This is an exercise for me. Partly because I usually do this in the notes app on the discarded phone from my sister (thanks!) that I took a simcard out of and use as a glorified notebook and wifi device. But then I butt-deleted the entire notes app. CRIPES!!!! Still, you have to admit I have a talented butt to do such a complex operation.
And I've gotten in the habit of grabbing things to eat when I'm out and about. That isn't frugal and isn't appreciating what I have already! Most of what I have will store for ages, but not forever (the honey being a major exception) and what is the point of a garden if I don't eat/share/use the produce?
Anywhoooo, here are things I can make entirely from my current pantry stock and crap that is around the property waiting to be picked, or in the case of eggs...waiting to be laid (heh heh..aren't we all).
1 Garbanzo soup with onion, garlic, greens and wheat berries
2 Pinto bean soup
3 Lentil Soup
4 Peruana Soup (some of those beans I grew myself!)
5 Random Bean Soup (from beans I grew from a free bean soup mix...chucked the salty-ass yucky spice pack.
6 Lentil Soup. Lots of soup. To go in these I have tarragon, chives, garlic, greens, lovage, 2 kinds of thyme, 2 kinds of sage, wormwood, greens (3 or 4 kinds), squash, and eggs all from the property. (if I can find the lentils I KNOW I bought...probably in the bin I didn't check yet)
7 Pumpkin Soup. Made this yesterday with a random type of winter squash from a friend.
8 Walnut squash loaf
9 Fancy salad with greens and nuts
10 Sprout salad (have sprouting seeds to save and use in the winter when fresh produce is at a premium)
11 Bread. I have whole wheat flour as well as a grinder and rye berries and wheat berries.
12 Coconut Milk hot chocolate! I have 2 bags of dehydrated coconut milk. And cocoa powder.
13 Walnut clusters. Walnuts and dark chocolate from the pantry.
14 Breakfast wheat berry porridge with walnuts and raisins.
15 Keto-ish raisin bread with almond and coconut flour
16 Apple pannekoeken (which is my pretend german-ish pancake using any of the above noted flours and eggs)
17 Raised yeast bread.
18 Bannock bread with my new and just tested no-salt baking powder! LOW SODIUM bread...yay. Also have no-sodium baking soda that I haven't tested yet. They are calcium and magnesium based so they also up the mineral intake.
19 Chicken soup...those baby roosters and the elderly non-layers with some onion from the pantry and various seasonings from the garden and maybe some egg noodles.
20 Salmon burgers from canned salmon, fresh eggs, and a flour and psyllium husk as binder
21 Gelatine desserts from the last of the pound of gelatine (protein supplement) I bought a few years ago.
22 Tuna on toast from the canned tuna in the stash.
23 Sardines on homemade crackers from the pantry stash.
24 Tea
25 Coffee
26 Almond milk from the almond flour
27 Peanut butter sandwiches
28 Peanut sauce for a nice curry type dish over rye berries
29 Sauerkraut on Sardine Sandwich (hobo rueben?)
30 Skillet pizza with crust from one of the flours, sauce of the salsa I made from farmers market produce, topped with tuna (no cheese because I don't do that...I made this for lunch and it was super good)
31 Tuna burgers
32 Tuna casserole with a can of tuna, some wheat berries, homemade white sauce (non-dairy) as a binder, a few dried mushrooms, some garlic, spices, and a few dried mushrooms
33 Atole (a cornmeal mush type drink)
34 Cornbread
35 Chocolate pudding from coconut milk, gelatine and cocoa powder. I think I'm out of cornstarch
36 Camelina seed pudding (I grew the camelina seeds!! Yay.)
37 Chicos and beans. Chicos are a roasted corn that is then dried. It is delicious. I have some New Mexico chili powder to season it.
38 Vinaigrette...this should be like 20 entries because I have 7 or 8 types of vinegar (malt, apple cider, kombucha (2 kinds of that), pineapple (made that myself), red wine, white wine, and vinegars infused with berries of various sorts.
39 Mustard vinaigrette...because I make my own mustard.
40 Chicken casserole from the bland canned chicken and rice soup. I'll thicken it a bit with a white sauce and add dried mushrooms and some seasonings for flavor (which the soup lacks).
41 Sardines in red sauce over zucchini noodles. I have a zucc or two left in the garden. I've been trying to let them get super ripe so I can keep the seeds. Plenty of garlic makes the sardines a bit more anchovy-ish and tasty.
42 Scrambled eggs with greens in them.
43 Eggs and salsa
44 Egg drop soup from salsa and extra onions and spices in the "broth"...which I plan to make for lunch
45 Anti-inflammatory egg thing. I've been making this. I made a spice mix of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and turmeric. A tablespoon of that and a beaten egg kind of makes a curry flavored pancake.
46 Pancakes and Maple Syrup! I got some maple syrup free for attending a conference (along with some other amazing gifts)
47 Pancakes and honey
48 Apple stuffed mini pumpkin with local buckwheat honey. I got the apples off a tree on my property and the mini pumpkin from the garden.
49 Cinderella squash soup. I bought a GIANT Cinderella Squash at the farmers market. It had the shortest growing season...like 85 days. So plan to save the seeds. I will add apples or pears and onion to it and blenderize the soup. I suspect there will be too much so...
50 Cinderella squash bread
51 Squash muffins
52 Squash pancakes
53 Biscuits
54 Bannock bread
55 Rye berry tabouli
56 Wheat berry and lentil hot dish
57 Chocolate Wacky cake using honey or maple syrup as sweetener and vinegar and the no-salt baking soda as leavening.
58 Whole wheat crackers in a skillet...might turn into flat bread if it won't crisp up.
59 Popped wheat berries by toasting in a skillet
60 Kombucha (I have a mother and a bit of white sugar at the office and black tea so I can make this all winter and flavor with various dried or vinegar preserved berries and whatever else)
61 Fennel hash because I got fennel at a farmers market
62 Tomato soup from canned tomato paste
63 Veggie Soup from my low sodium veggie broth cubes and the carrots, onions, garlic and greens.
64 Apple sauce from my apples with cinnamon, nutmeg and the raspberry honey
65 Honey cake...I have 3 or 4 kinds of honey.
66 Olive oil spice cake from the olive oil I got from that above mentioned conference.
67 Walnut loaf with the walnuts and grain berries, camelina seeds, and maybe eggs as a binder. As long as one of the blenders holds up!
68 Pasta and pine nuts if I make pasta from the flour.
69 Toasted pine nuts (more realistic...because they are untoasted in the shell which makes them basically rocks)
70 Peanut butter muffins
71 Peanut soup with chicken (from one of those little roosters or non-layers)
72 Beet hash with beets out of the kvass I have brewing...unless that blew up.
73 Zucchini pickles. I fermented a zucchini in brine a few weeks ago and LOVE it. Good sour pickles so I plan to make more.
74 Celery with peanut butter and raisins. Still have celery from the farmers market.
75 Tuna loaf.
76 Eggs on toast
77 Toad in the hole...if I make bread from the flour and then manage not to just eat the whole loaf.
78 Wheatberry salad with beets and greens and fennel-turnip-cabbage-kraut (which I made last week and is DELICIOUS)
79 Tuna Noodle casserole if I make egg noodles from the flour and some of my eggs.
80 Ever more muffins
81 Scrambled eggs with kraut
82 Coffee cake...from actual left over coffee. It's like a mocha flavor
83 Spice cake like a wacky cake but spices instead of cocoa powder
84 Almonds with greens, beans and rye berries. Cook the berries, toss into frying greens and beans, then put the almonds on for the last few minutes. Hearty and good.
85 Tomato bread with the canned tomato paste
86 Wasabi toasted garbanzos...because I have dried garbanzos. Cook those up. Drain well, and put in a dry skillet to toast, then toss with a bit of wasabi powder and keep as a snack or to-go lunch protein
87 Coconut cake! With the coconut flour
88 Fancy chocolates with nuts and raisins by melting coconut oil, mixing in baking cocoa, and adding the fancies then pouring in the silicon mold my sister sent years ago. This is a winter thing when I can use the porch as a fridge to chill the mix in the mold. They are really good. Don't need sweetener but I have the various things including stevia and a bit of erythritol (which I must use super sparingly)
89 Chocolate chip cookies if I crunch up one of the dark chocolate bars.
90 Peanut butter honey cookies (yum...really must do this one...might be a good way to use up the powdered egg or egg substitute that needs to be used up)
91 Spice cookies
92 Breakfast cookies with some of the various proteins like nuts and gelatine in with the whole wheat flour and powdered egg with no or little sweetener
93 Bean burgers
94 Bean loaf
95 Pinto bean brownies (I love bean brownies but have to limit their production because cocoa kicks up the gas factor to weaponizable levels)
96 Egg sandwich. Dang! Why was this not higher on the list...an egg sandwich with my homemade bread, homemade mustard, homemade kraut on the side, and eggs from my chickens. How has this not been a staple? If I add some of my tarragon and thyme or pair it with the fennel kraut...yum!
97 Almond and coconut flour pancakes. These are so hearty and with the anti-inflammatory spice mix they make a good sweet or savory side dish to most anything especially homemade apple sauce or soup
98 Savory stuffed pumpkin with wheat or rye berries, seasonings, and maybe beans.
99 Leftovers in eggs...this is a frequent meal. So far almost everything is good fried in an egg.
100 Leftover soup...which is left overs in a pan with a broth cube (my low sodium veggie broth cubes are my go to) if you have it, or fry an onion or garlic or chives if you don't. Or just add water or tomato sauce or whatever you have. Even a can of cheap veggies with the juice. Or grind up some flax/camelina type seeds for a thicker texture and a bit of umami in the broth. Other nuts or seeds toasted do wonders for adding flavor. Also, those magical dried mushrooms...not to be confused with dried magic mushrooms! Just dried mushrooms add amazing flavor. Must tell Mom I'm low on dried goods.
101 Breakfast/Protein bars from the various flours, cooked beans or ground and toasted nuts, the raisins, and whatever comes to hand to use as a binder...eggs, peanut butter, bit of the gelatine powder.
I could go on...and on.
I have been watching and listening to various frugal youtubes and reading frugal tips.
Attitude is key and this is to reset my attitude that I want to eat grab-n-go food. It's NUTS with the amount of food I have in the house and on the land. CRAZY amounts of food. I didn't scratch the surface of sandwiches...I mean all of those beans can make sandwich spreads and then add some kraut or sprouts or both for a crunchy veggie element and it's really good.
I also have that beet kvass at the office. It's my first try at that and fermented really nicely. I have seen recipes that throw it in soups at the end to perk them up and add probiotics. I wonder if beet kvass and kraut in a soup cancel each other out?
And then there are the options for making more vinegars from the apple scraps when I add those to things. I usually leave the peels on, but the cores come out. And of course once it has vinegared I give the fruit mush to the chickens.
I'm also expecting canned and smoked chicken and duck meat coming in during October so...perhaps I need to STOP stockpiling the proteins.
What was I saying about going on and on?
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