Dips

Desperate times call for desperate measures. I just realized that I didn't have a post scheduled to come out on Thursday like I have for the past year. I have been trying to have a new post with a new idea come out every Monday and Thursday. Not that anyone even noticed or reads them, but I still felt bad.

So, I hurried and found these recipes that I recently did for our Young Women in Excellence night.

It was a fabulous evening, All about the girls and the "special" people that they are. Then we finished off with a little taster table of fruit dips, vegetable dips and dessert dips.

It may not have anything to do with food storage, but it's all about being prepared for the evenings activities as I work pretty much full time out side of the home, and I needed to have this all ready to go once I got home from work.

There you have it, rationalizing, my way to getting rid of the guilt (of no post ready for Thur. and it not being about food storage)

Although if you really think about it....fruit and vegetables fall into the garden category, and preparing it for an event (my calling) falls under service. So guilt free now....enjoy!

Vegetable dip #1:

I intended to make the dip below, however when I went to purchase the ingredients, Wal -Mart was out of the Knorr vegetable mix. So I purchased a jar of spinach dip found in the chip aisle.

1 package Knorr Vegetable mix

½ cup Mayo

16 oz sour cream

Chopped water chestnuts

Chopped green onions

Mix together and serve with bread chunks, and , or vegetables. Hallowing out a Artisan works well for putting the dip in.

Vegetable dip #2

2 cups mayo

2 cups sour cream

2 cups shredded cheese

½ packet dry ranch dressing mix ( I added the whole package of mix)

Great with all kinds of vegetables.

Fruit Dip #1

1 block cream cheese

½ cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix together and serve with fruit. (I doubled the recipe)

So good, and SO easy.

Strawberry fruit dip

8 oz. strawberry cream cheese

7 oz jar of marshmallow cream

Mix together and serve with fruit.

Dessert Dips:

Pumpkin Dip

1 16oz cool whip

1 5 oz instant vanilla pudding

1 15 oz can of pumpkin

1 Teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Serves well with graham crackers, ginger snap cookies, vanilla wafers and fruit.

Addictive!

Cherry cheese cake dip

Box of no bake cheese cake (mix according to instructions)

Add 1 container of cool whip (I only added ½ of the cool whip)

Pour a can of cherry pie filling over top before serving

Serves well with graham crackers, ginger snaps, vanilla wafers and fruit.

 

So there you have it. Perhaps there is something here that you would like to try this holiday season as your family gathers around.