January Sales!

Keep Your January Health Goals with This Month's Sale Items!

Sorry it's taken so long to get the sales out this month! I've still been recovering from Christmas vacationing and the clean up! Without further delay here are the flyers:

Click here to purchase any of the sale items from the Thrive Website!

December Specials!

December Sales are Here!

This is the full price list that shows all available sizes and prices. It's hard to read on here, so let me know if you want it emailed out to you (contact form at the bottom).

Scrambled Eggs are the Biggest Sale Item

I know many of you are probably thinking the same thing I was the first time I looked at a can of powdered scrambled eggs, pretty much some version of "yeah right." But, they are actually really good. My husband uses them to make fried rice whenever we forget to pick up eggs at the store. It's just a powder, you add the amount of water listed on the side of the can, then you have your eggs all mixed up and ready to throw on the pan. This is actually a really great item if you are someone like me and hate to find bits of unscrambled yolk in your scrambled eggs, because this mix is completely scrambled before anyone tries to cook it.

 

Click here to check out the Scrambled Eggs on the website.

 

In order to get the "Q-Pon" price, start your Home Store Q, or talk to me and I'll put a party order through for you (use the contact form at the bottom of the page to contact me).

 

Make sure you Check out the Price List for Our Seasonal Items, Like the Gourmet Hot Cocoa!

 

As Always, Use the form below to let me know if you have any questions at all!

 

 



Freeze Dried Chopped Onions!

Product Spotlight: Freeze Dried Chopped Onions!



I'm super excited to introduce you to quite possibly my all time favorite Thrive product the Freeze Dried Chopped Onions! This can will make it so you never have to cry chopping another onion again. The great thing is they are chopped so fine that even onion haters have a harder time finding them. Here is a picture of how small they are right out of the can:



They really don't get much bigger when you cook with them either.

How do you cook with them?

The great thing is that these are ready to go right out of the can. Just throw them into any recipe that calls for onions. They will rehydrate as you cook. You can also throw them in a little sour cream and make an onion dip in seconds flat! I have used them in soups, casseroles, in the frying pan, anywhere at all you would use chopped onion.

They are as easy to use as dried onion, but since they are freeze dried, they come right back to life as a full real onion.

If you are wondering where to start with cooking using food storage, then start by ordering some Freeze Dried Chopped Onion, and the next time you think to chop an onion, grab the Thrive can instead.

Click here to find the Freeze Dried Chopped Onion on the website.
(Please note: due to the high volume of Black Friday Weekend purchases, the pantry cans may not currently be in stock, but they should be coming back soon)

Black Friday Sales!

Thrive Black Friday!

Thrive Black Friday Starts today (Wednesday, November 26th) for anyone with a Q or who starts a Q. I can also place orders for you starting today. Everyone else it starts on Friday and runs through Dec 1st. The Awesome thing is that this time the website deals and the Q prices are exactly the same! So, those of you who order from the website will be getting the exact same deals.

The Prices Shown on this flyer are just the Featured Discounts! All of Thrive is going to be on sale!

Order Now for Christmas!

As always, let me know if you have any questions! Remember the contact form is always just below.

How to Cook Instant Black Beans!

In this post I explored three different ways to cook the Instant Black Beans! The video is a little rough, I had to film it all in one quick take before I picked up my son from school. You can also get the information from the video in the information below it.

Click here to find the Instant Black Beans on the Thrive Website.

  Here is what they look like in the can.
 

This one I had just opened it up.

NOTE: With food storage items you should always leave in that little white packet. It's an oxygen absorber and leaving it in there will help to preserve your food, even after you open the can.

Cooking on the stove top:

The preparation instructions from the side of the can say to bring 6 cups of water to boil, then add 2 cups of beans and simmer for 15 - 20 min. In my case, I halved this and used 3 cups of water and 1 cup of beans.

I simmered these for 17 minutes, so kind of in the middle. They were not completely soft all of the way through yet, so if you want them really soft, then go towards the 20 minute mark.

I simmered on med-low, and that seemed about right, but watch them, because if you simmer too high, then they get too bubbly and you might get beans burning.

I strained out and measured the water afterwards and I got 1 2/3 cup water afterwards, so the beans and boiling took up about 1 1/3 cups water. That means if you are adding these to a recipe that calls for prepared beans, then you should add about 1 - 1 1/3 cups of water per 1 cup of instant beans added.

The 1 cups of dry bean came out to be 1 2/3 cups of prepared beans.

Note: I don't know if you can see it here in the picture, but the stove top method gave the beans a little more of a browned cooked look.

Adding Boiling Water:

The next cooking method I want to talk about is just heating up boiling water, like in my little electric kettle, then I put 1 cup of the beans in a glass/ceramic dish, then added 3 cups of boiling water. Stirred, then covered the dish and let it sit.

Note: Normally, when I cook the Thrive foods this way I don't actually measure the water, because you don't have to, I just make sure that the food is well covered with water. I try to eyeball at least 3 parts water to 1 part food, but always err on the side of a lot more water.

This ended up taking 32 minutes to get the beans cooked. I did check them twice, which did let a little bit of the steam out. The thing I really love about this method is that you can just put these in and forget about them, then come back and you're not leaving anything plugged in or anything heating, it's a lot more safe if you aren't going to be around it.

This method I had about 2 cups of water left, once I strained out the beans, so the beans soaked up about a cup of water.

This way I ended up with bigger, rounder beans. I had almost 2 cups of prepared beans, it came out to for sure the 1 3/4 cup line.

This is the way I would go if you need the beans to look like whole beans when you are done, and you want to cut down on mushed flat beans.

Microwave Cooking

This was by far the fastest way to cook the beans. I microwaved 3 cups of water and 1 cup of the instant beans in a glass covered bowl for just 10 minutes, and they came out quite soft. The great thing about this is you could really microwave these for even just 5 minutes, then let them sit until they are your desired softness, because the steam in the bowl will continue to cook them.

As you can see in the picture, these did boil over in the microwave, so I had to guesstimate a little on how much water spilled over, but the water came out about the same as stove top boiling. I had about 1 2/3 cup water left, so the beans soaked up about 1 1/3 cup water.

I ended up with 1 2/3 cup prepared beans, when I started with 1 cup dry.

Conclusion

In the end, I say go Microwave if you just want them done quick, stove top if you want them to have a browned cooked look, and go adding boiling water if you want them to maintain their shape and be biggest and plumpest.

Also, if you don't have a glass dish with a lid, you can always use a glass or ceramic bowl with a plate on top.

No matter how you choose to cook the Instant Black Beans, they are WAY easier than the hours of soaking and boiling required by regular beans. They also give you the flexibility of just scooping out and cooking exactly as many beans as you want.

October Sales Flyer!

Hello Everyone and Welcome to the OCTOBER SALES FLYER!

I included the Price addendum sheet here on the blog this month, usually I only put that on the emails I send out (FYI contact me below to be added to my email list). This shows prices for all sizes you can order of everything on the flyer. If you want a full price list like this, because you prefer it to shopping on the website, let me know and I will email you one.

I put it on here partly to show that we are still selling ice cream!! How cool is that? Normally, our ice

cream products are only sold in the summer season, but the Neapolitan bites are hanging on. If you are curious, those come as little balls of awesome flavor! They look kind of like that "ice cream of the future" that comes in a bunch of little frozen balls, but these are little freeze dried balls of goodness that can go with you anywhere.

 The SUPER Q-PON this month is Instant Pinto Beans!!

Beans are super good for you and really a very cheap protein, but let's face it, they are often unmanageable to cook and keep around. Instant beans makes using beans simple! No more soaking 8 hours and then boiling another 4! NOW, boil some water and simmer these guys for 15-20 minutes and you have got yourself cooked beans! I'm also going to be working with the instant beans, so watch for a video on the blog in the coming week or so showing you some tips and tricks awesomeness for using the instant beans.

I may update this later with more info, but I wanted to be sure I go this flyer out for this month. As always, contact me anytime if you have any questions or concerns at all!

September is National Preparedness Month!!

September is National Preparedness Month, so in addition to our normal monthly sales flyer, there's a special flyer just for shelving and emergency preparedness items, check them out!

Now that you are as excited as me, let me call out a few important items of business. To check out all of the National Preparedness Sales, you can click the picture at the top of the blog or this link here.

First let's look at the food flyer for a second:

For the food, I am seriously going to be loading up on the potato chunks, because who doesn't love potatoes? And these chunks come ready to go! They are peeled, sliced and just need to be either tossed into some boiling water to make mashed potatoes, or you can rehydrate them in a little water to make fried potatoes. I'm going to be experimenting with tin foil dinners on them soon, but more on that to come.

Next in food, don't pass up the new Vanilla powder! What doesn't taste better with a little vanilla? Smoothies to cookies all get better! The great thing about the powder is that it's easier to put into your own pre-made mixes. One thing I LOVE about Thrive is that you can cook ahead in the sense that I can put together everything for many fruit smoothies, soups, baked goods, etc. all into a ziplock bag and just write on the outside what wet ingredients to add or how long to cook it later, and I'm good to go. This makes one more thing that I can just scoop into the bag ahead of time. For those of us with food allergy issues (I'm no wheat during grass pollen season), we end up needing to cook a lot of our own foods, and anytime saved is awesome!

Now let's talk Awesome Emergency Supplies!

First of all, not all of the cool sales are shown on the flyer! There is a better 2-person survival kit on sale on the website, that is actually on sale for less. I know, we're both glad you checked out this blog! Click that link or this link to check it out!

If you're looking at this list and asking "Jenna, what is the most awesome item on this sales flyer? That I or the survivalist/camper/hunter needs?" I would tell you it's the Goal Zero Lighthouse 250! This little beauty is Solar, Crank, or USB powered! It has different dim/bright settings, on low with a full charge, it will run for 48 hours! Talk about a night light when the power goes out or camping. The best part is that this little guy can give a charge boost to any device that charges using a USB cord, which means in a power outage, you can still charge your smartphone or ereader using this awesome lantern! Remember my friends Christmas is just around the corner!


Let's talk Shelving/Food Rotation Systems!

Okay, so they are only highlighting a tiny portion of the sales they have going on in this area this month! Check out all of their shelving by clicking this link.

They have everything from tall to short, skinny to wide shelves. Ready racks that also have pegs and utility shelves/drawers. The Cansolidators are amazing, those can be adjusted to be big enough to hold a #10/gallon can, and then down to small enough to rotate skinny little tuna cans. We even have under the bed shelving.

I sent out an email recently about shelving, send me a note if you want me to forward that to you, as it decodes a lot of the differences in the choices on the website for you. I'm also more than happy to discuss with you what options would work best for you personally. We also have this great personalizer that helps you decide what is right for your home, check it out by clicking this link.

As always use the form at the bottom to contact me if you have any questions!!