Add oatmeal to hamburger to stretch it to feed my crowd.
If I find a deal on something in the shelf-stable genre I generally buy at least two, and often times many, many more. Cooking from a well-stocked pantry has saved me MANY last minute trips to the store where assuredly I would've spent more $$ on things besides just the one thing I went after. Today was an example - I was intending to make rice, and searched high and low and couldn't find any There is LOTS of it here ?somewhere? (maybe the basement and it's too cold to go down there today), so I just used some of the plentiforous store of pasta that is here as well. Meal was just as tasty. After lunch I found the rice - hiding in the back of the cupboard. But most folks who don't have full pantries might have made a grocery store run or even given up the idea of cooking and headed out for a take-out meal.
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