You could spend less than $5 on rice, spaghetti noodles and bullion or gravy from The dollar tree and make over 16 boxes of Rice a roni. The boxes are about 7 ounces so technically you could get over 20 packages for less than five dollars! And I made your recipe and it is absolutely delicious!
Hi Renae, I found your site the other day ❤ love all I've seen. So much knowledge and enjoyed thrift haul videos, too. I'm a few miles on wisconsin side of Iron Mountain Michigan. Wishing you and your family a Merry 🎄 Christmas ✝️.
I have always made my own rice-a-roni. I don't season mine before. I grind a pound of vermicelli. However much that measures out to be, I add an equal amount of rice . I just leave it in a lock-n-lock container until I need it. Whatever I'm cooking will flavor the rice mix. I love your idea's.
In the directions to use the mix, you wrote 1c. Rice so that's just 1c. rice mix, water, oil? Definitely going to be making them all, thank you for sharing your video
I can’t wait to make these for my pantry. I just canned a bun load of potatoes, corn, pizza sauce and a bun load of pinto beans. Tomorrow I’ll can peas . I have meat canned to use in these rice mixes such as canned chicken, hamb, venison, etc . Will be awesome to have. When two hurricanes destroyed all my meat in my freezer I decided to can almost everything or dehydrate. But I have a lot of rice I can use for these mixes. Can’t wait. This year I canned bourbon chicken and Asian chicken along with plain chkn. ❤
Renae, do you remember the Rice-a-Roni Stroganoff mix where you could add ground beef? They discontinued it a while ago and it made me sad because I loved it. How could I make that as a mix? Many thanks!
Very easy idea on how to put together delicious rice dishes! I like this as it would be easy to put together.Thanks so much for the recipes! I really appreciate all the wonderful ideas I get from watching your video's :)
Been doing it like this myself for years so smart and when older kids come to visit I give a food box to take home with meats rice mixes veggies for a few days since their busy make it nice surprise for them . Love ur videos 😍
Is the rice long grain or instant? I am for sure doing these mixes. Thank so much for showing us these cost saving measures!! Also your writing them down in the description.
@@LittleVillageHomestead, I figured it must be uncooked. But it's either Instant Rice like Minute Rice or Long grain like you get in bags. One is quick cook and the other takes like 20 to 30 minutes to cook. I was wondering which one you are using in these recipes. I assumed it was long grain because it cooks longer.
@@LittleVillageHomestead....hi. I figured it was uncooked as these are for storage. What I would like to know is this Rice like Minute Rice which takes 5 minutes to cook or a long grain type rice that takes 20 to 25 minutes to cook. Thank you.
I made the chicken mix one so far just to try it and oh my goodness it is so good. I accidently picked up the orzo pasta so I just used it. Definatly worth the effort
Did you use the 3 tablespoons of chicken bouillon? If you did, was it too salty or not? I was I was concerned because other people have said that the Rice-A-Roni was too salty. What brand of chicken bouillon did you use? Thank you.
What a great recipe and money saving. Im going to try and add in some of my dehydrated mixed vegetables. Thank you! I always look forward to your videos.
Hi Renea!! I bet we can dehydrate frozen mixed veg and chop them up gently in a food processor. May need to add dehydrated bell peppers. This video is just awesome! A great way to sneak more veggies in too. Thanks so much!!
Hi, Thank you for this video. My IPad in the description box only lets me view the first few mix recipes. In order to use them I can’t see the water added to mix ratio etc. cooking directions. I’d really like to make some of these. Please let me know the amount of mix to water etc. cooking instructions.
Fabulous. I use a lot of rice and usually fix it plain. I quit buying the boxes as they had only about half a cup of rice in them. These will be wonderful to have premade on my pantry shelf. Thank you.😊
Renea I am addicted to your channel. Where did you get the rooster decanter you keep oil in? I am fascinated by your wisdom and endless knowledge. Watch you first thing every morning. 9:53 am in NC
Awe, thank you so much. The rooster was a gift years ago and he was full of peppers and garlic. I cleaned it all out and used it for oil ever since. I love it.
Thank you for these recipes, I’m doing them this week. One question..your instructions say 1 cup of rice for the first ingredient…do you mean 1 cup of the rice mixture? Not an additional cup of rice? Thanks 🥰
Just starting out with bldg a pantry supply.... how long are these good for on a shelf? Does it make a difference whether in bags or glass containers? Thank you for the recipes and videos❣️
Renea, you are so relevant for our situations in these days and times we are living in! For those of us who have no freezers & need to have quick and cheaper, yet healthier food and without extra unhealthy additves they put in store bought convenience meals. To have these homemade, "in the pantry, ready to go" meal preps to fix nourishing food that will taste delicious is a super morale builder💕💪🌟 when needed!❤❤❤ MANY THANKS to you 🎉. & MAY GOD BLESS you and your family.✝️💜
I like the Spanish rice version, but did you know that they make a chicken with tomato base by knoors ? I just found out about this last year. Ive never heard of the onion version sounds/looks good. Boy i wish I was still near an Amish or Mennonite area but i seriously doubt that they are in florida. I do miss that from up north. The Amish walmart. The spices the bulk items and the price couldn't be beat for miles.
@@bettywhittington9654 I will have to look for one here on the east coast. The one you mentioned is on the gulf coast. But thank you for the information. I didn't even know that store was down here.
Thank you for the recipes Renae! I have a question -- when you made the beef seasoned rice, you added 1 tablespoon of the onion power, but the written directions show 1 teaspoon. Do you prefer the 1 Tbsp.? What kind of oil do you suggest for the best flavor when cooking the mixes -- olive oil, vegetable, or canola -- and could I substitute butter instead?
Greetings from East Anglia, U.K. I was thinking, you'll have been using your new stove & oven for about a year now-it would be really interesting if you could do a video giving feedback on how you're getting on with all the functions etc. Thanks.
You could spend less than $5 on rice, spaghetti noodles and bullion or gravy from The dollar tree and make over 16 boxes of Rice a roni. The boxes are about 7 ounces so technically you could get over 20 packages for less than five dollars! And I made your recipe and it is absolutely delicious!
Thank you Renea for posting all your recipes in the description box. I appreciate you taking the time to do that for us. 💕
Hi Renae, I found your site the other day ❤ love all I've seen. So much knowledge and enjoyed thrift haul videos, too. I'm a few miles on wisconsin side of Iron Mountain Michigan. Wishing you and your family a Merry 🎄 Christmas ✝️.
Love your mixes!! Keep ‘em coming!! ❤❤❤
Afternoon from Ireland and Happy St. Patrick's Day..Begorragh!!
Thank you so much for all the pantry ready mixes .
Ms. Renae they look wonderful. Thank you for these delicious recipes! ❤ Sending love from Kentucky 🐎 🐴
I'm going to try these but package the spices in a snack size bag so the rice and vermicelli can be sautéed first. Thanks for the recipes! 🧡
YOU ARE TEACHING US SO MUCH THANKS FOR SHARING #NOT A DAY WITHOUT JESUS 🙏
I have always made my own rice-a-roni. I don't season mine before. I grind a pound of vermicelli. However much that measures out to be, I add an equal amount of rice . I just leave it in a lock-n-lock container until I need it. Whatever I'm cooking will flavor the rice mix. I love your idea's.
Hi Renea!!! Happy St.Patricks Day!!!...I like all the rice recipes. I sure will be making these. YUMS!!! Great Video!!!...🦋
Good.moring.❤❤
In the directions to use the mix, you wrote 1c. Rice so that's just 1c. rice mix, water, oil? Definitely going to be making them all, thank you for sharing your video
Yes please define..thx
The directions are 1 cup rice mix and 2 cups water or broth and 2 tbsp oil.
Thanks for sharing! I'm hoping to purchase your Little Homestead Recipes cookbook soon.
Thank you so much for these, the recipes are wonderful and I can't wait to try them myself and to give some as gifts!!
Hi Renea and John! Perfect for a pantry staple. Thanks so very much for sharing. Have a blessed day!
Great idea! My daughter and I were talking about making our own just last week. The onion mix sounds great!
I can’t wait to make these for my pantry. I just canned a bun load of potatoes, corn, pizza sauce and a bun load of pinto beans. Tomorrow I’ll can peas . I have meat canned to use in these rice mixes such as canned chicken, hamb, venison, etc . Will be awesome to have. When two hurricanes destroyed all my meat in my freezer I decided to can almost everything or dehydrate. But I have a lot of rice I can use for these mixes. Can’t wait. This year I canned bourbon chicken and Asian chicken along with plain chkn. ❤
Renae, do you remember the Rice-a-Roni Stroganoff mix where you could add ground beef? They discontinued it a while ago and it made me sad because I loved it. How could I make that as a mix? Many thanks!
Yes I do remember. But I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it. I will do some research and we can put a mix together.
Has Renae done this one yet? If so, I’d love to track that video down!
@@brandibizzle3676 Not that I’ve seen yet, but I hope someday!
Wow…you just saved my lots of time and money…thanks my friend ❤️✌️😊
Perfect!!!!!
Very easy idea on how to put together delicious rice dishes! I like this as it would be easy to put together.Thanks so much for the recipes! I really appreciate all the wonderful ideas I get from watching your video's :)
Good Morning Renae thank you for your recipe on rice mixes, can’t wait to try them. Have your self a Blessed Day.
Thank You
Good Morning ☀️ ❤
Do you have a video for the dry veggie, flakes?? If not that would be a good one to do ❤️
Been doing it like this myself for years so smart and when older kids come to visit I give a food box to take home with meats rice mixes veggies for a few days since their busy make it nice surprise for them . Love ur videos 😍
I love making these and I haven't seen the onion recipe yet! I'm excited to try it. Thanks!
I love stuff like this. Thanks for sharing.
Is the rice long grain or instant? I am for sure doing these mixes. Thank so much for showing us these cost saving measures!! Also your writing them down in the description.
No, use uncooked rice.
@@LittleVillageHomestead, I figured it must be uncooked. But it's either Instant Rice like Minute Rice or Long grain like you get in bags. One is quick cook and the other takes like 20 to 30 minutes to cook. I was wondering which one you are using in these recipes. I assumed it was long grain because it cooks longer.
@@LittleVillageHomestead....hi. I figured it was uncooked as these are for storage. What I would like to know is this Rice like Minute Rice which takes 5 minutes to cook or a long grain type rice that takes 20 to 25 minutes to cook. Thank you.
She says to simmer 15-20 minutes so uncooked long grain rice@@Pamela_Gram
Really beautiful ❤️❤️ thanks 👍👍
I made the chicken mix one so far just to try it and oh my goodness it is so good. I accidently picked up the orzo pasta so I just used it. Definatly worth the effort
Did you use the 3 tablespoons of chicken bouillon? If you did, was it too salty or not? I was I was concerned because other people have said that the Rice-A-Roni was too salty. What brand of chicken bouillon did you use? Thank you.
can you use basmati rice? And this was a fantastic video!! Thank you!!
So nice you done fantastic job I just learn so much from you❤️ Shelby
Good morning wonderful idea for rice I am glad I watched we love rice
What a great recipe and money saving. Im going to try and add in some of my dehydrated mixed vegetables. Thank you! I always look forward to your videos.
The Spanish rice mix would be good with the chicken/tomato bouillon added.
Hi from Sunny Florida, Im gonna try to make these with CousCous instead of rice.
so handy and they sound so good., gotta go to the bulk ffd store
Good Sunday Morning! Thank You for showing us this, super helpful~
Hi Renea!! I bet we can dehydrate frozen mixed veg and chop them up gently in a food processor. May need to add dehydrated bell peppers. This video is just awesome! A great way to sneak more veggies in too. Thanks so much!!
Oh absolutely you can. That is a fantastic idea as well. Thank you.
Thanks Renea, this was wonderful. 😊
What a great idea. I’m going to make all of these!
good brainstorm for freeze drying people! ha! `10
😊good good morning 😊
thank you for sharing
can't wait to try these mixes
you are such an inspiration to do homemade
Morning ❤❤🎉😊
Hi Renee which rice would be best for these mixes
Any except instant.
Back! Hey you’re looking good. Ty for these!
Welcome back!
Hope you had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!! I'm completely exhausted, but we had such a wonderful corned beef dinner!!!!!!!!
Hi, Thank you for this video. My IPad in the description box only lets me view the first few mix recipes. In order to use them I can’t see the water added to mix ratio etc. cooking directions. I’d really like to make some of these. Please let me know the amount of mix to water etc. cooking instructions.
great ideas my friend
I wonder if you can use orzo instead of vermicelli? I have lot of orzo ... maybe cook bit longer too Ty for great ideas!
You can use Orzo either instead of or along with vermicelli.
Looks super duper yummy as always
Thank you for sharing these wonderful seasoned rice mixes. They will be going on our pantry shelves. Have a blessed week.
Fabulous. I use a lot of rice and usually fix it plain. I quit buying the boxes as they had only about half a cup of rice in them. These will be wonderful to have premade on my pantry shelf. Thank you.😊
Renea I am addicted to your channel. Where did you get the rooster decanter you keep oil in? I am fascinated by your wisdom and endless knowledge. Watch you first thing every morning. 9:53 am in NC
Awe, thank you so much. The rooster was a gift years ago and he was full of peppers and garlic. I cleaned it all out and used it for oil ever since. I love it.
Thank you
🎉Thanks for sharing 👍🏼👍🏼
What a great idea😊
Fantastic video 🎉
These look really good...cant wait to try them. Thanks
Do u have to put the vermicelli
We love this stuff. But I put the seasoning in a separate bag cause we like the vermicelli brown like the boxed stuff from the store.
Thank you so much for sharing these I can't wait to make them
These are great!!
That’s nice.
Thank you for these recipes.❤
Did you make your veggie flakes, will you share your recipe.
Can you make these with brown rice?
Thank you for these recipes, I’m doing them this week. One question..your instructions say 1 cup of rice for the first ingredient…do you mean 1 cup of the rice mixture? Not an additional cup of rice? Thanks 🥰
Everything looks great. Cannot wait to try these mixes. I believe you said you got your veggie flakes off of Amazon. Which brand did you use?
No I get all my spices wholesale from my distributor. You can get them from amazon though.
Do you have a fried rice flavor mix? How about make yourown scalloped potato mix & recipe?
veggie flakes? how did you make them or where can i buy some? thanks. love your channel (new subscriber).
I buy mine in bulk. You can get them online too.
Thank you❤❤ what kind of rice are you doing is it regular rice
Yes 😊
Can u use minute rice instead
Can you put freeze dried mixed veggies in these rice mixes ?
Just starting out with bldg a pantry supply.... how long are these good for on a shelf? Does it make a difference whether in bags or glass containers? Thank you for the recipes and videos❣️
They will last for right around 18 months.
What kind of vermicelli do you use and where can i find it? Thank you
What a great idea! Can these be made without the pasta? Just substitute another cup of rice for the pasta?
Yes, however, the amount of water added and cooking time may change.
May I ask what kind of rice you use?
Do you have a recipe for vegetable flakes?
Renea, you are so relevant for our situations in these days and times we are living in! For those of us who have no freezers & need to have quick and cheaper, yet healthier food and without extra unhealthy additves they put in store bought convenience meals. To have these homemade, "in the pantry, ready to go" meal preps to fix nourishing food that will taste delicious is a super morale builder💕💪🌟 when needed!❤❤❤ MANY THANKS to you 🎉. & MAY GOD BLESS you and your family.✝️💜
Quick question! Where did you get your marble board?
My friend gave it to me. I have a couple of them.
@@LittleVillageHomestead I love it! I am now on the hunt for one here in KY. 😁
I like the Spanish rice version, but did you know that they make a chicken with tomato base by knoors ? I just found out about this last year.
Ive never heard of the onion version sounds/looks good. Boy i wish I was still near an Amish or Mennonite area but i seriously doubt that they are in florida. I do miss that from up north. The Amish walmart. The spices the bulk items and the price couldn't be beat for miles.
They have an Amish community in Florida called Pinecraft. I’d look it up and see how far they are from you. Or find an Amish store on line.
@@bettywhittington9654 I will have to look for one here on the east coast. The one you mentioned is on the gulf coast. But thank you for the information. I didn't even know that store was down here.
Can’t find the recipe directions!
Thank you for the recipes Renae! I have a question -- when you made the beef seasoned rice, you added 1 tablespoon of the onion power, but the written directions show 1 teaspoon. Do you prefer the 1 Tbsp.? What kind of oil do you suggest for the best flavor when cooking the mixes -- olive oil, vegetable, or canola -- and could I substitute butter instead?
It is Tbsp. Onion Powder. Yes you can use butter when cooking the mixes.
What is the gadget that keeps the bag standing?
These are wonderful. they are bag stands. Here is the link. amzn.to/3vi5KOi
Where do you get them big chicken bouillon powder from hun?
Greetings from East Anglia, U.K. I was thinking, you'll have been using your new stove & oven for about a year now-it would be really interesting if you could do a video giving feedback on how you're getting on with all the functions etc. Thanks.
Great idea.
how do you make your veggi flakes
I don't. I purchase them.
You could also cook them and dehydrate them for instant rice
Absolutely or freeze dry them.
Where did you buy the veggie flakes?
I get them wholesale.
Renea, What kind of rice do you use?
I use Jasmine, however, you can use any except instant rice.
Thank you.
Where do you get your vermicelli from? Do you order it bulk?
No, My Italian friend gets it for me.
@@LittleVillageHomestead Thanks.
Hi Renee where did you get the chicken and beef bouillon. I can’t find that size Thank you
I get mine from Sam's club.
The Knorr granular bouillon works extremely well. Sam’s has the best prices but they are available at almost all grocery stores.
Sam's
do you have cook books for sale
I ALWAYS RINCE MY RICE , TILL CLEAR , I WOULD KEEP IT SEPARATE FROM THE SEASONINGS
Renae are you able to do any cup-a-soup copy cat recipes?
Are you using minute rice?? tHANK YOU
No. Please use uncooked rice.
I have two cats
please let people know that if they use store bought onion soup mix they should leave out the salt