Green Bean Casserole
Use freeze-dried beans to save time and rotate your beans, use bean flour cream of chicken soup to make a healthier version with less fat and preservatives.

Some people like whole baked sweet potatoes, others love the sugary sweet potato casserole.  You can use dehydrated or freeze-dried sweet potatoes to save time in the kitchen, and it's a great opportunity to rotate some of your basic baking ingredients like powdered milk, eggs, etc.

Making homemade rolls is definitely not a time-saver, but it is a delicious tradition for many of us.  You can use your favorite bread dough recipe and make your own homemade Rhodes Rolls a few days before the craziness of Thansgiving begins.
Click here for a tutorial on making frozen rolls using our favorite recipe

If you love cranberry sauce you will love homemade cranberry sauce even more! You can easily make your own using freeze dried cranberries.  So delicious!

If you are in a pinch on Thanksgiving Day and have forgotten to buy onions and celery, no fear.  Food storage to the rescue!  You can use dehydrated or freeze-dried vegetables to complete your stuffing recipe.  It may not be quite the same texture (smaller chunks) but you can save time on chopping and the flavor will still be delicious.

Don't mess with your turkey!  Here is how my mom and I do turkeys and they turn out awesome.  Stuff your bird with a really wet stuffing, lots of butter in it.  Then cook your bird breast DOWN.  All the juice will flow into the breast during cooking and it makes the best most moist turkey you will ever taste.  Give it a try!

Mashed Potatoes
My LEAST favorite part of Thanksgiving is pealing hundreds of potatoes.  (ok it just FEELS like hundreds, but still ...)  If you are willing to give it a try, you can actually make really yummy mashed potatoes using food storage.  The new Mashed Potatoes from Thrive Life  are made of REAL potatoes and have no additives so they are a great alternative if you just can't face making real potatoes this year.

My mom always sneaks in some mashed up carrot chunks into our turkey gravy to add a little bit of texture and some pretty color.  If you want to try that but don't want to add another item to cook, just toss in some dehydrated carrots.  You may want to let them hydrate for a while first as they can tend to take a while.

Desserts are one of the ways we recommend "sneaking" food storage into your meals if you have family members that are picky or don't like to try new things.  You can use freeze dried fruits in a fruit pie, or sub whole wheat flour or powdered eggs and milk into a cake or other baked good.  Here are a few of our favorite holiday yummies that you can try yourself.

Best Sugar Cookies Ever (don't use food storage on this one!)

In case you haven't seen them on the blog we have two awesome giveaways going on this month.  There are only a few days left to enter so check them out asap!

Learn how to seal meal-in-a-jars and enter to win a FREE Foodsaver!

Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook Giveaway

Learn how to make delicious homemade fruit leather and win a free dehydrator cookbook

For both giveaways you need to be a follower of Food Storage Made Easy on Facebook and/or Pinterest and then leave a comment on the respective blog post to be entered.  If for some reason you can't leave a comment feel free to email us and we will add you to the giveaway.  Giveaways will end November 7th and winners will be announced that evening and contacted via email.  Good luck!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

-Jodi and Julie

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