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“Better Homes and Gardens Supermarket Shortcuts” (Wiley, $19.95) offers tricks, tips and recipes for fast meals. The following advice caught our eye:

“If you have these groceries in your fridge, freezer and cupboard, you’ll always have something good ready to go in minutes.” Just add a few other pantry items (salt, pepper, cheese, milk, etc.), and you can come up with a week’s worth of dinners.

1. Jars of pasta sauce

2. Boxes of dried pasta

3. A sack of russet potatoes

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4. Pork chops

5. Frozen fish fillets

6. Bags of salad greens

7. Chicken breast halves

8. Frozen meatballs

9. A stash of frozen vegetables in bags

10. Bottles of salad dressing, including one vinaigrette style