Simple Recipes Using Food Storage

I am 50yrs old and hate to cook then i found this book. Ingredients are simple - no elaborate spices which i know nothing about - nor do i ever see that kind of variety when i was growing up. Recipes are simple and basic leaving your imagination to add whatever you want according to your taste. It lists substitutions for main ingredients, conversion table, and even storage life for basic pantry items that every household should have in their storage.

This book is great for those just beginning food storage. The recipes start out very basic with few ingredients. By adding more items to your food storage, the recipes get more complex and more tasty. It also has a cheat sheet for FAQs. It is not my "go to" book for cooking, but I have used it to help me to purchase my food storage in an usable order.

This book has recipes that will change how and what you store in your pantry. It doesn't have a pantry list. It doesn't tell you what to store or how much. It literally tells you how to make things with the very basic items you can find in a pantry. Like everlasting yeast.... how many of us were trying to find yeast on the shelve a few years ago? Well, this book teaches you how to make it with scraps I throw out in my compost pile. Need evaporated milk? This book has the recipe. Need a quick dinner? Or extend meat to go further with the escalating prices these days? This book has the simple answers. I bought the book in 2013 and shame on me for not reading it sooner. I could have saved so much time and money. I have since read it cover to cover... and I learned so much!!

SIMPLE RECIPES FOR USING FOOD STORAGE is an attractive, spiral-bound recipe book. It includes many very basic recipes for cooking with standard dried and canned pantry-shelf foods (e.g., cracked wheat, powdered milk, vinegar, dried beans, dried pasta, canned fruits and vegetables, canned tuna). The recipes are all for ordinary ingredients and dishes that many cooks will already know how to prepare (e.g., Basic Cooked Cracked Wheat, German Pancakes, Refried Beans, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Baked Rice Pudding, Ham Hock Soup, Apple Crisp). The book has a couple of fairly useful tables: (1) substitutions for recipe ingredients (e.g., corn syrup), and (2) food shelf life (e.g., sugar keeps for 20+ years). This book might be good to store with a household emergency food supply made up of commercially dried and canned foods. It also might be useful to a busy person who doesn't do much home cooking but keeps the pantry stocked for occasional "eating in". Because SIMPLE RECIPES FOR USING FOOD STORAGE is nicely designed and printed but duplicates the recipes and information found in most general cookbooks (e.g., The Good Housekeeping Cookbook ), I rate it at 3 stars ("It's OK" on the official Amazon scale).

Super fair price for all you get in this book. Easy, simple to understand. Uses basic food storage ingredients in cooking. You will be happy you bought this one should a survival situation come along and you have food storage yet have no clue what to do with it. Buy buy buy.

Not at all what I was expecting.. Did have info I did not know about, which was worth the price to me, however, the methods used are no conducive to my life at this time.

Just received this cookbook, and it was exactly what I was looking for! It occurred to me that it's a lot easier to store basic ingredients than a lot of prepared things. Looking for the 'lowest common denominator' in things I can make from scratch...like all the things I can make with powdered milk, sugar, water, etc. Instead of buying several cans of sweetened condensed milk, I can have powdered milk and sugar on hand and make my own (recipe included in this book). I wanted cookbooks like this but did not know where to start. Decided to bite the bullet and try this one. I'm glad that I did!

Love the spiral binding! Good price for this book. Book has pretty simple recipies that use mostly basic ingredients one should have in food storage. Nice variety of recipies. Book does have lots of helpful hints on subtitutions also. Glad to have this book in case I'm forced to use all the ingredients I'm storing. Would have appreciated color photos, but that would make it more expensive so I'm ok with no photos.