Permawiki:Recipe recommendations

Feel free to improve recipes on Permawiki. As taste is a matter of preference, and dietary needs vary greatly, recommendations have been created.

Ingredients

Specify amounts. Use 1/8 tsp salt instead of a pinch of salt.
Specify recommendations. Use 1/2 tbsp pepper instead of pepper to taste. People will modify seasonings at the table to suit their preferences, but salting to taste in a dump meal made a week before the meal will be consumed is challenging.
Emphasize fresh ingredients first. Assume people will grow their own produce. Use 5 tomatoes instead of 1 can of tomatoes. Canned ingredients can be recommended as a substitute such as 5 tomatoes (or a 14oz can of tomatoes).
Avoid wasted produce. Scale recipes or adjust ratios to use 1 apple instead of 3/4 apple.
Emphasize produce that is easily grow.
Limit produce in a recipe to produce that harvested in the same season.
Limit ingredients to what is commonly found in pantries. Use paprika instead of smoked paprika.
Simplify ingredient lists when possible.

Try the recipe as written before changing ingredients or relative proportions of ingredients.
Create or scale recipes to serve four.