Gluten Free

I just made a new friend!  She is a single mom on a limited budget and their family eats gluten free foods.  Yes, Thrive has some gluten-free items which you can check out HERE

Gluten Free Products

It seems more and more that people either need to eat gluten free products, or some WANT to eat gluten free products. 


Thrive Foods has a gluten free line of products which you can check out at this link:


Gluten Free Grains

You will note at that link that there is a "Gluten Free" label at the top of the products that are gluten free.  One of the founders of Shelf Reliance and Thrive Foods is married to a woman who must eat gluten free foods, so you can be assured that these are certified gluten free.  Plus, I got to tour the facilities and actually saw the gluten free production area (from a healthy distance), and indeed, the FDA guidelines have given their stamp of approval to Shelf Reliance and Thrive Foods on their gluten free product-line.  

Yummy Recipe with Thrive ingredients included

Our vegetable garden is THRIVING!  One particular blessing we are reaping is zucchinis, so today, I decided to cook up a couple of recipes using some of the plethora of zucchinis we've harvested so far.  Upon opening the wonderful recipe book my aunt gave me years ago, I found a zucchini and carrot cookie recipe.  As is typical with me, I didn't have all the ingredients, namely the carrots, so I decided to substitute chocolate chips in 1/2 proportion to the zucchini.  Let's just say YUMMY!  If I can keep my hands and mouth off the cookies til my hubby gets home to try them, a miracle will have occurred.  


So, why am I writing about this on a THRIVE blog?  Because I was able to AVOID running out to the store to get butter, eggs and sugar and used my Thrive powdered butter (reconstituted with a bit of water), my Thrive egg powder (again, reconstituted with water), and Thrive sugar.  Here is the VERY EASY recipe for you to try yourself:


ZUCCHINI & CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES


2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup reconstituted Thrive butter
3/4 cup Thrive sugar
1 reconstituted Thrive egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup shredded raw zucchini, drained
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
1/2 c. chopped nuts (optional)


Mix dry ingredients minus sugar together.  In large bowl, cream butter and sugar to fluffy.  Beat in egg and vanilla.  Beat in dry ingredients, then zucchini and chocolate chips.  Add nuts if desired.  Drop on greased sheets and bake at 350 degrees F. for about 20 minutes.  Frost if desired with powdered sugar glaze.


For your convenience, here are the links to the Thrive ingredients I used in this recipe:


Thrive Egg Powder: 

Thrive Sugar 

Thrive Butter Powder 

And for anyone wondering, YES, these are REAL eggs and REAL butter!  

And just in case you need any more convincing, here is a picture of the plate of cookies...minus the two that I ate already!  

Be sure to visit my website which is linked here on the right hand column at the top and see what other wonderful foods you might want to try from Thrive!

 

Giving, training and equipping

One of the greatest things that this company, Shelf Reliance and Thrive Foods, is doing is giving 5% of all profits on sales to Thriving Nations.  Have a look at this video to get a taste of how they are helping to give, train and equip those in 3rd world nations to THRIVE!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtIBwbitYig&feature=player_embedded#!

After watching the video, be sure to hit the BACK ARROW and then on the right of this blog at the top, visit my website and get started on your THRIVING LIFE!

June Specials

Every month, Thrive runs specials.  Here is the JUNE SPECIALS LINK where you can shop for those items that you may need.  Plus, there are 6 yummy recipes available there too!

Great food delivered to you doorstep!

This #10 can has 35 servings for just $12.09

How many onions have you thrown out in the past 6 months?  No more with Thrive!  Follow this FREEZE-DRIED ONION LINK to begin saving today.  

Do you eat food?

You may laugh reading this blog post, but I'm serious.  Do you eat food?  


Here's my follow-up question:  How much food do you throw out in a month because it has gone bad in your fridge or expired on the shelf?


If you are an average American, you throw out 25% every year!  If that doesn't make you sit up and read further, maybe being more specific will...it did me:


Monthly food budget:  $400
Average amount tossed out:  $100


LOSS:  $100/month X 12 = $1200/year!


So, essentially, the average American household is flushing $1200 down the drain or tossing it in the garbage, and quite needlessly. If you simply redirected that amount of money toward THRIVE FOODS....LINK HERE then you would be doing 3 things:


1.  Saving money on your food budget.
2.  Eating healthy, non-GMO foods.
3.  Saving time because of not running to the store so often.


Click on the link above or right here:  http://www.shelfreliance.com/ArdenCz3 and get started today!


Oh, plus, there's the added bonus that you could become a consultant yourself and earn income.  Can you say it's a win-win situation?  


Why am I blogging about this on my personal blog?  Because I believe it in so strongly, and I am hoping to start my friends and blog readers on a path to healthier living and eating!  Eventually, I'll have a THRIVE blog, but for now, click, browse the site, contact me, or just go ahead and place an order.  My initial suggestions for those who may be skeptical are to order the following:


1.  Pantry size can of instant milk.  (Run a blind taste test with your family and see if they can tell the difference)
2.  Pantry size can of whole egg powder.  (No more running to the store to get eggs for that recipe)
3.  Pantry size can of any fruit that you love...try them dry and then try them rehydrated.  My personal favorite is the blueberries!
4.  Any of the THRIVE EXPRESS meals...very quick, no preservatives, non-GMO, and GREAT for busy families!


What better time than now to give it a try?  What will you lose?  Nothing!  What will you gain?  Health, time, and savings on many levels!  Have fun and begin your THRIVING LIFE!

Introduction to A Thriving Kingdom

My name is Arden Czaszewicz, and I am very excited to be starting this new blog for all those blog readers out there who love to eat healthy foods, and who want to be wise about living, saving money, and having a well-prepared home.


As an introduction, I will tell you how I got involved with Shelf Reliance and Thrive Foods.  I love to eat healthy, non-GMO foods, I dislike shopping, and I found that foods in the stores were becoming increasingly tasteless and full of hormones and God only knows whatever else they put in foods these days.  In addition, I wanted to be a blessing to those around me if they were/are ever in need, and be a blessing to my own family if we ever hit bumps in the road either financially or otherwise.  Everyone needs food, water and shelter, and when I was introduced to Shelf Reliance, I was sold immediately.  This is a company whose time has come and a product I so strongly believe in that I don't even need to "sell" it; once people taste the food, read about the nutritional quality of it, and see that their picky children are gobbling it up, and they are no longer throwing out old food from the refrigerator, it sells itself.  


Quite honestly, I am not a salesperson.  I got in this business to get good, healthy food for me and my husband to eat on a daily basis and have some long-term storage as well, and to get some emergency products for our home for those power outages, etc.  The residual income from the business side of it is nice, and it's up to me what I want to make of it.


That's enough background on me and how I got involved...if you want to know more, please feel free to contact me!  So, why am I blogging about it?  Because I want others to eat healthier foods, have the opportunity to save money, and if they so choose, make money by being an independent consultant.  I plan to blog about ways I've used the products, post recipes, let you all know about specials on products, and give you a LINK to my website where you can spend as much time as you want perusing products and making your own purchases on YOUR budget, YOUR time, with YOUR families' needs in mind.  So, stay tuned here for blog posts that will be helpful to you, I hope, and let's begin building our Thriving lives together!