I made the mistake of tasting, then buying the individual cooked sticky rice bowls from Costco. Mistake because I live alone and don’t eat much rice. These bowls are pretty good though - decent quality rice, 90 seconds in the microwave, a glug of a premade sauce like Soy Vay (or even just soy sauce, which is how they sampled them at Costco) and you’re set.
(The Food Bank got half, so win-win.)
By request, DH had fried egg/cheese sandwich last night also! I added a slice of swizzled ham to his, and to my croque monsieur, in this case an open faced ham and cheese with layer of bechemel on top. Well satisfied!
Me too, and I didn’t remember that! Good idea.
Not even your local Stop & Shop or Instacart for delivery in your area?
Yellowfin in olive oil is Al ways in my pantry. Tonnino ventresca fillets in olive oil come in tins (smaller than the jars). They can be savored as is.
Annie’s Mac & cheese comes in individual microwave cups. I tried some in an Imperfect Foods order. Add a little cream or butter after nuking, and some nutmeg, I’m going to keep some on hand.
I don’t know if this might work or not… but I keep some “Just add water” pancake mix in the pantry (for my migraine days). I also keep some blueberries in the freezer, so I’ll take a few blueberries heat them for 30 seconds in the microwave. Make Sunshine some blueberry pancakes for dinner, then crawl back into bed. She drowns the pancakes in butter and syrup and is quite happy. I’ve heard it called “Breakfast for Dinner”
Not the healthiest dinners… but it works.
Further to my previous post about rice bowls - I don’t know if they’re available in the US outside Costco.
Yes, they are. I had a pandemic stash.
I remember getting a badge for emergency preparedness that involved boiling water and using chlorine, cooking with gathered wood, making a fire but we didn’t have to hunt or kill any animals. l would be a vegetarian if I had to do that. My husband confessed that when he caught his first fish from our boat on Cape Cod Bay he wasn’t sure he could bring it home and eat it, but then it spewed a ton of smaller fish onto the deck of of the boat and he lost his reluctance…life at the top of the food chain.
I was a girl scout way longer then I cared to admit at the time, and what I remember most was the “recipe” for “Blushing Bunny”!
Might be a good addition to your thread!
Pinning these older threads here
I grew up in a Scouting family, was a Girl Scout even as a high school senior and got called out and ridiculed by my band director for choosing a scouting event over his concert. Scouts made me self reliant and sure of myself. I’m in my 70s’ now. I have never been in a situation that I don’t think I can overcome. So now I have to accept that I need to think as an old person who can’t go safely down the basement stairs and have to keep a pantry of things to get me through “old and hungry”.
Quick things for when I’m hungry and don’t want to expend energy:
So, reading this over, my go to fridge and pantry staples are cheeses, tuna, tortilla and pretzel chips, bread or English muffins, potatoes, butter, and salsa or hot sauce. I also tend to keep Birds Eye frozen vegetables that can be nuked.
My next level up from these are eggs and pasta, if I have just that little bit more effort I am willing to expend. Angel hair cooks in about 4 minutes - add butter, pepper, and grated parm and I’m done.
I didn’t realize Annie’s made microwavable cups. I used to make their boxed mac and cheese for my kids sometimes if I was going out, but these days I wouldn’t bother just for me. A microwavable cup, on the other hand . . .
‘White cheddar” and “aged cheddar” - two kinds!
ETA evidently 3 kinds - there’s a deluxe rich and creamy Classic Cheddar, too. Unless it’s been superseded 
ETA2- the classic cheddar has a squeeze tube of cheese sauce. The other ones have a powder packet. I liked the powder ones just fine - I’ll order the squeeze packets in the interest of science. 
Who’s your dealer, er, I mean source? (Since you have to order them - Amazon? Local store?) Thanks!
And remember, frozen bagged small vegetables like peas or corn can be used as emergency ice packs. So your freezer becomes a first-aid kit!
I got my first ones from
Imperfect Foods - source of weekly pandemic boxes of misshapen vegetables. I did order from Amazon, but Instacart shows me they are available at Safeway and Wegmans. I didn’t check further. That tells me they’re widely available.
Yeah - frozen peas. I used them to ice my shoulder after rotator cuff surgery. Rinse and repeat. That was a bitch 0f pain.
