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 14 of the Pantry Challenge!
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Such a chill weekend. I love it.
What We Ate
Breakfast – I made two Sausage Egg Hash Brown Casseroles for breakfast. One disappeared right away. We’ll eat the other tomorrow.
Lunch – We had a random collection of things, including spam asubi and Asian Bowls.
Dinner – I made a big Shepherd’s Pie with Cheddar Mash and a Chocolate Pudding Cheesecake concoction.
How did Day 14 go for you?
Kathryn M
Lunch Chicken salad sandwich with pickled onion and sweet pepper, a side of bread and butter pickles. You can say I am a bit “pickled” – HaHa. I do like chicken salad in case you haven’t noticed!
Dinner – I made a bean burrito and smothered it with some of the leftover nacho cheese. I added a dollop of sour cream to make it look fancy.
On the inside I used the refried beans, shredded Mexican cheese, and a packet of Del Taco sauce for some flavor. Those little fast food packets just seem to accumulate around here, so I try to use them every once in a while.
Snacks – chips and more christmas candy. A gal at work gave me some homemade peanut brittle too.
Diinaus
Slightly better day.
B: made Kids a crock of rice porridge with coconut milk. ( muggins me forgot to put aside half so the critters aye well today)
L: lo masamum curry and boiled veg
D: Salad dinner with fried eggs…
Karen J
B-out with son and family to celebrate his job promotion-blueberry pancakes with a lemon sauce, yum
L-skipped
D-fried rice with bits of leftover pork and chicken from the freezer, plus veg and egg, kimchi (our kimchi container is a bit past dated, but I figure it’s fermented and it still tastes fine so all’s good)
Heather M
Congrats to your son! Also, I imagine the kimchi would be good well past its date. Fermentation is a good thing that way. I wonder what Google says, lol
Karen J
We became fans of kimchi after getting our first container at Costco on sale. Other than having it with fried rice, we like kimchi quesadillas with scrambled eggs. Plus from everything I’ve read, fermented food is healthy so there’s that.
We are so proud of our son. He’s been rising with his company for over twenty years and this leap into an upper directorship is a big deal.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
1/14
B: I had a cheese biscuit and coffee. DH had a cheese biscuit, cereal and coffee.
L: I took out (and used up) a small container of taco soup from the freezer which we both had for lunch. A restaurant we used to frequent but is now out of business made a turkey havarti sandwich. It’s a family favorite so DH had that with soup. It’s chicken/ turkey, havarti cheese with Granny Smith apple slices on toasted bread. I use whatever apple I’ve got. I had the last of the cranberry turkey salad with my soup.
D: lo chicken thighs. DH was feeling a bit under the weather so I’d fixed rice and he had a lo applesauce cup from the pantry that I had bought to use in a cake I made. I had lo green beans and a Caesar salad with my chicken and rice.
S: I found some vanilla ice cream in the freezer leftover from Christmas eggnog. There wasn’t much so I finished it up to get it out of the freezer-lol.
We’ve been making daily trips to the beach before the frigid weather arrives. Hope all of you in northern climates will stay warm. Brrr.
Heather M
Must feel good to get the little bits eaten up and out of the kitchen! We woke up to a little snow today! We’ve not really had any snowfall that’s stuck in two years, so even the inch it was is fun! Especially on a holiday that L is actually taking off and able to not work all day (ok, maybe just a little). We are planning to watch movies and have a really chill day. Still envious you get to see the ocean all the time. 🙂
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
I hope you had a great chill day and that L got to relax a bit. We haven’t had snow in quite awhile. I just want enough that looks pretty but will be gone in a day or so! Just saw a meme about driving in snow if you aren’t used to doing so-funny!
The beach has been lovely. But during the last storm, a wind gust of 102 mph was recorded on a pier in Nags Head! There was some mild damage in other areas, but just cold weather predicted this go round.
We’re headed your way around the middle of next week. It looks to be warmer then!
Jennifer
B – I had cinnamon toast with sausage, dh had oatmeal and yogurt
L – I made a childhood favorite – chipped beef over toast. I crave it about once a year usually when the weather is really bad. It was very tasty. We had grapefruit with it
D – BBQ chicken/apple/bacon recipe over cous cous. I used up broth from the freezer with the cous cous and the remains of 2 jars of BBQ sauce in the main dish. I served it with leftover pepper slices
S – we went for B1G1 mochas at Startbucks
Allie from Ontario
Jan 14
Brunch – On Saturday, we fished out a small chunk of roast from the freezer so T cooked it in the instant pot and sliced it for sandwiches. And as a result today we both had a sandwich & split the last of the cheddar beer & ham soup.
Dinner – It was “dinner salad” night so we had a house favourite Buffalo chicken salad. This used up a lot of greens & other veg add-ins, a small chicken breast (freezer) and 1 of the “more than one” packages of blue cheese in the fridge. And , almost forgot – the aging carton of buttermilk is also gone.
Jessica Fisher
I do dinner salad night (usually Chicken Caesar) at least once a week during the summer. Love it!
Heather M
Jan 14: L gone most of the day with meetings, I was gone a few hours midday for the same. Otherwise we watched football playoff games and relaxed.
B: i finished the stollen from our neighbors, L skipped
L: I had a tuna sandwich and a few chips; L skipped
D: all the leftovers. We had small bits of 2 different dinners and a decent amount of the arroz con gandules y pollo. It’s all gone now. L was hungry 🙂
Now I can cook new food again, hopefully without many leftovers
Tasty
It’s hard to cook without leftovers when you are cooking for 2, unless supper is 2 pork chops or 2 chicken breasts. Soups, casseroles and pasta we always have something that finds its way back to the freezer.
Heather M
Indeed! I do try to cut recipes in half with soups and such, if I’m following a recipe. Am planning on a soup tonight and will be creating it as I go, and hope to have at most a cup leftover. Am trying hard to not have too many leftovers lately or have a plan to transform them, or like the arroz con pollo dish, plan for it to cover two meals if we have a busy day coming up. Anyways, yes, it is s trick to cook for two sometimes. But I’m getting better at it. 🙂
Allie from Ontario
Because we have had a lot of leftovers waiting in the fridge for lunches etc recently, last night’s, tonight’s and likely tomorrow night’s dinner choices are intentionally “non-leftover producers”. I am really trying to NOT keep adding to the freezers right now (as opposed to what I do for rest of the year 🙂
Jessica Fisher
Sounds like a great plan!
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
I guess he WAS hungry after skipping breakfast and lunch!
Heather M
He sure was! We had a normal amount of the arroz to split (I’d made it for 4, so for 2 meals), but we had a little leftover spinach rice(like a smallish side serving) and a tiny bit of the goat cheese pasta w/prosciutto. Luckily. It filled him up.
Tasty
January 14
B: hubby made himself porridge, I had fruit, yogurt and the dregs of granola. I did make another batch of granola later in the morning.
L: hubby wasn’t hungry and just ate an apple. I had some of the leftover quiche.
S:bubble and squeak with bacon and eggs.
Kimberly
Not a great challenge day, thought I had a couple breakfast burritos in the freezer but apparently I ate them all and didn’t realize it til walking out the door…so veggie scramble from work cafeteria.
Lunch was the last of the LO chicken rigatoni and half an apple.
Dinner out with friends and not many leftovers.
Back at it tomorrow!