How to make great pantry meals: A Pantry Recipes Ebook

Pantry Meals | 28 Easy Recipes you can make with simple pantry ingredients. Printable guides with a weekly meal planner printable page.

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Useful budget-friendly pantry ingredients
Pantry Meals: The Recipes Ebook

Sometimes in life, it's necessary to live out of our kitchens with minimal grocery shopping. During these times it's helpful to have a well-stocked pantry and to know how to make flavorful and wholesome pantry meals.

In this post, I'm including some guides that I've made for you. They're free PDF files that you can download and then print. My guides are full of easy pantry recipes and ideas for cooking from the pantry, like easy sesame noodles, cinnamon roll overnight oats, and focaccia bread.

My goal is to help you put some meals together for your family whether you have a fully stocked pantry or a limited supply.

Check out the homemade bread sections at the back of the book because homemade bread is one of the lowest ingredient recipes.

Printable Guides

The recipes in this eBook are all on my website because I try to focus on boldly flavored, easily accessible recipes. I create recipes that you don't have to run to 5 different grocery stores to find ingredients for.

And I try to make sure you don't have to spend unwanted hours in the kitchen to feed your family nutritious and delicious meals.

I collected 28 recipes into PDF format so it's easy to print. You can also download the tablet version and bring your tablet into the kitchen with you.

I've also created a weekly meal planner page and included it in the book so that you can print copies to use every week.

The links are at the bottom of the post. Download my Soup Guide down there too - in it, I give a few "Soup Templates" to help you make homemade soup from your pantry items.

I'm a food blogger so I usually have a fully stocked pantry. I know that I have a larger variety of items usually than most people do and I kept that in mind while making the list below.

A couple of tips I can give you:

Substitute! If one of my recipes calls for a certain vegetable, use whatever is similar that you have on hand. This is especially true for soups and stir-fries. One short pasta shape is as good as the next. Feel free to interchange elbow macaroni with shells etc.

Omit! I use a lot of fresh herbs. If you don't have them, just carry on with the recipe. Pad Thai will still be great without fresh cilantro on top! Use bottled lime juice instead of fresh lime if you need to.

Useful budget-friendly pantry ingredients

Below are common items that I tend to keep on hand. I like a wide variety of foods and I test recipes often. I usually have a LOT of fresh produce as well, but this post is about our pantries. I'm including fridge and freezer items here too because I feel the items are pretty common and most people might have some version of these items. (Butter or vegan butter, eggs or tofu, etc.)

Canned/Jarred Goods

Dried or Canned Beans + Lentils
Vegetables
Diced + crushed tomatoes, tomato paste
Pasta Sauce
Tuna/Canned Chicken, etc.
Soup
Coconut Milk

Baking

Flour
Sugar
Yeast
Salt
Oats
Cocoa Powder
Chocolate Chips
Coconut
Baking Powder
Baking Soda

Frozen

Chicken/Fish
Vegetables
Fruit
Frozen pasta like tortellini, ravioli, chow mein noodles

Fridge (Items that are good to have)

Eggs
Tofu
Milk (freezable)
Butter (freezable)
Cream (freezable)
Cheese (freezable)
Sambal Oelek

Sauces

Cooking Oil (olive, vegetable, coconut)
Vinegar (white, apple cider or rice wine vinegar)
Oyster Sauce
Fish Sauce
Soy Sauce
Sriracha

Extras

Stock (Cartons, Cubes or jarred powder)
Curry Paste (I keep red + green Thai curry paste on hand)
Spices (Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Cumin, Coriander, Chili Powder, Oregano, Basil, Red Pepper Flakes, Paprika)
Noodles (Wheat, Egg Noodles, Rice Noodles)
Pasta, Quinoa + Rice
Peanut Butter + Jam
Olives
Seeds (I always have pumpkin, sunflower seeds + chia seeds)
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions + garlic

Pantry Meals: The Recipes Ebook

I've included two versions here:

Using the links above, you can either print it out or you can save it on a tablet and bring it with you into the kitchen. Make sure to print out the weekly meal planner page near the back of the book.

I'm linking here to my How to Make Homemade Soup DIY Guide as well.