I found my favourite frozen pizza in the online app today and bought 3 packs (6 pizzas). Regret that I dont have more freezer space. I still can’t do the big grocery stores for a shop and they are cheaper than the local, but they’ve been out of stock of so much lately with the new round of food distribution issues. (Train line across the country broken, so WA has had to move to trucks to bring food across). Fresh food we still have generally but I need the pre-made for our tired days. So. If its there, I’m getting lots and trying to re-fill our bonus space in my wardrobe. Even the quick oats are out of stock at the minute! May need to make more space in the wardrobe. Goodbye Ponders clothes 
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I have become very spoiled and really only enjoy basmati rice. I think it has a great texture and flavor that I don’t get with other varieties.
We were gifted a 30# bag of short grain white rice and ran out of basmati. Any ideas on how to make the new rice more flavorful? I don’t want to waste it but it is probably it 4-5months of rice for us so we are going to need to find solutions.
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Cook it in broth or coconut milk?
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No help, just solidarity. Basmati is the best.
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Use it in more mixed food applications? Chicken and rice soup, casseroles, one pot bakes, that sort of thing?
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Do a Google search for “takikomi gohan recipe”. Hopefully you’ll find something you like.
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If you have short grain rice you need to season it like sushi rice! (after cooking, per cup of dry rice: half tsp salt, 1-1.5 tsp sugar, 1tbsp rice vinegar).
Or pick up some furikake rice seasoning.
ETA also cook it in a pressure cooker if you can. Comes out more al dente and less gummy.
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I find short grain rice needs more washing than basmati so that might help. For flavor you can cook it with spices, that’s what I would do! I love cardamom and coriander and cumin. Or sushi rice like galloper mentioned, that’s really tasty.
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Furikake is always the answer. That or chili crisp lol.
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Hubby loves the short grain rice for making a breakfast rice dish…kinda like porridge, only made with the short grain white rice. He adds dried fruit and nuts to it.
I make sushi or spring rolls with it. We also use it when we cook Korean food, as it is basically their everyday rice.
I have also made rice pudding with it. We have a Christmas rice pudding I make every Christmas Eve for dessert. It has cinnamon, cardamon, sugar, egg, unsalted butter and whipping cream in it. We serve it with cinnamon sugar and half and half.
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Yum!
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I think we had a use it up thread and a recipe thread but I’d have to find those.
Due to moving in 2 days our fridge is low and weird (we’ve especially been trying to dispatch the frozen stash, since we have to move our fridge).
Looking for ideas to use up a bunch of fresh peppers. Proteins include chicken thighs, sausages (chicken Apple and hot dogs), and ground beef or turkey. Plenty of shelf stable goods (pastas, rice, beans, spices, onions). No green veg, herbs.
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Burrito bowls: chicken thighs or ground meat, peppers, rice, beans, onions, spices
Peppers and sausage: chicken apple sausage, onions (cut into big chunks, not sliced), if you have apples or potatoes would also go good in this. Can put over rice or pasta
Korean beef bowls: Korean Beef Bowl - Damn Delicious Just leave out what you dont have. We add beans to ours.
Any pasta sauce? If so ground meat, diced peppers, mixed in with pasta sauce over pastas.
Any eggs? Could do a scramble with ground meat, peppers, onions, and spices.
Hot dogs over rice and beans? IDK I would probably try it but it wouldn’t be my finest work. In Mr. Ninja’s terms “its not great but it will make a poop” lol
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Also, thanks for the rice ideas folks! I made rice pudding yesterday. I am going to try cooking rice in some coconut milk and looking up those seasonings!
I also always forget rice can go into casseroles so will be looking to become midwestern for a bit and make more of them.
I also made breakfast fried rice yesterday and the stickyness was great for it!
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I’d make stuffed peppers with the ground meat and rice! So yummy and can be flavored a variety of ways ( I like taco seasoned, topped with cheese!)
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Stealing, thx
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This seems time consuming? Or at least very multistep like prep, cook, mix, fill, cook? I was thinking along similar lines but intimidated. My time/energy variables feel zeroed out after packing 
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More information needed!
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Budget bytes fajitas for SURE
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You can also do stuffed pepper soups for a deconstructed version! Same ingredients, different format.