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Pantry Challenge

Pantry Challenge Finale

Shopping your kitchen can save you money and be a great way to rotate the ingredients you keep on hand. Stick a fork in me; I’m done! Oh yes, I did my four weeks of pantry challenge. And it was good. I cleaned out the freezer and thawed that baby out. I worked through our [...]

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Pantry Challenge Week 3 (Share Your Progress)

We’re three-quarters of the way through our Pantry Challenge. Are you seeing bare shelves and better able to navigate your kitchen? Where has the month gone? Seems like we just celebrated Christmas, didn’t we? We’re three weeks into the Pantry Challenge. As I mentioned on Saturday, I stocked up on lunch fixings so that we [...]

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Pantry Challenge Week 2 Done (Share Your Progress)

Shopping your kitchen entails a little more cooking and creativity than you would normally employ. But, a Pantry Challenge can save you money. We’re reached an impasse in the Pantry Challenge. This weekend, my 14yo said, “It seems like there’s nothing to eat but fruit and stuff you have to cook.” I knew he was [...]

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Pantry Challenge Week 1 Done (Share Your Progress!)

Challenging yourself to “shop the pantry” is a great way to make the most of what you have. Today we’re sharing our progress during Week 1. The first week of the Pantry Challenge is behind us! Hopefully, you’ve been able to stick to your resolve and plug away at your goals for the new year. [...]

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Goals for the Pantry Challenge (Winter 2012)

Set some goals for your kitchen this month. Make the most of what you already have. Shop your freezer. Save some cash. Are you ready to make use of what ya got? That’s basically what a pantry challenge is. Instead of grocery shopping as usual, it involves grocery shopping at home first. You’ll be surprised [...]

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Join Me for a Pantry Challenge

An “eat from the pantry” challenge is a great way to rotate your pantry’s stock and to save money on groceries. It’s that time of year. I’m ready for a fresh start! And so is my kitchen. The pantry and freezers around here are pretty much bursting at the seems. I’ve stockpiled a lot of [...]

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Pantry Challenge Check-In, Final Week (or Not?)

Today wraps up the fourth and final week of the Pantry Challenge. I just finished crunching the numbers on our grocery shopping and eating out and was AMAZED at the results. We did as well as or better than if I had actually set a money limit on myself. Less than $600 to feed 8 [...]

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Pumpkin Spice Scones

These were a spur-of-the-moment creation, based on a half jar of pumpkin sitting in the fridge just crying to be baked into something delicious. Scones sounded lovely. And they were. I use a food processor to cut in the butter and then transfer those buttery crumbs to a bowl and then mix in the liquid [...]

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Pantry Challenge Check-In Week 3

It has been a fun week in the kitchen. I will say that. My family really doesn’t know that I’m not doing major grocery shopping. I’m still shopping one day a week, but I’m trying to limit it mentally to under $100 a week and so far, so good. You can see what I bought [...]

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Pantry Challenge Check-in, Week 2

This week I found myself getting into the groove of the pantry challenge. I baked more. I created a few new recipes, such as Turkey and Black Bean Enchiladas as well as Pumpkin Scones (coming soon). I had some flops as well as some successes. And other than going without milk for a couple days, [...]

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