What To Stock in the Pantry (commerce, chocolate, cheese, salmon)
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One cannot be too sure, but I took that way as well.
Apart from a few subsistence farmers who might be left in pockets of pre-industrial economies, even farmers buy food with money (commercial).
The question, then, to what extent is the food that one usually consumes industrially processed?
Even if I make bread from scratch with my own yeast cultivated at home, I am still commercially buying with money wheat grains, harvesting, milling, packaging and distribution (some people mill at home, but they still buy harvesting and the rest). Even the water is distributed by a local county authority to whom I pay money, I don't draw it from a well that I dug from myself or from a local river.
Still, the end product is less industrially processed than store-bought bread.
Is it worth it?
I don't know for sure, but right now it's a lot of fun.
I rely heavily on frozen, canned, packaged and bottled this and that. Short of starting my own subsistence farm and eating only what I raise myself, I don't see a lot of other choices.
canned beans (chickpeas, white beans, kidney beans, black beans...)
pasta
canned tomato paste and tomato sauce
canned mushrooms
jar of sauerkraut
Food For Life or Ezekiel bread
Stacey's organic whole wheat tortillas
Plantation brand blackstrap molasses
Silk Cashew Milk
canned coconut milk (usually Thai Kitchen brand)
Sir Kensington's classic mayo
Always frozen peas, frozen mixed vegetables, frozen berries or mangoes (usually store brand, sometimes organic)
Annie's Homegrown Catsup
various dried spices and herbs
Wild Planet tuna, sardines, mackerel
Crowned Prince oysters
Mayonnaise, water chestnuts, coconut milk, rice noodles, Thai red chili sauce, pineapple, olives.
In jars, large assortment of pickled veggies, apricot jam, mustard, BBQ sauce.
Mostly stuff I can't grow myself. Except for mayonnaise. We use very little of it and can't use up even a small batch of homemade. My family likes Sweet Baby Ray's just as much as they like anything homemade, so Id don't bother to make BBQ sauce.
I've got lots of ingredients that I don't make or prepare myself: flours, nuts, grains, veg oils, but I don't think that is what OP is asking about.
Addressing this part of the OP's post, the canned beans (black and garbanzos) are often the basis of a quick meal. The same with canned tuna. I often throw together bean/tuna patties. Canned soups at times for lunch, but we don't use canned soups for cooking. The quinoa/farro/dried pastas are used a couple of times a week. I find that I turn to my pantry a lot less now than I did when we were raising our family. We use fresh food items a lot more because there's more time available to shop.
Mayonnaise, water chestnuts, coconut milk, rice noodles, Thai red chili sauce, pineapple, olives.
In jars, large assortment of pickled veggies, apricot jam, mustard, BBQ sauce.
Mostly stuff I can't grow myself. Except for mayonnaise. We use very little of it and can't use up even a small batch of homemade. My family likes Sweet Baby Ray's just as much as they like anything homemade, so Id don't bother to make BBQ sauce.
I've got lots of ingredients that I don't make or prepare myself: flours, nuts, grains, veg oils, but I don't think that is what OP is asking about.
Pretty much the same: when I think of processed or commercial foods in my pantry, I assume that most of us do not make our own flour, oils, condiments etc.
Pizza & other easy to reheat items n the freezer, for the days when we do not want to cook. I do use canned beans, although I often make beans from the dry state. I no longer make jams or jellies, so I buy those, as well as all the normal condiments. I eat a variety of fresh veg, but have no problem using frozen veg sometimes, it is very handy & does not spoil like the fresh one can.
Canned proteins like mackerel, tuna & salmon, chicken & even ham are good too.
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