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 25 of the Pantry Challenge!
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Woke up with a sore throat. Food was much harder to manage than it has been.
What We Ate
Breakfast – steel cut oats
Lunch – A variety of freezer burrito, grilled cheese, frozen kimbap, and rice bowls.
Dinner – I got up enough energy to make the full Breakfast Burrito Bar.
How did Day 25 go for you?
Maureen
I hope everyone is feeling better soon. It’s been a rough few weeks.
We’ve done well with the challenge the last couple of days, although I did find a cucumber today that I couldn’t salvage. We had burgers from the summer that I wanted gone (still a few left for another meal) and I just threw a salad together. DD said she’d eat the rest of the buns with the lunch meat in the fridge. Last night was soup from the freezer and quesadillas, because everyone had to eat at different times and this allowed for that.
Krista
B I had cream of wheat with pb toast, and HM jam, DD had hew new favorite, an egg english muffin sammy, DH had cereal
Late lunch/early dinner Ribs from freezer, mac and cheese in the crockpot, recipe used cottage cheese, cream cheese, and the other half jar of pimientos, score!, cucumber. Meant to use the last 2 slices of garlic bread but forgot.
S dried pineapple and coconut I found, was very yummy.
Made pasta salad today, and chicken slald yesterday using 2 packs of pre shredded meat, still have 2 packs left. Still a bit of pie left. Was looking through my stash and discovered a jar of pickled jalapeños which will go well on the totchos I plan to make soon. Also found a jar of powdered peanut butter so will get into that. We are eating so well! Everything is all mixed upo and everyone is having different things but it’s all good.
Kathryn M
Lunch: grilled bacon and cheese sandwich, dill pickle, small bag of chips
Dinner- country fried steak patty, leftover mashed potatoes from last weekend, another gravy packet from the pantry used up, green beans.
Snacks: finished the whole wheat crackers, rice crispy treat.
Tasty
January 25th
B: hubby had granola, I had berries, yogurt and granola
L: we had some l/o potatoes that we heated and had with fried egg
S: omelets using ham from the freezer, a couple of elderly tomatoes and some cheese – light and good. The last of the cheesecake from the freezer for dessert.
Diinaus
Random day today. Sooo hot and humid no one felt like eating much through the day.
B: kids made pancakes hubs and I skiped
L: snacky lunch,watermelon to try use it up, carrot sticks , cookies
D: pop corn and nice cream/smoothie bowls using up some of the frozen fruit in the freezer and tin of sustagen found in the closet cleaup that I did today
Super thankful that hubby Was able to repair my food processor. If the weather does not let up this may just be a regular meal on these hot days esp with sinus irritated by dust.
Hubby and I still hungry once kids in bed so made a egg and pork mince omelet. He had his on toast. I put mine with a big water Mellon, carrot and avocado salad.used some refrigerator Pickles to dress it.
While searching for frozen fruit found lots of stock kits so sauted some of those and made over night stock in the instant pot. Will prob turn that into a mix and match risotto tomorrow.
Getting real low on the fresh I think. Tomorrow will raid the garden to see what I can find.
Diinaus
Sorry to hear you are so under the weather. Sending arrow prayers that you get well soon. Thanks for all you do
Jessica Fisher
Thank you!
Heather M
Jessica, I hope you’re feeling better. Jan 25: a relatively normal day
B: we both skipped
L: L took a repeat sandwich and snack mix, along with an orange; I had a tuna sandwich and my latest favorite lentil/rice snack rings from Trader Joe’s.
D: one of our house favorites: cheeseburger salad with homemade thousand island; I used ground turkey from the freezer for the little burgers I made for the salad
Jessica Fisher
Thank you!
Karen J
This has been a rough month for you. Know that you are appreciated!
Breakfast-bean and cheese burrito-a strange choice but used up some LO refried beans
Lunch-the last of the LO chili/kielbasa with crackers
Dinner- turkey pot pie using a ton of frozen mixed vegetables, freezer turkey and a can of crescent rolls for the crust
Jessica Fisher
Thank you!
Danielle Zecher
I hope you’re feeling better today and can rest up over the weekend.
01/25/24:
Breakfast: I had cereal. Nick had fast food.
Lunch/Dinner: It was a work-from-home day for me, and I got busy/distracted. I snacked on a few cookies at one point, but was hangry when Nick was on the way home. He wanted fast food anyway, so he picked up McDonald’s on the way home.
Jessica Fisher
Thanks, Danielle. We had plans to fly to Sacramento, but canceled them. Definitely got space to rest this weekend.