Angie & Jim

Food Storage Made Easy!?by Angie

Well, here goes.  I have a new favorite website, and a new project to take up my life:  I am finally going to stop making excuses and actually plan, purchase, and eat our food storage.  I recently discovered the Fun With Food Storage Network, and am now hooked.

This week, I experimented with powdered milk:  I bought some, first of all, and I mixed some up and blended it half and half with regular milk.  Jim’s mom did this while he was growing up, and it was not remembered with fondness, but it’s actually not bad.  That’s going to be our plan from now on, so we can start stocking up on powdered milk and actually rotate it.  In the long run, if you buy the powder in bulk, it ends up costing much less than a regular gallon at the store!  I’ve also tried it in a couple of recipes:  I used it to replace the sweetened condensed milk in Key Lime Pie, made a white sauce to replace cream of chicken soup in crock-pot chicken alfredo, added it to my Mom’s delicious meatloaf, and even used it in Kraft Macaroni and Cheese – and it was great every time!  Hooray!