SewMona

Today was the last day for eating from the pantry and I had an easy day.  Breakfast was my normal half an english muffin with peanut butter and coffee.  We went to the beach today so I made crackers to take with us.  I love this recipe from The Prudent Homemaker.  Mine aren’t nearly as pretty as hers, but we like them.  Plus we took some carrots and bottled water.

My niece made Flat Stanley for school and sent him to us, so we took him (ummm, her) with us to the beach.

Lunch was a little late, but hubby had leftover pasta with white bean sauce and the kids and I had yogurt.  Tonight was movie night at church.  They provided the food – pizza, hot dogs, pop corn, soda, and cake.  We saw (affiliate link here) Backroads & Lilies.  It was a pretty good movie with lots of laughs even for the kids.

I’ve enjoyed this pantry eating challenge and I think I could’ve come up with a couple more days worth of meals – maybe my cupboards weren’t as bare as I thought.

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We’re continuing the eat from your pantry challenge and blogging along with Crystal @ MoneySavingMom.com.  Breakfast was the same thing – half an English muffin with peanut butter and a cup of coffee.  Lunch was some yogurt and apple salad (and another cup of coffee).

Hubby wasn’t here for dinner.  He had a board (bored?) meeting after work so it was just the kids and I.  We have some potatoes that needed to be used and I found a bag of corn in the freezer (which the kids & I love, but hubby isn’t thrilled with).  I also found a bag of muffin mix that I got for free.  Perfect for dessert!  I know, I know, a very carb/starch heavy meal.  But it was good!

 

We’re continuing to eat from our pantry this week.  First thing this morning, I dug out this bag of beans that has been in my pantry forever!  I think it came with us when we moved!

I rinsed them and put them in a pot to soak for a few hours.

For lunch I had a couple deviled eggs and some leftover potatoes.

For dinner, I used this recipe for pasta with white bean alfredo sauce.  Even my kids like it.  🙂

I froze two bags of beans for future use.

Then, because sometimes I just have to have something sweet, I made this chocolate pudding.  It is delicious straight out of the pot!  It’s like thick, warm hot chocolate.   Mmmm…I’m drooling just thinking about it.

Like I’ve said, breakfast (1/2 an English muffin with peanut butter for me) and lunch (yogurt and an apple for me) are pretty much always the same. Tonight’s dinner was another mish-mash since hubby was working again. He had melted cheese sandwiches, a banana, and some cheese danish. The kids and I had baked beans and the rest of the cheese danish.  I know totally not balanced nor healthy.  As a side note – our church gets day-old bread to share and we rarely need to buy bread any more.  The cheese danish was in the last delivery of day-old bread.

I had hard boiled eggs in the fridge because it just isn’t Easter without coloring eggs. We ate some of them at Easter dinner, but the rest of them needed to be dealt with.

My daughter helped me shuck them and she was tickled when one of them peeled so nicely!

My father-in-law makes delicious deviled eggs and he told me his secret is adding some finely diced pickles or relish. I just happened to have some relish hanging around and it needed to be used up, so into the eggs it went.

Mmmmm!! So good! A healthy snack for a few days. At least two of my kids will eat them.

Around here, breakfast and lunch are pretty much the same everyday – makes it easy for me!  Dinner is usually where things fall apart.  Some weeks I’m really good about meal planning and then making a list and doing the shopping.  Weeks like that are so easy!  For some reason though, I’m not consistent.  I’m not sure what happened when I shopped last, but I apparently only did one week worth of meals instead of two.  Hmmm…  So, dinner last night was a mish-mash.  Hubby had to work his second job which means he leaves before dinner time.  He had a couple peanut butter sandwiches, a couple hot dogs, and a banana.  I had an apple salad and the kids had breakfast for dinner (I love when they do that – they can make everything with very little help).  I also finished up my vegetable broth.  I blended some of the veggies in and strained the rest out.  I was afraid it would be too much if I did all of them.  The house smelled so good while it was cooking!!