Pantry Challenge: Day 8, Breakfast Freezer Cooking

Freezer cooking today! I made gluten free pancakes (Stonewall mix, gift) and chocolate chip bran muffins. I am going to make a couple extra breakfast burritos on Thursday to keep in the freezer as well for Montana Man.

I had an epiphany today while I was making pancakes. Cooling racks. In the freezer. Yes. As the pancakes came of the griddle they went on to a cooling rack.

Then when it gets full...

Stick the whole thing in the freezah.

When they are fully frozen I will bag them up. I will do the same with the muffins.

I went shopping at Trader Joe's today and got:

white and wheat flour tortillas- 2 @ $2.29
chives and parsley, fresh- 2 @ $1.69
frozen corn- $1.29
light sour cream- $1.79
pepperoni- $2.99 (not pictured cause I forgot cause I'm dumb)
bagged cooking greens- $3.49

Total: $17.52

Tonight we are having plain old pasta and meatballs with kale. Boring, so, I will not be taking a picture. I will be eating. Keep up the good work hooligans!

Pantry Challenge: Day 7

It was cereal and granola bars for breakfast today. Montana Man is gone with work for the week climbing cell phone towers so it's just me and the kiddos (and my parents, shh... yes we still live with them. We are working on it!).

Dinner was Vegetable Corn Cheese Chowder in a bread bowls and watermelon. Mom made it. I had planned for salmon chowder because mom was going to make it, I hate picking out the bones! But she changed her mind. I don't think she wanted to pick out the bones either. It's a pain. But canned salmon is so delicious and inexpensive comparatively. So here are the pictures of dinner.

Pantry Challenge: Week 2 Plan

Happy Monday. I'm being polite. Your welcome.

I am still trying to get the house in order after the holidays. It's getting there, my closet the longer looks like a mad person went through it looking for 1 specific shirt (who said that!?) and my son's toys have been reorganized so he can actually play with things and not wander around the house driving me nuts! But there is still a lot to do, lets call it winter cleaning if you will. And I am taking a nap break right now and writing cause I wanna. K? K.

This week I want to being a bit more organized and intentional with breakfast. I am not a morning or breakfast person. I actually am just a little puzzled how some moms get up and make pancakes or eggs for kids before school. Nuts! But I want to be that mom! I want to get up and put a hearty, rib sticking breakfast in front of my kid and be like "Bam! There is breakfast!". So you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to cheat! Bwahahahaha! I am going to make pancakes and the like ahead, freeze it and then bring it back to life in the toaster oven. I have a ton of GF pancake mixes that need thinning out so I am going to whip up a huge batch, maybe some chocolate chip banana bran muffins for me. So, here is what this week looks like:

Breakfasts:
Pancakes
Muffins
Cereal
Oatmeal
Fruit
Yogurt

Dinners:

Monday- Vegetable Corn Cheese Chowder in mini bread bowls, watermelon

Tuesday- Pasta and Meatballs with red sauce and kale

Wednesday- Mexican lasagna, corn

Thursday- Breakfast Burritos, fruit

Friday- Oven Fried Chicken, greens, grits (new to us!)

Saturday- Homemade Pizza

Sunday- M.C. dinner night

Shopping for this week:

sour cream
panko bread crumbs
GF bread crumbs
flour tortillas
greens
parmesan cheese
pizza toppings
frozen corn
fresh herbs
garlic

I will do a post on my shopping trip, I am aiming to go to either Whole Foods or Trader Joe's tomorrow because Wednesday and Thursday I have mommy plans. How did week 1 go for you?

Pantry Challenge: Day 6

Ugh! Falling behind already! Must run faster, PMS grabbed my ankles and dragged me down! Ok, enough drama. Yesterday was Sunday, day 6 in the challenge. It was fairly uneventful food wise. But what I love about Sunday is that we participate in a Missional Community or M.C. Ours meets on Sunday night and we get together and have a meal and last night was an awesome meal! So you could say that I took a night off. On the home front, my mom made a venison dish for the men. Montana Man had a work project to finish so he and Puzzle Boy stayed home. Next post I promise there will be pictures and a new weekly plan! The end.

Pantry Challenge: Day 5

Saturday!!! It was a day of cleaning and feeling crappy. But I still made Montana Man breakfast sandwiches and pizza from scratch. Today's recap:

Breakfast
Breakfast sandwiches with leftover ham, cereal, yogurt.

Lunch
Leftover Chicken Divan and rice.

Dinner
Homemade pizzas with ham, sausage, veggies.