One of the happenings going on in blogworld is the Eat From the Pantry Challenge. Its a call to the couponers who've stockpiled and now have an excess inventory of food in the freezer, cupboards, pantry and fridge. The object is to stay out of the stores, and make your meals from the stockpile to use up that food and make room for fresh stuff. Well, I certainly need to do that. Our freezers are bursting and the stockpile shelves are overflowing onto the floor in bags. So for the next month or so, I'm going to try to stay out of Publix and send dear to buy salad fixins and milk. I suggested we use our nonfat dry milk (NFDM) survival supply but that didn't fly. I told him he wouldn't even be able to tell the difference once it was mixed up and refrigerated. I might try that a bit later, a taste test to see. I bet you can't wait to see how that turns out.
Anyway, I did an inventory of the freezers and the pantry to make a list of items we have. This is most items but if I have only one of something like mustard I didn't list it. One thing for sure is we're going to be having lots of chicken salads coming up. We've been having ham on our salads because its been on sale a lot, plus makes for nice breakfast and sandwiches - but with 32 lbs of chicken breasts, we need to eat it up. Another great meal idea is to use up all the smoked sausage in chili and hot dishes, we need to use up a ton of tomato sauce and paste too. Here's the list of items now so hopefully in a month it will be considerably smaller.
| Freezer | 1/3/2010 | Pantry | ||||
| qty | item | qty | item | |||
| 32 | pounds of chicken breasts | 34 | Gatorade bottles | |||
| 9 | Steamfresh meals | 26 | Cereal boxes | |||
| 6 | Echerd smoked sausage | 15 | 8 oclock coffee | |||
| 4 | Barber Stuffed Chicken | 15 | canned dog food | |||
| 4 | Hot Pockets | 12 | tomato sauce paste | |||
| 4 | Green Giant froz veg, boxes | 10 | Salad dressings | |||
| 4 | Green Giant froz veg, bags | 10 | A1 sauce | |||
| 3 | TGIF chicken wings value pk | 10 | Fisher snacks | |||
| 3 | Simply Potatoes hashbrowns | 9 | rice a roni mix | |||
| 3 | Mrs Pauls fried clams | 9 | pasta noodles | |||
| 3 | Seasations fish fillets (2) | 9 | Mt Dew liters | |||
| 3 | Lotus vietnamese | 8 | Dog snacks | |||
| 2 | Starbucks ice cream pint | 7 | soup | |||
| 2 | Phillips crab cakes (8) | 6 | Hormel Completes | |||
| 2 | petite steaks | 6 | alexia snacks | |||
| 2 | Totinos pizza | 6 | Dog food, 20 lb | |||
| 1 | Bertolli pasta meal | 6 | granola bars box | |||
| 1 | TGIF spinach dip | 5 | crackers | |||
| 1 | Morningstar burgers | 5 | black beans | |||
| 1 | Mrs Pauls fish fillets (8) | 4 | Texas Toast croutons | |||
| 1 | TGIF potato skins | 4 | BC potatoes mix | |||
| 1 | pound shrimp cooked | 4 | Roasted Peanuts | |||
| 1 | bratwurst (5) | 4 | BBQ | |||
| 4 | Peanut Butter | |||||
| 4 | mac cheese | |||||
| 3 | Mayo salad dressing | |||||
| 3 | Bushs baked beans | |||||
| 3 | Salsa | |||||
| 3 | Wing sauce | |||||
| 3 | granola nut clusters | |||||
| 3 | 12 pk soda | |||||
| 2 | Log Cabin Syrup | |||||
| 2 | Honey | |||||
| 2 | Tostitos chips | |||||
| 2 | GM fruit snacks | |||||
| 2 | refried beans | |||||
| 2 | Bread crumbs | |||||
| 2 | Soy sauce | |||||
| 1 | Spag sauce | |||||
| 1 | velveeta lb | |||||
| 1 | rotel | |||||
| 1 | marinade | |||||