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How Adopting a Capsule Food Pantry Changed My Life
You don’t need a lot of ingredients to make great food, you just need the right ones
It started when I travelled full time but still wanted to cook. How was I going to do that when moving locations every few weeks?
Then came the Tupperware idea. Travel with a small number of essential ingredients. Dried herbs. A couple of choice spices. Decent salt.
Every time I moved locations, I would also buy food very carefully. After a while, I noticed I was buying similar ingredients. Things that worked well together in different combinations because everything had to earn its spot.
Eventually, the concept solidified into a capsule pantry, not dissimilar to a capsule wardrobe. A small number of ingredients, all of which work together to create an almost infinite number of recipes.
When I stopped travelling to live long-term in Portugal, and later returned back to my UK homeland, it would have been easy to forget about living with a small capsule pantry and return to overstuffed cupboards filled with one-time-use ingredients, left to languish and expire.
This didn’t happen. Owning a capsule pantry had become a habit, its principles in full force. With that came almost no food waste and…
