I found bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs for .99/lb. Chicken thighs are mouister and more flavorful than chicken breasts and take less time to process.
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Baked Rice Pudding with Fruit
This pudding can be made with reconstituted non-fat dry milk, but you will have better results with shelf stable whole milk.
Breakfast Soup II
This Fall-flavored soup is made the night before for an easy fruit-filled breakfast. Apple juice, canned pears, quick oats, cinnamon, nutmeg.
Rice Cereal
Make fresh hot rice for this simple breakfast cereal or reheat leftover rice in the microwave. Rice, sugar, cinnamon, raisins.
Double Chocolate Cake Brownies
Just 3 ingredients for fudgy dark chocolate brownies – cake mix, pumpkin, and chocolate chips. They will be a hit at your next potluck.
Apricot Rice Pudding
Much faster to prepare than baked rice pudding, this is filled with vitamin-rich dried apricots. Rice, apricots, evaporated milk, spices.
Tex-Mex Seasoned Rice
this is an easy way to give rice that Tex-Mex flavor. Long grain white rice, Tex-Mex Seasoning.
American Beautyberries
American Beautyberries will be ripening soon in the South. You will need 6 cups of berries for one batch of jelly which is comparable to rose petal jelly.
Canning Beef Stew
The ingredients in this beef stew are available year-round. Watch for a good sale on beef roasts and make your own home canned convenience food.
Easter Dinner from Food Storage
The meal photographed here is our Easter dinner 2022. With only 2 of us eating, I decided to shop in my food storage pantry instead of cooking a big meal.