Simple Meals from What You Have
100+ recipes for turning ordinary pantry staples, food-box ingredients, and inexpensive groceries into meals you’ll actually want to eat.
Why I Wrote Food Box Favorites
I wrote Food Box Favorites for people who have to make the most of what they have.
Food boxes and food pantries don’t always give you exactly what you need for a recipe. You might get three cans of beans, a jar of applesauce, some pasta, and something you’ve never cooked before.
This book is about figuring out what to do with those ingredients.
It’s also for anyone trying to stretch a grocery budget without spending every Sunday doing elaborate meal prep.
What’s Inside
- 100+ Recipes
- Recipes built around ordinary, inexpensive ingredients
- Pantry staples and food-box ingredients
- Practical substitutions
- Tips for making ingredients stretch
- Measurement conversions
- Cooking terms glossary
- Ingredient index
What Makes This Cookbook Different?
This isn’t a cookbook that assumes you have a perfectly stocked kitchen.
You just might not have:
- Every spice
- A jumbo kitchen
- A lot of time
- A huge grocery budget
- Tons of energy for cooking
- The exact ingredient listed
And that’s okay.
The goal isn’t perfect cooking. The goal is making something good out of what you’ve got.
Who’s It For?
Food Box Favorites is for:
- People receiving nutrition assistance from food pantries or food banks
- Families trying to stretch their grocery budget
- People cooking from pantry staples
- Anyone learning to cook on a tight budget
- Busy people who need practical meals that won’t fail
- Anyone who’s ever looked at a random pile of groceries and thought, “Oooooookay… what in the world am I supposed to do with this??”
Get Your Copy!
Ready to get cooking? Food Box Favorites is available in three formats: paperback, spiral, and ebook.
Can’t afford the cookbook?
Hey, I’ve been there. And times are tough. Not even going to pretend that they aren’t.
Ask your local library to carry Food Box Favorites!
If you’d like to read Food Box Favorites but purchasing a copy isn’t in your budget, ask your local library to consider adding it to their collection. This isn’t an afterthought; this is part of my mission: To get this resource into as many hands and communities that can use it.
Want to help someone else get a copy?
You can sponsor copies of Food Box Favorites for distribution through food pantries and community organizations.
Are you a food bank, food pantry, or organization that addresses food insecurity in your community? Register here to receive a copy of the cookbook from the generous sponsors who’ve made a contribution to provide you a copy.
Not ready to commit just yet?
That’s okay. I’ve thought of you too.
Get Food Box Freebies free. Five recipes to help you make the most of ordinary pantry and food-box ingredients.
If anything about my cookbook has intrigued you, please help me spread the word of its availability to other groups and organizations that help address hunger and food insecurity. Sharing on social media and leaving positive reviews help so much!
Momma
