Food Storage Oatmeal and Homemade Wassail

Lately I have been putting a lot of my focus on our food storage (or lack of it). We've always lived close to family, and Landon's dad has always had enough food storage for all of us. What a blessing. We always knew that all we had to do was get to Bumpa's house, and we'd be okay.

Now that we live 100's of miles away, that's not quite a reality for us. So, I've been getting food storage of our own. I know, I know, I should have been doing it all along, but I didn't. I really wanted to store food that we would eat, and that we knew how to eat. I didn't want a bunch of stuff that I had no idea how to use. I'm thinking that once a week I'm going to make a meal from my food storage. That way, I learn how to cook with it, and it's being rotated! This month I'm focusing on oats. So, for breakfast I made this yummy oatmeal with all pantry items, except for the apple. However, it would be just as good without it! It was delicious, and super easy.

Landon and I have also been cooking up big pots of homemade wassail. We love it, and it tastes so good on a cold fall morning, or night, or afternoon. YUMMO!