Homemade Suckers

It is going to be important to have comfort food in the times of trial/emergency. This is an easy recipe with off the shelf ingredients.

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup corn syrup
1 tsp. flavor oil
food color
Molds
Sticks

Combine sugar, water and corn syrup in pan over medium heat. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Cooke to hard crack (300). Remove from heat and add flavor and color. Stir approximately 2 minutes. Pour into molds arrange on a cookie sheet or marble slab. (grease molds and cookie sheet with spray oil/shortening.) Allow to cool Makes approximately 20 suckers. You can also just pour rounds of candy on a greased cookie sheet and roll a sucker in the round until it is coated.

Hints:
**Use your 40% off at Michael to buy sticks, color and flavor
**Walmart also has flavor oil.
**Johnsonflavors.com also has a great variety of flavors and the metal molds (my favorite)
**All in One Cake decorating on 183 also has plastic hard candy molds (be use and use the white plastic molds--clear molds are for chocolate only.)
**Call if you have questions or would like to borrow molds and try it out!

Berry Wonderful Breakfast Cobbler (Oatmeal)

I found a great new recipe from a food storage book that I thought I would tell you about. It is a recipe for oatmeal that you can eat for breakfast and it’s all done in the microwave. I make ahead the mix and store in sandwich baggies and then just pour into a bowl, add water, microwave, and then add the frozen blueberries and microwave again. Pour on milk and enjoy! It is very healthy and delicious oatmeal, with lots of good stuff for you. I love it! It makes a lot, so even a half serving is quite filling. If you don't have the blueberries you could certainly used sliced bananas on top instead. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

From: I Dare You to Eat It, by Liesa Card (Food Storage book))

Fresh ingredients: 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
(milk, for on top of the oatmeal, when serving)

Storage ingredients:

1/4 cup rolled oats (not old fashioned or instant)
1/4 cup walnuts, crumbled
1 Tblsp. golden raisins
1 Tbslp. Craisins
1 Tblsp. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup water (I use 2/3 cup water)

Toss all ingredients except blueberries in a large glass bowl and microwave for 1 1/2 minutes. Add the frozen blueberries and microwave an additional 45 seconds. Add milk and enjoy! Tastes like a dessert!