Nutrition Tips and Fitness Bits: Emergency Prep Cooking

Nutrition Tips and Fitness Bits: Emergency Prep Cooking

Are you prepared in the event of a major storm or other emergencies? Join Kathy and Robyn as they create some easy, emergency-ready meal options to help keep you prepared for anything.

Make a plan today. Your family may not be together if a disaster strikes, so it is important to know which types of disasters could affect your area. Know how you’ll contact one another and reconnect if separated. Establish a family meeting place that’s familiar and easy to find.

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Recipes:

Caribbean Chicken Salad

Recipe

1 can chicken
1 small can of pineapple tidbits in juice
1/4 cup of dried cranberries
1/4 cup of pecan pieces
1/4 cup crispy chow mein noodles
1/8 cup of dried minced onion
1 Tbsp. of celery seed
1 Tbsp. of poppy seeds
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
1. Drain and mash the chickpeas. Blend with olive oil until creamy like hummus. Smear a thin layer of the chickpea mixture on individual plates and set aside.
2. Drain the pineapple tidbits, saving the juice.
3. Drain the chicken.
4. Combine the chicken, pineapple and remaining ingredients–excluding the pineapple juice–in a bowl. Add just enough of the pineapple juice to mixture to hold everything together.
5. Serve the chicken salad on top of the chickpeas for a beautiful presentation and amazing taste.
Cooking Tips
In this recipe the pineapple juice is used as a substitute for mayonnaise; however, you could use mayo if you are not in a power outage

Tripe Layered Apple Sandwich ( healthy treat for the kids)

Recipe
1 apple
Dried fruit of your choice
Almond or peanut butter
Chia or Sesame seeds

Directions
Cut Apple in three layers
Put Almond butter on one layer of the apple
Next, layer apple slice
Next layer is your choice of dried fruit and/or seeds
Top layer is the core of the apple

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