Did you know you can make homemade frosting from freeze-dried fruits and vegetables? You can avoid all of the artificial dyes and flavors and make these amazing light colored icings that are full of natural flavor. I just bought a tub of vanilla but you can make your favorite home-made icing recipe for this too. […]
Recipes
One Pot Creamy Chicken Pasta Meal-in-a-Jar
Thrive’s March monthly delivery specials include a few fun packages that are worth looking at but I chose to create this month’s recipe based off of a few of the individual items. I wanted to make a pasta to help keep the cost per jar down a little bit and this one pot creamy chicken pasta […]
Easy Taco Soup in a Jar Recipe
Thrive’s February monthly delivery specials have soooo many great items so it was hard to narrow it down to make just one recipe. The “Flavor Fusion Pack” contains a lot of fun red ingredients to make Valentine’s Day goodies. The regular monthly special items included some mexican-ish ingredients so I opted for an easy taco soup […]
Chicken Noodle Soup for One (Mini Meal-in-a-Jar)
Thrive’s January monthly delivery specials had a nice variety of meat and veggies that I thought would make great soups to use for easy, healthy lunches. We all want to eat healthier at this time of year am-i-right? So I’m introducing mini meal-in-a-jars with a yummy “Chicken Noodle Soup for One” recipe and we will be […]
Hot Cocoa Mix (in-a-jar)
Thrive’s December monthly delivery specials include Instant Milk at 50% off and I had some good ideas for yummy drink mixes using it. I did a poll in our Facebook Group to see if you’d rather have a hot cocoa or an egg nog mix and Hot Cocoa won so I tested lots of recipes and […]
Strawberry/Peach Bread-in-a-Jar (Gluten-Free)
Thrive’s November monthly delivery specials featured two of my favorite fruits and I have been dying to try out a gluten-free sweet bread recipe so I decided this was the month to try it. I was pleasantly surprised with how delicious it turned out and my family ate the entire loaf the night I made it. […]
Hi there! I’m Jodi. I teach busy moms how to save time and money in the kitchen while making healthy and delicious meals using freeze-dried foods.