Easy, Very Tasty Recipes made with typical emergency pantry groceries Better Ideas for Better Times Easy, Very Tasty Recipes made with typical emergency food pantry groceries. Doing what you can, with what you have, where you are. When you get a bag of groceries from a food pantry, it's not always easy to figure out how to make a meal out of what you are given.
Food pantries depend on donations, and often odd stuff gets thrown into the sack.
Plus, emergency groceries are usually long on beans, rice, flour, canned corn, and other basic foods. This flyer is to give you some ideas and recipes for low-cost cooking, using ingredients typically distributed by emergency food pantries. Vegetables could be one or two cans of whatever you have in the pantry. This could be rice, noodles, potatoes, macaroni. For a topping, crumble some crackers and saute them in melted butter or oil, sprinkle on top.