I’m getting really tired of my food expiring before I make anything with it, and I want to quit buying anything that can’t be frozen or last several months in the cupboard.
find a Russian cookbook.
Rice, beans (canned or dried - dried lasts “forever” basically), canned or tinned meats or dried meats. Most hot sauces (Louisiana). Pasta. Pasta with ‘tinned’ sauces. etc.
Both pasta and many pasta sauces last a very long time without refrigeration (although the latter only if you don’t take it out of the jar).
(although the latter only if you don’t take it out of the jar).
I mean that is true for most (all?) non-perishable food. If you treat it in the wrong way you can make it spoil faster. Otherwise it probably wouldn’t be digestible at all.
Yah, pasta is such a great dish. It lasts forever and you can use it in so many ways. Most of my diet is just variations on the typical “pasta with sauce” formula.
An easy way to add some vitamins and fiber, buy a bag of frozen broccoli cuts or other cut veggies and throw some in the boiling water when your pasta is almost done. When they froze it they cooked it a little, so you’re really just heating it up while your pasta finishes cooking. Use a rubber band or something to close the bag if you’re only using part of it. You can do this with frozen peas, cauliflower, green beans, or other veggies, but not soybeans/edamame! They have to be cooked separately to be sure they’re fully cooked, or they can make you sick.
Unlike canned, frozen vegetables retain the nutrients of fresh. And you’re not opening the drawer to find they’ve gone moldy.
That sounds interesting. What are some good pasta dishes that go with veggies? I’m just imagining putting broccoli in my Kraft Dinner water and laughing.
I guess that one garlic recipe from Italy might work. It would pare nicely with some of the more savoy vegetables like carrots and sweet potatoes. The extra vitamins and flavor in the noodles would certainly be nice, and I’d get a nice side dish, too.
I’m having a hard time figuring out, if these exist elsewhere, but over here, I can buy dried soy shreds, which are really great for pasta.
Here's a product I can buy over here, to give you an idea.
So, those are roughly meatball-shaped. There’s also smaller one’s which kind of work in sauces like minced meat.
They don’t taste like meat, more like wheat, but they give you the same protein and chewiness and can be kept in a cupboard basically until the end of time.
I agree with beans & rice, that is the framework for a million great meals.
Whole canned tomatoes are very helpful to have around. Also canned coconut cream and the little cans of curry paste.
Triscuits crackers and nuts are good things to have on hand if you need snacks with calories.
If you are willing to buy lemons, oils, spices, and onions and garlic, you will be able to have a very vibrant and delicious healthy diet with canned or dried beans, canned tuna and sardines, canned tomatoes.
We’ve been making salads lately out of canned fish and canned beans to use them up! Usually just add some onion and dried parsley 😊
