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 4 of the Pantry Challenge.
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I love Sundays and I particularly love Sundays when meals are prepped and ready to go. While I didn’t get my regular Sabbath prep done, I did have a few things prepped that made our meals super easy.
As a result I was able to really relax today which was an added bonus.
What We Ate
Breakfast – There were leftover caramelized onions from pizza night and a packet of clearance pancetta that needed using, so I made a version of Egg Hash Brown Casserole with those items.
Lunch – We had leftover steak from last night so I chopped it fine and set up a quesadilla bar for everyone.
Dinner – I had a quart of Easy Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup for Cooking and chicken in the fridge left from Friday so last night I made two pans of Chicken Divan with Curry to bake tonight. No bread crumbs so I crushed up crackers. I served that with Instant Pot Rice and a big salad. I thawed a clearance cheesecake I had in the freezer and some leftover berry pie filling.
It was all really delicious!
How did Day 4 go for you?
Gen
This was the last Sunday of everyone’s vacation, so we took it pretty easy.
Breakfast – Everyone took care of their own breakfasts. Son was happy with Toast & PB, daughter had some leftover homemade waffles I had made during the holidays, and I threw a few eggs into a bagged breakfast hash that I bought sometime in November. Hubby rarely eats breakfast.
Lunch – Had various deli meats leftover from our NYE charcuterie board, so I laid them out along with breads, cheeses, condiments & veggies, and everyone made their own sandwiches.
Dinner – i was exhausted and had forgotten to run to the pharmacy, so I grabbed a rotisserie chicken on my way back. Hubby & son had Hot Chicken Sandwiches, and daughter had a chicken leg with rice & veggies. I made myself a salad, then threw in some of the chicken with a light dressing.
Snack – Still had some leftover Berry Oatmeal Baked Cups, so had a few of those.
Allie from Ontario
Jan 4 was a classic, quiet, cold winter Sunday here.
What we ate on Jan 4:
Brunch: Tim had a fish sandwich late morning. I don’t eat fish (even while living in a lake-rich, lots of fishing, cottage country area 🙂 but he buys individually frozen filets & I keep a jar of tartar sauce in the fridge so he can treat himself. I had a smoothie, using some probably pretty old blueberries & sliced strawberries I found buried in 1 of the freezers + some Ryvita with peanut butter. I go on “smoothie binges” then stop and when I start again, I remember how much I enjoy them in the morning.
Dinner: I marinated boneless skinless chicken thighs all day in yogurt, lemon zest, garlic, fresh herbs (oregano, Thai basil & parsley) + a dried blend called za’atar. They were cooked under the broiler & T named them “like a deluxe souvlaki”. We had a fridge raid side salad with some homemade dressing. I have a large collection of different vinegars & mustards to use and I seldom (if ever) buy dressings at the store.
I am enjoying reading everyone’s posts so thanks once again to Jessica for enriching this part of the my day 🙂
Jessica Fisher
Yay! So glad you’re enjoying it!
Heather from Sacramento
Allie I am the same way about vinegars and homemade dressings but I never thought to add different mustards. Oh jeez I might have something else to buy and try haha!
Karen J
Jessica, I’ve made your cream of ___ soup many times-using chicken, celery, or mushrooms. I much prefer it to the red and white can. I did buy some Cream of Bacon soup on clearance and haven’t tried it yet.
Yesterday was a nice, stay at home, no spend day. I used some freezer cranberries and made cranberry orange scones. A niece visited and I gave her some pantry items that I knew I wouldn’t use and that she would. She brought us two dozen peanut butter cookies. They are delicious. This is not looking like a weight loss month.
Breakfast-scones and coffee
Lunch-carrots and ranch, orange, cookies
Dinner-salmon burgers, last of the lettuce for salad
Jessica Fisher
It is so yummy. I think cream of bacon should be super easy to make. I’d add some bacon fat to the roux!
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
1/4/26
B: we finished off the eggs Benedict casserole. I purposely halved the recipe so we wouldn’t be eating it too long, though my husband liked it so I’ll remember that next time.
L: vegetable beef soup with toast for me, a sandwich and soup for DH
D: we had LO chili on baked potatoes with Caesar salad and grapes rescued before they went off.
S: slices of panettone from a friend
I wound up spending about$25 right off the bat today. DH told me he was almost out of peanut butter, which we can’t have happen around here! His preferred brand (Jif crunchy) was on sale this week, so I grabbed two. Another store had cabbage for .39/# which will be the best price til St Patrick’s day, so I got 2 heads. Then DH requested pork tenderloin for a meal. It was on a slight sale, so I bought 2 small ones. He doesn’t often request any meals but pretty much eats what I fix, so I’m honoring his request. I then added Greek yogurt and cauliflower. I did talk myself out of a few other produce items as I have enough in the freezer for now. Hoping I won’t need to buy anything else for a while.
Karen J
Lynn, That is a great price for cabbage! I looked last week and it was .99 a pound here so I skipped it.
Your eggs Benedict casserole sounds so good-would you have a recipe? I have a packet of hollandaise sauce in the cupboard….
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Karen, I used the recipe from The Food Charlatan. Because I didn’t want the English muffins to be mushy, I did toast and then butter them as she suggested. And despite soaking overnight, the muffin cubes had a bit of firmness to them, which I liked. If you wanted it more like a bread pudding, you could skip that step. I also used deli ham as I didn’t have any more leftover ham or Canadian bacon. We both liked it as another breakfast casserole option. It definitely improved the taste of the bland, generic muffins I’d bought that were languishing in the bag! Homemade hollandaise may have been better, but the packet was fine to me.
I will add that the muffins definitely soaked up the custard mix, but it still tasted good and wasn’t dry like I feared it might be, thanks to the sauce. Next time I might add a bit more liquid to the custard, or try it with a shorter soaking time to compare outcomes, though this was very good to us . I halved the recipe for the 2 of us and put it in a 8”square dish which yielded 4 squares which we ate over 2 days. Hope that helps. Good luck.
Tasty
Jan 4
B – Hubby had his usual fruit yogurt and granola. I had some leftover apple sauce with yogurt and granola.
L – hubby raided the fruit bowl again clementines and an apple. I wasn’t really hungry so just had some cheese.
S – I finally used up some ‘fresh’ lasagne that had been in the freezer for far too long. Also from the freezer came ground beef and some Italian sausage and most of the veggies. I had one yellow pepper in the fridge which I added to the sauce along with tinned tomatoes and paste from the pantry. The cheese came from the store!! Having decided to make lasagne I found that there was lots of cheese in the fridge but not a shred of mozzarella so off I went. It was so worth it tho – the lasagne was great and we have another one that is now nestled in the freezer. Definitely a win/win day, even tho I added to the freezer.
Stephanie M
Sunday,January 4, 2026
B – Paul had a bagel sandwich with eggs, cheese and turkey sausage. I had bran cereal with strawberries blueberries and walnuts.
L – I had 6 chicken tenders in a bag in the freezer so I cooked them and added them to a salad for me along with a whole wheat roll and a pear. For Paul he had those with the last of the leftover mashed potatoes from a couple of nights ago, corn and the last of the leftover gravy also from a couple of nights ago.
D – leftover chicken piccata with leftover whole wheat spaghetti, leftover Brussels sprouts and cucumber salad.
I still have enough chicken piccata for both of us for tomorrow. Since I’m
Trying to clear out my freezer, I don’t want to freeze it so we’re going to finish it for dinner tomorrow night.
Paul is 4 months away from announcing his retirement at work. He’s been off since New Year’s Eve and goes back on Tuesday so it was nice to have him relaxed and spending time doing what he wants to do. He is retiring at age 65 which is in June so he’s giving his notice in may. Our one daughter and her husband and I recently gave him a surprise getaway trip to a beautiful resort in South Carolina called the Dunlin. He only knew he had to take a few days off. He didn’t know they were coming with us till they arrived at our house that morning and I put the address of the resort into the GPS but he had no idea where we were going or to what state till we got there. It was an amazing luxury resort and the rooms were decorated with beautiful pieces and all the rooms were suites. The surrounding area was gorgeous. If anyone is looking to go to a beautiful resort for a special occasion look up the dunlin. I’m looking forward to going back. He works at home but once a month he has to report to his office. We live in Virginia and he drives to New Jersey where his office is and where we moved from almost two years ago. He has to travel sometimes. Next week he’s going to California. Little does his company know that will be his last trip there. I’m so happy for him and me too.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
The Dunlin resort looks lovely! Sounds like y’all had a wonderful getaway. The Sea Islands of SC and GA are beautiful.
Early congrats to Paul on his retirement. He’ll have more time with you and to help with the grandchildren if you’re still keeping them!
Stephanie M
Thanks Lynn!! We have one of our grandsons three days a week and he just loves his Opa. (Grandpa in German). Our other three live in Jew jersey so we go up there usually once a month to visit. They were here last weekend.
Yes thank you. The Dublin really was wonderful.
Stephanie M
Excuse the spelling error: New Jersey.
Karen J
Stephanie, what a wonderful, thoughtful surprise trip for your husband-and you! The pictures of The Dunlin look amazing.
I have to say I absolutely love retirement! After happily teaching for 38 years it was a bit of an adjustment at first-but I got over that quickly 🙂 Just having time to schedule things without work constraints is so nice, especially traveling!
Stephanie M
Thanks so much Karen. Glad you were able to see pictures of the Dunlin. It was really very nice. As you probably saw the main color of everything there is this pretty green. They have a matching green trolly that is right out front to take you anywhere nearby. The crazy thing they had there was a fleet of Mercedes cars that anyone could use for free. It was just amazing.
Paul and I are very excited. I’m sure it will be a big adjustment especially for him because he can never sit still. But I’m certain he will keep himself quite busy and I will keep him busy too. Lol.
Tàsty
Stephanie, I need to check out the Dunlin resort, even tho we won’t be travelling south this year – maybe another year. One thing to tell Paul is that he needs to learn to say (and mean) ‘NO! during those first few months of retirement. He will have time on his hands to start with and it’s all to easy to say yes to every opportunity that come along. Best wishes to you both as you enter a new phase of life.
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Heather M
Jessica, your Sunday meals worked out beautifully! And. Everyone, I al really enjoying hearing from all of you, both the usual suspects and new friends who are joining in. This is such a wonderful January tradition now ?
Jan 4: in which we hung out with L’s family and then finally drove home to the DC area, arriving about an hour ago… 11:30pm luckily minimal traffic- our last visit in NY in late October involved a 7 hour drive to and 6 hour drive home- so much traffic. This was 4.5. As it should be with a quick stop.
Brunch: I had a roll with cheese and a gorgeous little fruit tart. Not sure why the guys had – likely similar as there were so many yummy baked goods.
Supposed early dinner but was it?: my MIL ordered pupusas, a central American standard dish- they’re delicious- a stuffed masa served with cabbage slaw and red sauce. Unfortunately they’re also made with lard for cooking them and stuffed with fatty shredded pork and cheese. I love them but can’t eat much red meat, especially with the animal fat(I do ok with some dairy fat, but not animal fat from meats or poultry). So I only had one, really a small snack. The guys ate more.
Actual dinner on the road: C (son) had a hot dog from 7-11 and sun chips(we had brought them on the original drive); L finished up a thing of peanuts we also had brought; I had a tuna sandwich from 7-11 and sun chips.
Heather M
That question mark in the first paragraph was supposed to be a smiley face emoji. I tried.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Heather if you use the colon : and parentheses ) together, it makes a smiley face! 🙂
Heather from Sacramento
I was introduced to papusas when I went to El Salvador. I had never heard of them. So yummy! I think it was the highlight of my trip.
Maureen
I’m so glad to see so many new and familiar names posting already! We got back into town last night, so it was fun to read through and catch up on what everyone has been up to. We made a quick breakfast for dinner last night after getting home to avoid grabbing takeout. My daughter and I had some errands to run today before she heads back to college tomorrow, so we grabbed lunch out. We stuck to the list at the grocery store, mostly getting produce and eggs. And then made shrimp and pasta for dinner. I had cleaned out the fridge before heading out of town, so we’re ready to jump right in. I’m focusing on reducing food waste, getting back into good routines for meal planning and prep, and really cleaning out the fridge/freezer/pantry. I’ve done well reducing the food inventory in the house this past year, but still have a way to go…especially now that there are only 3 of us at home. I really want to get all the way down to the bottom of the freezer and pantry – I would love a clean slate!!
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Getting all the way to the bottom of my deep freeze remains an elusive goal for me. Even when the pandemic hit, AFTER I’d been on the pantry challenge for 2 months, I still didn’t make it to the bottom. I think I’ve done better since that time and “Hope springs eternal”!
Kim from Colorado
B- cereal again, creatures of habit
L-Had to drive an hour away for my son’s basketball game and it is near a Cracker Barrel, which I love probably due to nostalgia…(I grew up in the American South). So we had to have a late lunch there!
D- I wasn’t very hungry after lunch so snacked. But had to feed the teenager, leftovers from the fridge for the win!
Kathryn M
Catching up to the pantry challenge finally… I cooked potsickers on New years day and ate leftovers for a couple of days after that.
4th of January:
No real breakfast – just snacks.
Ate lunch out at Cafe Rio since it was errand day this day…..
Dinner was pork chops, frozen corn, and dinner rolls.
Maureen
We had our final Christmas celebration with my MIL yesterday afternoon. So, everyone slept in and mostly snacked on very random things for lunch…bananas/fruit, nuts/trail mix, toast, cheese sticks, and some sweets. Very odd. The plan was to order pizza for dinner with MIL, which ended up happening at 3:30. I was surprised that everyone wasn’t hungrier when we got home that night, so it was just a bit more snacking. My goal for the week is to prep fruit, veg, and items that I want gone for easy snacking and adding to meals. I want to focus on minimizing waste, but still eating well/healthy.
Heather M
This is my focus as well! Using things up, minimizing waste, and still eating healthy/well. Sounds like it was a good Saturday!
Laurie in Texas
My stopped up head is making it hard to remember what happened yesterday. We were out of eggs, milk, pico de gallo, flour tortillas and bananas so hubs went to the store. No idea what he spent. Egg price is freaking outrageous!
B – I made pancakes for me and hubs and son made waffles
L – I had a piece of sourdough toast and hubs had l/o tri-tip
D – we made chicken tacos with l/o bbq chicken breast
Kathy in Denmark
Day 4:
Brunch: Soft boiled eggs, HM rolls, coffee, juice, jam and cheese to top the bread.
S: Popcorn while we watched a movie
D: Rye bread, fish fillets, veg. nuggets, boiled eggs, shrimp, veggies and salad.
We finished off the HM rolls from the freezer for breakfast. DH and I always have a piece of rye bread with out soft boiled egg. It’s filling and delicious 🙂
Dinner was what we call make your own “Smørrebrød” aka open sandwich. You top rye bread with whatever you like. We like to add a piece of lettuce or salad to the bread before we put something else on it. This makes it seem more fancy, ads crunch and a little greens as well.
This cleared out a few things from the fridge, which needed to go.
I am working on eating the shrimp from the freezer. I am the only one who likes it, so I thaw a little at a time. I’ll get there!
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
In your earlier post you mentioned the baguette mold. That sounds like the perfect souvenir from France, especially with all the baking you do. I have priced them here before and they are expensive! We actually were in France in October but I never thought to buy one there. Smart you!
We enjoyed all the great Mediterranean food while in Greece, along with the country itself. I’ve incorporated some of the options into our eating tho they may not be as obvious in the challenge as I try to use up what we’ve got! Delicious cuisine.
Heather M
oooo France and Greece! So fun! we did not manage to leave the country in 2024 like we’d hoped. Life was too complicated. But we are planning to, hopefully at least twice this year. Once for our 30th anniversary this spring, and then in the very early Fall with our grown kids. Hoping for new places for all of us on each trip! We’re just in the early stages, coming up with ideas and dates. And, re Greek food…. It’s so good! we eat a lot of mediterranean and greek inspired food in our house. So yummy! Would love to hear more about Greece.
Kathryn M
I am going to Greece in 2026. Looking forward to almost a month there. I have a cruise going into Barcelona (from Miami) already booked for April. I plan to fly to Athens then ferry hop to some islands for a bit till the end of May. After that a 3 or 4 day stopover in Copenhagen on my way to Iceland. I was in Iceland August 2024 and didn’t see or do everything I wanted. I decided that June would be a good time for a week there to do a little more exploring.
Kathy in Denmark
The baguette mould was 3 euros – a total bargain! I got two, so I can make four baguettes at a time. We also brought home a giant salad spinner, a few coffee mugs, butter dishes and different foods. We also brought home champagne, since it was that region we visited.
One of the great things about living in Europe is the fact that you can go to so many different countries by car. That means you can bring home more souvenirs and we took advantage.
Your trip to France and Greece sounds wonderful! I hope you had a great time.
Kathy in Denmark
Kathryn M: That sounds like a wonderful trip you’re going to take. I totally understand staying longer on the continent, once you are here. I would also spend a long time in order to see more, if I flew to the US!
Heather M
Hi Kathy! And there is a word that is fun/hard to pronounce for me. The D is interesting in Danish, as are the V and the R. And then all these vowels with very different accents and sounds from what I would expect. I speak English and Spanish and can survive in French, with a bit of an understanding of Italian. And these Danish vowels are so different! The other thing i have hard time understanding is why some words use the et and some the en for “the”. It doesn’t seem as clearcut as it is in the romance languages, which I’m quite familiar with. It seems random, but there must be more to it. Learning new languages is fun! hard, but fun!
Kathy in Denmark
“En” and “et” are really difficult to learn. I actually don’t think there is any rhyme or reason for it – you have to memorize which is which.
The only thing is that if a noun is called “et” for instance “et hus” (a house), then ‘the house’ is “huset”. So that makes it a little easier to remember 🙂
If you speak French, then you are familiar with our hard R 😉 And our soft D at the end of words is a lot like th in English.
V is pronounced a lot like ‘oo’ in the end of words.
I really commend you for taking on Danish!
I think I’ll try to learn some more Italian before our next holiday there. I learned a few useful sentences before we went last year, but would love to be able to speak some more. Also, even some young Italians don’t speak English or only very little. I found this out when I was making a dinner reservation on the phone! So learning more would be a good idea 😉
Tàsty
How nice to have 3 of us from Ontario this year – and none of us in a big city!
Erin in Ontario
Yes! Northern On here, hours away from anything but a grocery store and pharmacy, basically.
Tasty
I’m on the edge of Lake Ontario, a couple of hours east of Toronto.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Yes, Ontario is well represented this year! So good to interact with our neighbors to the north!
Danielle Zecher
I hope you had a good visit with your mom.
Breakfast: McDonald’s. It was planned. We had to do some outside work in temps in the 20s and planned that as a little treat. I cannot stress enough how much I truly hate the cold!
Lunch: Leftover cheese tortellini and garlic bread.
Dinner: Beef pot pie using some stew meat from the freezer, some celery that was getting to the “use it or toss it” point, and leftover carrots from the NYE veggie tray. I topped it with the cheddar & scallion biscuits from the GCE 30 Minutes cookbook. I somehow forgot to add the scallions, but it still made a delicious topping.
We snacked on cinnamon rolls and peanut brittle. I chopped and froze the leftover bell pepper strips from the NYE veggie tray and fed the leftover fruit (it looked a little too far gone for humans) to the neighbors’ chickens. I also sliced and froze the last of the NYE cake. I feel like I put more IN the freezer yesterday than I used from it, but at least it’s food that isn’t going to waste.
Kathy in Denmark
I hear you on putting more in the freezer than you take out! As you say, at least it’s avoiding food waste and in my case it’s freezing some treats that we really don’t need right now, but will enjoy very much at a later date 🙂
Danielle L Zecher
Exactly! At some point, I will be very happy to have the cake from the freezer. 🙂
Heather M
I am right there with you and the cold. I hate it. I also hate high heat. Wimpy girl from San Diego by the beach where there is amazing temperate weather and also one who’s body can’t cool itself down or warm itself up very well. Your pot pie sounds like a total win! Great topping idea!
Danielle L Zecher
I’m not a big fan of extreme heat, but I definitely handle that better than extreme cold.
Allie from Ontario
Jessica – I keep meaning to mention that I am using a tip/idea you gave last year about a “thawing station/shelf” in the fridge. I have been trying to keep around 2 – 3 days of meat from the freezers in the fridge which means I’m far less likely to bail on specific dinner plans I’ve made 🙂
Jessica Fisher
Yay! Glad it’s working!
Erin in Ontario
My daughter needed new scrubs, so she and I were gone all day yesterday (nearest place to buy them is almost 2 hours away from our home in the boonies). We stopped at an all day breakfast place for eggs and toast around 2 pm.
The only meal at home that I know about for sure was supper….Costco cheese tortellini (from our freezer stash) with the option of some alfredo sauce or pesto which we had leftovers of in the fridge.
You can tell we’re still winding down from a busy holiday season! Normally 99 percent of what we eat is made at home from scratch, and I look forward to getting back to it.
Allie from Ontario
1st I must announce that “Victory is mine!!” which is what I yelled yesterday in the pantry while holding the missing jar of beet chutney over my heard…fists up like Rocky. The cat seemed unimpressed. Anyways…..
What we ate on Jan 4:
Brunch – I had an English muffin with melted cheddar and some home canned tomato jam early and then a few hours later I also had some of the previous night’s shredded beef with a 1/2 piece of rye toast. T had his usual yogurt and then made an egg, tomato & cheese sandwich. He snacked on his beloved salted pistachios in the afternoon.
Dinner – I took 6 boneless skinless chicken thighs out of the freezer and we had “sticky sauced-pan roasted” chicken served over mashed potatoes with some roasted broccoli. The sauce made more dents in the many open pantry & fridge jars that are on the go right now. We each had a couple of the mini toffiffee chocolates and we have a couple left for tonight. We also made a vow to NOT buy more of those damn (ie yummy) things!
Kathy in Denmark
LOL regarding “Victory is mine”. Glad you found the chutney!
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
Hooray to your success! It is so aggravating when you KNOW you have an item but can’t put your hands on it!
Heather M
I’m impressed (I did laugh out loud as I read this). Best feeling when you know you’re right and it’s confirmed. 🙂
Tàsty
Day 4
B: our usual mix of fruit, yogurt, granola and muffins. Used the last of the granola so after breakfast, got another batch made up and used the last of the apricots from the pantry.
L: Tomato soup made just the other day – so good – tastes like summer
S: ham and pineapple pizza. This used the last of the ham from new year a d put good dent in what was left of the pineapple. Even made the crust which is a thing I haven’t done in possibly years. We don’t have pizza very often – we don’t need all those calories. My notes on the crust recipe reminded me to add some Italian seasoning and onion powder. I also added the little chunk of parmesan (grated) and it turned out really well.
I have to say it was a good challenge day.
Hope you are feeling better Jessica.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks
1/4/25
B: last of plain Greek yogurt with nuts and tsp of hm jam. We visited Greece last spring and there got accustomed to plain yogurt with minimal sweeteners. This has been a good development!
L: I had the last of the hm vegetable beef soup. DH had soup along with a sandwich.
D: herbed chicken thighs that I just bought, baked potato for DH, cauliflower rice for me, tossed salad
S: handful of almonds, 2dark chocolate Hersheys kisses 🙂
With the frigid weather upon us, cold and sniffles may not be far behind. So I used 3 of the chicken thighs to make chicken rice soup in the crock pot. I used veggies from the fridge and containers of chicken broth from the freezer. I have no room in the refrigerator for the crock of soup, so it will go in our “overflow “ fridge, aka as the screened in back porch. The low tonight is 28 degrees so it should be fine!
Jessica, hope you had a good visit with your mom. You were smart to have a plan for on the road meals. We usually pack a lunch when traveling. Lately, on occasion, circumstances have prohibited that and I am just stunned at the price of fast food these days!
Allie from Ontario
Lynne…I can relate to your “overflow fridge”! The previous owner of our house put an addition on which means when you come in the 1st front door, you are in an unheated little room before coming into the main house via another front door. That area is our “overflow fridge” in the winter and I realize how much I use it when it is summer and it turns into an “uncooled” oven of a room.
Kathy in Denmark
I haven’t been to Greece, but would love to go! I bet you had a wonderful time.
I have actually started to eat more in the style of the Mediterranean Diet the last six months of 2024, but with a focus on the local ingredients available. I quite often have Greek yoghurt for breakfast, topped with chopped up fruit and a mix of nuts and seeds.
I am amazed at how well it fills me up, and it means I start the day with fruit, which I am usually not very good at eating. Veggies are no problem, but fruit is hard for me.