My COVID 19 45 day isolation menu

[Kaleva]

I have enough food and supplies on hand for my wife and I to subsist on for an extended period of isolation. To make things easier, I have a list of recipes in a binder from which I can make a variety of meals so we don't quickly fall into a rut of living off of rice and beans. The recipes help me keep stock of what i need in my inventory so I have the ingredients to make the meals.

Some of the meals below require ingredients that have a short shelf life so they would have to be made first.

Beverages

Ultra pasteurized milk
Coffee
Tea
Powdered flavored drinks


Breakfast

Oatmeal
Farina
Cream of Wheat
French Toast
Country Style Fried Potatoes w/fried Spam
Spam Hash

Lunch

Condensed soup with tuna fish sandwich
Condensed soup with peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Condensed soup with grilled cheese sandwich
Condensed soup with chicken salad sandwich
Condensed soup with meatloaf sandwich
Tuna Salad
Potato Salad
Macaroni & Cheese with homemade baked beans
Firecracker Pasta Salad
Tuna Rice Bowl


Dinner

Black Bean & Lentil Soup
Ham & Bean Soup
Wild Rice & Mushroom Soup
Chicken Noodle Soup (from left over chicken)
Easy Chicken A La King
Baked Honey Mustard Chicken
Weeknight Chicken Stir Fry
Chicken Corn Chowder
Slow Cooker Orange Chicken
Chicken & Stuffing Casserole
Oven baked whole chicken
Oven baked chicken leg quarters
Ring Bologna, Potatoes, and Onions
Goulash
Cracker Barrel Meatloaf
Ground Beef and Pinto Bean Chili
Southern Fried Cabbage
Easy Fried Rice
Spanish Rice
Santa Fe Chicken & Rice
American Style Red Beans & Rice
Southern Rice & Beans
Mexican Tomato Rice & Beans
Pan Fried Salmon
Spaghetti with homemade spaghetti sauce


Side Dishes

Green Bean Casserole
Homemade baked beans
Canned Yams
Various canned vegetables
Homemade sauerkraut
Homemade Kimchi (my version of kimchi anyways)
Mashed potatoes
Baked potatoes
White rice
Brown rice
Wild rice
Pickled eggs
Pickled hot dogs
Juustoa (homemade Finnish squeaky cheese)

Snacks

Popcorn

Fruit

Various canned fruit

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. I figure I'll just wait till everyone else isolates themselves.

Then I can roam the streets picking cars from car dealer lots. Like The Omega Man.

[brewens]

9. Go around ringing a bell and yelling "bring out your dead". I'm watching The Stand mini-

series.

[luvs2sing]

2. Good plan!

I have a mess of soups and casseroles planned but need to focus on breakfast. Thanks for sharing!

[Kaleva]

7. Having a menu plan makes it easier to keep the pantry, freezer and fridge stocked.

[luvs2sing]

8. I usually have about three weeks of food at any one time.

A menu plan takes time, but is worth it.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Do you have a large freezer? Are you using frozen or baking bread?

[Kaleva]

5. I have a large chest freezer in the basement

Plus a fridge with freezer in the basement along with the fridge in the kitchen. I keep 4-6 loafs of bread in the freezers.

[Goodheart]

4. I just stocked the pantry with canned and dry goods

I have lots of Bush's Baked Beans, Blue Runner Creole Navy Beans, Blue Runner Creole Red Beans, pasta sauce, spaghetti, parboiled rice, peanut butter, Vegemite, wheat flour, yeast, egg powder, apple cider vinegar, canned chicken breast, jalapenos, and other great stuff.

And lots of alcohol, Lysol, Purell, toilet paper, paper towels.

I'm stocked and ready!

[GulfCoast66]

6. Similar to mine with some big exceptions.

My has venison, fish and homegrown veggies from the freezer.

And, oh yeah. Bourbon. Lots of bourbon!

[Baitball Blogger]

10. I just ordered a cookbook called Dirty Gourmet.

Lots of recipes for food that has a long shelf-life. It's food for camp outs.

They offer three recipes to try and hook you into buying the book. I tried their Sesame, Cashew oatmeal brittle. So delicious! Broke down and bought the book. You can find it on Amazon.

[Kaleva]

12. Just looked that up. Going to try this recipe!

"French Dish (Pate Chinois)"

https://www.dirtygourmet.com/french-dish-pate-chinois/

[Baitball Blogger]

14. It's pretty exciting and easy to make.

Let me know how it turns out.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. I tried it tonight!

I don't have a double boiler, so I adjusted. This is what I recommend: Double the ground beef or ground turkey. I had to brown the turkey in a frying pan. And instead of two 30 ounce creamed corn, get three of the smaller cans. Also, add 1 or 2 minced garlic cloves to the ground beef.

That will be enough to spread over two 8x8 pans, so you can eat one that night and freeze the other. The temperatures and times recommended in the book are about right.

[Kaleva]

21. I had printed out the recipe and just made the changes you suggested!

[Baitball Blogger]

22. .

[hlthe2b]

11. Ironically, I'd spent the past three months going through my pantry using up all the 1 year or older

canned and packaged goods and any frozen foods. Timing is everything, isn't it? So, I've now had to go restock everything.

I don't cook that much and usually in bulk so I can freeze some for later. I tend to eat healthy, moderately low carb, but simple meals that I repeat frequently. By doing so, I keep the cravings for sugar, junk or processed food to a minimum. As long as I have access to milk to make my yogurt each week (which I can have delivered) I'm good.

[Kaleva]

13. I try and stock only what I'd rotate through in about a year or two.

So it's used before expiration date or best used by date. When I do buy new stock, I put that in the back and move the older items to the front.

[moonscape]

17. So funny. I am low carb and decided to clear my panry of ...

beans! I packed up and hauled to the local food bank bags and cans of all sorts of beans just a month ago. In self quarantine those beans would be lookin’ just fine ....

[hlthe2b]

18. Yeah.. I try to keep net carbs to less than 70 g. so more South Beach than Atkins...

So beans are manageable. I have five different varieties stocked up--both dry and canned. And even allow a very small portion of brown basmati rice. If all my other meals are relatively low net carbs, it works, since I eschew bread, pasta, and all the other "simple" carbs. I do eat plain (homemade) Greek yogurt so I get a good bit of my protein and some carbs there, but it keeps me satiated and I'm a big believer in the benefits of probiotics. Natural peanut butter is my goto anyway, so the shelves are well stocked.

I wish I had a bigger freezer, though.

[Baltimike]

15. Pantry is full...my freezer is overflowing (but I still wanna get some chicken breasts)

the only thing I will need is some more cat food. I'm gonna pick up a couple of cases on my next run out, which I am trying to time during the least busy times of the day.

I wanna fill my lawn mower gas can, pick up some much and annuals so I will have something to keep me busy.

[crickets]

16. lawn mower gas can - thank you!!

Also re food ideas, linking because it is rather long: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213073156#post47

[Baltimike]

19. Thanks for the link...something to *do* might get important. nt