First off, I found it hard to find a place to use my coupon. Target didn’t stock Double Stuff Cakesters, and King Soopers didn’t sell any at a price that the $3.39 max value coupon would cover. Finally I found a box selling at Walmart for $2.99.

There are five packages in the box, each package with two Cakesters. That puts eat package at almost vending machine prices.

These things aren’t healthy! Each Cakester will cost your diet 175 calories, or 150 calories for the package of two. Half of the calories come straight from sugar.

As far as the taste, these things are good, but not great. The chocolate cake tastes like it is full of preservatives, and the frosting has the same flavor as traditional Oreo filling, but with a creamier texture.

Overall, these things get a mediocre score from me. Definitely not my new favorite treat, but I’ll eat them if they are left in the cupboard.

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Immitation Mozzarella Cheese

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Here is the recipe that I’ve been using:

1. 2 eggs or 1/2 cup egg substitute
2. 3/4 cup sugar
3. 1 1/4 cup cream
4. 1 teaspoon vanilla, or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
5. 1 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Pre-freeze storage containers as well as the spatula or spoons that you may use to transfer the ice cream from the machine into the storage containers.
2. In large bowl, with electric mixer (use whipping attachments), whip eggs for 1 minute
3. Add sugar to eggs, whip mixture for 1 minute
4. Add cream to mixture, whip for 1 1/2 minutes
5. Add vanilla
6. Add milk.  Whip until mixed, but do not over whip.
7. Add mixture to your ice cream machine until cream is frozen enough such that it does move very much.  This typically takes 15-25 minutes.
8. When the ice cream is done, transfer into cold storage containers.  Do not overly scrape the sides of the machine canister (you eat this immediately while freezing the rest)
9. Ice cream can be eaten anytime you want, but for best results, freeze at lease a couple of hours.

Machine recommendations:

Prefered Machine Type

I prefer the types of ice cream making machines pictured to the right.  These have a bowl/canister that is pre-frozen (not in the picture) that spins around in the machine while the dasher stays in place.  This makes it easy to watch the ice cream carefully and add additional ingredients as part of the process.  The amount of ice cream made by the recipe above works well with this size of ice cream maker.  The recipe may work with other maker types, but I’ve never tried it.

Variations:

• Cookies and cream: Attempt to cut 6 frozen oreos into 6 pieces each.  Add the pieces and all the crumblings to the ice cream mixture in the machine about 2 minutes before it is fully frozen.
• Mint cookies and cream: Instead of vanilla, add 1 teaspoon of peppermint extract and some green food coloring.  Add oreos the same way you would for cookies and cream.
• Orange cream: About the same time you add the milk, also add 1/3 cup orange concentrate.  (Buy the frozen stuff that you would use to make orange juice, but melt it down before adding to the cream mixture
• Heath Chip:Add 4-6 oz (1/2 to 3/4 of the bag) of heath baking chips about 3 minutes before the ice cream is done.

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Those who think this might find themselves in a very long line when crisis strikes.  The problem likely is, there are not yet enough Mormons in your neighborhood to feed the neighborhood.

Everyone should have some sort of food storage beyond the week supply that might be in  your cupboards.  It is easy to get started, simply buy a few extra packages of food every time you go to the grocery store.  Slowly you will buy more food than you eat and you will find yourself with a few extra weeks or months of food to help in food shortage situations.

When thinking about food storage, you may want to think of these scenarios:

• You can save money on food by stocking up on items that are on-sale.
• There could be a problem, such as strikes or storms, that prevent you from obtaining food from your grocery store for a few days or weeks.
• In a bad economy, there could come a situation where you have less-stable income, and you could use your food storage as a type of savings, to allow yourself to eat even without income.
• And then there is the apocalyptic scenario where society and economy fails.

There are many strategies about what foods you should buy and how much.  There are many stores on the Internet which sell home storage food kits which may or may not be worth it.  I recommend starting with a couple months of food storage of things that you commonly eat.  After you see how you use that, then you can think about medium and long term storage.

For more guidelines on storing food, I recommend the Family Home Storage webpages from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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When I was younger, my mom would never allow us to have certain “sugar cereals” except for special occasions like Christmas. It turns out, that my mom had good cause for this.

A recent consumer report reviews children’s cereals and finds that there is a lot of sugar in them.  Who would have guessed?  Oh, yeah, my mom did.

Honey Smacks and Golden Crisp are almost 50% sugar, by weight.  That is gross.  

12 cereals reviewed had as much sugar as a glazed donut in one serving.  A serving size is 3/4 cup–I usually eat at least two servings.

If you are looking for a more healthy cereal: Cheerios, Kix, Honey Nut Cheerios, and Life contain relatively low amounts of sugar and higher amounts of dietary fiber.

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I must be doing pretty bad because I’ve missed out on those essentials for quite a long time.

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