- Dried beans: Make sandwich spreads, refried beans, soups and salads.
- Pasta & Plum Tomatoes: Make casseroles, salads, and dishes a la Italiano
- Generic-brand frozen veggies: Your store brand is good enough, just look for veggies with "fancy" on the label. Kind of a silly moniker, but it means they're the pick of the lot.
- Bananas: Make smoothies, breads, low-sugar pudding treats
- Onions: At a certain cooking point, onions become caramelized, sweet and really delicious even on their own. On flatbread or pita with a few anchovies or high quality tuna, you've got a great meal. You can also whip up an easy French onion soup.
- Carrots & Celery: Perfect as snacks to tackle crunch cravings and diced finely and sauteed, they can add tasty texture to any dish.
- Potatoes: Cheap, filling, delicious and malleable, those are just a few of our fave reasons to love the spud. Mash 'em, bake 'em, slice, dice and sautee 'em, potatoes will fill you and the fam up on just pennies.
- Eggs: We forget sometimes that eggs can make an awesome, fast and healthy dinner. Scrambled, in a quiche or omelette, the French have been making egg-based dishes for dinner since the reign of Napoleon (the first).
- Flour: Forget pricy brand-name cereals. Bake a few dozen homemade breakfast muffins or breads and freeze them. Just take a few out of the freezer when you get up and they'll be room temperature and ready to eat when you are.
- Corn on the Cob: It varies from store to store, but in spring/summer, we can sometimes get 6 for a buck. Boil and eat ears right out of the pot or carve off the kernels and add to any dish. Whip up some grilled Cuban Corn if you're in the mood for something fancy.
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