What could you make from stockpile?

[ritabelle]

What recipes do you make regularly that could be duplicated entirely with stockpile foods? I was thinking the other day that if we had to eat strictly from stockpile and had no additional cash for fresh veggies or dairy, our diets would be pretty limited or we'd be eating 'interesting' concoctions.

Another blog I read suggested creating a meal plan as a way to plan your stockpile purchases and it really resonated with me... but I'm having trouble thinking of recipes.

What would you make?

[POOTERSMOMMY]

I could make just about anything I wanted. From Thanksgiving dinner, to a finger food party.
I keep quite a stockpile, so we can make about anything we want.
I also home can so we have lots.
We are blessed to have so much food.

[warramra]

I almost always eat from our stockpile, shopping only to restock it and adding sale items. Meals that we eat on a regular basis are:

~ spaghetti (make homemade sauce)
~ homemade pizza (use jarred sauce)
~ beef stroganoff (beef cubes, cream of mushroom sauce, onion soup mix) simmer in crockpot and serve over either egg noodles or rice.
~ Kielbasa with red beans & rice (short cut to use Aldi, or store brand, spanish flavored rice, add can of diced tomatoes, can of red kidney beans an 1 cup frozen corn) simmer until rice is cooked
~ Homemade Mac 'n' Cheese (elbow pasta cooked al dente, mix with cheese and milk and bake) can add bacon, ham, hot dogs and/or veggies.
~ pasta and chicken; 100 different ways to fix this one...If I have split chicken breasts I will boil one & debone. Prepare rotini pasta, mix with veggies and Italian dressing mix in cooled chicken.
~ a hot chicken and pasta - prepare spaghetti pasta or linguine but don't drain from water. Brown garlic and red pepper in 2 TBS olive oil, add cooked chicken. Add cooked pasta and a little of the pasta water. Mix together over med heat and add Parmesan cheese.

There is a bunch more, but for us we thought about what meals we like to eat on a regular basis an stockpile for those.

[lotsadebt]

Soups.... you see recipies out there can(s) of this or that. Beans, tomatoes, corn. Add some seasonings, taco soup! Or add dumplings on top (flour) and bump up the stomach filling capacity

[Grainlady]

I prepare all meals from foods I keep in storage. Foods I put in the "emergency" category - freeze dried - meat, cheese, fruits, vegetables; dried whey-based milk substitute, powdered eggs, powdered peanut butter, powdered butter, and some other "odd" things are interesting to work with (to say the least). But because all of these things are rotated out and used, you have to get a little creative to use them.

I've purchased books that give good guidelines:
-Food Storage 101 - Peggy Layton
-Cookin' with Home Storage - Peggy Layton
-Cookin' with Powdered Milk - Peggy Layton
-Cookin' with Dried Eggs - Peggy Layton
-Just add Water - Barbara G. Salsbury
-Making & Using Dried Foods - Phyllis Hobson
-All kinds of books on using wheat and other grains....

Utah State University has an on-line publication that is loaded with recipes and information - Cooking with Food Storage Ingredients. Google the title and you'll find it.

[forHISglory]

I'm interested to see what is posted on this thread, as it is my personal challenge this coming year to make great meals off my stockpile. I hit a lot of great sales this fall and winter and have the largest stockpile I've ever amassed.

I could make several kinds of soups and cassaroles, lots of pasta dishes and side dishes, fruit salads, and sandwiches. We shouldn't starve for at least 6 months!

[old_lady_in_the_shoe]

Our menu would not change much at all..

I do stockpile what we eat.
We would add more rice and beans to make thing "go further" but that is about it.

I also have powdered milk, butter, eggs and such that I am learning to use now so that, 1. I know how if needed, and 2. that what we eat would taste the same if we were living off our stockpile.

When things are "bad" (because of ecomomics, or disaster) that is not the time to try new things and have hungry, upset kids (or husbands), imho! and if "nothing happens" then I will have a bunch of food that will "go bad" and will be a waste of money in the long run.

my rule is "stock what you eat, eat what you stock"

[mommy4ever]

tonight i"m cooking from the stockpile, tuna casserole, have powdered milk but using fresh. Sides of fresh veggies, but have canned. I could make pudding as a sweet.

I can make scalloped potatoes with flaked ham

pasta and meatballs with fruitsalad dessert

french dip with home made french bread canned or frozen veggies

I have enough things to make 7 or 8 meals 4 or 5 times over at the moment. Need to build the veggie stock more, but it's coming.

[santoria]

I just cooked Christmas dinner for 15 (aside from the turkey) entirely out of my stockpile.

[TheRootedNomad]

I am lacking the freezer space I would like for meat and frozen fruits and veggies but still could cook pretty much as always for at least a month. After that there is plenty of pasta and sauce, beans, rice, some store canned fruits and veggies, bread ingredients, lots of oatmeal and nuts.

Once we get our chest freezer in a couple of months, and I get some fruit and veggies canned we'll be able to eat normally for probably about 6 to 8 months off the stockpile. (That's the goal at least)

[thefrug]

I have enough stocked to feed us for months. Soups go a long way and can be made with anything. I can make everything we eat now, from the stockpile.

I am thinking that I need to get more broth/stock for in the stockpile. And more lentils and dried beans.

[Persimmon Lace]

Chicken ala king
spaghetti
tortilla soup
tuna melts
veggie soup
mexican chicken casserole
several type of breads
fruit salad
beans and cornbread
fried rice

Most of these would be from the pantry. I have tons of stuff in the freezer as well. We eat what we store as well and rotate our stockpile.

[MRAHoffman]

with MANY recipe ideas.

http://busycooks.about.com/od/winter...antrymeals.htm

Take care and God bless.

[itlw8]

I usually only stock what we eat on a regular basis and that was a good price.

milk, eggs and fresh veggies are the only things we HAVE to buy each week

I do need to plan menus each week ahead of shopping too often we pick up things we are out of but could wait. like pasta is not on sale but I pick it up because I am out but we do not eat it that week or the next.

I doubt my family would even notice except we would run out of milk

We actually eat better when I think we need to use up the stockpile.

[WV_mom_of2]

We eat from our stockpile constantly so I could make pretty much anything we like to eat with the exception of fresh produce of course. I have meats in the freezer along with canned tuna and salmon. I have canned green beans, corn, peas.
Pork and beans
Boxed mac and cheese
Canned fruits
Canned soups
Pastas and sauce

I could easily make
spaghetti
hamburger helpers/tuna helpers
meatballs
hamburger patties
salmon patties
hot dogs
beans and cornbread
all with side dishes of canned fruits and veggies, pudding, etc.