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 26 of the Pantry Challenge!
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Bryan and I were supposed to go to Sacramento tomorrow, but due to illness we are home. I tried to take it easy.
What We Ate
Breakfast – FishChick15 made pancakes; I made an egg scramble.
Lunch – I cooked a package of chicken and made a salad bar.
Dinner – It was pizza night, so we had our regular Sourdough Pizza on the grill.
How did Day 26 go for you?
Diinaus
DiinausJanuary 27, 2024 at 3:32 am
Seem to have lost a day.orposted to wrong year??
Any way
B: out for morning tea with friends after a late night
L: brought rotisserie chicken, lettuce and a loaf of gf bread to eat at the park with friends.
D: pumpkin, eggplant and chicken risotto using up stock made day b4 and some of the chicken from lunch. .more nice cream to finish.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
I lost my post too! Not sure where it went.
Karen J
Lynn, i saw your post in the 2023s. 🙂
Jessica Fisher
Not the wrong year. I just reuse the same posts from year to year, per Google best practices.
Jennifer
I’ve still been plugging away but I have been terrible about posting. We did end up going over my $100 a week grocery limit when dh decided to make a costco run. I quickly put together a list and he spent $166. This was in addition to my $100 I had already spent for the week. But I’m on track for the rest of the month. So I will call that pretty good as my total for the month is less than half what I normally spend.
We were hit with 2 big expenses this past week. Transmission repair $1550 and tree removal $1700 (1 came partially down in a storm but was hung up on another tree hanging over our house, so it had to come down). I will be continuing my challenge in February as my freezers and pantry are still very full even though I have been using stuff that has been in there forever.
B – dh unearthed a frozen bag of pumpkin spice bagels and we all had that with yogurt or fruit
L – I took crackers (finished off a box) with summer sausage and cheese, peppers and grapes
D – I got home late to the tree guys cleaning up and lots of frustrated men with big stories to tell about how they got the tree down safely and didn’t even hit anything. According to the neighbors it took them all day. I was able to quickly thaw chorizo sausage and diced tomatoes (from my garden in 2022!) and made up a pasta dish. Served with peppers
S – free donut at work
Heather M
Wow two big and unexpected expenses the same week, I’m so sorry. I can relate to feeling like there is so much food still, despite using up so many things, and will be continuing into February with you. Hoping for you it really helps offset these costs.
Danielle Zecher
So sorry about your transmission and tree! I’ll also be continuing into February. Hopefully, we can all cheer each other on in February.
Karen J
Breakfast-tortilla egg/cheese wrap Only two packages of tortillas left in the freezer
Lunch-LO turkey pot pie
Dinner-hummus/carrots and cookies Husband was out with a friend so I didn’t make dinner
I had some Safeway rewards that I usually used for gas, but decided to go for free food instead. My dozen egg online coupon didn’t work so I went to the help counter. Turns out the free dozen was for jumbo, rather than large eggs. No jumbo were in stock so they gave me an 18 pk of large instead. Win!
I reorganized my two top of refrigerator freezers-the house fridge and the “beer ” fridge in the shop and am very happy with the white space. (the pantry is still pretty stuffed)
Heather M
Good win with the eggs!!
Allie from Ontario
I’m a bit behind…
Jan 25
Brunch – I made an English muffin pizza with the last of the sauce I recently made and T had a ham sandwich.
Dinner – I made a small of amount of beef stew (ie scaled to 1lb of boneless short ribs) and included lots of veg (fresh & freezer). I also decided to try something new so I also made a cauliflower puree with aged provolone (well stocked cheese drawer!) and a “cube” of roasted garlic from the freezer. We spooned the stew over top and it was a lovely dinner.
It was a pretty icy day but I did finally get out to the store to prep for Friday’s dinner party….
And then came Jan 26
We got hit again by heavy freezing rain (over night and most of the morning) and while discussing whether to just cancel dinner, we got word that a dear friend suffered a massive medical emergency and had been flown to palliative care in the city. Needless to say, dinner party cancelled immediately and then later in the day we were notified that he passed away at around 1:30. We pretty much ate nothing yesterday and after a rough night, we basically slept in until very close to noon today.
Karen J
I’m so sorry about your friend. Hugs.
Heather M
Oh Allie, I am so sorry for the lost of your dear friend. <3
Tasty
Allie, so sorry to read aboutyour friend
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Allie, So very sorry about the sudden loss of your friend.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Allie, so sorry about the sudden loss of your friend.
Jessica Fisher
I’m so sorry to hear about your friend.
Danielle Zecher
I’m so sorry about your friend.