September 15, 2010 - When you look in your pantry, do you see endless creativity or the same ol’ meals?  Celebrity Chef Adam Gertler from The Food Network show, Kid in a Candy Store can help find inspiration in the foods that fill your pantry and make your hungry family a happy one. 

Our pantries are filled with staples like pancake mix, instant potatoes, peanut butter, syrup, and cereal that can often serve double – or triple – duty as ingredients in fun recipes for enchiladas, hot wings, and even doughnuts.  Using staple ingredients in new interesting ways saves us time and money. Adam Gertler will help your viewers think outside the box to “use up the box.”

With nearly eight in ten Americans throwing away pantry staples they fail to use up and more than 47% making the same meals week after week[1], we can save money and add variety by looking to our pantries for mealtime solutions. Adam Gertlerdemonstrates how to use everyday ingredients in surprising ways for delicious results. He also talk about how you can submit your own “use up the box” recipes for a chance to win a year’s worth of groceries.

About Adam Gertler: As a contestant on season four of The Next Food Network Star, Adam Gertler revealed his energetic passion for food and fun-loving sense of humor. Now, as the host of Food Network’s primetime series, Kid in a Candy Store, Adam uncovers the best, most outrageous, most innovative, and most loved sweet treats as he travels the nation visiting the bakeries, restaurants, food carts, and factories where America’s favorites are produced.. Adam also hosted the Food Network primetime series, Will Work For Food in 2009.