Recipes

Pantry Staple Recipe: Carrot Cake Muffins

It's Easter weekend, and carrots, bunnies, and eggs are all part of this holiday. We can do the same for these carrot cake muffins, making them easily from the pantry. By using canned food, you can have these ready with minimal effort. Carrot Cake Muffins Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1½ cups granulated sugar 2… Continue reading Pantry Staple Recipe: Carrot Cake Muffins

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Pantry Staple Recipe: Potato Salad

What is a pantry staple recipe? It is one you can prep with ingredients you have on hand and keep around all the time. We are an ingredient household where creating recipes is a necessity. I am not a huge potato salad fan because I find it too mushy, whether I bake or boil the… Continue reading Pantry Staple Recipe: Potato Salad

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Stealth Prepping: Building Long-Term Food Storage In Your Pantry

I often read website forums and Facebook pages where women talk about how their husbands are not on board for long-term food storage. They don't see a need for it, and often, the wives feel ridiculed for their desire to be better planned. He calls her paranoid or a conspiracy theorist, bemoaning that the grocery… Continue reading Stealth Prepping: Building Long-Term Food Storage In Your Pantry

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Super Creamy Hummus

One of our boys really loves hummus. I have been making this version all week for him for him to dip warmed-up naan bread into. It's also great to dip roasted chicken into. No preservatives. No cheap oils. Just all the good stuff! Super Creamy Hummus Ingredients: 2 15-ounce cans of chickpeas (garbanzo beans) 1/3… Continue reading Super Creamy Hummus

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Quick Pickled Beets

In the summer, I often preserve pickled beets from those we grow by canning them, but by this time of year, I am eating pickled beets in cans from the grocery store. Well, as I was in the pantry to get a can of pickled beets the other day, I was disappointed, for the last… Continue reading Quick Pickled Beets