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Category: Extend Food Life

Extend food life and reduce waste. Solve issues with having too much of a food. Perhaps you have a garden harvest. Perhaps you are single and could use tips to be able to use what you buy fully before it goes bad. We all get food into our homes that are more than we can use before it is no longer at its peak. Here are tips for extending food life in practical, easy and smart ways.

Chili Beef Steak Ramen Soup with Fresh Vegetables
Extend Food Life, Pantry Cooking

Upgrade Your Weekday Dinner: Chili Beef Japanese Noodles

Japanese Noodle Soup with Teriyaki Beef Steak and Fresh Vegetables recipe, blog and video tutorial. Quick, easy, luxury ramen like Wagamama. Continue reading Upgrade Your Weekday Dinner: Chili Beef Japanese Noodles

Sana M. CarltonMay 13, 2021May 12, 2021Leave a comment
Sana Carlton cooking ground beef make ahead for tacos, burritos and spaghetti with meat sauce.
Extend Food Life, Pantry Cooking

Cook and Keep Ground Beef: #1 Meal Prep Hack

Cook Ground Beef and Keep it for Quick, Easy, Budget Friendly Meal Prep. Cooking Hack for One, for Two or Busy Families. Tacos & Meat Sauce Continue reading Cook and Keep Ground Beef: #1 Meal Prep Hack

Sana M. CarltonMay 6, 2021May 4, 2021Leave a comment
Roast potatoes dressed with chives and spice ready to eat immediately
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking, Pantry Cooking

10 Different Meals in One Bake: Roast Potatoes Make Ahead Recipe for Meal Prep

Roast Potatoes Recipe makes 10 Meals in 1 Bake. Make Ahead Potatoes to reinvent leftovers and cook easy meals. #1 Hack Cooking for One or Two. Continue reading 10 Different Meals in One Bake: Roast Potatoes Make Ahead Recipe for Meal Prep

Sana M. CarltonApril 8, 2021April 11, 2021Leave a comment
Tarte Tatin caramel apples in a crispy crust aesthetically beautiful food and delicious tender dessert
Extend Food Life, Food Gardening, Pantry Baking

Tarte Tatin: Delight in Caramel Apple Pie made the French way

Authentic French Tarte Tatin recipe and how to video, showing tips and tricks to make crispy crust caramel apple pie Continue reading Tarte Tatin: Delight in Caramel Apple Pie made the French way

Sana M. CarltonApril 1, 2021July 14, 2021Leave a comment
Delicious Quiche made from food that is already on hand. This has potatoes onions and cheese and it could have any leftovers or other vegetables or meat that you have at home now. Avoid wasting food and reinvent your leftovers and the bottom of your fridge into delightful lunch brunch or dinner
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking, Pantry Cooking

Quiche: Reinvent Leftovers and Aging Food into Delicious Healthy Delight

Quiche recipe flexible to use your leftovers or dairy, vegetables and meat you have at home in your fridge now. Continue reading Quiche: Reinvent Leftovers and Aging Food into Delicious Healthy Delight

Sana M. CarltonMarch 18, 2021March 18, 2021Leave a comment
Peeled garlic is fully submerged in grapeseed or extra virgin olive oil in an oven safe dish that has a lid
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking, Pantry Cooking, Pantry Prep

Garlic Confit Recipe: Preserve Garlic Ready as a Spread or for Cooking

Garlic Confit Recipe preserves garlic cooked in oil. Ready to use to spread on bread, spice and season. Roast chicken or mashed potatoes. Continue reading Garlic Confit Recipe: Preserve Garlic Ready as a Spread or for Cooking

Sana M. CarltonMarch 11, 2021March 14, 2021Leave a comment
Delicious hot berry crumble for one see the crumbly streusel topping and Lucious blueberry orange peel filling made with less than five minutes prep time
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking

Fruit Crumble for One: Delightful Quick, Easy, Hot Dessert Any Time

Hot dessert for one, bubbling fruit crumble made quick and easy with flexible recipe to use pantry ingredients and your favorite flavors. Continue reading Fruit Crumble for One: Delightful Quick, Easy, Hot Dessert Any Time

Sana M. CarltonFebruary 18, 2021February 18, 2021Leave a comment
Orange Peel Candied Crisp Cookies showing sugar top of tender blonde colored biscuit and see inside the candied orange peel peaking out
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking

Best Pantry Cookie Recipe: Orange Peel Candied Crisp

THE BEST Pantry Cookie Recipe, Orange Peel Candied Crisp Top Cookie. Tender shortbread, crisp candied top and luxurious candied orange peel for flavor. Second to none! Continue reading Best Pantry Cookie Recipe: Orange Peel Candied Crisp

Sana M. CarltonJanuary 26, 2021January 26, 2021Leave a comment
Cherry Pie the right size for two to share or for one to enjoy over a couple days. Beautiful, delicious hot dessert the size to avoid wasting food.
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking, Pantry Cooking

Pie for One or Two: Quick and Easy, Hot Dessert

Bake a hot pie for one or two, quick and easy, delicious dessert. Right size; no food waste recipe. Romantic to share. Continue reading Pie for One or Two: Quick and Easy, Hot Dessert

Sana M. CarltonJanuary 21, 2021January 21, 2021Leave a comment
Thrive during an emergency with hardy, delicious, self stable meals. Make "Power Outage Turnovers" to sustain you for days
Emergency Prep, Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking, Pantry Cooking

Thrive in Emergency: Meals that Last, Quick, Easy, Yummy, & Hardy

Prepare Meals for a Power Outage or an Emergency. Eat hardy, delicious food that will last for days. Make Power Outage Turnovers Continue reading Thrive in Emergency: Meals that Last, Quick, Easy, Yummy, & Hardy

Sana M. CarltonDecember 31, 2020January 17, 2021Leave a comment

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