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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > How to cook and not have dozens of pantry items going bad
 
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deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

zedprime posted:

There's two practical choices to cooking with perishables that depend where you are and what your capacity to go shopping is.

You either do a big shop and meal prep for 1week, up to 2-3 or more months, by cooking a shitload and freezing leftovers like homemade TV dinners.

Or you shop every 2-3 days.

Meal prepping is often looked down on by variety eaters but that's avoidable if you organize and do meal prep for a month, letting you alternate your home made TV dinners along with some staple meals.

As alluded to by others you can also just ignore perishables, get big bins of rice and noodles, and a pantry of canned fruits and veggies and a chest freezer of more fruits, veggies (learn which fruits and veggyirs can well like tomatoes vs freeze well like broccoli) and proteins, and just make varyingly combined rice and noodles dishes. 100s of different meals made of foods that don't go bad for years, turning into 1000s if you consider fresh accents like splurging on some eggs for fried rice or carbonara.

Meal prep is the way for single cooking

Make a nice chickpea curry base or whatever and separate it into 7 mason jars. That's 7 days of dinners. If you want to mix it up or add some variety you can cook some veggies or meat in it when you're ready to eat. Do something different every day!

Breakfast is easy to meal prep too. For example you can make Chia Pudding which is literally just putting some chia seeds and milk (real or nut-based or whatever) in a mason jar and letting it sit in the fridge overnight so the chia soaks up all the milk and gets swole and soft. Then you can cut up a little bit of fresh fruit in the morning and bammo, a healthy meal that tastes good for less than 5 mins of work.

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