Making Dinner From Thin Air- Menu Ideas For Nearly Empty Pantries

Have you ever come to the end of the week or month, just before a trip to the grocery store, and stood before the almost empty refrigerator and pantry wondering what on earth you can conjure up for dinner from the limited selection of ingredients before you? I've got a great resource to do the thinking for you!

Allrecipes.com is a handy source for finding recipes, but it also has a special search function that allows you to type in the ingredients you have on hand to use in a recipe, and it will search for recipes that use those ingredients! No more staring blankly into your cupboards at a loss for what's for dinner! The search also allows you to input the ingredients you DON'T want to include in a recipe. This has been a great way to creatively use the ingredients I have on hand with tried and tested recipe, rather than my coming up with a spur-of-the-moment concoction that may or may not be tasty, as Allrecipes has reviews and ratings of the recipes that are posted on their site. You can read reviewers suggestions as to what they liked or disliked about the recipe, and they often give suggestions on how to improve or alter the recipe.

So, the next time you are at a loss for what to make from a limited selection of ingredients, try Allrecipes for a yummy new dish to grace your table!

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