Protective Diet Class #306 Notes:

A Deep Pantry Saves Us Money & Time While Improving Food Quality

This class presents pantry possibilities with a tip-filled tour of the newly expanded Protective Diet Test Kitchen Pantry and Cellar. Strategically stocking a deep pantry with high quality, staple ingredients for your favorite recipes, at a massive savings, makes sense.

Announcements

• Engage in our official support group, Protective Diet Living (PDL). Join Live Chats & Coaching Hour for personal assistance.
• Shop www.protectivediet.com/bulk, an independent source for low-cost, high-quality PD staples in bulk.
• Take advantage of current savings on Protective Diet Plant-Based Broth Mix. Rising ingredient costs are forcing prices up.

Vocabulary

Pantry Stocking

Pantry Staples

Food Security

Mylar Bags

Grain Milling

Action Steps for Deep Pantry Stocking

• Evaluate Your Space
• Since its inception in Chicago, Illinois, the Protective Diet Test Kitchen Pantry has expanded. For many years, apartment coat closets held mail-order bulk buys. Now the Christensen Cabin houses a front pantry, a back pantry, a cellar, and serves as a coordinated drop site for monthly deliveries of healthy, organic and natural foods to the surrounding community.
• Front Pantry—kitchen cabinets and countertops set up for workplace efficiency with daily-use protective spices, seasonings, teas, flours, grains, beans and legumes in refillable, glass canisters. Inventory is easy—taken instantly, at a glance.
• Back Pantry—organized shelving serves as a home store with multiple units of staple ingredients purchased at discount prices. Food grade buckets (2 to 6 gallons) with easy-access Gamma Seal Lids store staples by the pound. Paper inventory.
• Cellar—several years’ worth of essential foods with indefinite shelf life purchased at massive savings—carefully repackaged in Mylar bags w/oxygen absorbers, heat sealed, and layered in airtight (55 gallon) storage drums. Paper Inventory.
• Adapt the space you have—a coat closet, a spare bedroom closet, or under bed space can be repurposed as pantry storage.

• Choose What to Store
• Start by finding five recipes that you love. Stock the ingredients deep so you can make them again and again.
• Consider how much you use in a week, then stock several weeks’ worth. What would you need to have on hand for a year?

PD Staple Ingredient	Front Pantry	Back Pantry	Cellar
Soymilk, organic unsweetened	1 week 6qt = 3 (64oz) boxes	12 weeks 72qt = 36 (64oz) boxes	52 weeks—Dry, Organic Soybeans 85lbs beans = 312qt homemade soymilk

• PD recipes are strategically designed using the same nourishing staples in a variety of combinations. Every ingredient is used in multiple recipes. Invest in large amounts of the ingredients you know you are going to eat = savings and security.
• Find resources for buying in bulk at wholesale prices. Azure Standard offers dramatic savings—at the time of purchase, caraway seed from Azure was $3.63/lb for a 5lb bag vs $13.14/lb for a small bag from Amazon = a savings of $47.55.
• Buy individual spices in bulk—best quality is important for best flavor. Bulk herbs for protective beverages, like Flower Water, cost less than purchasing a single serving beverage at the coffee house. Store ingredients for Lifestyle recipes also.
• Consider storing and milling your own grains. Commercially milled whole wheat flour does not contain the nutrition of the whole grain. Vitamins and fats are removed to make it shelf stable. Whole wheat berries, properly packaged, have intact nutrition and an indefinite shelf life. Investing in whole grains and a personal grain mill will expand your pantry possibilities to include fresh breads, tortillas, pastas, fresh flaked oats and more. One (6 gallon) bucket holds 42lbs of wheat berries.

• Repackage, Rotate, Restock
• Original packaging is not airtight allowing moisture, odors, and contaminants so seep in. Repackage for long term storage.
• Airtight buckets increase the shelf-life 5-10 years. Mylar bags (5 gallon) w/oxygen absorbers extend the shelf life 30+ years.
• Repackage baking soda into an airtight jar to prevent it from absorbing odors that could be incorporated into your baking.
• Write expiration dates bigger on baking powder cans. Use the oldest first. Freeze yeast to extend the shelf-life indefinitely.
• PD Test Kitchen Pantry Rotation System:

– Daily meals are made from the Front & Back Pantry. Mylar bags from the Cellar are opened as needed to refill containers.

– Example: Julie Marie buys 6 (12lb) bags of short-grain brown rice at Costco—3 bags are repackaged into a (5 gallon) bucket

  in the Back Pantry, and 3 are repackaged in mylar in the Cellar. When the bucket is empty, rice from the Cellar will refill it.

Partial PD Pantry Inventory (see the PD Shop for links to savings on bulk staples)

Ingredient	Have	Need	Ingredient	Have	Need	Ingredient	Have	Need
Applesauce, unsweetened			Liquid Smoke			Rice Paper
Baking Powder			Matzo Meal			Rice, Pad Thai Noodles
Baking Soda			Mustard, Spicy Brown			Rice, Ramen Noodles
Beans, Black, canned			Mustard, Yellow			Salt, Himalayan Pink
Beans, Garbanzo, canned			Nori Sheets, toasted			Sesame Seed, white or black
Beans, Great Northern, canned			Nutritional Yeast			Soymilk, unsweetened
Beans, Pinto, canned			Onion Powder, organic			Spices, organic bulk
Beans, Kidney, canned			Onion, chopped dried			Sprouting Seeds, variety
Beans, Black, dry			Oats, organic rolled			Stevia, liquid, additive-free
Beans, Garbanzo, dry			Oats, steel cut			Sweet Potato Puree, canned
Beans, Great Northern, dry			Oat groats			Tamari, San-J, low sodium
Beans, Peruvian, dry			Pasta, Ditalini			Tamarind paste, seedless
Beans, Pinto, dry			Pasta, Fregola			Tapioca Pearls
Beans, dry			Pasta, Lasagna			Tapioca Starch
Bentonite Clay			Pasta, Macaroni			Teas, organic loose bulk
Cacao Nibs			Pasta, Penne			Tomato, Diced organic
Cacao Powder, organic			Pasta, Spaghetti			Tomato Powder
Chia Seed			Peas, Green Split			Vanilla, Instant
Chilies, Ancho, dried			Peas, Yellow Split			Vinegar, Apple Cider
Chilies, Guajillo, dried			Pellegrino, unflavored			Vinegar, Balsamic
Coconut Oil, not to ingest			PD Plant-Based Broth Mix			Vinegar, Malt
Cornhusks			Popcorn, mushroom			Vinegar, Red Wine
Cornmeal, medium grind			Psyllium Husk, powdered			Vinegar, Rice
Corn Masa, yellow			Puffed Corn			Vinegar, White
Erythritol			Puffed Kamut			Whole Corn, Blue Dent
Jackfruit, Young canned			Pumpkin, canned			Whole Corn, White
Korean Red Pepper Powder			Quinoa			Wheat Berries, Durum
Lentils, Black			Rice, Black Forbidden			Wheat Berries, White
Lentils, French Green			Rice, Brown			Yeast, Active Dry
Lentils, Red			Rice Cakes, salt-free			Water (treated for storage)

Cooking Tips

• Low calorie crunchy treats for dogs = Lundberg salt-free organic brown rice cakes.
• Keep an extra water spray bottle in case your original breaks—for spraying “water butter” on salted popcorn and tortilla chips.
• Packaged powdered erythritol is too sweet to use as is. Cut the sweetness by halving the erythritol measurement in the recipe.
• Psyllium Husk Powder can be used in the Breadmaker Bread Onion Loaf to give it a white bread texture.
• Watch out for added sugars in Balsamic Vinegars. It should be about 10cal/Tbsp. Sweeteners affect your taste bud reprogram.

Encouragement

• Do not get overwhelmed by how deep my pantry is. You’ll get there. It will just happen as you find recipes you like.
• Our food quality and health are improving while saving money so we can buy new clothes, because we are going to need them.

“It will be so rewarding when you come into your pantry and ask, ‘What should we make for dinner?’ You will have all these ingredients in front of you to look at for inspiration.”

Recommended Recipes

Protective Sprouts	Kids Spaghetti	Zesty Italian Dressing	Daily Dressing
Hot Banana Split	Plant-based Prosciutto	Cesar Salad Dressing	Slaw Sauce
Jerry’s Organic Plant-based Yogurt	Instant Tomato Cream Sauce	Healthy Valley Ranch	Skinny Fry Sauce
Cinnamon Toast Crunchies	Instant Alfredo	Plant-based Carnitas	Julie’s Beans
Sugar-Free Cocoa Puffs	Instant Wisconsin Cheeze Soup	Sweet & Spicy BBQ Sauce	Pit Paste
Beefless Taco Filling	Tapioca Pudding	Busy Day Chili	Tamales
Super Natural Whitening Toothpaste	Protective Crackers	Plant-based Kimchi	Italian Biscotti
Sugar-free Powdered Sugar	Sugar-free Whipped Topping	Breakfast Brownies	Wonton Crisps

Recommended Classes

#258 Pandemic Pantry	#087 Pantry PAR Stocking System	#032 Stocking Your Kitchen for Efficiency
#305 Protective Sprouts	#296 Incorporating Dried Herbs	#299 Making Organic Soymilk & Yogurt

Class Description:

This class presents pantry possibilities with a tip-filled tour of the newly expanded Protective Diet Test Kitchen Pantry and Cellar. Strategically stocking a deep pantry with high quality, staple ingredients for your favorite recipes, at a massive savings, makes sense.

Class URL: https://protectivediet.com/courses/deep-pantry/lessons/class-306-a-deep-pantry-saves-us-money-time-while-improving-food-quality/