From the article: Top 5 Convenience Foods
Everyone has their favorite convenience food, or shortcut ingredient. Mine include refrigerated pastas and bagged salads. What are your favorite convenience foods, and how do you use them? Share Your Secrets!
tortillas
- Tortillas are a staple for us. I chop up leftover chicken, ham, or roast, add some shredded cheese, and microwave it, serve it as a taco, or top with another tortilla, and have quesadillas. We always keep cream of chicken/mushroom soup on hand; just throw some over chicken and bake for a few hours. It makes a delicious sauce, without a lot of work.
- —Guest mombenne
steam in bag brown rice
- I love the new steam in bag brown rice, so easy to make stir fry, and the frozen onions and peppers are a big time saver and money saver.
- —Guest justjo9
Tortillas
- When I need something quick to make, I see what is in the refrigerator, put it between tortilla (add garlic powder) and microwave for 90 seconds. Tortillas seem to keep longer than bread and is just as good.
- —1Tania
soups in a can
- they're delicius, nutrious and they're convient, dont need anything else
- —Guest lois hastings
convience foods
- frozen mixed vegtables stir fry with rice wine vinegar and soy sause served over rice great for vegetable soups some can even work in certain casseroles
- —Guest flutter61
Frozen Pizza Crusts
- I can't count the times I've been so glad to have a stack of frozen pizza crusts in the freezer. When someone wants a pizza- fast, they are my ultimate convenience food.
- —Guest Teri Gruss
Rotisserie Chicken
- When I'm in a hurry, I like to grab one of those already cooked rotisserie chickens. You can do a million things with them or eat them just like they are.
- —CarrollPellegrinelli
Rotisserie chicken
- There are a thousand things I make with store-bought rotisserie chicken, from chicken enchiladas to chicken pizzas. It's versatile, easy and adds great flavor.
- —KidsCookingAdmin
Velveeta and Tater Tots
- Because so many convenience foods have white flour in them, and are double the price of scratch, I don't have a long list. I do make my own convenience foods though, and they are great: 1)Mini meatloaves for two, that I freeze (Those go with the tater tots, guys). 2)Roasted Tomato Sauce - frozen or canned, ready for pizza. 3)Frozen nectarines and plums and cherries for cakes and brunches 4)Frozen, whole wheat pizza dough, I triple a batch and freeze two. 5)Frozen pieces of cake, muffins or banana bread 6)Store-bought FMVs (frozen, mixed vegetables). We eat a pound a night and they are only about $1.25 per lb for the generics. They have no additives, but you can make a cheese sauce (velveeta) in about 2 minutes in the microwave. Also good with peanut sauce and rice. Shoot, now I'm hungry.
- —Guest Jen
The Stock Cube
- Until recently I would never touch them, they were so laden in salt. That has change and some of the organic ones are really quite good. Great when I am in a hurry.
- —ElaineLemm
Pasteurized Egg Whites
- When a recipe calls for egg whites, instead of breaking whole eggs, I buy egg whites in the carton. It's so much easier and that way I'm not left with a bunch of egg yolks. Although that can be a very good thing if you're making egg bread or creme brulee.
- —Barb.Rolek
