Low Fat Death by Chocolate Recipe from Everyday Food Storage

From one our favorite authors and food storage chefs - Crystal Godfrey - she posted a terrific recipe using beans!!!   For more information, you can go to her website: www.everydayfoodstorage.net

Low-Fat Ultimate Death by Chocolate Cookie

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Recipe type: Desserts

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 10 mins

Total time: 20 mins

Serves: 9

This recipe is awesome, easy, looks gourmet and NO ONE will guess you used beans instead of butter in it! If you love it, make sure you check out my NEW Everyday Beans e-Cookbook with over 90 recipes that will incorporate beans into your breakfasts, sides & salads, dinners and DESSERTS!

Ingredients

• 1 Devils Food Chocolate Cake mix (must be Devil’s food)
• 1/2 C. bean puree (you can use either black or white beans)
• 2 eggs (2 T. dry powdered eggs + 1/4 water)
• 1 t. vanilla
• 1 tub Fat-Free Cool Whip
• 1/2 pkg. dark chocolate chocolate chips, melted
• chocolate covered strawberries, optional

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine half of the Devils Food Cake Mix with the bean puree, eggs and vanilla in electric mixer for 2 minutes or until thoroughly combined. Add in second half of cake mix and mix until combined. Drop rounded balls of cookie dough on GREASED cookie sheet. Cook 10-12 minutes or until done. Take out of oven and with a glass with a flat bottom, flatten cookies and allow to cool.
2. Mix together Cool Whip and melted chocolate to form mousse. Place mousse in between two cookies. Place a little mousse on top of cookie sandwich and place chocolate covered strawberry on top.

Notes

Make bean puree by dumping a can of beans in your blender and blending until it is the consistency of a thick smoothie.

7 ways to use wheat without food grinder

From www.foodstoragemadeeasy.net

1. Thermos Wheat
Recipe from author Rita Bingham

Bring 1 c. of wheat kernels, 2 c. water, and 1 t. salt to a boil in a medium saucepan. Pour into a heated stainless steel or glass-lined thermos bottle. Secure cap. Place bottle on side. In the morning, pour off any additional water, add butter and honey, and serve hot.

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2. Wheat Berries
Add some of your plain dry wheat kernels to a pot of water. Bring it to a boil and cook for a few minutes. Then let simmer for about 45 minutes. Drain the wheat berries and stick them in a tupperware container in the fridge. These are delicious to add to yogurt or to use to replace some meat in recipes. You can also use it in place of brown rice in a lot of recipes.

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3. Popped Wheat
Take 1 cup of your cooked wheat berries (see above) and add to a frying pan of pot with two tablespoons of oil in it. Cover with a lid and cook over a hot stove shaking the pan while it cooks. After about 4-5 minutes the kernels will be nice and toasted. Put the popped wheat on a paper towel to get the extra oil off, and sprinkle with your choice of seasonings. Try it with salt, seasoned salt, garlic, barbecue salt, onion salt, cinnamon and sugar or any combination you desire. These are delicious on salads as a topping, mixed with trail mix, or as toppings for a desserts or just as a healthy snack.

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4. Wheat Grass
Most people have heard how healthy wheat grass is for you, but most people DON’T know that you can make your own wheat grass at home for free with just a little bit of your food storage wheat. Check out this step by step tutorial on How to Grow Wheat Grass if you want to try it yourself! It looks so easy. Then you can snip bits off and add them to your fruit smoothies, or if you have a juicer you can use them in other healthy juice drinks.

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5. Cracked Wheat
You can crack wheat in a blender or a coffee grinder. To do it in a blender you simply put in about 1/4-1/3 cups of wheat and pulse it until it looks like little cracked kernels. These kernels will cook much faster than regular wheat, and cook up in the same way that you cook rice on the stove or in the microwave. You can use cracked wheat to make hot cereal, add it into bread, or cook it up and use as a meat filler. For more info in cracked wheat visit this post at Everyday Food Storage.

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6. Wheat Sprouts
Making wheat sprouts is a different method than making wheat grass. You can sprout wheat just like any other vegetable seeds, legumes, or other grains. Make sure to review our tutorial on how to grow sprouts. Most people like wheat sprouts to be very small, just barely sprouted. These are delicious to throw on salads or to add into your whole wheat bread for a little extra texture and flavor.

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7. Blender Wheat Flour
If you are cooking a recipe for something like pancakes or waffles, you can EASILY use your whole wheat kernels, mix the whole recipe in your blender, and pour it straight from there onto a griddle or waffle-maker. Just make sure to add the liquid for your recipe into the blender, then add in your wheat kernels and blend for about 5 minutes. Then add the rest of the ingredients. We blogged about tryingBlender Wheat Pancakes and we also have a delicious Corn Cakes Recipe you could try in the blender too.

Avocados - Today-Tues Aug 30th!

News from Alpine Food Storage:

Alpine Food Storage August 29, 2011

Just got an email from Nicholas Foods Produce Department!  (Quick note!  Multi-Grain Rotini is coming in tomorrow!--scroll down for more details!)

They are needing to move some ripe avocados quickly and so are marking them down drastically.  They're coming in tomorrow and will be 45¢ each!  They are classified as 'ripe and ready.'  I will take a good look at them before they come off the truck to make sure that they are not too ripe!  :-)   I've been racking my brain for ways to use a lot of avocado.  I LOVE them, but they're always so expensive at the store.  Now that I have access to lots--can I preserve them?   Here's what a little online searching has yielded.  Avocados can be frozen.  If you cube them, toss them in lime or lemon juice and then take all the air out of the bag, they should be good for a couple of months.  Great to pull out of the freezer to make into guacamole, baby food, etc.    I'm willing to try it!    A friend of mine has a healthy chocolate pudding she makes with avocado.  I'm excited to try this one: 1 medium-large ripe banana 1/2 large avocado 14 drops of Vanilla Stevia 1/2 packet of powdered Stevia 5-6 tbsp cool water 1 pinch of sea salt 1 squirt Agave Syrup (aprx 1-2 tsp)  *Optional 2 tbsp raw cocoa Blend all ingredients in a really good blender.   I'm sure you could substitute other sweeteners if you don't have Stevia! Now a quick note about the pasta we ordered:  Someone, today, attempted to beat us out of the deal.  I grabbed everything they had left, so it will be available starting tomorrow to come pick up---it's a limited supply, so come quickly!  Again, it's $15 per case.  There are 16 boxes in each case 14.5 oz each.  It's a great deal on a very healthy and delicious pasta!

Come help us take advantage of these great deals!  :-) Hope to see you soon! chirine Chirine Wadsworth Alpine Food Storage 11800 No. 6000 W. Highland, Utah 84003 801-319-9111

FHE from LDS Living : Adversity

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

Conference Talk:

For more information on this topic read “More Than Conquerors through Him That Loved Us,” by
Paul V. Johnson, Ensign, May 2011, 78.

Thought:

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the
development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility. … It is through sorrow
and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire.”

(Paul V. Johnson, “More Than Conquerors through Him That Loved Us,” Ensign, May 2011, 78.)

Song:

“Be Still My Soul,” Hymns, #124.

Scripture:

And now, O my son Helaman, behold, thou art in thy youth, and therefore, I beseech of thee that
thou wilt hear my words and learn of me; for I do know that whosoever shall put their trust in God
shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at
the last day.

(Alma 36:3)

Object Lesson:

Materials Needed

A piece of rough wood, sandpaper, and a piece of newspaper to catch sawdust.

Procedure

Show the rough wood to the class and briefly discuss how it would feel. Now show and pass
around the sandpaper. Ask class members to comment on how it feels. During the following
discussion, rub the rough edges of the wood with the sandpaper (holding it over the newspaper).

Discuss what happens as you use the sandpaper on the rough wood. Be sure to include why the
sandpaper makes the wood feel smooth (rough particles cut off the rough bits of wood).

Liken the sandpaper to adversity and the wood to ourselves. Tell class members that adversity
can soften and smooth our rough edges. Give some examples or ask the class to think of examples
of this principle (for example, an extended illness may make a person more compassionate).

Story:

“I Was Willing to Suffer for the Sake of Christ”

Edward Partridge

I was taken from my house by the mob, George Simpson being their leader, who escorted me about half a mile, to the court house, on the public square in Independence; and then and there, a few rods from said court house, surrounded by hundreds of the mob, I was stripped of my hat, coat and vest and daubed with tar from head to foot, and then had a quantity of feathers put upon me; and all this because I would not agree to leave the county, and my home where I had lived two years.

Before tarring and feathering me I was permitted to speak. I told them that the Saints had suffered persecution in all ages of the world; that I had done nothing which ought to offend anyone; that if they abused me, they would abuse an innocent person; that I was willing to suffer for the sake of Christ; but, to leave the country, I was not then willing to consent to it. By this time the multitude made so much noise that I could not be heard: some were cursing and swearing, saying, “call upon your Jesus,” etc.; others were equally noisy in trying to still the rest, that they might be enabled to hear what I was saying.

Until after I had spoken, I knew not what they intended to do with me, whether to kill me, to whip
me, or what else I knew not. I bore my abuse with so much resignation and meekness, that it appeared to astound the multitude, who permitted me to retire in silence, many looking very solemn, their sympathies having been touched as I thought; and as to myself, I was so filled with the Spirit and love of God, that I had no hatred towards my persecutors or anyone else.

(Jack M. Lyon, Linda Ririe Gundry, Jay A. Parry, Best-Loved Stories of the LDS People, Vol. 1, [Salt Lake City: Deseret
Book Company, 1997].)

Activity:

Back-to-Back Relay. Pairs standing back to back, with their backs touching, must run together to
a goal and back with one running forward and the other running backward. If they separate, they must
start over again.

Refreshment

No Bake Cookies

• 1/2 c. butter
• 1/2 c. milk
• 4 tbsp. cocoa
• 2 c. sugar
• 1/2 c. peanut butter
• 3 c. quick oats

Microwave butter, milk, cocoa and sugar in large bowl on high for 3 minutes. Stir, microwave for
2 more minutes. Remove from heat. Add peanut butter, stir until melted. Add oats and stir. Drop by
spoonfuls onto cookie sheet covered with waxed paper. Refrigerate until cool. Makes 24 large cookies.

Bountiful Baskets now in Highland

Bountiful Baskets now has a pick up location in Highland! Great news for those of you who have been having to drive to PG or AF! You can now pick up at Freedom Elementary which is at the corner of 10400 N and 6800W. Volunteer time is at 6:45a and pick up is at 7:45am.


For more information on weekly offerings go to


www.bountifulbaskets.org

RS Announcements 8/28/11

Happy Birthday:
Monique Nielsen-------Tuesday, 30th

Sunday's Lesson: "Priesthood Power”

Our next Relief Society Activity will be on Thursday, September 15 @7:00 pm at the church. "Getting Organized" will be taught by Tracy Barnes.

If you have extra produce from your garden that you would like to share, please bring to the RS Room after our block meetings.

General R.S. Broadcast 6 pm Saturday Sept 24th at the Stake Center. Refreshments will be served afterwards.

1ST Tues of every month begininning Sept 6th, meet at the Church parking lot to carpool @ 9:30 pm. We will do initiatory and then have lunch in the temple cafeteria;

Joseph Smith - Vol 1 Plates of Gold opening Sept. 2nd

RS Announcements 8/21/11

Birthdays this week:

Tara Ethington------------Thursday, 25th

Connie Thomas ----------Friday, 26th

Gwen Davis----------------Saturday, 27th

Jannette Heaton---------Saturday, 27th

Sunday's Lesson:  #38 "Eternal Marriage”.

Next week’s lesson: "Priesthood Power", President Thomas S. Monson’s Conference address.

Our next Relief Society Activity will be on Thursday, September 15 @7:00 pm at the church. "Getting Organized" will be taught by Tracy Barnes.

If you have extra produce from your garden that you would like to share, please bring to the RS Room after our block meetings.

Reminder* The first Sunday in Sept. our block meetings will begin at 9 am.

Time to update our phone list for Relief Society!

For the next two Sundays I will be sending around a list of current phone #’s that we have. Please correct if it is not correct/current. We will only have room for one preferred phone # on our Relief Society phone list/bookmark. Thank you!

Homemade Pop Tarts!

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Finding Faith in Christ

RS Announcements 8/13/2011

Sunday's Lesson is:  # 37 "Family Responsibilities” -taught by Anne Hansen

Next week's lesson is #38:  "Eternal Marriage".

Our next Relief Society Activity will be on Thursday, September 15 @7:00 pm at the church. "Getting Organized" will be taught by Tracy Barnes.