Ok what are you main side dish for you main go to meal useing the food stowage program that you have .. Here is my main go to side for the meals Mac and Chesse White Rice Potatoes like mash and hash brown and sliced and diced Red beans Black beans Apple sauce corn yellow with those above dish i can mix and match my meal that i can make out of the stored long term food products.. like mash potatoes and corn or mac and chesse and apple sauce or rice and red beans or red beans with yellow corn and tomato powder and brown sugar and honey to make up a fake bbq bean side dish like bush beans or Black and red beans with yellow corn and tomato powder and brown sugar to make up a little fake southwest style bean dish Most of the socalled main meat dish comes from TVP flavoring and long term meat items that stores well for the long term .. Since i'm single so my use of a full sized 28.oz sized can is going to last me about a week in length with two meals a day out of them and mixing them with TVP to stetch the meat ever farther in the long run .. Also i had my daughter and a couple of lady friend who cook with long term foods alot make me up a set of 5-x-7.sized meal cards they are protected in sealed plastic and have there own box on the counter to make up meal plan for the week .. the idea was to put the meal on the menu board for the week and move those 7 meals plans to the front and then work off from those and some of the meals ideas where to swap breakfast items for supper items here and there to change up the meal Plus two diff type of desserts and three loafs of bread for the week to make up sandwichs and other meals out of them .. Here is some of the food plan ideas i have useing the my side dish items for makeing up meals as it need for a two week time frame starting with monday of the weeks and going for there monday is meatloaf with mash potatoes and corn or open faced sloppy joe sandwichs made out of the real meat and a fake sauce made up of a few diff items to make a sauce for the meat with mach and chesse and apple sauce tues is spaghetti with fake red Tomato sauce and TVP beef meat balls or meatloaf dish useing pork or ham or chicken TVP meats with mac and chesse wed is chicken with mac and chesse and apple sauce or french toast with eggs thurs is beef with red beans and rice or pancakes and eggs frid is pork with sliced potatoes and apple sauce or beef hambuger patties and apple sauce and mach and chesse sat is chicken with mac and chesse or fake mexican tacos with red beans and black beans and corn with a chesse sauce over white rice on a dish sun is left overs from the week or i take the time to fix a really nice meal like some type of full blown meal with all the sides and dessert and drink meal with breakfast meal in the following area cereal with powder milk and toast oatmeal with powder milk and flavors powder eggs with bacon or pork tvp mixed into the eggs powders and hashbrowns pancakes with powder eggs and home made syrup on them toast with jam French toast with egs and home made syrup on them lunch is a basic sandwich or soup and bread and drink and snack dureing the day Also my eating habits change in the winter time and summer time because of the weather when it cold outside i will stop to eat lunch and when it hot outside i tend not to eat alot dureing the hottest part of the day but not to fill up to a point it make me sick dureing the hot weather .
Bacon is a side dish right? meat and potatoes or meat and rice or meat and meat. I'm happy. Yeah i guess i'll eat some green if i have to.
"Beans-n-taters" will get you a long way. Pinto beans is a meat substitute as is Mac n cheese. Rice keeps half the world from starving and is my mainstay along with wheat and corn. MREs-we have several months supply.
Potatoes, Rice, Mashed Turnips,Parsnips, Rutabagas(Mashed/salt-pepper). Just remember to keep a balance of fiber ,carbohydrates and protiens. Don't want to get you digestive tract "Side Line" No White Flag Above My Door" Daveeds
If it doesn't run faster than me or dodge bullets, or get lucky, it is a food resource. Haven't met a tater yet that could dodge a shovel.