Recipe · 15 min · 2 servings
Banana oat pancakes from leftover bananas
Spotted bananas, oats, an egg, and milk. Fifteen-minute breakfast that uses fruit before it goes to the bin.
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Recipes worth cooking
Original recipes written for PantryZero, plus a few guides on cooking from what you already have. Each recipe is in the app, so you can score it against your pantry and send the gap to the grocery list.
Recipe · 25 min · 4 servings
25-minute chickpea coconut curry
Chickpeas, a can of coconut milk, onion, and the spices already in the drawer. A weeknight curry without a paste jar.
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Recipe · 10 min · 4 servings
10-minute garlic sautéed broccoli
Broccoli, garlic, olive oil, and lemon. The side that uses the head in the crisper before it yellows.
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Guide
What to cook with leftover chicken
Last night’s chicken is tonight’s dinner if you stop treating leftovers as a failure. Rice, tortillas, and a skillet do the rest.
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Recipe · 25 min · 4 servings
25-minute mushroom pasta
Mushrooms, garlic, pasta, and parsley. The dinner you cook when the carton has two days left.
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Recipe · 20 min · 2 servings
20-minute peanut noodles
Rice noodles, peanut butter, soy sauce, garlic, and lime. A pantry sauce you stir in a mug.
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Recipe · 25 min · 4 servings
Weeknight potato frittata
Eggs, potatoes, and onion in one skillet. Twenty-five minutes, breakfast or dinner, from what is already there.
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Recipe · 35 min · 4 servings
Sheet-pan sweet potatoes and chickpeas
Cubed sweet potato and a can of chickpeas, roasted until the edges go crisp. Thirty-five minutes, one pan.
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Recipe · 20 min · 4 servings
20-minute tofu and cabbage stir-fry
Tofu, cabbage, garlic, ginger, and soy sauce. A hot-pan dinner that uses the half head in the drawer.
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Recipe · 15 min · 2 servings
15-minute canned tuna pasta
Pasta, a tin of tuna, lemon, and garlic. The weeknight dinner that lives in the cupboard.
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Guide
What to cook with a can of beans
Chickpeas, black beans, or white beans plus onion and a second pantry item is dinner. You do not need a new cuisine for that.
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Recipe · 30 min · 4 servings
30-minute white bean and kale soup
Canned white beans, a bunch of kale, onion, and broth. A pot of soup from the shelf plus whatever greens are about to turn.
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Recipe · 20 min · 4 servings
20-minute black bean tacos
A can of black beans, tortillas, onion, and lime. Taco night from the pantry, not a grocery run.
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Guide
What to cook with what’s in your fridge
Start from the shelf, not from a recipe. How to turn a thin fridge into dinner without a full grocery run.
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Recipe · 20 min · 4 servings
20-minute garlic spaghetti
Pasta, garlic, olive oil, and chili flakes. The weeknight dinner when the fridge is almost empty.
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Guide
How to make a grocery list from a weekly meal plan
Write the week’s dinners first, subtract the pantry, and shop only what is missing. That is the whole list.
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Recipe · 25 min · 4 servings
Honey garlic chicken in 25 minutes
Sticky skillet chicken from honey, soy sauce, and garlic. The sauce is four pantry bottles.
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Recipe · 15 min · 2 servings
Leftover fried rice in 15 minutes
Cold rice, an egg, soy sauce, and whatever vegetables are left. The point of cooking extra rice yesterday.
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Recipe · 10 min · 2 servings
Overnight oats with yogurt and honey
Five-minute breakfast you assemble the night before. Oats, milk, yogurt, honey, cinnamon.
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Recipe · 30 min · 4 servings
30-minute red lentil soup
Red lentils, onion, carrot, and a pinch of turmeric. A weeknight soup that uses the dry goods you already bought.
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Recipe · 25 min · 4 servings
Weeknight shakshuka from pantry tomatoes
Eggs poached in a skillet of tomatoes, peppers, and cumin. Twenty-five minutes, one pan, breakfast or dinner.
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Recipe · 40 min · 4 servings
Sheet-pan chicken and vegetables
Chicken thighs, potatoes, peppers, and onion on one pan. Forty minutes, almost no dishes.
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Guide
Use food before it expires
Cook the things that will die this week first. A meal plan that ignores expiry is just a nicer way to throw food away.
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Recipe · 25 min · 4 servings
25-minute skillet lemon chicken
A weeknight pan sauce from chicken, lemon, and a spoon of capers. Twenty-five minutes, one skillet.
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Recipe · 20 min · 4 servings
20-minute tomato chickpea skillet
A one-pan pantry dinner: chickpeas, crushed tomatoes, onion, and cumin. Ready in about twenty minutes.
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