From Safely Gathered In – Food Storage Friday: Hot Chocolate Mix

Hot Chocolate Mix
recipe adapted from familyfun.com

2 cups nonfat dry milk powder
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 unsweetened cocoa

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How to make your own Hot Chocolate mix.

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Bart and I got together the other day and made this video. It shows a way to make your own toothpaste using stuff you probably already have in your kitchen.

Here’s all it takes:
3 parts baking soda
1 part salt
1.5~2 parts Vegetable glycerin
Some kind of essential oil (This is just for taste, so pick something you like – cinnamon, tea tree, mint, etc…)
Maybe some water, depending on how you are going to store it.

Just mix it up, and store it.

You can also leave it as a powder. It just takes some getting used to.