Chicken Chili Thrived Up

What I have loved to do lately is take yummy recipes I find online and then make them super easy by using THRIVE ingredients. Last night I took this recipe HERE for Crockpot Chicken Taco Chili and added THRIVE ingredients where I could. Less chopping! It turned out super delicious!! I just had to add more water to help with the reconstituting of the Thrive ingredients and it saved me so much time cooking with THRIVE!! The more I cook using THRIVE, the more I love it!! 

THRIVE  Crockpot Chicken Taco Chili
From: http://www.thecomfortofcooking.com/2012/02/crock-pot-chicken-taco-chili.html
Adapted by: Rebecca Gagnier

2 C THRIVE Instant black beans
1 16 oz. can kidney beans, drained
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 C THRIVE FD Chopped Onions
1 jalapeno pepper, minced
1/2 C THRIVE FD green bell pepper
1 1/4 c THRIVE FD Corn
8 oz. can tomato sauce
1 28 oz. can diced tomatoes, drained
1 tbsp. cumin
1 tbsp. chili powder
1 tsp. THIVE oregano
1 tsp. kosher salt
1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper

2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, uncooked

1 Pkg Taco Seasoning
1 1/2 CUP Water

3 T THIVE Cilantro

Optional toppings: Additional cilantro, shredded cheese, chopped scallions, red onion, sour cream, etc.

DIRECTIONS:

Combine first 14 ingredients in a slow cooker. Stir until combined. Place uncooked chicken on top, sprinkle taco seasoning over the top of chicken and cover. Cook on low for 6 hours or on high for 4 hours, stirring occasionally.

Thirty minutes before serving, pull chicken breasts apart with two forks. Stir and continue cooking. Top with fresh cilantro or any other desired toppings.

THRIVE breakfast in a jar

So excited to start this blog sharing ways I use my THRIVE Life food for food storage and to save me time and money in my every day cooking!! The first recipe I would like to share is from a recipe I found on Pinterest HERE - So amazing! My husband has always had an obsession with Mason Jars - in fact one of the first things he did for me when I first met him as a 14 year old girl was to drink all the water in one gulp from a quart size Mason Jar ah.....so romantic!! He was 17 so it made me fall madly in love with him!  So anyway, he loves anything in jars - we always have jars in our cup cupboard and he will drink out of one of those before any of our cups. Still love him for it. :)  So I duplicated the Breakfast in a jar recipe substituting THRIVE food here:

 Awesome right?

Mine doesn't look as pretty as the one from Pinterest, but I didn't have to deal with any raw meat or cut up any potatoes so it took me about 10 mins all together and no nasty freezer burn from frozen hash browns either!!  I love THRIVE food! Here is what I did:

THRIVE  Breakfast in a Jar

1/4 C THRIVE Sausage Crumbles
1/2 C Hot Water
1 C THRIVE Scrambled Egg Mix
3/4 C Water
1 C THRIVE Potato Dices (Freeze Dried)
1 C Water
Cheddar Cheese
THRIVE Chef's Choice Seasoning
Salt
Pepper
1 T Olive Oil

I put the sausage crumbles and 1/2 C water together and the potato dices and 1 C water together and let them sit a while to get soft and reconstitute while I did everything else (5-10 mins)

I whisked the scrambled egg powder and 3/4 C water together
I warmed up a skillet on Medium-High.

Once the sausage crumbles aren't crunchy anymore I poor them in with the water to the skillet and brown them up a bit then add the egg mix on top of the crumbles and season with the Chef's Choice and a little Salt and Pepper. Once those are cooked (2-5 mins) I added the Olive Oil to the skillet and then drained the potato dices and added them to the skillet and let them brown up and season with Chef's Choice and Salt and Pepper. After everything was cooked I took my jar and layered the  eggs, a little cheddar cheese, and then potatoes. This made about 2 jars full with some extra eggs for me put in a burrito for myself. :) 

I put the jars in the fridge and my husband took one for work this morning that he can warm up there. Awesome huh? Breakfast on the go in a jar with THRIVE food. So easy, so good!  When my husband saw I made them for him to take this morning he told me he loves me, the magic of the Mason Jars is still burnin' in our marriage! ;)