The Best New Pantry Staples in Grocery Stores This Year
Stock your cabinets with updated basics to make your cooking better than ever
Fred Hardy
PEOPLE Food Awards 2024: Best Pantry StaplesYou've probably got your basic rice, pasta and brownie mix in your pantry already — so why not mix things up?
These new pantry staples — and winners of the PEOPLE Food Awards 2024 — are anything but boring. Try a fast-food taco kit, a spice mix for seafood and a protein-packed soup you'll always want to have on hand.
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Best Soup
Old El Paso Chicken Tortilla Soup
Testers gave high marks for the Tex-Mex flavors and hearty portions of chicken, beans, corn and peppers in each serving.
Buy it! $4.50 for 18.5 oz., walmart.com
Best Rice
Royal Hyderabadi Biryani Kit
Indian biryani — a layered dish of rice, spices and meat or veggies — takes hours to develop its complex flavor. This kit gets it done in 30 minutes.
Buy it! $5, authenticroyal.com
Best Spice Mix
McCormick Flavor Maker Salmon Topping Seasoning
Add a sprinkle of spices — a mix of dried ginger, sesame seeds, coconut and more — to seafood, stir-fries or anything that needs an extra oomph.
Buy it! $6.50, walmart.com
Best Taco Kit
Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme Cravings Kit
Enjoy the fast-food favorite—a warm flour tortilla folded around seasoned meat, nacho cheese and a crunchy tostada—without leaving your house.
Buy it! $7, walmart.com
Best Brownie Mix
Ghirardelli Brownie Cookie Bar Mix
“Absolute perfection!” declared a staffer of the “deeply fudgy” brownies baked with a slab of chocolate chip cookie on top.
Buy it! $4 for 16.5 oz., walmart.com
Best Boxed Mac & Cheese
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Annie’s Super! Mac Shells & White Cheddar
“I tossed in some broccoli, and my kids literally ate it up — no arguments,” said a tester, who enjoyed the “creamy” cheese sauce.
Buy it! $4 for 6 oz., target.com
Best Pasta
Brami Pasta Radiatori
The lupini bean- and semolina wheat-blend noodles (which resemble little radiators) “don’t get mushy” or have “any of the graininess” of other hybrid pastas, said testers.
Buy it! $4 for 12 oz., walmart.com
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