Shelf to Supper: 50 Shelf-Stable Meals Made with Canned, Dried & Everyday Pantry Foods (Specialty & Niche Cooking Book 55)

What if dinner was already in the house? Shelf to Supper is a practical collection of 50 satisfying meals built around canned, dried, boxed, jarred, and other shelf-stable foods you can keep on hand until you need them. Claire Hadley takes the everyday ingredients already sitting in many kitchens—rice, pasta, beans, canned chicken, tuna, salmon, tomatoes, vegetables, broth, lentils, potatoes, baking mixes, herbs, and seasonings—and shows how to turn them into comforting family meals without depending on a refrigerator full of fresh ingredients. Inside you’ll find one-pot dinners, hearty meatless meals, canned meat and seafood recipes, comforting pasta dishes, soups, stews, rice bowls, and family-style pantry bakes. Recipes include favorites such as: Chicken & Rice Pantry Supper Beefy Tomato Macaroni Southwest Chicken & Black Bean Rice Salmon Patties with Creamy Potato Mash Corned Beef Hash Supper Chicken Enchilada Rice Three-Bean Pantry Chili Chickpea Coconut Curry Black Bean Taco Rice Creamy Chicken & Mushroom Pasta White Chicken Chili Beef, Barley & Vegetable Stew Chicken & Dumpling Pantry Stew Tamale Pie Chicken & Stuffing Pantry Bake and many more. Every recipe follows a simple, practical format with serving sizes, preparation and cooking times, tools needed, ingredient measurements, clear step-by-step instructions, estimated nutrition information, Claire’s Tip, and a helpful nutrition fact. You’ll also learn how to build a supper-ready pantry without overbuying, choose versatile shelf-stable ingredients, rotate what you already have, and restock the foods you actually use. The appendix includes a practical pantry resupply shopping list covering proteins, beans and lentils, rice and pasta, canned vegetables, broths and sauces, shelf-stable dairy ingredients, baking staples, oils, seasonings, and useful extras. This isn’t about filling every shelf with food you may never use. It’s about keeping dependable ingredients on hand and knowing what to do with them. Whether grocery day got pushed back, the weather keeps you home, money needs to stretch a little farther, or you simply don’t feel like making another trip to the store, Shelf to Supper helps turn an ordinary pantry into something much more useful. Because sometimes the refrigerator looks empty, but dinner is still already in the house.