10 Easy Prepper Meals to Cook with Your Food Storage

I’m all about easy meals for everyday life, but especially during a crisis. My food storage recipes will be delicious, filling and nutritious. We don’t have to sacrifice taste or nutrition just because it’s food storage.

Here are my top 10 easy prepper meals to cook with your pantry food storage:

Black Bean Burger

This is a family favorite. Pair with a side of canned or freeze-dried vegetables, maybe some homemade rolls and you’ve yourself a fantastic meal.

Ingredients:

• Canned (and drained) black beans or fresh black beans that have been soaked and cooked first
• Bread crumbs
• Eggs, can also use rehydrated freeze-dried eggs
• Cooking oil, I use olive oil
• Optional: canned corn, cheese (rehydrated freeze-dried cheese works!), fresh cabbage (if you have it from the garden!) and any spices you wish such as garlic.

Instructions:

• If using canned black beans, drain and rinse
• Combine black beans, bread crumbs and eggs into a bowl, also add in any other additions that you’d like from the optional list above or get creative with your own ideas
• Combine it all together really well and start making individual patties in any size you wish
• Pour a bit of cooking oil in a pan and turn heat on to medium-high, be sure to let the oil heat up for a few minutes
• Place patties in the cooking oil and cook on each side until golden brown, the exact time will vary, maybe about 5 minutes each side, but just check it, could be more, could be less, keep an eye on it.
• And voila! You’re done! Pair it with some canned or freeze-dried veggies and fruit, maybe some microgreens and you have a perfect meal.

Meat Patty

Very similar to above, you can make meat patties from just about anything.

Ingredients:

• Canned chicken, salmon or almost any type of canned meat or seafood will work
• Bread crumbs or cornmeal or if you have it, ground-up corn squares, ground-up crackers will also work
• Eggs (can use reconstituted egg powder)

Instructions:

• Combine canned meat, bread crumbs and eggs into a bowl
• Combine it all together really well and start making individual patties in any size you wish
• Pour a bit of cooking oil in a pan and turn heat on to medium-high, be sure to let the oil heat up for a few minutes
• Place patties in the cooking oil and cook on each side until golden brown, the exact time will vary, maybe about 5 minutes each side, but just check it, could be more, could be less, keep an eye on it.
• And voila! You’re done! Pair it with some canned or freeze-dried veggies and fruit, maybe some microgreens and you have a perfect meal.

Cornmeal Pancakes

We love these pancakes! Cornmeal can last about 5 years in mylar with an oxygen absorber, but you can also mill your own from dry corn.

Instructions:

• 1 cup cornmeal 
• 1 cup all-purpose flour 
• 3 tablespoons sugar 
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs (can also use reconstituted powder butter)
• 1 cup milk (can also use reconstituted powdered milk)
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• Combine all the ingredients. Warm a skillet and place butter or oil down in pan. Cook as you would normal pancakes.

Tacos

Slap anything in between some tortillas and you’ve got yourself a taco!

Here’s an easy tortilla recipe:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, vegetable shortening, or vegetable oil, at room temperature (can use reconstituted powdered butter)
• 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon water
• Mix it together.
• Shape them into balls.
• Flatten them out.
• Cook on skillet, flipping every 30 seconds or so until done.

Oatmeal

• Oats + whatever you want!

Oatmeal is a powerhouse meal and honestly is great any time of the day. I like to add a little honey and a handful of frozen blueberries to my oats to make it even more nutritious. You can add freeze-dried fruits or even add an egg (or rehydrated freeze-dried egg). The options for oats are limitless.

Pancakes

Pancakes are easy to make, filling and you can add so many additions to it while you bake. We like to add either chocolate chips or frozen blueberries, but the options are limitless. You can use frozen fruits or even freeze-dried fruits. I even made bacon crumble pancakes once, so good!

On the side, you can have shredded potatoes, freeze-dried sausage crumbles or just some fruit.

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk (can use reconstituted dried milk)
• 2 large eggs (can use reconstituted powder eggs)
• 1/4 cup butter, melted (can use reconstituted powdered butter)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions:

Grease the griddle. Throw on skillet on medium heat and let them cook on each side until golden brown.

Pizza

There are dozens of ways to make pizza, so it’s an easy, versatile meal that can be made easily, even over a fire! I use reconstituted freeze-dried shredded cheese for the cheese portion of it and it’s just as tasty as fresh cheese. I’ve also used reconstituted freeze-dried sausage crumbles and it’s great! I’ve also used canned chicken. You should also have canned white or red sauce on hand for the sauce portion of it.

Make the pizza dough with yeast:

• 1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 1 teaspoon white sugar
• 2 1/2 cups bread flour
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Combine the yeast, water and sugar and let sit for about 10 mins.
• Combine the rest of the ingredients, spread out, add toppings and bake for 15-20 mins. If using oven, turn to 450 degrees F.

Make pizza dough without yeast:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3/4 cup water
• 2 Tablespoons olive oil
• Add all ingredients together, spread out as thin or as thick as you like. Bake/cook for 14-20 mins. If using oven, turn to 400 degrees F.

Rice and beans

I know, a very typical prepper meal! But I like to load mine up. I mix white rice, black beans, canned corn and peas together for a well-rounded meal.

You can also thrown in some canned tuna or canned salmon or canned chicken for even more protein! If I have it, I like to drizzle either a little Chick’fil’A sauce, spicy mayo or soy sauce. Not all three, just one of them, whichever I’m in the mood for!

If you have any red cabbage, throw that in there, too!

Spam pineapple rice

This is one of my favorite recipes. It’s so good and so easy.

People give spam a hard time, but the biggest issue is the sodium content. We get the one that has the least amount of sodium and we eat spam in moderation, maybe only once a month, maybe every two months, but it’s an option that we like to have on hand!

Ingredients:

• 1 can spam
• 1 can pineapples
• Soy or teriyaki sauce
• Optional: rice
• Optional: powdered eggs
• Optional: peas
• Optional: tortillas

Instructions:

• Dice up a can of spam into small, bite sized pieces. 
• Dice up a can of pineapples into bite sized pieces. 
• Place the spam and pineapple bites into a pan. Add in 1-3 tablespoons of soy sauce or teriyaki sauce. Fry it up for about 5 minutes, consistently moving it around so nothing burns. This can be eaten straight or added to tortillas. 
• If you’d like to add rice and make it into a fried rice, you’ll reconstitute about 3 eggs from powdered eggs, you’ll need 1 can of peas and 1 cup of rice. Cook the rice, fry up the eggs and add it to the original mixture, then add the peas to the original mixture. Stir it up and eat it. 
• This recipe can be mixed with rice or be added to a tortilla.

Goulash

I love easy and this one couldn’t be easier!

Instructions:

• Cook pasta according to package directions (I usually just let it boil for 10 mins then drain)
• Meanwhile, cook beef or sausage in a separate pan. Or use canned beef or start reconstituting freeze-dried meat. Season with onion powder and garlic powder or whatever other spices you enjoy.
• Open and drain a can or peas, carrots, green beans and corn. You don’t have to do all of them, you can do just one or a couple, up to you.
• Once pasta is done, combine the (drained) pasta with the meat in the pan (or combine meat into the (drained) pot where the pasta was cooked.
• Pour in a can of red sauce and all of the vegetables.
• Simmer together for about 5-10 minutes.
• Enjoy by itself or with a side of homemade bread

What are some of your favorite easy meals?

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