Recipes from your pantry are great to make any time you fancy. Extend food Life, avoid wasting food, and make delicious healthy foods for one, for two or for the whole family.

Recipe Round-Up

Recipes for One, for Two, Leftover Reinventions and Pantry Baking and Cooking

Avoid Wasting Food: Refrigerator Clear Out Recipes that are flexible to use with what you have at home right now

Leftovers Fried Rice, Refrigerator Clear Out, Flexible Ingredient
Flexible Fried Rice Recipe for those days you want to do a Refrigerator Clear Out. Cook for one, for two, or for the whole family. Use the vegetables, meat and dairy that you have in your home fry up delicious fried rice. Home cooking idea for dinner any time and budget friendly cost and sustainable. Flexible recipe idea for quick prep, quick cook and delicious, healthy eating.
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Fried rice made from what you have at home right now shows the cooking and the delicious outcome
Leftovers Quiche, Refrigerator Clear Out with Flexible Ingredients
Use the food you have on-hand in a delicious and super easy Quiche recipe. Extend food life and avoid wasting food by using the vegetables, dairy and meat you have in your home right now; true home cooking idea. This recipe helps you make a delicious, nutritious and now sustainable, healthy quiche.
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Quiche is a delicious meal easily made from food that is about to spoil in your fridge. Use vegetables, dairy and meat you have left in your refrigerator
Leftovers Burrito, refrigerator clear out using flexible ingredients
Flexible ingredient burrito recipe made from ingredients you have at home, super easy and quick. Burritos can be healthy, cheesy, for one, for two, for the whole family. Everyone will love these awesome burritos. Make them with your leftover chicken, beef, pork, hamburger meat, vegetables, eggs, refried beans, salad, greens, tomatoes, avocado, cheese, and potatoes. Spice it up with hot sauce, chilis, jalapeños. Be inspired with all the ideas that you find from food you have in your home now. Sustainable and great for a weekend clear out to avoid food waste and extend the life of food.
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Burrito delicious and from food you have in your refrigerator right now
Power Outage Turnovers: Delicious Emergency Food
Power Outage Turnovers are delicious emergency food that is shelf stable for days. You can make them quick and super easy, and keep yourself and your family well-fed to thrive during an emergency, not only survive.
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Make emergency food that is shelf stable and yet delicious to help you thrive even during a crisis. These Power Outage Turnovers show you how to make a great recipe idea that will sustain you during an emergency and help you thrive.
Eggs in Cups or Eggs Cocotte, easy breakfast for one, leftovers and flexible ingredient
Egg in a Cup or Eggs Cocotte are as super easy as they sound to cook and even more delicious! An egg, some cream and your ingredients from your home are all you need for this quick DIY recipe for one, or for two, or for your whole family. Make it cheesy or healthy, it is flexible to bake up with the ingredients you love and want to use up from leftovers or in your fridge.
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Eggs in Cups or Oeufs en Cocotte takes eggs and cream and the food you have in the refrigerator to make a delicious meal for one or for two recipe to avoid food waste

Meal Prep “Make Ahead” Recipes to Make A Week of Different Meals with One Cook

Roast Potatoes, 10 Meals in One Bake
Delicious Roast Potato Recipe, delivers flavor now. Make 10 Meals from one bake with this recipe and instructions to store, reuse and reinvent. Make Ahead potatoes to use in breakfast burritos, Spanish tortilla / potato quiche, home fries, curries, casseroles, hot pots, potato hash and more. Blog includes multiple recipes to make from this one easy roast potatoes cook.
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Roast potatoes dressed with chives and spice ready to eat immediately
Ground Beef, Meal Prep for tacos, spaghetti and meat sauce, burritos, casseroles and more
Cook Ground Beef in bulk for quick, easy and budget friendly meal prep. Make delicious instant lunches and meals such as tacos, spagetti and meat sauce, burritos, casseroles and more. Make yummy ground beef for now and learn how to save it in the fridge and freezer. Great for cooking for one, for two, for students, for busy families.
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Sana Carlton cooking ground beef make ahead for tacos, burritos and spaghetti with meat sauce.

Extend Food Life: Recipes to Preserve Harvest Fresh Food at the Peak of Flavor and Nutrients

Garlic Confit: Preserve Garlic in Oil
Garlic Confit cooks garlic in oil preserving it for months. Use the garlic as an instant spread for bread. Use it to cook sauces, dips and entrees such as garlic mashed potatoes or garlic chicken. Saves garlic at its peak of freshness, flavor and nutrients. Use the delicious garlic infused oil for cooking or dressing, too.
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Garlic with a garlic tool grape seed oil and a canning jar ready to cook up Garlic Confit
Zucchini / Courgette Bread from Pantry and Garden, Extend the Life of Zucchini
Zucchini Bread or Courgette Bread is a moist, tender treat with a full flavor profile to enjoy for snacks, breakfast or dessert. Freezing beautifully, extend the life of your zucchini by baking delicious loaves to enjoy for months or share as gifts.
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Zucchini bread loaf delicious and waiting to be eaten
Authentic Tarte Tatin inspired by origin Tatin Sisters recipe
Authentic French Tarte Tatin recipe by inspired by origin Tatin Sisters recipe. Kitchen techniques of Chef Raymond Blanc from "Kitchen Secretes" enhance this recipe ease and simplicity. My take on this delightful dessert is to use harvest fresh apples or other fruit at the peak of freshness and nutrients. Adjust the size of the Tarte Tatin so you use all your fresh fruit – apples, pears, plums, peaches and more.
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Authentic French Tart Tatin showing crispy crust and tender caramel apples

Recipes for One

Japanese Noodle Soup Chili Beef Steak Ramen
Fresh luxurious Chili Steak Japanese Ramen Noodle Soup, similar to Noodle Shops or Wagamama. Easy and quick to make yet complex and sophisticated in flavor. Bright fresh vegetables, spicy-umami-sweet-acid flavorful balanced broth, quick seared and sliced beef steak, delicate and tasty Japanese ramen noodles.
Not sad instant ramen. Slurp worthy Japanese noodle soup resplendent with perfectly cooked meat and vegetables. Spiced, heated and rested to perfection. Yet quick and easy to make.
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Slurp-worthy Japanese Noodle Soup Chili Beef Steak, Quick and easy cooking for one
Quick and Easy Pie for One or Two
Bake a quick and easy fruit pie for one or for two using readymades or simple pie crust and fruit pie filling. Make it to share with that special someone for an Anniversary or Valentines Day. Or make it for one or two on any day, it is so simple yet delicious!
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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.
Fruit Crumble for One in 1 Minute Prep, super easy hot dessert for one
Make a Fruit Crumble Any Time for one, for two, for as many as you want. Super easy recipe, make streusel/crumble once and freeze it to use over and over. Put berries or sliced fruit in a ramekin, place ready-made streusel on top. Bake. Voila! Delicious dessert. Making a sweet treat couldn't be easier.
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Fruit crumble hot dessert for one video tutorial and recipe at ready and thriving .com
Streusel Topping, Make Ahead
Make Streusel Topping ahead and freeze it to use it anytime. Use it to make a hot dessert for one or for two any time. Use it to add to the top of a crumble, cobbler, pie, coffee cake or muffin. See Ready and Thriving Fruit Crumble for One in 1 minute recipe.
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streusel topping from freezer bag is crumbled on top of the fruit crumble in large cobbles like a cobbler

Delicious Baked Treats from Your Pantry

Foolproof Battenberg Cake using cake mix
Super easy Battenberg Checkerboard cake using shop bought cake mix, frosting and marzipan. Spend your time decorating and making a beautiful checkerboard design and ensure a moist, delicious cake at home. Very detailed instructions so you cannot go wrong at any point. Top tips and tricks to baking with excellence are provided.
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Lavender and Lemon Checkerboard Battenberg cake is strikingly beautiful
Double Chocolate Decadent Brownies from pantry
Double Chocolate Brownies are fudgy with a crisp top and super easy to make from your pantry. Make them into a homemade gift brownie mixes for loved ones to enjoy any time.
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Double Chocolate Brownie from pantry
Tender Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookies from pantry
These Chocolate Chip Cookies can be made from your pantry any time. Extra tender, gooey and delicious, these cookies are also super easy and quick to make. Excellent to prepare dry ingredients as to gift in gift mix jars.
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Gift mix made in a bell canning jar makes a homemade gift with delicious outcomes. Recipes for brownies, hot cocoa and chocolate chip Cookes are included plus what to put on the gift card so it can be baked quick and easy
THE Best Cookie: Orange Peel Candied Crisp. quick and easy
Orange, Lemon or Lime Cookies that are tender inside and have a crisp sugar crunch on the top give one of the best bites ever in cookies. Make them from your pantry. Use your homemade candied peel, if you have it. A fresh orange, lemon or lime will also work deliciously.
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Orange Peel Tender Cookies with Sugar Crisp Top
Junket Probiotic Custard Treat
Junket Probiotic Custard is a delicious dessert or snack, super easy to make in 10 minutes from scratch. A healthy treat rich in natural probiotics, yet something you and your family will crave. Flexible to make in your favorite flavors.
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Maple syrup and cinnamon flavored Junket Rennet custard delicious and ready to eat in minutes
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake: Brownie, Chocolate Cheesecake, Ganache
Chocolate Cheesecake topped by Chocolate Brownie all slathered by a shiny Chocolate Ganache. Inspired by The Cheesecake Factory Jack Daniel's Upside Down Double Chocolate Cheesecake. Flavored with Jack Daniels. Can also be flavored with Orange Zest and Juice, Almond extract, Vanilla extract, or Peppermint extract for non-alcoholic take. Can also go without extra flavors for a "Death by Chocolate" rich chocolate experience. Always my go to celebration dessert to share with others; people always come back for seconds. Delicious, lucious baked cheesecake with fudgy and crispy topped brownie layer, covered exquisitly with a luxurious chocolate ganache.
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Slice of Triple Chocolate Cheesecake, showing layers of chocolate cheesecake topped by brownie all covered in chocolate ganache. Flavored with Jameson's Whiskey. It tastes similar to The Cheesecake Factory Jack Daniel's Upside Down Double Chocolate Cheesecake