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Attainable Sustainable Pantry

A Back-to-Basics Guide to Stocking Your Kitchen

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Hardcover
$35.00 US
7.93"W x 10.04"H x 1.19"D   | 40 oz | 12 per carton
On sale Mar 04, 2025 | 304 Pages | 9781426223334
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A handy illustrated collection of tried and true techniques to fill your cupboards with wholesome, homemade food—and save money, too.

Internet sensation Kris Bordessa shows how to replace storebought, processed products with your own delicious, nutritious entrees, side dishes, condiments, snacks, and more.


With more than 120 recipes—from cake mixes and marmalades to relishes, pickles, and coffee creamer—this comprehensive guide will help you ditch store-bought processed foods and fill your pantry with homemade, healthier options that will save you time and money—and taste better, too!

Inside these pages, you’ll find recipes for:

  • Breakfast favorites, including homemade instant oatmeal, classic pancake and waffle mix, and make-ahead egg cups
  • Baking must-haves, from chocolate cake mix to no-knead rosemary-garlic bread, sourdough bread loaves, and easy flour tortillas
  • Everyday go-to condiments, such as ranch dressing, grainy mustard, teriyaki sauce, and mayonnaise 
  • Quick pickles, like bread-and-butter zucchini pickles, pickled beets and okra, and dill pickle relish
  • Healthier snacks, including barbecue potato chips, sour “fruit” snacks, guacamole, and hummus 
  • And a huge collection of canning classics, from orange-vanilla marmalade and bourbon-apple jelly to chowchow, pizza sauce, salsa, and more—all reviewed for safety by the National Center for Home Food Preservation

With author and homesteader Kris Bordessa as your guide, you’ll learn how to meal prep more efficiently, reduce waste, cut out processed ingredients, and enjoy more homemade foods year-round, all from the bounty in your own cupboards.
Kris Bordessa's popular website Attainable Sustainable, with its e-newsletter and social media, offers actionable steps to get back to basics and embrace self-reliant living through a DIY lifestyle. Bordessa grew up on a small apple farm in Northern California and is a second-generation 4-H member. She lives in Hawai’i with her family, strives for an abundant vegetable garden, and raises a thriving—and often humorous—chicken flock. Her first book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living, was published by National Geographic in March 2020 and was named the Best How-To Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

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A handy illustrated collection of tried and true techniques to fill your cupboards with wholesome, homemade food—and save money, too.

Internet sensation Kris Bordessa shows how to replace storebought, processed products with your own delicious, nutritious entrees, side dishes, condiments, snacks, and more.


With more than 120 recipes—from cake mixes and marmalades to relishes, pickles, and coffee creamer—this comprehensive guide will help you ditch store-bought processed foods and fill your pantry with homemade, healthier options that will save you time and money—and taste better, too!

Inside these pages, you’ll find recipes for:

  • Breakfast favorites, including homemade instant oatmeal, classic pancake and waffle mix, and make-ahead egg cups
  • Baking must-haves, from chocolate cake mix to no-knead rosemary-garlic bread, sourdough bread loaves, and easy flour tortillas
  • Everyday go-to condiments, such as ranch dressing, grainy mustard, teriyaki sauce, and mayonnaise 
  • Quick pickles, like bread-and-butter zucchini pickles, pickled beets and okra, and dill pickle relish
  • Healthier snacks, including barbecue potato chips, sour “fruit” snacks, guacamole, and hummus 
  • And a huge collection of canning classics, from orange-vanilla marmalade and bourbon-apple jelly to chowchow, pizza sauce, salsa, and more—all reviewed for safety by the National Center for Home Food Preservation

With author and homesteader Kris Bordessa as your guide, you’ll learn how to meal prep more efficiently, reduce waste, cut out processed ingredients, and enjoy more homemade foods year-round, all from the bounty in your own cupboards.

Author

Kris Bordessa's popular website Attainable Sustainable, with its e-newsletter and social media, offers actionable steps to get back to basics and embrace self-reliant living through a DIY lifestyle. Bordessa grew up on a small apple farm in Northern California and is a second-generation 4-H member. She lives in Hawai’i with her family, strives for an abundant vegetable garden, and raises a thriving—and often humorous—chicken flock. Her first book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living, was published by National Geographic in March 2020 and was named the Best How-To Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

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