# What could you bring to a potluck without a trip to the store? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-bring-to-a-potluck-without-a-trip-to-the-store/724122 "2015-07-03T06:03:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-bring-to-a-potluck-without-a-trip-to-the-store/724122/41 "2015-07-07T14:50:00Z")
Banana muffins or bread. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-bring-to-a-potluck-without-a-trip-to-the-store/724122/42 "2015-07-07T17:31:13Z")
Mostly baked goods. I could make scones (choc chip or blueberry), biscotti, lemon bars, cheese cake all from scratch. I have boxed brownie mix and an angel food cake mix in the pantry. I could bake bread, which takes longer but is very little actual work. StG ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-bring-to-a-potluck-without-a-trip-to-the-store/724122/43 "2015-07-07T17:55:41Z")
I have a really well stocked pantry. My goal is to go to the grocery about twice a month, which means at any one time, I have a couple of weeks of food on hand. (We often pick up a few fresh things in between). Then… I have things like a couple of turkeys in the freezer. We pick those kinds of things up when the sales are really good. So the better question is what I couldn’t make. 🙂 Anyway, first thing that come to mind: We made a couple of pot pies from turkey leftovers. There are two, premade, in the freezer and they just need an hour to bake. Second idea is meatballs, since I make those in large batches and freeze the extras. I season them neutrally so I could add them to spaghetti and tomato sauce, put BBQ sauce on them, or do mushroom gravy and egg noodles. I’m out of fresh mushrooms at the moment, but I do have mushroom soup in cans and some dried mushrooms as well. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-bring-to-a-potluck-without-a-trip-to-the-store/724122/44 "2015-07-07T19:43:13Z")
Only what’s on hand right now? That lets out a risotto, because I’m out of arborio rice. One hour of prep time? I’ve got plenty of dried beans, but if I can’t soak them overnight, forget about chili or baked beans. I think my best options are drop biscuits or a penne pesto salad. Or I might get creative and try making pesto biscuits. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-bring-to-a-potluck-without-a-trip-to-the-store/724122/45 "2015-07-07T20:11:14Z")
I could actually do pretty well. I’ve got two blueberry pies I put together and froze about a month ago that just need to be baked. I could do chocolate chip cookies. I could even do chocolate-chocolate chip since I have cocoa. I could do a pasta salad. I could do bread since I have a couple packages of yeast. I could do chili but it may have to be sans beans. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-you-bring-to-a-potluck-without-a-trip-to-the-store/724122.md?page=2)