Lentils

Mr. Logical and I both really enjoy cooking with lentils, so when it was my turn to make dinner tonight that's where I turned.  I found this recipe for Indian spiced lentils with chicken sausage, and we had everything but the tomatoes and sausage.  I made a grocery run, and gave it a whirl.  It turned out to be pretty tasty, but would have definitely been better with real sausage instead of the chicken.  Mr. Logical made chapati, and we had a cozy little winter dinner.

We used diced tomatoes fairly often, but we never have them on hand.  We are kind of bad about keeping staples around.  What are your pantry staples?