We can't live without white boil in the bag rice, saltines, green beans, and spaghetti noodles.

I can't live without Luzianne tea bags and Sweet 'n Low!

I can't live without pasta for the kids and Crystal light for me!

Love all the previous ones....plus white beans and always a box of Bisquik - have you ever tried the easy dinner recipes on the box? The cheeseburger pie and chicken pot pie are Kid-licious & wholesome, and hearty enough for Mom and Dad too. Just found out recently that Jiffy makes the same mix, just as good.

Second the Bisquik! Also brown rice, Old Bay - I use it to season EVERYTHING, oatmeal, refried beans and tortillas! And I know it says pantry items, but I'd feel unfaithful if I didn't mention cheese!

I can't live without Lipton Onion Soup Mix in the pantry. It adds great flavor.

I can not live without green,red,yellow peppers- they make any meal taste better; brown rice, and zucchini-you will be suprised the things you can put together with just the few ingredients- like chicken- and fish and the whole family loves it!

my children love pasta- but I had to cut back on eating it so much- I love the whole wheat noodles and the egg white noodles.. 

My mom always told me if I kept the following staples in my cupboard, my family would never go hungrey. Sugar, Tea, Coffee, flour, milk,rice, eggs, butter, bread, cans of vegi all, spices, and can tomatoes. I can make bread, biscuits, french toast, and homemade soup, her soup recipe cost under $20 and can feed a large family several days depending on how hungrey you get. Yet the one main thing I have to have is Lipton tea and sugar for southern sweet tea. It is my staple. I usually drink one to two glasses a day!

I always keep plenty of pasta on hand and it's probably the one thing I can't do without. It's something all the kids will eat & I can always find something in the fridge, freezer, or pantry to toss with it to make a quick meal after work. Other things I always have in the pantry include ramen noodle soup, a variety of potatoes, canned veggies, various mexican meal kits (tacos, enchiladas, etc), salsa & crackers.

And plenty of ketchup - it's amazing what you can get a kid to eat if you give them ketchup to dunk it in.

I always have peanut butter on hand. It's the thing that got my kids to eat apples. I also keep brown rice handy because my son could eat rice and chicken every day. And cereal is essential. For me, there is Lipton tea and Sweet 'n Low. I like to cook fruits and strain the juice into the tea pitcher to make flavored teas. It's so good! And coffee. We can't forget coffee. I'm a much happier person after my morning coffee!

I also would have to say that Macaroni and cheese by kraft, you can add tuna, chicken, beef and make quick simple casseroles kids love.

Well my family loves tortilla chips and just about any variety of salsa. I especially love all the new varieties, found at most supermarkets, and the great things about theses new salsa's are that you can make a variety of great chicken and rice dishes, like the raspberry chipolete, Lemon lime, these two are my favorite, just take some boneless chicken breast tenders, put in a glass baking dish, rub a little olive oil over chicken and dish salsa on top, cover with tinfoil, bake at 350 for 45 minutes to an hour depending on thickness, cook bag rice on stovetop, and serve when ready, so delicious!

Hi ctomblin ,

What are some of your favorite pasta combinations, I need some new idea!

I always try to have beans, canned tomatoes, noodles of any kind, rice and peanut butter. Plus, I'm never without flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, vanilla, salt and chocolate chips, all the pantry items needed to make chocolate chip cookies.

We always have whole grain tortillas to make fish tacos, peanut butter/raisin/craisin rollups for snacks, lettuce wraps, bean and rice burritos- pretty much anything that fits into them!

I always keep macaroni, spagehetti, and fettuccini noodles because there are always a variety of meals that can whipped up with them. Also, peanut butter for PB&J, pizza sauce and dough mix for a good ol' homemade pizza, and one of my favorites jiffy cornbread mix to go with some hearty chili.

My boys love fresh fruit, peanut butter, and cereal. We always have plenty of frozen veggies and I agree with the bisquick posts...always something for breakfast Saturday morning!

We must keep Cheerios and black beans in the pantry!

Mom to Jude

Pasta, peanut butter, canned tomatoes, rice and canned green beans. I never let those items run out!

I like to have pasta, pasta sauce, peanut buttter & canned veges available.

For dinners: spaghetti fixings, canned tomatoes, beans, rice, potatoes, flour tortillas. We love Thai so coconut milk

For lunch / snack: applesauce, granola bars, goldfish, vienna sausage.

For breakfast: right now I have 50 boxes of cereal, Thnaks to Lowes Food' s great deals.

We can't live without olive oil, pasta, and peanut butter!

We always keep several cans of Cream of Mushroom soup (because it seems like all casseroles call for a can!), peanut butter, brownie mix, pasta, rice, canned fruit and green beans, flour, sugar, and of course as already mentioned in previous posts Bisquick!

Our family cannot live without cereal, dried fruit, and apple sauce.

we always have PB an lots of can veggies you can do alot w/ can vegies

We can't live without cereal, rice, pasta and pasta sauce.

we always have flour, pasta, cheese, beans, and canned tomatoes.

Jasmine Rice, Spaghetti, tuna, cheerios, apple sauce, green beans, and coffee for me!

Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup is the perfect staple for the mom with little time. You can add this to ground beef with some sour cream and you have a stroganoff. If you add it to chicken with some milk, you have creamy chicken breast with mushroom sauce. Saute some pork chops, add cream of mushroom soup with some flour and you have creamy mushroom pork chops. As you can tell, I use cans and cans of the soup -- and then you have soup labels to donate to school!

I absolutely cannot be without cranberry juice :)

we always have peanut butter, saltines and lots of cereal

Dark chocolate and pomegranate juice, (bandaides and batteries too,) and those just about cover it! We're ready for the next hurricane's power failure or to be snowed in.

We always try to keep handy cereal, peanut butter, oatmeal, raisins, rice, pasta, canned tomatoes, and black beans. We also always keep all baking ingredients stocked for home-made birthday cakes and last minute treats. We love our pantry staples, don't we???

can't live without diced peaches, fruit snacks (for the little one) or pasta. cereal is also a must have. cereal is a great cheap breakfast (with milk) and snack (with or without!)

I can't live without cans of sweet peas, pasta, tomato sauce, and fruit snacks for my daughter.

frozen vegetables, cereal and RICE. Having rice in the house, you can create a dinner in 60 seconds(I exaggerated on the time, but you know what I mean)

I could never understand why my mother kept so many items in the pantry, but now that I am older and have my own crew to feed...I have a whole new appreciation! I always have cans of diced tomatoes, Canellini beans, and pasta. With those items (and others I almost always have on hand) I can whip up a killer chili, chicken chili, soup, casserole, pasta salad, or pasta dish is no time flat! I also ALWAYS have flour, sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla, and chocolate chips in the house to throw together a last minute dessert when visitors call.

I can't live without pasta and pasta sauce. Also, barbecue sauce since it makes it easy to make bland chicken taste better quickly!

I absolutely must have the following items in my pantry at all times: peanut butter, pastina, marinara sauce, and cereal! Most especially cereal because even if I do not have milk I will still eat it, and so will my daughter! Hubby not so much, but he'll figure something out. Cereal is also good for any meal of the day, and all snacks, so it works for us. I also almost always have cans of cream of chicken soup and chicken broth, along with black beans, rice and pasta. They work towards some sort of recipe so I can ensure that dinner is on the table. Yum!

My pantry staple is campbells soups, specifically mushroom soup and chicken soup. These two soups are used in 50% of my recipes! They have such great flavor and can be used for a base in many casseroles or gravies! My other staple is shredded cheese, but that is technically in my refrigerator, not pantry!

I would have to say canned beans, peanut butter, canned vegetables, and bottled water. If you add a first aid kit, toilet paper, batteries and a flashlight, you will be ready for any emergency crisis.

Must have peanut butter, pasta, spaghetti sauce, cereal, baking soda, and vinegar.

We always have a number of different pastas, canned tomatoes, black beans, and chicken noodle soup.

Must haves are ketchup, rice, bread, peanut butter, jelly, tomato paste, canned fruit and spices.

Must haves are soup, rice, flour, sugars, beans, pastas, and cereals.

Pasta & pasta sauce or canned tomatoes and tomato paste; canned beans (black, chili, cannelini, garbanzo); rice, orzo and couscous; soup; cereal and oatmeal; dried fruit or raisins; tortilla chips; canned green chiles and enchilada sauce; peanut butter.

applesauce, crackers, cereal, pasta, rice

kraft mac n cheese, cereals, peanut butter, crackers, pasta, tomato sauce, pesto sauce (will make everything taste 100 times better), olive oil, rice and chili beans! You can come over any day of the week/month/year and you will find these.

We can't live with out Rice-a-roni! My son loves it. That and peanut butter of course.