Comments on: Stock Your Kitchen: Pantry Staples

By: Sue R

Sue R — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:06:12 +0000

I have started buying a whole bunch of celery, washing it and slicing it all in the food processor then putting it into little freezer bags in portions I’d use for soup and stews etc.. It’ll keep in the freezer for a long time and works out so much cheaper than buying it by the stick or half bunch. I keep fresh young ginger whole in there too and grate it while frozen with skin on straight into my cooking so I don’t waste any.

By: AMY ELIZABETH BRACKEN

AMY ELIZABETH BRACKEN — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:34:24 +0000

Make Avacado Toast and maybe slice a hard boiled egg on it. Delicious!

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:48:30 +0000

Thank you.

By: Marce.

Marce. — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 05:12:37 +0000

Fish, seafood, algae, (like Nori)

By: Kelly - Team Budget Bytes

Kelly - Team Budget Bytes — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:26:18 +0000

Great staples!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:09:52 +0000

I have almost everything on your list except for canned pumpkin puree (caused we finished it). We have a ton of spices plus canned salmon, tuna, canned soups – cream of tomato, cream of mushroom, instant mashed potatoes, minced garlic, fish sauce, frozen peppers, and jarred salsa. I am also trying to hold off on buying fresh produce until I need it because then I forget about it and it goes bad.

For those with freezer space who may not get to their cheese and butter in time, you can freeze them. If there is a good sale on either of those I’ll put the extra in the freezer.

By: dale

dale — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:32:17 +0000

I am surprised you don’t have pickles or olives listed. Pickles for sure are a multi-usage item that’ll last forever even opened. I use pickles juice in place of an acid in my cooking and garlic dill pickle juice makes a very tasty vinaigrette for a salad. I put a dash or two in all my soups, home made or canned from the store. Once you do it you’ll be hooked too. And Olives, the brine from green olives is a good salt substitute for a meatless sauce substitute replacing Fish sauce and the wrosishtrie . . . what ever . . .the “W” British sauce, in recipes.
I am forever perplexed as to why Olive brine doesn’t wind up in Vegetarian/ Vegan recipes.

Parsley is another one. I use it in almost everything. I’ll leave you with one other thing . . . MSG. Yes . . the evil MSG. Let me be the first to tell you folks . . DON’T GO BY THE GOVERNMENT . . . . MSG is a flavor enhancer! It’s been used in Asia from 1000’s of years and MSG is made from . . . . drum roll . . .
Soya beans! So if you eat soy sauce you can eat MSG. MSG has 30% less sodium than salt so its good for low salt diets. But don’t take my word for it . . go and “Bing” it. MSG is also a meat tenderizer sold under brands such as Accent. Anyway,
I love your approach to cooking in general Madam. We all should adopt a like way in our thinking. Very well done.

By: Marianne Allen

Marianne Allen — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 05:43:20 +0000

Am so lucky as my large Pantry is bursting to the seams but have you notice that when ever you see some delicious recipe you just want to create it doesn’t matter how many spices on the shelves (in my case, many passed their sell by date) you never got the one required in the recipe. Oh well that’s life.

By: Kelly - Team Budget Bytes

Kelly - Team Budget Bytes — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:32:51 +0000

Great idea for the emergency stash!

By: Lynn M Wolf

Lynn M Wolf — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:38:00 +0000

Great lists Beth! I have almost everything on it but do need to refresh some of the items soon. A good reminder to go through them. I don’t like a lot of the spice heat you have in stock, but as you said it is a personal choice. In my canned pantry, I also keep canned mushrooms, artichokes, saurkraut, tuna, sardines, clams, smoked oysters, Spam (yes, I like it!) As others have said I also keep pineapple, mandarin oranges, and peaches. I add some saltine crackers to my dry goods list. One reason for some of the canned goods is for winter power outages. Not the big emergency kit but for a snack when the power is out for 5 hours or so at dinnertime. I really need to work on my supply of veggies in the freezer. Thanks for all the great posts and recipes.