Self Quarantine Cooking Ideas. Pantry Food Struggle Meals
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Date: 2020-05-15
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MOLOCH
Much appreciated for these tips! My favorite crisis crunch food to eat from college days was Midnight Pasta which you can make with any type of pasta (back in college we often would get four boxes of the cheap store brand mac n cheese for 1 albeit today they're much more expensive than that) and use the elbow macaronis then keep the sauce packets for other culinary 'experiments', some cooking oil & fresh (or today bottled works) garlic to make pasta Aglio e Olio. Depending on who was making it - as well as what we had on hand - would allow us to add other things like fresh basil (or even dried pizza seasoning) along with the Parmesan cheese - and sometimes we didn't have the cheese due to lack of and sometimes we used those Parmesan cheese packets from the restaurants we'd save up for dishes like this to have on hand. Obviously it always tasted best when we could follow the trad recipe as close as possible but sometimes funds were tight or we'd have friends over so we'd try to squeeze out more by adding in a sauteed yellow onion &/or a small can of mushrooms. We've made this dish with angel hair, bow ties, choo-choo wheels or whatever pasta we could find on sale or better yet in the reduced price bin at the grocer. Fried rice became another BIG item as well. Cooked rice, a 1 package of frozen mixed carrots & peas and some soy sauce (often we had those packets we'd get from friends of ours who got them from the Asian take out joints) then we did this in an electric skillet. If we had them on hand we'd had 2 eggs to give us our protein otherwise it was just the rice & a few times just onion & garlic with the soy sauce.
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Much appreciated for these tips! My favorite crisis crunch food to eat from college days was Midnight Pasta which you can make with any type of pasta (back in college we often would get four boxes of the cheap store brand mac n cheese for 1 albeit today they're much more expensive than that) and use the elbow macaronis then keep the sauce packets for other culinary 'experiments', some cooking oil & fresh (or today bottled works) garlic to make pasta Aglio e Olio. Depending on who was making it - as well as what we had on hand - would allow us to add other things like fresh basil (or even dried pizza seasoning) along with the Parmesan cheese - and sometimes we didn't have the cheese due to lack of and sometimes we used those Parmesan cheese packets from the restaurants we'd save up for dishes like this to have on hand. Obviously it always tasted best when we could follow the trad recipe as close as possible but sometimes funds were tight or we'd have friends over so we'd try to squeeze out more by adding in a sauteed yellow onion &/or a small can of mushrooms. We've made this dish with angel hair, bow ties, choo-choo wheels or whatever pasta we could find on sale or better yet in the reduced price bin at the grocer. Fried rice became another BIG item as well. Cooked rice, a 1 package of frozen mixed carrots & peas and some soy sauce (often we had those packets we'd get from friends of ours who got them from the Asian take out joints) then we did this in an electric skillet. If we had them on hand we'd had 2 eggs to give us our protein otherwise it was just the rice & a few times just onion & garlic with the soy sauce.
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Tita
When I first got married I remember my husband and I both working full-time and going to college full time and honestly only had 12. 00 a few times for groceries for a week. And we made it. I don t need to budget 99% of the time now but still like to ( why spend unnecessary. But I honestly think if a person don t know how it is to struggle then when things like these times happen they re the ones that overreact. I m not saying don t overreact to the health aspect. But the not finding everything and going crazy in the markets that s what I m talking about. Because girl I know how to live without much and I m so happy I had those hard times. ( the hardest time when we didn t have much money as young couple and living off 12. 00 bucks and live a week were he best times of my life. Blessings to you and all your Sub just became a new viewer today. Tita from Oxnard Cali
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When I first got married I remember my husband and I both working full-time and going to college full time and honestly only had 12. 00 a few times for groceries for a week. And we made it. I don t need to budget 99% of the time now but still like to ( why spend unnecessary. But I honestly think if a person don t know how it is to struggle then when things like these times happen they re the ones that overreact. I m not saying don t overreact to the health aspect. But the not finding everything and going crazy in the markets that s what I m talking about. Because girl I know how to live without much and I m so happy I had those hard times. ( the hardest time when we didn t have much money as young couple and living off 12. 00 bucks and live a week were he best times of my life. Blessings to you and all your Sub just became a new viewer today. Tita from Oxnard Cali
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Randy
I found a recipe on YouTube for bread without yeast or kneading. Peasant pasta I found on here as well. Italian bread soup. Add oatmeal to hamburger to stretch it and make it moist (meatloaf, sloppy joe, meatballs. Dried beans, cook it with a ham hock or bacon, serve with rice. Soup, soup and more soup. Easy are chicken noodle, potato, tomoto, cream of broccoli, breakfast for dinner, made Mac and cheese with dry macaroni and made mt own sauce, added hamburger. and it was so much better than the boxed crap. Go back to homemade. You pay for convenience. Making things from scratch is so much cheaper.
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I found a recipe on YouTube for bread without yeast or kneading. Peasant pasta I found on here as well. Italian bread soup. Add oatmeal to hamburger to stretch it and make it moist (meatloaf, sloppy joe, meatballs. Dried beans, cook it with a ham hock or bacon, serve with rice. Soup, soup and more soup. Easy are chicken noodle, potato, tomoto, cream of broccoli, breakfast for dinner, made Mac and cheese with dry macaroni and made mt own sauce, added hamburger. and it was so much better than the boxed crap. Go back to homemade. You pay for convenience. Making things from scratch is so much cheaper.
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Y.
I was watching a lot of your videos today for something else, and stumbled across this. What I liked about you to begin with is that you know how to get creative and do things with left overs. I was making tacos dorados, following your recipe, but I switched it up based on what I had already. So now that I am seeing this, I appreciate you even more. This is your skill set! Thank you for this. because the last time I even went shopping, I thought about the stuff I could save in my cabinets and the stuff I could freeze in order to save on money and shopping trips.
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I was watching a lot of your videos today for something else, and stumbled across this. What I liked about you to begin with is that you know how to get creative and do things with left overs. I was making tacos dorados, following your recipe, but I switched it up based on what I had already. So now that I am seeing this, I appreciate you even more. This is your skill set! Thank you for this. because the last time I even went shopping, I thought about the stuff I could save in my cabinets and the stuff I could freeze in order to save on money and shopping trips.
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lydia
Thank you so much for being real. I told my husband how much I enjoyed your multi cultural cooking. You use chopsticks and a tortilla press with equal ease. It reminded him of when he was in Texas there was a food stand that was run by Mexicans and Koreans and it was delicious. I'm surprised at how creative we can be when we have to. Stay safe, stay inside, stay healthy. If you come up with a conglomeration that turns out tasty share it. Prayers and God Bless.
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Thank you so much for being real. I told my husband how much I enjoyed your multi cultural cooking. You use chopsticks and a tortilla press with equal ease. It reminded him of when he was in Texas there was a food stand that was run by Mexicans and Koreans and it was delicious. I'm surprised at how creative we can be when we have to. Stay safe, stay inside, stay healthy. If you come up with a conglomeration that turns out tasty share it. Prayers and God Bless.
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N.
Simply Mama, Thank you and May the Lord Bless you and your family. you took me so many years back, to when I was a litle girl, my Grandparents served me some coffee with the maria cookies in it. I am 65 years old and those good memories are still left in me. There's nothing like the simple bare necessities and beans for sure. we will come out of this. if we try to make it simple, affordable with the basics, coming from our pantries. STAY SAFE, AND STAY AT HOME!
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Simply Mama, Thank you and May the Lord Bless you and your family. you took me so many years back, to when I was a litle girl, my Grandparents served me some coffee with the maria cookies in it. I am 65 years old and those good memories are still left in me. There's nothing like the simple bare necessities and beans for sure. we will come out of this. if we try to make it simple, affordable with the basics, coming from our pantries. STAY SAFE, AND STAY AT HOME!
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Shanan
I went to Walmart yesterday and I thought I would get flour and make bread but there was none on the shelves. An employee was putting out items and she gave me a 10 pound bag of wheat flour. I m happy. I went to get TP and the isle that usually had TP on it had Easter candy. I bought napkins. Thank you for sharing this with us. I love meatless meals. Well. pinto beans, cornbread, lettuce and tomato salad and fried potatoes. My favorite meal always.
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I went to Walmart yesterday and I thought I would get flour and make bread but there was none on the shelves. An employee was putting out items and she gave me a 10 pound bag of wheat flour. I m happy. I went to get TP and the isle that usually had TP on it had Easter candy. I bought napkins. Thank you for sharing this with us. I love meatless meals. Well. pinto beans, cornbread, lettuce and tomato salad and fried potatoes. My favorite meal always.
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Donna
The struggle was real with us growing up also, we would put mayo on crackers not bad for a lil snack, mommy would cook cornmeal in water, we called it cornmeal mush & it was good. my mommy was pretty creative & we were hungry sometimes but she would do something to put in our bellies. we are in the mountains so we have a good chance to eat, alot of game & my family will not starve.
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The struggle was real with us growing up also, we would put mayo on crackers not bad for a lil snack, mommy would cook cornmeal in water, we called it cornmeal mush & it was good. my mommy was pretty creative & we were hungry sometimes but she would do something to put in our bellies. we are in the mountains so we have a good chance to eat, alot of game & my family will not starve.
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Kerry
Can you do a video on pantry items you would use for struggle meals. Like there was no regular flour but they had masa so examples of what we can do with the masa. I bought 5 of those and I figured I ll just figure out what to do with this later lol. Just an example because I have lots of masa and I want to figure out more ways to use it other than tortillas.
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Can you do a video on pantry items you would use for struggle meals. Like there was no regular flour but they had masa so examples of what we can do with the masa. I bought 5 of those and I figured I ll just figure out what to do with this later lol. Just an example because I have lots of masa and I want to figure out more ways to use it other than tortillas.
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