Home canned beef can also be used in this easy-to-make skillet meal. Finish your meal preparations while it cooks.
Dried Foods
Tex-Mex Fried Rice
Bell peppers add color to this rice side dish. Stirring the cooked rice mixture in a hot skillet dries and separates the kernels.
Mango Coconut Rice “Cake”
Gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free. All ingredients can be stored. Be sure to use Cal-Rose rice or another medium to short grain sticky rice.
Pantry Soup Mix
Use this mix alone or as a base with a variety of other ingredients. It’s versatile and it’s easy. Store several Jars of it in your pantry.
Baked Rice Pudding with Fruit
This pudding can be made with reconstituted non-fat dry milk, but you will have better results with shelf stable whole milk.
Rice Cereal
Make fresh hot rice for this simple breakfast cereal or reheat leftover rice in the microwave. Rice, sugar, cinnamon, raisins.
Green Chile Rice
Add some Tex-Mex (or New-Mex!) flavor to rice. This rice is good with Mexican food or just about any kind of meat.
Southern Rice
Blackeye peas, okra, and tomatoes are the dominant flavors in this rice-based skillet meal. Seasoned with chicken bouillon, dried onion, and dried garlic.
Apricot Rice Pudding
Much faster to prepare than baked rice pudding, this is filled with vitamin-rich dried apricots. Rice, apricots, evaporated milk, spices.
Mediterranean Salad
Try this marinated vegetable salad instead of a 3-bean salad at your next picnic. Mix leftovers with warm Basmati rice or cooked pasta.