Delicious Meals You Can Make With All Your Leftover Pantry Stuff

Anyone who has ever cooked regularly for any period of time knows of the following emergency situation: You just came home from a ride, you haven’t gone grocery shopping in at least a week, you don’t have any meat or fish defrosted from the freezer, you have very little fresh food except for maybe the slimy dregs of a bag of greens that you probably shouldn't eat unless you want to suffer intestinal repercussions, and you’re starting to get hungry. If you have to feed a family, they too can begin to feel their stomachs grumble.

At this point, you can order delivery. But this comes with the delivery hangover—a bitter cocktail that leaves you feeling greasy, broke, and underwhelmed.

Or you can cook with what you have.

While the first option seems like the easiest option, it’s really not. You can eat a better meal, faster, simply by combining a few pantry staples you likely have on-hand. And the meal you whip up will also likely be better for you, too.

The five meals that follow are easy, healthy, delicious, and versatile. They make pantry cooking—an admittedly boring phrase—something that’s actually worth looking forward to.

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