I do this... my husband is in the military and I save a TON of money when he leaves cause I just start pulling stuff out of the cupboards and the 4 kids are a lot less picky than he is. They even eat leftovers. We always have leftovers from meals so I end up only having to cook 4 or 5 days out of the week when he is gone.
Besides, cooking with just what you have in the cupboards also opens up ways to invent your cooking habits. Around Christmas time I made Spritz cookies and when I was craving something "chocolate" - I made no bake cookies since we had Oatmeal, butter, sugar, peanut butter, and cocoa powder.
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