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 28 of the Pantry Challenge!
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Apparently, a year ago I also had a cold. sigh.
Tomorrow’s Bryan’s birthday and he and I are taking a vacation day around town. Since the boys have regular activities on Monday night, we did our big birthday dinner tonight. Sorry. No pics, though.
What We Ate
Breakfast – I made vegetable hash and fried eggs, but I’m not sure what the others had.
Lunch – Bryan and I went out to lunch, using a free rewards from Chipotle, so lunch for the two of us was just $10. The kids made sandwiches and ate up leftovers.
Dinner – I roasted poblano chiles and cooked a flat of chicken from the freezer to make 3.5 pans of enchiladas. Along with rice and beans, that was a yummy dinner. FishChick15 baked a delicious chocolate bundt cake with espresso chips. We ate half the cake already, but I’m not sure it will be here in the morning!
How was Day 28 for you?
Diinaus
Mad rush to get out the door.
L: carrots,apples,jam sandwich using up the jam stash. (Once the weather cools a little will find ways to bake with it) kids normally eat it down through winter with rice porridge.
D: made fritters using lo risotto, grated carrot and pumpkin. Served with last of lettuce and a tin of beetroot and a small bag of grated pizza cheese.
Kathryn M
lunch – soup
Dinner – ravioli
Midnight snack – took the other mini pizza out of the freezer. I was starving after work for some reason. I did burn a lot of calories at work.
Other snacks – potato chips, rice crispy treats, candy
Karen J
Breakfast-kielbasa, eggs and hashbrowns We generally have a big breakfast on Sunday and read the Sunday papers, which aren’t like they used to be. I am showing my age.
Lunch Starbucks mochas BOGO
Dinner-ribs from the freezer (the pre barbequed sauce kind that you just heat up), baked potatoes, peas and rolls
A pretty much relaxing Sunday. I think I stayed home all day.
Kathy in Denmark
So, I had a bit of crazy week and didn’t post anything! I just finished reading all the posts and comments, and I just want to say to everyone of you who are struggling: you are in my thoughts!
We are plugging along with the challenge, and even though I have been shopping for groceries, my bank account tells me that I am under budget this month 🙂
In no particular order, I have made:
– HM sourdough pizzas and pizza rolls with the LO dough
– Another lasagne with the leftover veggie bolognaise and béchamel sauce
– Pan fried sliced pork belly with potatoes, carrots and parsley sauce
– Tortillas with HM refried beans, salsa and salad fixings
– snacky dinners a few times
– rye bread topped with different odds and ends from the fridge
I hope to post the entire menu from each day the last few days of the challenge 😉
Allie from Ontario
Jan 28
Brunch – we split the leftover stew from Thursday night and each had a “parmesan- garlic butter” dinner roll. I had thawed whole milk to make them for Friday’s party and then made them on Saturday since the milk was thawed anyways and I find making bread to somehow be very therapeutic.
Dinner – I made some meatballs with ground beef + mild Italian sausage meat + parmesan & lots of fresh herbs and thawed 2 different marinaras I made from the garden in the fall. I put blobs of ricotta around the pan, added some more parm, ran it under the broiler and then added some pesto to garnish. It was very good.
Yesterday was a “rescue day” for a tub of ricotta & some fresh herbs that needed to be used. Some of both went into dinner and I also made a bunch of stuffed shells which I freeze “unsauced” so I can pull out a few at a time & make a super small pan just for the 2 of us. There is still ricotta left…sigh.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
1/28
Happy birthday to Bryan. So glad you are finally better so you could enjoy and celebrate his day.
B DH had a shake. I had oatmeal with raisins and walnuts. I bought 10 lbs of oats when I went to Sam’s club with my mother a while back. What was I thinking?? For 2 people?! Anyway, I’m “ down” to 5#. That’s one of the reasons I recently made oatmeal choc chip cookies-to help use them up!
L made pimento cheese with pimento I canned last spring and chunk cheese in the fridge, which we had on sandwiches with raw veggies
S as expected, DH wanted chicken wings for the football playoffs. But he declined to buy pizza when I said I was going to make pizza for dinner
D made regular pizza for him and Jessica’s goat cheese pizza for me. After I found goat cheese in the fridge that I previously used in a salad, I wanted to try her pizza, using the leftover cheese. I only had dried sun dried tomatoes so I julienned them and soaked them in olive oil. They did great and remained soft and chewy. It was a delicious pizza. I added a bit of hm pesto to part of it and it was good too. I made do with some things, truly a PC meal. I found 2 dried up garlic cloves that were almost like powder that I used. Then my onion was sprouting. I’ll use the sprouts as green onions in another recipe and used the good part for the pizza. Even with the substitutions it was really good.
I was hoping not to shop the rest of the month, but we’re about out of coffee and several things I need for dear granddaughter’s birthday are on sale til tomorrow, so I’ll probably shop then which will be the first time since the beginning of the month. Being gone a week certainly made that possible. But unless there are really good deals, I’m not buying! I’m liking my empty spaces!
Julie
My family eats about 100 lbs of thick cut rolled oats a year. ? So 10 lbs sounds small but I know every family is different!