The Prepared Pantry is a family-owned business located in Rigby, Idaho.  The company sells baking mixes, kitchen tools, baking ingredients, and gourmet foods.  It has its own production facility for the packaging of mixes and baking ingredients.  It is believed to be the largest seller of bread mixes on the internet.  

The company is located on County Line Road, just off US Highway 20 in Rigby.   The address and phone number are:

The Prepared Pantry

2 North Landmark Lane

Rigby, ID 83442

208-745-7892

The company is rapidly growing and accepts employment applications.  The company offers competitive wages, employee discounts, and a friendly, clean work environment in a new facility.  As of the end of 2007, the company employed about 25 people. 

About our baking mixes:

The Prepared Pantry produces bread, cookie, dessert, and pancake mixes in an FDA compliant, state inspected facility.  Most are packaged in Mylar to extend shelf life.  Preservatives and hydrogenated fats are avoided. 

The company produces 78 different bread mix varieties though some are seasonal and only about 50 are offered for sale at any time. 

About our kitchen tools:

The company sells quality kitchen tools at competitive prices including many hard to find tools and bakeware items.  Manufacturers include Norpro, CDN, Wilton, Chicago Metallic, and Freiling. 

About our baking ingredients:

The company sells baking ingredients including bread and cookie making supplies, food coloring gels, decorating sugars, and chocolate.  The company also sells dried fruit, nuts, and spices.  The company is an important seller of chocolate chips and wafers including hard-to-find chips like cinnamon and maple chips.  The company buys most ingredients in bulk and packages them in their facility in Rigby. 

About our gourmet foods:

The company sells jams, jellies, fruit syrups, maple syrup, cream syrups, ice cream toppings, chocolate candies, tapenades, bruschettas, pestos, chutneys, Asian sauces, dips, dried fruits, nuts, and gourmet crackers.  The company has products made for it by Pioneer Valley in Orem, Utah, and buys from a variety of wholesalers including major importers. 

About our free library:

The company maintains a free library and makes it available to website visitors.  The library contains thousands of recipes and food articles, free e-books, a free 250 page "How to Bake" book, baking lessons, recipes collections, videos, and more.  It is updated continually.  The company's website includes over 10,000 pages of information.

The company offers free newsletters and food columns such as "What's for Dinner" and "Real Family Food".  As of January, 2008, the company was sending newsletters and emails to over 60,000 opt-in subscribers.  The company maintains its subscriber lists on a secure Oracle database so that it can target emails to subscribers' interests giving them the information that they want. 

About our test kitchen:

The company tests all mixes and ingredients extensively before offering them for sale.  All recipes and techniques are tested in the company's test kitchen before publishing.  Unlike most recipes on the internet, these are proven and can be used with confidence.  Most recipes include pictures of the finished product; some have step pictures or videos.  Pictures are taken by the company's photographer in the test kitchen.