Rainy Day Foods

Are you looking for a Halloween treat that’s a little healthier than chocolate? Well here’s a perfect alternative that’s also sweet! It’s also very simple to put together. All you need is some orange colored fruit, such as Oranges, Peaches or Mangos, some yellow colored fruit, like Bananas or Pineapple, and some Whip Topping. Rainy Day Foods whipped topping and...

             Fun and easy Halloween treats! When it comes to Halloween, there are many different monsters that come to mind—ghosts, witches, vampires, zombies…but the one that seems to stick out the most in my mind is Frankenstein. So for this special treat, we’ll use Rainy Day Foods Brownie Mix to make brownies and dress them up with frosting to...

HAPPY OCTOBER!! October is one of my favorite months! It’s filled with all the beauty that fall has to bring! It’s when all the leaves on the trees change color, almost as if they’re giving an encore before they leave for the winter. It’s harvest time—the final pat on the back for all the farmers’ hard work. It’s the month...

For our last “Hot Meals for Hunters” blog, we’re letting our mighty hunter prepare his own meal while he’s out. Rainy Day Foods offers a variety of Quick and Easy Meals in a Mylar bag that has either a pasta or a rice entree, or there’s also the option of Tomato Basil Soup. The nice thing about these meals is...

I think we all have those very hectic days when all you’ve done is run run run and the next thing you know it is way past dinner time and you realize that you and your family haven’t eaten yet. That’s when you and the kids end up eating a bowl of cereal for dinner just so you can try...

Continuing on with our Rainy Day Foods Freeze Dried Meats, we’ll take our Hot Meals for Hunters away from the tin foil dinners and into the quick and easy meals. For this meal, we’ll use Rainy Day Foods Freeze Dried Sausage Crumbles along with Rainy Day Foods Buttermilk Biscuit Mix to make Sausage, Biscuits, and Gravy. Very fast, very filling...

Some basic cooking ingredients National Preparedness Month is almost over and we have made a great start in getting more prepared by storing the basics: grains, beans & legumes, pasta, rice and vegetables. Now that we have some basic foods, we need to add items that enhance the flavor and make these basic foods a delicious meal. Cooking aids...

Eating and Storing Healthy! No meal is complete without vegetables – whether as a side dish or as an ingredient in the main entrée. Likewise, no food storage supply is complete without a variety of vegetables. Dehydrated and/or freeze dried vegetables are a great way to include vegetables in your food storage supply. When stored properly in air-tight containers...

Continuing with our Hot Meals for Hunters segment, we’ll be using Rainy Day Foods Signature Meats Beef Chunks. I like to refer to this as, “A Hunter’s Soup”. It’s everything you would find in a soup minus the noodles. We start with a little prepping. You can either use fresh veggies if you have the time to cut them up...

Fall is in the air! And you know what that means—it’s hunting season! Some folks take their camper and stay out in the woods to hunt while others go out early in the morning and return home once it gets dark. Either way, it’s very hard to know when the hunter will return for a meal. He could come back...