The Pantry is a wholesale source for basic food staple items. The focus is on organic basic ingredients used to make nutritious meals at home from scratch. By pooling common items on individual grocery lists, redundancy can be eliminated and our buying power strengthened.
What is the JVR Pantry Kitchen?
In the Domestic Pantry Kitchen, we preserve the summer's bounty and make all sorts of alchemic and epicurian delights from scratch. This is the laboratory where Julie, sometimes with an intern, can be found dabbling in wild fermentation as well as traditional and "modern" preservation. Common activities of the homestead include making water kefir soda, raw milk kefir, kombucha, miso, tempeh, salsa, concocting better-than-sex chocolate fudge brownies, drying oregano, sage, thyme, basil, mint and savory from the garden for use during winter months, canning tomatoes for pizza and spaghetti sauce, making fruit jams, jellies, syrups and juices, combining the precise ingredients just so to make a delicious Thom Ka Ghai soup, learning what to do with chicken liver (some experiments are more fun than others but nothing is wasted!), as well as where health and beauty workshops are held, such as laundry soap, lotion, bar and liquid body and facial cleansers, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, bath bombs, and whatever else strikes their fancy.
An aspect to making the Pantry and Kitchen work is having enough Participants. Pantry Suppliers have minimums. As examples, broccoli comes in 20 lb boxes and oats come in 50 lb bags. When enough Participants Express Interest in items from specific Suppliers, those orders can be placed. Orders will be held until the minimum can be met. People living in the house, as well as fellow residents of the neighborhood, who eat whole food staple ingredients can help further the general goal. The more Interest we get, the greater the variety we can support.
Bulk items are available at wholesale cost. A handling fee of 30% is applied for delivery and maintenance of the Pantry. The price of most things is below the retail cost, sometimes significantly so. This, and the simple act of Participation adequately compensates time spent refining the overall process, procuring items, and tracking inventory. Coordinating learner-based educational experiments with Participants is one way we interact with and thank roommates for choosing to live here. The ability to facilitate this p.s. extra is a way we express gratitude toward our roommates for participating in homesteading activities, and an investment of time we make in toward a higher quality of living for everyone in the house.
After viewing this page, we ask you to think about what you'd like to see in your refrigerator. What kind of foods do you typically eat for breakfast? What items would you be likely to take with you for lunch and snack at work or school? What's for dinner? When you have or get ideas, a quick note or suggestion email gives us a jumping-off place. Knowing what people want to eat gives us focus on what to make next.
Things we have been known to get and/or have:
- Carob and/or chocolate (white, milk, vegan)
- Cheeses
- Coffee and tea (black, green, decaffeinated, regular)
- Condiments (vinegar, tamari, oils, etc.)
- Dried fruit
- Eggs
- Fresh fruit and veggies
- Grains and flour
- Granola and trail mix
- Legumes
- Natural cleaners
- Nuts and butters
- Sweeteners
- Seeds, butters and sprouting seeds
- Spices
- Tofu and tempeh
- Tortillas, wheat and corn
- Grass-fed beef
Foods we have made:
- Baked goods such as muffins, scones, bread, pancakes, cornbread
- Beans and dips (black, lima, pinto, garbanzo etc. for various uses)
- Chili
- Condiments (mustard, gomasio, relish, sauerkraut, kimchi, chutney )
- Cashew "milk"
- Desserts (fruit pies, homemade twix bars, cakes, brownies, almond roca, strawberry shortcakes, chocolate chip cookies, biscotti... to name a few of the greatest hits)
- Dal
- Egg salad
- Granola
- Grains (millet, polenta, quinoa, rice, etc.)
- Jam & jelly
- Peas (green split, black-eyed, garbanzo)
- Quick-energy emergency-food "cookie"
- Sandwiches
- Sauces (dairy and non white, pesto, tomato, etc.)
- Smoothies and/or protein shakes
- Soups (a variety) of cooked soups and a miso standard
- Sprouts, bean or alfalfa, stir fry or salad type
- Sushi
- Syrups
- Tempeh sticks or cubes
- Wraps
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