Really amazing Milkshakes -- you'll have to try it to believe!

Anytime anyone mentions that they made something out of their "food storage" I become a skeptic. (For any of you non-mormon readers -- let me explain -- our church has counciled its members to establish food storage to prepare against a time of need -- it is not a doomsday thing -- it is a principle of personal responsibility and self reliance if times ever got bad. For practical reasons like cost, storage issues, and the variability to make many things most people purchase and store the very basics, -- wheat, oats, rice, sugar, oil, salt, powdered milk. This has spawned a whole slew of well meaning, but lousy recipes that I suppose I would use if I ever were starving, but am grateful to not use the rest of the time)

Today, I was emailed 2 sites about frugal living and one of them (specifically one recipe on one of them) caught my eye.

First, it is for a milkshake. I LOVE icecream.

Second, it uses all items from your food storage.

Third, it uses some pretty cool science.

So we tried it and IT IS AMAZING. If we are ever starving, I will make these milkshakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner --

Here is the link to the original post http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/magicmilkshakes.htm

And here it is


1-1/2 to 2 cups ice water (I used 1 1/2 cups)
1-1/2 cups nonfat dry milk powder
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 to 1-1/2 trays of ice cubes, as much as you can spare (I added a bunch and then added more as it was blending to make it as thick as I wanted it)
2 tablespoons corn oil (I used canola as that was all I had)
plus a 5-second squirt of non-stick spray for emulsification purposes

Place all of the ingredients into the blender, including the oil and the non-stick spray. Use less water for thicker milk shakes and more water for shakes that are easy on your blender motor. The blender should be about 3/4's full. Place the lid on. Process for a full 2 minutes. Pour into cups and serve. This made 5 big milkshakes for my family and EVERYONE loved them!

In short -- the cool science is that this essentially makes icecream in your blender while replacing the the dairy fats with vegetable oil and the non-stick spray provides the stabilizer so that the water and oil don't separate.

You will really have to try it to believe it -- It tastes just like the smoothies from Wendy's. You will want to click on the link and read all the why's and hows and the rant about following the recipe exactly. (like if you don't do the cooking spray -- the water and oil will separate and instead of creamy you will get greasy!)

So call the kids, conduct your own science experiment and enjoy the nice cool milkshake today!