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This is what's in my kitchen ... Please help me make meals out of it!?

I just moved, and I am tight on cash. What can I make for lunches and dinners with the food I have, buying as few new items as possible? Two notes: 1) I have a pot, a frying pan, and a microwave pot. Can't do crock-pot meals or anything like that. 2) I am in the process of becoming a vegan, so while I will eat the dairy I have so it gets used, I will not buy any new dairy items. Here is what I have: "Pantry": Instant oatmeal Wide noodles Kraft Mac and Cheese Instant brown rice A small amount of regular white rice Slivered almonds Kalamata olives Tofu Penne Spaghetti Kidney beans Kombu (a seaweed) Refrigerator/Freezer: Edamame Tofu Cottage cheese Hard-boiled eggs Butter Soy milk Almond milk Oat milk Spaghetti sauce Soy sauce Fresh: Eggplant Squash Red bell pepper Sweet potatoes Onion Garlic In addition, I have a decent amount of spices and herbs, oil and vinegar, and baking needs. Thanks!

Public Comments

1. Onion + garlic + tofu + rice + whatever veggie you would prefer + soy sauce = simple/easy stirfry.
2. make like a tofu stir fry with rice on the side! yum! allrecipes has good stuff! or make a pasta dish with vegetable and garlic sauce! i loooovvvveee GARLIC!!!
3. The Vegetarian Times magazine site has a section in it's cooking/recipe section in which you can select your ingredients on hand for recipes.
4. Spaghetti with Spaghetti sauce.