Today I finally got the lemons juiced! I ended up with 18 cups of juice frozen in different size Soupercubes and a quart-sheet pan of zest. I didn’t zest the first half of lemons and then later regretted it because the second half didn’t yield as much as I expected. Lesson learned.
Most of the juice will probably get used in Lemonade like Chick-Fil-A Makes.
Our meals for Day 16:
Breakfast – The family had a variety of oats, leftover pizza, and pancakes from yesterday. I had my standard Greek Yogurt With Muesli topped by blueberries.
Lunch – again, more leftovers.
Dinner – I baked a batch of 5-Ingredient Italian Sandwich Rolls to use as vegan hamburger buns. Bryan grilled a collection of burgers from the freezer, including bison, vegan, and chuck as well as a piece of fish for me.
I cooked green beans as a side and also served apple slices and chips.
Ho-hum. That was the day.
Sandi
1/15
B: scrambled eggs, l/o sausage patties, Annie’s cinnamon rolls from a can found in the back of the fridge from who knows how long ago
L: I only had a granola bar. I have no idea if he ate anything.
D: l/o lemon soup, crab cakes, green beans
Either I’m using a lot more veggies than I realized or I’m getting them in smaller quantities than I thought. Plus I did not have many left in the freezer at the start of this month. I popped into the grocery store again today for more fresh veggies. I also discovered that my preferred brand of frozen veggies were on BOGO; I ended up with another $20 of veggies today.
1/16
B: coffee for me, cereal for him
L: pimento cheese sandwich, apple slices
D: spaghetti pie – I think I made it once some 20 years ago but decided I had the stuff to make it again so why not. Having now done it, I know why not. It’s way too much work for no discernible reason! We both voted not to bother except for when we have the rest of it in another meal. On the plus side, I did make the spaghetti sauce with a whole ton of fresh veggies so at least it was relatively healthy and I only used half of it for the pie.
Lily R.
Day 16
Breakfast: as it was the weekend and i had a bit more time I made mandazi. It was a nice treat with a frothy cafe con leche on the side.
Lunch: shrimp burgers with watercress and pomegranate salad.
Dinner: we finished up the Puerto Rican feast from yesterday.
Today was a good day. We currently have no leftovers and lots of space in our fridge. Two whole shelves are empty and ready for my restock trip tomorrow. Our pantry and freezers also have noticeable dents in them but we still have lots of food/options. What a blessing.
Heather M
Mandazi, what is that? Also, excited to read back on the posts I missed this week and hear about your Puerto Rican feast! YUM YUM! Kudos to you for using up so much and clearing out the leftovers, too! YAY!!
Lily R.
Mandazi are African donuts. So yummy but they take a bit of time to make! Clearing out leftovers and seeing lots of space feels great!
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
I keep having to google some of your dishes. Such variety and they all sound delish. Especially donuts!
Lily R.
Hi Lynne, thank you! This is just the way my husband and I like to eat, we love variety. If you noticed when you googled the recipes though, they are not expensive or extravagant at all. Just things that we would not normally eat in the States and that can be made with simple pantry ingredients. The specialty ingredients i may need are cheap at our local ethnic markets : )
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Ah, to have some of those local ethnic markets! 🙁
Jennifer
Just 3 of us at home yesterday and of course teen dd went out to lunch. Her and another upper classman took 2 of the freshman from the gymnastics team out to lunch. How can I say no? Plus its her money.
B – leftover pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, fruit for dh
S – our weekly date of hiking and starbucks – I had a mocha, dh had coffee
L – picked through the salad container and came up with enough for 2 salads. Mine was topped with pepper, cuke and tomatoes along with a boiled egg. dh was topped with carrots, beets, cuke and pepper. dh also had some leftover pasta
S #2 – graham cracker with peanut butter and chocolate chips
D – one of my “emergency” meals I keep on hand is a bag of buffalo chicken tenders. Of course one of the boys busted into it and it was no longer enough for everyone to eat. It was just dh and I at home (dd at work) so we finished that off and I made a new potato recipe. Thickly slice potatoes, brush with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake. At the end top with cheese and bacon. Dip in sour cream. It was delicious.
Heather M
those potatoes sound delicious! And, I love that you have a weekly hike and starbucks date! That is great!
tasty
A so-so day in the kitchen here.
Breakfast was the normal fruit, yogurt and muffin for me. Hubby had toasted and cheese.
Lunch we cleaned out the leftovers from the fridge. Supper was roast lamb (only OK), roasted parsnips, peas and Yorkshire pudding. L/o apple strudel and ice cream.
I have to pick up a prescription tomorrow so will go early and shop for a few things we are running low on while I am out anyway. We’re not out of anything yet but as we are in a lockdown situation and can only go out for essential trips I’ll make it one trip and not 2 so today I need to put a small shopping list together.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
1/16/21
B: boiled egg, toast, coffee
L: last of LO vegetable soup, salad using wrinkled grape tomatoes, chicken from freezer, lettuce and green pepper from garden
D: LO pizza with carrot sticks and ranch, Jessica’s Pear and Blue Cheese Salad (It is so good and one of my favorite salads. I did sub apple for the pear)
S: apple with peanut butter
Heather M
Wrinkled grape tomatoes. lol. I have a few of those still too. I think I’m going to chop them up and make my usual pan con tomate to go with dinner tonight. 🙂
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
That sounds like an even better use of wrinkled tomatoes!
Lily R.
Heather beat me to the wrinkled tomato comment lol. I have a large one that I will most likely bake on top of my bread and cheese in the morning!
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
That sounds good too!
Julie Smith
I haven’t been posting but we are still plugging along!
Pat
Day 16–still plugging along
Breakfast was the usual. No one ate lunch here
Dinner-Chinese chicken and broccoli and carrots(only hubby & I)
Snacks-fruit, chicken dip and chips and salsa
Julie
Last week I got 6 gallons of milk and 2 bags of red seedless grapes for $19
We’re still remodeling the kitchen, still eating food I have previously frozen –
I did make a roast (beef) in the crock pot with potatoes, carrots and some garden tomatoes I froze and we ate that a couple of days
Currently eating burritos, mac and cheese I froze, pumpkin scones
Yesterday I made popcorn on the stovetop for supper (our typical Saturday dinner because I work most Saturdays). At least our oven is still connected (it’s gas and not too fun to install or disconnect so we’re hoping to keep it there).
I made brownies last week. I had to make flour so I had to hunt down the grains for that but it was nice. My youngest is allergic to chocolate so they were carob and I can’t eat gluten, hence hunting down grains to make flour in my Vitamix. I think we’ll end the month around $100. Our freezers are getting quite a bit emptier. I hope we can finish the kitchen this week and when it’s all done I need to have a big freezer cooking day or two to replenish things.
Heather M
I’ve been off here for several days, enjoying the last days of my son being home(he flew away midday today-Sunday) and getting a few other things done. Instead of catching up on all the missing days, I’ll just pick back up here with Day 16. Definitely weird eating, we all did our own thing. We had ordered pizza and wings Friday from a place up the street that does pizza Buffalo NY style. We’d tried it this Fall and liked it and our son decided he wanted to as well, so we did( to add context).
Brunch: we all had leftover pizza; I also had an apple.
Dinner: I had a sort of tuna-egg salad sandwich on toasted sourdough; son had sourdough toast and the last hot dog in a bun; husband ate leftovers: leftover pasta w/mushrooms from takeout(gone now!), and reheated, already cooked chicken sausage and hotdog. Nice to clear a few really random things out.
We also snacked on random things like pistachios, treats from the holidays(no, they aren’t gone yet, but it’s getting better), chips and salsa, etc.
One plug, that has absolutely nothing to do with food/groceries, etc.(my apologies, but I can’t help it re this). We watched My Octopus Teacher on Netflix last night. It’s a documentary about a diver and an actual octopus in South Africa. It’s mostly underwater. It’s incredible and moving and the beauty alone is worth it. It’s quiet and slow, but mesmerizing and worth every bit of the 85 minutes.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Thanks for the film recommendation. Sounds like something we would enjoy watching.
Maureen
I was the only one awake for breakfast, although I think DD10 had a banana before lunch. I’m not sure what everyone had for lunch. I had a few random things to clear them out of the fridge. I picked up our sourdough bakery order, so everyone enjoyed soft pretzels for a snack. And hubby grilled pork chops for dinner. He’s still having fun playing with his new grill/smoker on the weekends and I’m not turning that down. I used up an open box of rice, a few shriveled veggies, and we had most of the sourdough loaf. I dug an older box of creme brulee mix out of the pantry and DS17 was excited to make it for dessert. He’s not usually the one to help in the kitchen these days, so it was a win-win.
Laura
I have been using up things in my pantry. I made Dan Dan noodles using up the rest of the Asian noodles. We’ve decided they’re very underwhelming. I used up half of a andouille sausage and made hash. I went to the 99 cent store and bought lots of veg. Now we have lots of fresh food but I’m short on other thing. We’re just about out of cheese. I wanted to spend only $100 this month but I’m already at $94 so that’ll have to change. Maybe I can stay at $150. We’ll see.
Sandi
I’m having the same problem. I’m using things up that I need to get rid of, but somehow the purchasing is still marching steadily along as well.
Cindy
Breakfast/Lunch – we were headed out to babysit the little ones so made a quick late morning meal of cranberry walnut bread, fresh fruit, cheese + tea or coffee.
Too lazy to make a real from scratch meal, where do 15 month olds get all that energy – last half of a bag of Trader Joe’s mandarin orange chicken, jasmine rice and a salad.
Hubby crashed in the family room with a glass of milk and Oreos for a little football watching and had a glass of Chenin Blanc!
Kathy in Idaho
Today we had Chicken Pot Pei Impossible Pie made with 2 pints home canned chicken pie filling, homemade biscuit mix, 2 Hess from our own chickens and powdered milk. The vegetables were our homegrown kohlrabi and homegrown and canned green beans. The kohlrabi was a leftover from a couple of nights Bryan’s wasn’t enough for all of us tonight.
Kathy in Denmark
Day 16:
Brunch: Softboiled eggs, HM rolls and rye bread, freshly squezed juice and apple juice for the kids who don’t like pulp in their juice 😉 Bake at home croissants from the freezer
Early dinner: HM pizzas on flatbread
S: Butter cookies
The bake at home croissants were a new kind and they are really good! I still have a few bags in the freezer and since there are 4 in each bag I use up one per meal 🙂
The flat bread for the pizzas were actually past the date but still fine. I used up the last olives and artichoke hearts from the jars as well as some sliced cheese which was getting dry around the edges. Oh, and the last of a tub of feta! I really like it when I can make something yummy and use up odds and ends!
We are nearing the end of the butter cookies. So I will soon have to come up with new snacks, hopefully healthier ones 😉