cinnamon rolls from past RS newsletter, EZ bread, use as a dough enhancer

White Rice

• Chicken and Rice Salad, Rice & Apple Breakfast, Sweet Cooked Rice * (March)
• Rice Pudding, Curry Chicken Rice Salad **

Hard Red/White Wheat

• Blender wheat pancakes, Thermos wheat * (January)
• What does one can of wheat make? * (February)
• Whole Wheat Snickerdoodles, Prize-Winning Brownie, Whole Wheat Pie Crust, Laasagna, Chili Chowder, Pumpkin Bread, Whole Wheat Carrot Muffin, Honey Graham Crackers, Granola Bars, Honey Oatmeal Bread, Vanilla Wheat-Nut Pudding, Chocolate Chip Cookies **

Tips when using Wheat:

(1) Make a dessert using wheat flour...who doesn't like a cookie?
(2) When first using wheat in your recipes for your family, try adding half white flour and half wheat flour (or less)

Footnotes:
* Indicates that this recipe came from 2009 Home and Family Preparedness Newsletter
** Indicates that this recipe came from Enrichment Dinner Sampling

Other Sources for ideas: Women Who Know Food Storage Binder from a few years ago has lots of recipes to use with your Food Storage, Search the food storage websites on the side bar (lots there!!!), look through your personal files, convert your recipes to include food storage items