This month, we’re shopping our kitchen in order to use up what we have so we can save money and clear kitchen clutter.
Here we go with Day 10 of the Pantry Challenge!
It’s been a different kind of pantry challenge this time around since I’m focused on keeping to my regular work schedule. Since ours is a small business, the show must go on.
I’ve been in the kitchen a lot, just in different ways from years past. I can’t wait to show you these new recipes and pictures we’ve been working on!
Today I reshot some old pizza recipes. Thankfully, we had most of the ingredients already on hand.
Then I tested a new pistachio recipe because I had a load of pistachios stashed away in the pantry. Did you know that most pistachio products are predominantly flavored with almond?!
The things you learn in this job.
What We Ate
Four of us were home for breakfast and lunch. Bryan and the college boys packed stuff from home.
Breakfast – Bryan and I both had a new favorite: Overnight Protein Oats, or ProtOats, as I call them. They are really good, especially topped with blueberries. The girls had their leftover pancakes and waffles from yesterday. I’m not sure what the boys had.
Lunch – One of the girls got a fancy Bento box for Christmas, so she packed that with last night’s leftovers and a salad. The rest of us ate My Big Fat Greek Pizza, Thai Chicken Pizza, and Goat Cheese Pizza.
Dinner – Everyone made his own quesadilla, served with Jalapeño Salsa. I ate more pizza and lots of the pistachio thing. 😉
How did Day 10 go for you?
Barbara
Hi Jennifer –
A little late on the pantry challenge message to you- but we have started
Had left over ham from holiday – so I made Senate Bean Soup for dinner.
Checked in pantry and freezer.
Made Corn Flake Chicken cutlets for dinner with Broccoli and Cheese Quiche.
Had Ronzoni shells – made Stuffed Shells with spinach.
Made French Dip Sandwiches from Roast Beef we had one night.
Made Sloppy Joe Biscuit rounds – with Pillsbury biscuits from fridge.
Still going through pantry and freezer. Will come up with another week of meal plans once I check out the freezer and pantry.
That is it for now – Thanks for the idea of the pantry challenge. The cost of food lately is just crazy, it is smart to do this and not waste.
Jennifer
I think I am behind. I will try to remember. So dh is sick, thought it was the flu, I went and got tamiflu at CVS after he went to the dr. I mentioned previously that my soup stash had been wiped out. I picked up 4 cans of soup for him, meds, and some clearance Christmas candy for the work drawer. I think I spent $15 on food, maybe $20.
B – muffins or oatmeal with fruit
L – leftovers! Yay!
D – sheet pan dinner with chicken sausages, potatoes, broccoli, peppers and carrots with crescent rolls.
Kathy in Denmark
Day 10
B: The usual fare all around
L: DH eats at work, packed lunch for the kids, rye bread with serrano ham and boiled potatoes for me. I also had some lettuce and tomatoes.
D: Tortillas with bean filling, guacamole, crème fraiche and salad.
S: Bananas and cake my MIL gave us to take home.
Kathryn M
B- Hotel had biscuits and gravy and scrambled eggs! I also ate a bowl of fruit loops. Helped myself to a generous amount of hot cocoa too. It was cold outside.
L- grabbed a hamburger for carryout. I ate in my car and drank my own soda.
Snacks – small package of Bugles, candy (from dollar general).
Dinner – pizza rolls in the hotel microwave. They were not super cheap at dollar general but I knew I had better grab something while I was getting snacks in case I decided not to leave the hotel once I checked in.
Kimberly
Oh, I will have to try your recipe for protein cookies. With two growing boys in sports, I am always looking for ways to fill them up. But I had to Pin it to try in February…don’t have many of the pantry ingredients ?
So we returned from San Diego (where my son’s team went defeated and won the lacrosse tourney!) right before dinner time Monday night…so I already planned on takeout. But everyone had leftovers for lunch the next day so it worked. Tuesday, I had to hit the grocery for milk and bread and a few other everyday items but only spent $49 which is good for us anymore!
B- cereal or poptarts, milk
L- boys packed leftover Mod Pizza, yogurt with fruit and granola, LO Christmas candy, water; hubby eats out with work crew once a week and today was it; I had my leftovers and juice (we love Mod Pizza because we each get our own sauce & topping preferences, turns out I love artichoke on pizza!)
D- chicken rigatoni (blended some zucchini and carrots from freezer with the HM tomato-pepper sauce, only had to purchase the pasta!), Sprite LO from the holidays
LO Christmas goodies for dessert
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Jan 10
Interesting about pistachios.
B: coffee
L: ½ turkey sandwich. DH had some LO chicken and soup
D: Chicken enchiladas with slaw and mandarins. Used up some HM enchilada sauce from the freezer that had been in there forever.
S: HM hummus with chickpeas from the freezer, pita chips, nuts
Heather M
Day 10:
B: L skipped; I had two pieces of toast with the same cinnamon bun spread
L: L took the second container of salad with leftover chicken and bacon, a piece of sourdough, and mandarins; I finished off the leftover rice and lone little potato (sans skin), melted cheese on the potato plus a few nibbles of other cheese, and finished off a bad of baked chips with a little sour cream I tried to flavor with seasoned salt and onion powder since other dip options have dried herbs and onion pieces, etc.
D: Made a veggie soup with leftover carrots, chopped tomato and onion, rest of the mushrooms and some leftover garbanzos from the freezer, fresh spinach, and seasonings, plus chicken broth. I strained some so I could just eat the broth. L also had a toasted turkey and pepperjack w/ spinach sandwich.
I found some old boxes of jello in the pantry and looked up the best by date situation online. Turns out that boxes of dried jello mix last indefinitely. Thank goodness since these boxes were quite old. I made a box of lime jello to help me make it through Wednesday before starting the dreaded drink prep for Thursday.
ZC from MA
B: overnight oats with hemp milk, nut butter and strawberries. Coffee.
L: bought at work
D: udon with cabbage and shrimp
S: an orange
Emily
B- eggs Benedict using leftover deli ham and finally the last Mandarin
L- I found some chicken wings that had been pushed to the back of the fridge so I ate those for lunch
Snack- baby carrots and cucumber dipped in onion dip
D- cauliflower soup using a bag of frozen cauliflower, homemade spring rolls, these were not good, the wraps had expired but seemed fine but def tasted stale, I threw away the rest.
Dessert- banana pudding using some leftover cream in the fridge from making my kids scones in the morning.