Explore

Concept

Plan – Menus & Lists
Price – Research the best way to get the basics at the best price in your area
Purchase – Bulk foods and sales
Protect – Pre-prepare foods and store them properly
Prepare – Use basic cooking techiques and recipe ideas, cook once and eat many times
Present – Make it look appetizing
Preserve – Store leftovers safely with a plan to repurpose them

Menus

Lists

Cooking From Scraps

Saving vegetable scraps to make stock
Wrangling your chicken to make stock and packets of ready-to-use chicken for recipes
Don’t throw that out! Pasta water and liquid from cans
Regrowing common vegetables from scraps
Gardening in your kitchen

Food Bonus Recipes

Salmon Soup – use the broth from canned salmon to make a simple, tasty soup
Soups – use leftover pasta water and canned food liquid to add flavor and nutrition to basic soups
Mystery Stew – start with onions, celery, and carrot, add homemade stock or a can of crushed tomatoes, then throw all the bits and bobs frozen over a month’s time; serve with bread or over rice and call that a nearly free dinner.
What to do with foods your family “doesn’t like”