Do you have an extra can or two of flaked ham? What about chicken of the sea? Canned tuna or salmon? What about those extra tins of SPAM kicking around your pantry? Expand your grocery budget by making canned meat recipes with items from your pantry!
Delicious Recipes Using Canned Meat
There’s nothing wrong with transforming any sort of canned protein into a delicious meal for the family! It’s cheaper than buying fresh counter meat, it’s usually just as nutritious as fresh meat, and they can make some super tasty meals!!
Let me show you some of the recipes I have for you below.
These Buffalo Chicken Boats are a tasty way to make use of canned chicken in your pantry. These make a great treat for at home or a fun dish to serve the night of the big game.
I often use canned chicken in my Chicken Asperguas Hand Pies to make it super easy. This is a great way to make use of canned chicken in your stockpile in a way that doesn’t feel like you eating canned chicken.
Super fun and super easy to make, these adorably delicious Buffalo Chicken Mini Appetizer are always a hit when served!! Serve these in the peppers, or simply on crackers!!
Pressure Cooker Tuna Noodle Casserole is absolutely the best around. Fresh cream, mushrooms, and celery add layers of flavor to bring back childhood memories.
This easy and yummy Greek Tuna Salad Wraps that come together in a snap using canned tuna.
These delicious, crispy, crusty salmon patties are so quick to make with only a handful of ingredients. Perfect with a side salad and starchy side of choice.
A light and delicious chickpea salad made with simple, fresh, and inexpensive ingredients. This quick side dish is ready in under 5 minutes!
This creamy tuna noodle pasta bake it the ultimate Tuna noodle casserole.
Easy-to-make baked salmon meatballs made with super simple ingredients! Awesomely dairy-free, gluten-free and ready in just 30 minutes. Perfect for dinner or as an appetizer!
Looking for a cheap and healthy snack? These oven-roasted chickpeas (also known as garbanzo beans) make a great snack? As an added bonus, they’re gluten-free! Check out this easy and tasty recipe.
This Grown-Up Tuna Melts recipe – with banana peppers, sourdough bread, provolone cheese, tomatoes, and more – is my retro recipe makeover of the simple Tuna Melts that my Dad used to make us when I was a kid.
This Easy Cheesy Tuna and Rice recipe is perfect on busy nights. Make dinner in one skillet and get it on the table in 30 minutes.
These Whole30, Paleo, and Low Carb spicy Tuna Salad Lettuce Wraps are so easy to make and totally delicious! What makes them spicy? The habanero pepper! Don’t worry, the heat is cooled with a little mayo and lettuce, and balanced with cilantro and celery, so this tuna salad recipe is just lovely!
Lemon Dill Salmon Croquettes are an easy weeknight meal that’s kid-friendly and makes a great meal from canned salmon.
This classic Tuna Noodle Casserole is easy to make with canned tuna. Lots of flavor, and is the epitome of comfort food.
This tuna pasta bake is a truly delicious classic family recipe, yet totally simple and easy! This dish is made with canned tuna, and it’s a meal that the whole family will love.
This low-fat baked potato with tuna and cheese is packed with flavor, high in protein, low in fat and when paired with naturally fat-free cottage cheese and a sprinkling of chives. It makes for a delicious mid-week meal.
Chicken Taco Soup is a quick and easy recipe that is made with canned pantry ingredients. It serves 6 and costs $8.29 to make. That’s just $1.38 per serving!
Salmon & Potato Patties, just like Grandma used to make for a frugal filling dish during tough times.
Curried egg salad with tuna – a quick, delicious recipe using only 6 ingredients. Tuna and egg together along with curry is such a great combination.
If you’re looking for healthy cucumber snacks, try salmon stuffed cucumbers!
Canned tuna and linguine pasta are the secrets to this easy weeknight pasta dinner! Made with mostly pantry ingredients this is your answer to “What’s for dinner?”
If you like sardines you will want to give these french sardine rillettes a try!
A quick, easy, and budget-friendly recipe for tuna patties that are crunchy on the outside, tender on the inside and bursting with tons of flavor from simple ingredients like onion, mustard, spices, and fresh lemon. {gluten-free & grain-free options}
If you have a few avocados to use up, make these Tuna Stuffed Avocado Boats!!
Delicious taco flavors with the comfort of pasta and the nutrition of chicken in this chicken taco caserole. Can’t go wrong with any of it!
The legendary spam is making its way into our Air Fryer to make the most delicious semi-healthy spam fritters. They taste so delicious you will want to relive the childhood favorite.
These fried noodles with spam are sure to stand out. Spam is making a comeback as families are looking for frugal ways to stock the pantry with protein and this is a great way to use it up.
Try this one-pot chicken pot pie soup for a fun and flavorful dish using up that bland canned chicken.
These corned beef burritos are sure to be a hit at your next party. Be sure to pair them with your favorite margaritas.
These entirely pantry-made chicken pot pies are a great way to use up canned chicken for a fun comfort food treat your family is sure to love.
If you are looking for a creative way to use spam you will love these beer-battered spam fritters.
This corned beef potato bake is perfect for a cozy winter dish.
This spam fried rice makes a great pantry dinner or lunch you can feed your family in a hurry.
These tuna rice bowls are a great way to make the most of this pantry staple.
This easy chicken salad makes a great snack or lunch and is incredibly easy to make at home in a flash with canned chicken.
If you have kids in the house you know how essential chicken nuggets are. This easy chicken nugget recipe uses canned chicken from your pantry to make this kid favorite treat.
This easy chicken casserole uses canned chicken to make a quick weeknight meal in only 30 minutes.
This angel hair pasta salad is the perfect weeknight meal that you can put together in minutes with canned chicken.
This buffalo chicken dip is super easy and you can whip it up using canned chicken from your pantry in mutes to serve at your next big game party.
This book club chili uses beans from your pantry to make a hearty filling dish for a cool winter day.
Canned Meats in your Pantry
So with a lot of the pantry recipes listed above, the tinned meats can be switched out for almost any other canned protein you have on hand.
Also, keep in mind that if you don’t have some of the ingredients listed in the recipe, feel free to substitute or omit the ingredient (if doing so makes sense, ya know?).
Take these recipes and follow them to the “T” if you want, or simply use them as guidelines. When we’re “pantry cooking”, we sometimes have to get creative. And usually, those turn out the be the BEST recipes ever!!!
If you’re looking for other recipes that could easily be converted using pantry proteins, why not take a peek at an easy recipe on how to make your own vanilla extract!!
Or how about making some SUPER easy No Knead Country Style Bread!!! It’s crazy easy, and spreading some fresh butter on it while it’s warm is HEAVENLY!!
Well my gorgeous readers, there you have it! If you switch up any of the recipes listed here, let me know how you did it, in the comments below!
And, as usual, thank you SO much for stopping by The Salty Pot today, and I hope you have a really great day!
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