VBS 2009 – Food for Rome Underground

If you are looking for VBS snack ideas in general, please be sure to read my other post with lots of food suggestions.  
Our church is doing Rome Underground this year, and I’ve done quite a bit of searching on the internet for food to fit in with the theme.  We feed our workers [...]

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Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink

Er…in my case, rice, rice everywhere and none to cook with!
I learned a valuable food storage lesson recently.  I normally keep a quart jar of long grain white rice in my pantry so there’s not a huge bag open at one time.  I had already put most of the 50 pound bags we’d purchased into [...]

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Grape Ice Cream

Mix (1) 2 liter bottle or (6) 12 oz. cans of Grape, Orange, or Strawberry Crush (or other brand) and 2 cans of Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk in an ice cream freezer.
If the freezer is not full, add some regular milk to the mixture.
(Note:  We like NuGrape best, but it has Red #40 in [...]

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Cheap cleaning tips (that really work!)

If you’re like me, you cringe spending $5 on a bottle of cleaner when you can make something yourself that will work just as well, if not better.
Over the years, I’ve found several things that have saved us some cash, plus kept our house sparkling clean.
WINDOW and GLASS CLEANER
A friend found this in an old [...]

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