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May Q-Pon: Freeze-Dried Red Bell Peppers

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Each month ONE item is on sale at a significant discount for customers on the Thrive Monthly Q Program. It’s called the Q-Pon item. This month the Freeze-Dried Freeze Dried Red Bell Peppers are the featured product. This would be a good item to stock up on this month if you are on the Q! […]

15 Ways to Use Tomato Powder

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Tomato powder is one of our all-time favorite products to keep in our home stores. It removes the necessity to store so many tomato-based products and it is so versatile. Here are some reason why we love it so much: It is “pure” tomatoes, so no additives, preservatives, etc. Easy to use to create lots […]

Add Some Lasagna to Your Life

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What we love most about having a home store is always having ingredients for things we love to eat. We’ve been known to say “If a true crisis hits, as long as I have cheesy meals, I’ll be OK!”. Well one of our favorite meals is lasagna. This month we did some fun posts on […]

How to Make Ricotta Cheese from Powdered Milk

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I’ve started a new little challenge for myself. Every week I pick a new recipe from a favorite blog, cookbook, cooking magazine, etc. and try to make it completely out of items in my “home store” pantry. That means nothing from the fridge or freezer, and I have to have it on hand already. It’s […]

Whole Wheat Spinach Noodles (aka HULK noodles)

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I’ve been making homemade spinach whole wheat noodles for awhile now. They taste so much better to me than store bought whole wheat noodles. Store-bought whole wheat lasagna noodles tend to taste like cardboard to me. I’ve always made the noodles with fresh spinach until last fall I tried them with freeze-dried spinach. I was […]