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Pantry Bytes

You can find more great links to pantry-related things around the web by clicking the Pantry Bytes link over on the left. My goal is to make this at least bi-weekly. If you spot interesting food/frugality blog posts or news stories, send them my way!

Fantastic things I've read this week:
Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Notes from a Small Kitchen - Keeper of the Home
Are Raw Eggs Safe to Eat? - Kitchen Kop
Agave Nectar - Good or Bad? - Food Renegade
Eating Organic on a Budget - The Thrifty Mama
Free Sources for Coupon Inserts - Inexspensively
Where to Start on a Real Food Journey - Naturally Knocked Up

Wonderful pantry-friendly recipe we've recently tried:
Almond Power Bars

New (to me) blogs I'm keeping an eye on:
Striving Bean
Live Renewed
Hospitality Haven
Nutrition and Physical Regeneration

Have any links you'd like to share this week? Leave them in the comments section!

Lots of pantry related blogging going on around the net this week, love that the pantry challenge has so many people making goals and getting things done. Here are some of my favorites - hope you find them inspiring!

Ultimate Recipe Swap at Life as Mom - Lots of pantry-friendly ideas!!

Meal Planning Without Shopping Lists - Help for intentional shopping at a farmers market.

Saving More Money With Pantry Meals - Money saving pantry tips.

Tasty Tuesday and Beauty and Bedlam - Save Money by Cooking Creatively

Recession Buster Recipes at The Happy Housewife - 10 inexpensive recipes you can make from your pantry.

Create Your Own Menu with Once a Month Mom - An awesome multi-part (5 out of 11 so far!) series.

10 Tips for Even Better Homemade Chicken Stock - from Kitchen Stewardship and with links to lots more info on making your own stock. *Taking Notes* I'll do a post on this soon!

Also, not necessarily just pantry related, but very very good:

Can Natural Living Become an Idol? - Challenging post from Passionate Homemaking

BPA-Free Freezer Storage - A Q&A with GNOWFGLINS

Best Recipes of 2008

I end up hunting for recipes online about once a week. I love to try new combinations and I don't have many years of experience behind me, so even though I'm pretty adventurous, I like to get an idea of what others have tried that works. I don't always stick to recipes that I find, but they are in invaluable resource. Reading food blogs is addictive as well, and there's such a great pool to choose from! This last year I discovered so many great new blogs that I couldn't possibly write them all up. Instead I want to share with you my top 10 recipes found on blogs in 2008. Better late than never. :) They aren't all pantry meals, but they all:

1. are able to be made from common ingredients
2. are hard to mess up
3. are delicious!!!!

These links should take you to the original blog post I took them from. If I blogged about them myself after I made them, I've noted that too.

Powerballs - (I blogged about them here)
Rosemary chickpea soup
Chip and dip cookies - (my thoughts coming soon)
Double good raisin bars - (my thoughts coming soon)
Peanut butter filled chocolate cookies
crockpot applesauce - (I mentioned it here)
Homemade eggrolls
Eggplant caviar, falafel and pita - (I blogged about them here)
Yogurt - (I blogged about it here)
Rustic Garlic Onion Pizza - (I blogged about it here)

Technically 12 recipes if you count eggplant caviar, falafel, and pita as three - but then this wouldn't be a "Top 10" list, and besides I ate them as a meal! :) Thank you internet for access to amazing recipes!!