7 days of recipes for (mostly)shelf-stable meals and snacks for four, courtesy of U of A, and another helpful old cookbook
While trying to recover recipes I loved from my old MyPlate online cookbook from the USDA website (it's apparently gone down the memory hole thanks to RFK Jr.), I found this through my state (Arkansas)county extension SNAP Ed program.
It's a downloadable/printable cookbook for storing supplies for and making 7 days worth of 21 healthy meals and 5 snacks from mostly shelf-stable ingredients for a family of four.
It includes a pantry and shopping list for recipe ingredients. I'm pretty impressed and plan to try out a few of the recipes in the next few weeks.
Preparedness and Resiliency Cookbook.
I also wanted to share the cookbook that taught me how to cook when I moved out on my own.
This was a cookbook given out to food stamp recipients in the 70s and 80s. Again, many of the ingredients are for shelf-stable foods.
When I was 20, I found this in a used book store right after I got my first apartment. I knew absolutely NOTHING about cooking, and this was the perfect starter cookbook. I still use a lot of these recipes 30 years since I got my copy. My old copy is falling apart, but this is from a good scan on Internet Archive.
PLEASE don't make the mistake I did in assuming I can always find this stuff online - print it out and laminate it if you can, or keep in a plastic sheet protector.
EDIT: The UA cookbook borrowed some of their recipes from a more comprehensive emergency cookbook from Texas here: