Do you have extra canned tuna? Canned salmon? What about those extra tins of SPAM kickin around your pantry? Expand your grocery budget by making canned protein meals with items from your pantry!
Delicious Dinners Using Tinned 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 and fresh meat, and they can make some SUPER delicious meals!! (Some of them even meatless!!)
Check out the many ideas below!
Delicious Meals Using Canned Protein From Your Pantry
These are some delicious recipes using canned protein (or, tinned meats) that you have right in your pantry! An inexpensive, hearty, and tasty way to feed your family!
These super delicious Buffalo Chicken Boats are a unique play on the typical Buffalo Chicken Wing. All the flavors are there, spicy, creamy, tangy, and crunchy,... with no messy fingers!
Pressure Cooker Tuna Noodle Casserole is absolutely the best around. Fresh cream, mushrooms, celery add layers of flavor to bring back childhood memories.
Easy and yummy Greek Tuna Salad Wraps that come together in a snap!
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!
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!!
Yummy and easy to make!!
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 know 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!
This classic Tuna Noodle Casserole is easy to make with canned tuna. Lots of flavor, and this casserole is not dry like some are.
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.
Pantry Chicken Taco Soup - made in 20 minutes! • Food Folks and Fun
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!!
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?”
Hot Virginia Dip is an amazing, creamy, salty dip that is perfect for an appetizer or a late-night snack that is great with crackers.
If you like sardines, this is one to 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!!
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 favourite.
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 are “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!
**Don’t forget to pin this Canned Protein Meals Pin to your favorite Pinterest board for easy reference!! **
Leave a Reply