Category: Skills / Knowledge
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THRIVE Chicken Salad – Tasty Party Favorite!
Have a party but don’t want to take the time to make your own chicken salad? No problem! With Thrive’s Chopped Chicken, Chopped Onions, and Chopped Celery, you’re nearly done. 🙂 In fact, I was able to make this even fast with a pantry can of Thrive’s Chicken Salad Mix which already combines the chicken, onions,…
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How to Make 4-Ingredient DIY Sink Scrub
A while back we ran out of our Mrs. Meyer’s Surface Scrub and rather than spending $5 on another one I figured I would try to make my own DIY sink scrub. How to Make DIY Sink Scrub As it turns out, making sink scrub is probably the easiest homemade cleaner I’ve made yet! Really.…
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10 Tips Everyone Should Know About How to Cook Dry Beans
I was cooking some dry beans (black and pinto) when I realized there may be some things you didn’t know about doing so. As such, the following is just some quick info about how to cook dry beans that I’ve found over the years: How to Cook Dry Beans Dry beans expand when soaked to about 2-2.5…
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How to Make Homemade Cream of Broccoli Soup Using “Magic Mix” Starter
We decided to make some Broccoli Rice Casserole–my kids’ favorite–which required two cans of cream of broccoli soup. Rather than buying the store-bought cans of “yucky” cream of broccoli, we choose to make our own homemade cream of broccoli soup using the Magic Mix as a starter I showed you how to make a few…
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Meals in a Jar: Banana Split Snack in Strawberry Yogurt
I decided to make a dessert from our THRIVE Life foods and chose to adapt this one from Caryn’s Banana Split Snack from the Meals in a Jar recipe book that can be had for free by subscribers to our monthly newsletter (details can be found after the post). Like all meals in a jar, this is…
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Hundreds of Free OFFLINE Maps for Your Smartphone!
I can’t remember now where I found out about maps.me but it had to be another survival blog. Anyway, I’ve since decided to fiddle with it some more and began to make good use of the app for my smartphone by adding dozens of offline maps. While I use the iPhone Maps.me app there are apparently similar…
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Several Thoughts on Being Frugal from the Past Months
First and foremost, I do enjoy trying to be more frugal these days. In part because we have to and it’s good to save money where you can but also because it’s teaching us to live with less… less stuff, less conveniences, less need for all that consumerism has to offer. Second, I’m afraid there’s…
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How to Keep Your Most Valuable EDC Asset Safe and Secure
In my opinion, the ever-invasive cell phone is perhaps the most valuable EDC asset you have. Yup. I’m sure I’ll catch some flak for this as plenty of people feel you shouldn’t have any reliance on electronics during an emergency. Personally, I say be able to make use of any and all tools at your…
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How to Make Gluten-Free, Amost Sugar-Free Walnut Cookies… Kids Even Enjoyed Them!
I figured I would show you how we quickly made some very delicious gluten-free, almost sugar-free walnut (and optionally raisin) cookies over the weekend. They were such a hit that even the kids enjoyed them! Ingredients: 1 c. maple syrup (the original recipe called for 1 c. sugar but we wanted to avoid that) 2…