5 Easy Meals To Make With Food Storage

People seriously struggle with figuring out how to make meals with their food storage. I constantly get asked questions about how to cook with food storage.

I understand the frustration. You’re staring at a bunch of random cans, packages, spices and ingredients trying to put it all together; it’s not necessarily easy.

Our lives revolve around, “what are we going to eat?” And that doesn’t change in a crisis.

It comes a bit more naturally to me to make up meals on the spot, but can’t say the same thing for my husband. He needs an actual recipe in order to make anything, even Mac & Cheese from a box. Though, I will say, he’s gotten a lot better as of late. He’s been pushing himself to think outside the box…literally. Hah.

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Let’s finally get on with the recipes!

Here are 5 easy meals you can make with your food storage:

Breakfast Hash –

Ingredients:

1 box of just add water hash browns
Ovaeasy eggs or any dehydrated or freeze dried eggs
1 can of Vienna sausages (or spam or chicken or really any kind of canned meat)
Spices (salt, pepper, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder and whatever you like)
1 can of spinach
*Optional, 1 can of diced tomatoes

Instructions:

Follow the instructions on the ‘just add water’ hash browns to reconstitute them. Also follow the instructions to reconstitute about 4 eggs.
Open the canned meat, drain if necessary.
Open the canned spinach and drain.
Open the diced tomatoes and drain.
Cut up the meat into bite sized pieces.
Heat up a pan.
Add the meat in the pan to warm it up.
Add the spinach. (at this point, you’d also add the diced tomatoes)
Add in the hash browns.
Finally, add in the eggs and mix together.
Add in the spices. Then enjoy!

Pineapple Spam –

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 turned into fried rice or be added to a tortilla.

Homemade Tortillas – (ok, technically not a ‘meal’, but an important food to know how to make)

Ingredients:

4 cups all purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons salt
1 ⅔ cup water
¼ cup oil

Instructions:

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour and salt.
Add the water and vegetable oil and using your hands, mix together the dough until it is a cohesive ball and all of the liquid has been absorbed. If the dough is too sticky, add more flour 1 tablespoon at a time, as needed. (The dough should be soft and Playdoh-like in texture, but not sticky.)
Transfer the dough onto a floured surface and knead about 10 times until it becomes smooth all over.
Divide the dough into 12 equal balls then flatten each ball into the shape of a hockey puck. Flour each piece of dough on both sides then set them aside and cover them with a towel.
Heat a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat.
Roll out a piece of dough into a thin circle then transfer it to the hot pan. Cook the tortilla for about 1 minute then flip it once and continue cooking it an additional 30 seconds or until golden brown spots appear on both sides. Transfer the tortilla from the pan into a towel and cover it while you roll out and cook the remaining tortillas.

Tuna & Rice –

Ingredients:

1 can tuna
1 cup rice
1 can corn
1 can cream of mushroom soup

Instructions:

Cook the rice per package directions. (1 cup rice, 2 cups water, boil for 15-20 minutes)
Once the rice is cooked, place the rice into a bowl then add in the tuna, corn and cream of mushroom soup.
Stir it all together.
Enjoy!

Rice Pudding –

Ingredients:

6 cups reconstituted powdered milk
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup rice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Cinnamon (optional)

Instructions:

In a large saucepan, combine 5 1/2 cups milk, sugar, and salt. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
Stir in rice and reduce heat to low. Be sure to adjust the heat so that it is at a gentle simmer.
Stirring occasionally, cook for 50 to 60 minutes. Mixture should thicken up to the consistency of yogurt.
Once thickened, remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
Let cool and then refrigerate. The last 1/2 cup milk is stirred in just before serving.
Sprinkle with cinnamon if desired.

When coming up with meals, in general, always start with a base. Let’s say you have tuna. What does tuna go good with? Rice? Great! Now you have tuna and rice. Throw in a can of veggies? Some spices? Throw it all in a tortilla?

Get creative! If you don’t have something that a recipe calls for, figure out what a good substitute would be. Do the internet search now for substitutions so you’re prepared.

Enjoy!

See you in day 20!

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