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Food Hacks

I'm no gourmet, but I need to eat better.

What I need is a "Menu" of a very limited number of Dishes (I'm thinking 5-10)
That I can:
1. Keep the basic ingredients on hand (preferrably ones that "Keep" well.
2. Make quickly (I don't particularly like to cook)
3. Improve my nutrician by eating (Did you see the moving "Super size me"?)

Nice to haves would be:
1. A mix and match set of ingredients (i.e. 6 things to combine differently to make 10 different meals)
2. Tastes reasonably good and I wouldn't be embarrassed to server to guests.

One book I found that look like the right idea is "A Man, A Can, A Plan"

Any have other resources to use to build that basic "Menu"

Appelq

TOPICS: Life Hacks
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A good emergency/instructional cookbook for...

A good emergency/instructional cookbook for vegetarians is Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian. It is huge, and it is organized by main vegetable, so you can look in your refrigerator, notice that the celery are getting a little wilty and need to be used, and look up the celery section for a choice of celery recipes from around the world. It leans heavily on India, of course, but there are recipies from everywhere. Tends towards the hearty and spicy, but there's some simple and delicate too.

 
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