February 2011 ward Provident Living challenge

Do one of these by the March evening Relief Society meeting and get a prize!

1. Learn to use powdered milk by using it instead of fresh milk in five different foods. If you don’t have any powdered milk, Amy will give you 5 Tablespoons. (This offer good for my ward only.)

I am not asking you to drink it.  I am asking you to use it in your cooking and baking.  You can’t even tell the difference!

Here are some foods where you need to add milk:  cooked hot cereals, tomato soup, Hamburger Helper, instant mashed potatoes, Nesquick, macaroni and cheese, fettucini, stroganoff, homemade biscuits or breads,  pumpkin pie, etc.  

For the hot cereal and the tomato soup, you should mix the powdered milk with water to make milk and then stir it into the food.  

For most of the other foods, you can add the milk powder with the dry ingredients and the water with the wet ingredients.

You need 16 pounds of powdered milk per person per year.

There are two types of powdered milk, Non-instant and Instant.

Non-Instant: This type of milk is harder to find in the grocery store because it is more difficult to reconstitute and consequently sells at a slower rate, thus it is not stocked. Non instant powdered milk can be found on internet sites and at the canneries sponsored by the LDS church.  It is less expensive than instant.

 Non-instant powdered milk is more dense than instant, and thus it requires less product to create the same amount of milk as the instant variety.

Instant: Instant powdered milk has been further processed to aid in reconstituting with less effort, making it more fluffy. 

Instant powdered milk is available in nearly all grocery store. The two disadvantages of instant are the higher initial cost and the added cost because more powder needs to be used in order to make the finished product.

1. 2.  With your immediate family and extended family, determine an out-of-area contact person for everyone to call in case of a widespread disaster.  (For instance, everyone call Aunt Jane.  Then she will be the source for everyone to find out if someone is safe.)  The Red Cross says that in a disaster it is sometimes easier to make out-of-area phone calls rather than local calls. 

To make sure everyone has the phone number, you may want to print up family phone number lists and give one to each person.  (I chose to print them off myself and hand them to my married kids, I was worried if I emailed them, they would never print them off.)  During a disaster, power could be off, and then a list on the computer is useless.  I wanted it PRINTED and in their house.


One more thing:  If the disaster is in Aunt Jane's area, have a plan B.  Use someone else as the contact person.