What's for Dinner- Chicken and Corn Soup

I wanted to share a recipe I made up. It is based on a recipe from e-mealz but I jazzed it up a little bit and used only stuff from my food storage! No running to the grocery store for this one.
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Carolyn's Chicken and Corn Soup

2 cans Chicken Noodle Soup
1 1/2 soup cans of water
1 can Cream of Corn
1 can Corn, drained
1/2 can Chicken Broth
1 can of Canned Chicken
(here is were I jazzed it up. Instead of the canned Chicken, I had some left over Fajita Style Chicken Strips. I cut them up and put them in the soup.)

Salt and Pepper to taste
(here is another jazzed up item- I added a little crushed red pepper flakes for a little extra zip!)

Heat and Serve.

Yum!

This Week's Meal Plan

This Week's Meal Plan:

Sausage Lasagna and Salad ( with lettuce grown in our very own Garden)

I am tired of cooking Chicken Soup

Portabella Pot Roast over Egg Noodles

Unforgetable Chicken Casserole

Roast Beef Pockets

Next Week's Menu Plan will be Leftovers!

Garden- Day 37

I visited the Garden today.

Come see what I harvested!

http://mcgathagarden.blogspot.com/

Strawberries

Yesterday I got 16 Quarts of Strawberries

Today I made 8 pints of Strawberry Jam

(anyone have any idea why it separated like it did?)

I also froze 6 Quarts of Strawberries

and

sliced up a few Quarts for Strawberry Shortcake!

The Landscaping

So..... I finally got around to taking pictures of the Landscaping.

Like I said......it doesn't look like much now.

Just wait until next year!

(sorry the pictures are a little dark. It was getting ready to storm.)

Garden Day 30

Check out pictures from the Garden

http://mcgathagarden.blogspot.com/

What's for Dinner- Crazy Whole Wheat Muffins

I was reading my new cookbook

The Essential Food Storage Cookbook

by Tami Cirsberger and Carol Peterson

and came across this recipe:

1/2 cup oil

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup applesauce

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

1 tsp cinnamon

Bake at 375 for 20 minutes

With nothing better to do, I thought I would whip up a batch.

It was really quick and easy and I had

all the ingredients right there in my Pantry

I made them in mini loaves cause that's what Hubs likes.

Let me tell you......they smelled great while they were baking

And look how moist they are.

Gotta have one..........



Can't talk now.......mouth full.

These are YUMMY!

IDC #1

Independence Day Challenge #1 for May 2009


Plant Something:
*Everything is in the Garden and planted.
The cucumbers and watermelons are a little slow to start but otherwise everything is growing.
*Will plant more Spinach in Bucket Garden

Harvest Something:
*Thinned Radish
*Harvest Spinach


Preserve Something:
Nothing this week


Reduce, Reuse and Recycle:
*Recycling
*Rain Harvesting
*Meal Planning


Preparation & Storage:
*Organized Survival Supplies and made Evacuation Lists
*Bought camping cookware and utensils off of eBay for Bug Out Kits
*Bought 2 Gallon Container and flat of Water Bottles for supplement Water Storage.


Eat the Food:
*Working on rotating food supplies and replenishing.
*Eating Spinach from Bucket Garden

Goals for 2009
*Buy a Generator- done
*Stockpile more Food
*Grow wider variety of food
*Freeze more food
*Can more food

Last Week

Last week was a Home Improvement Week. We cleaned gutters, and weeded flower beds, rearranged the bucket garden, cleaned the window sills, washed windows and had the house pressure washed.

It seems like things take me forever to do now. With my medical issues I can't go like a house a fire like I used to. I also have to make sleep a priority due to my chronic fatigue. So I just chose a chore a day and get 'er dun!

Oh.......Remember this post:
http://thebarberbunch.blogspot.com/2008/10/we-won.html

They finally came to do the landscaping!! The installed an irrigation system and planted a bunch of stuff. Mostly bare root plants and some established plants. I meant to take a before picture but didn't get around to it. And the after shot wouldn't be that exciting this year because of all the bare root plants. But just you wait until next year!!!

We also worked on organizing our Survival Supplies and making the Evacuation Lists.
A productive week I think, I might actually use my days off to rest this week.

I hope you have a great week.

Menu Plan

This week's Menu Plan:

Oregano Chicken

Mexican Casserole

Grilled Chicken Salad

Wild Rice Soup

Manicotti Shells