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Tips and Tricks…to make the most of your pantry staple foods
Canned Chicken
You can substitute canned chicken in any recipe Salads
that you would use chicken breast for. Here are • Mix with cream cheese and green onion and serve on
some ideas: a cracker.
Chicken soup • Lettuce, tomatoes, and any other salad fixin’ you like
• Add to broth or bouillon, stir in some drained served with your favorite dressing.
canned (or frozen) veggies, eat with pasta • Mayo, celery, and onion (optional) served on bread,
noodles and make it chicken noodle soup. crackers, or even rolled in a tortilla to make a wrap.
• Add to Ramen noodles along with some • Waldorf Chicken Salad- chopped apples, walnuts,
vegetables to make a hearty meal. celery, and dried cranberries. Serve on bread or
Casseroles crackers.
• Cream of Mushroom soup and peas serve this Make a chicken patty
over rice, or pasta. • Sautee some onion, add breadcrumbs, and egg to
• Condensed soup, cooked pasta, cheese and a bind it together and sauté, bake or broil. Serve on a
frozen or canned vegetable roll with your favorite creamy dressing. Add some
Mexican Tabasco or Red Hot if you want to spice it up.
• Sautee with some chile powder or taco seasoning Add to
for chicken tacos or serve with tortilla chips to • Hamburger helper
make nachos. (don’t forget the other taco fixings) • Pasta alfredo
• Use it in a quesadilla. • Macaroni and cheese
• Sautee with some taco seasoning or chile
powder, roll with some cheese in a corn tortilla,
bake in the oven to make enchiladas.
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Canned Tuna
You can substitute canned tuna in any recipe that you would use chicken breast. Here are some additional ideas:
Warm
• Tuna noodle casserole – condensed soup, drained canned vegetables, cooked pasta
• Linguini Puttanesca (or any pasta)- canned tomatoes, olives, sautéed garlic
• Macaroni and Cheese
• Add to marina sauce and serve over pasta
• Old fashioned tuna melt- tuna salad on bread, crackers, English muffin, topped with cheese and toasted
Cold
• Tuna fish salad- Mayo, lettuce or celery, on a cracker, bread, in a wrap or just plain in a bowl.
• With beans, fresh tomatoes, olives topped with vinegar and oil.
• Pasta Salad – fresh green beans, carrots, and pasta topped with Italian dressing.
• With crispy chopped bacon and tomato wrapped in lettuce.
Rice… is a blank slate
Do you know you can add rice to any meal? It is a great filler and makes for full bellies!
Breakfast (Rice continued)