I’m doing the challenge for the second time. I am a family of 1. I can, dehydrate and freeze. Tonight’s dinner and lunch prep was beef enchiladas and garlic ginger pork stir fry. For me, no eating out, no grocery store for the first month and 1 new recipe a week. Good luck to everyone.
Those sound delicious! I also thought about trying a new recipe weekly! I made a new garlic butter chicken pasta tonight and it was so good! Good luck to you!
Just 2 adults here, and sometimes a teenage grandson who eats like a horse and is spoiled as well. We grow our own meat, garden. We can, freeze dry, and freeze make ahead items like burritos. We do a lot from scratch, but have convinience items b/c we both work ft. Im a stna and pull 12s 3days a week and he works m-f in a laborious job. So like crackers, snacks but try to buy healthier choices. I wont forgo keeping my pantry stocked during a challenge especially if its a sale or coupon like for coffee, peanut butter etc...i do have a discount grocery nearby as well. I shop at a meijers mainly. So far ive spent 97$ but some was stocking up, the rest was grandson😂. Besides for milk or buns i could easily skip the store. But sales are good this week so we shall see! We cook from our larder and freezers. Ive got chili on the wood stove, ive got pastry ready to roll out and make homemade handpies with some apples i needed to use. 😊❤ level 2 snow er here and glad i didnt have to work today!
I'm doing the pantry challenge for the first time! I will only go and get fresh produce, milk and eggs occasionally. I haven't gone to the grocery store since Christmas week. And to answer your question: it's only me and my cats no other people here! But to be fair, I do not have a homestead or any home canned/preserved food. What I do have is a fridge/freezer combo in the kitchen and a chest freezer. Both are very full. I also have a good amount of canned and dry goods in my cabinets. I hope to get through two months with hardly any shopping! I am confident I can do at least a month!
It sounds like you are prepared! You can definitely do it! I'm doing the same with the grocery items. Two months sounds like a long time for this but I think we also are better prepared this year! Good luck!!
I find it hard cooking for two with out so many left overs I do freeze somethings . But after 2 or 3 day's even just lunch an a new dinner more left overs.
Same. I find the easiest way to not have tons of leftovers is to portion meat and things out as soon as we get them (if they aren't already packaged individually). Big packages of meat or anything else that can be vacuum sealed and frozen gets portioned out into single dinner portions and vacuum sealed for the freezer. That way I'm not cooking way more than what we will want to eat in a week.
I totally get that. We had a good bit of ham left ….. so I did a black bean soup with some diced ham and ham and. Eans ( cranberry beans instead of pintos) both delicious but after days of lunch and dinner….im beaned out. I even froze a small package of diced ham for pea soup later on. 😑
2 Adults and a 13yr old that eats the same amount as we do, 7 cats, a dog and 2 beta fish LOL! .. We live in a very small rural area, about 3hours from stores so I shop bulk for all staples, meats etc, and just buy fresh produce, bread type items and cold stuff on a weekly basis .. I rotate as I replenish bulk items so I dont want those to go down to much since our 1 grocery store is very expensive and I only buy what I have to buy from there, occasionally there is decent sales that I pick up but usually we like to do out of town trips to do big grocery shops.. Ive been doing a food challenge twice a year for several years now, mostly to use up odds and ends, half used packages, frozen leftovers that sort of deal, so I still shop as normal during the challenge (fresh produce, bread type items and cold stuff), but I focus on using those items during the challenge ... this year I did a pantry update and found things that we arent going thru as frequently as others so I will focus on using that and wont buy bulk in the future, eg. certain canned good during case sales ... and really low on some stuff that I now know to buy more off when either buying during out of town trips, case sale or ordering online in bulk ... I really like the challenge because it makes you take inventory and look at what you have on hand, what your using and not using
I’m doing the challenge for the second time. I am a family of 1. I can, dehydrate and freeze. Tonight’s dinner and lunch prep was beef enchiladas and garlic ginger pork stir fry. For me, no eating out, no grocery store for the first month and 1 new recipe a week. Good luck to everyone.
Those sound delicious! I also thought about trying a new recipe weekly! I made a new garlic butter chicken pasta tonight and it was so good! Good luck to you!
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Just 2 adults here, and sometimes a teenage grandson who eats like a horse and is spoiled as well. We grow our own meat, garden. We can, freeze dry, and freeze make ahead items like burritos. We do a lot from scratch, but have convinience items b/c we both work ft. Im a stna and pull 12s 3days a week and he works m-f in a laborious job. So like crackers, snacks but try to buy healthier choices. I wont forgo keeping my pantry stocked during a challenge especially if its a sale or coupon like for coffee, peanut butter etc...i do have a discount grocery nearby as well. I shop at a meijers mainly. So far ive spent 97$ but some was stocking up, the rest was grandson😂. Besides for milk or buns i could easily skip the store. But sales are good this week so we shall see! We cook from our larder and freezers. Ive got chili on the wood stove, ive got pastry ready to roll out and make homemade handpies with some apples i needed to use. 😊❤ level 2 snow er here and glad i didnt have to work today!
I'm doing the pantry challenge for the first time! I will only go and get fresh produce, milk and eggs occasionally. I haven't gone to the grocery store since Christmas week. And to answer your question: it's only me and my cats no other people here! But to be fair, I do not have a homestead or any home canned/preserved food. What I do have is a fridge/freezer combo in the kitchen and a chest freezer. Both are very full. I also have a good amount of canned and dry goods in my cabinets. I hope to get through two months with hardly any shopping! I am confident I can do at least a month!
It sounds like you are prepared! You can definitely do it! I'm doing the same with the grocery items. Two months sounds like a long time for this but I think we also are better prepared this year! Good luck!!
I find it hard cooking for two with out so many left overs I do freeze somethings . But after 2 or 3 day's even just lunch an a new dinner more left overs.
Same. I find the easiest way to not have tons of leftovers is to portion meat and things out as soon as we get them (if they aren't already packaged individually). Big packages of meat or anything else that can be vacuum sealed and frozen gets portioned out into single dinner portions and vacuum sealed for the freezer. That way I'm not cooking way more than what we will want to eat in a week.
I totally get that. We had a good bit of ham left ….. so I did a black bean soup with some diced ham and ham and. Eans ( cranberry beans instead of pintos) both delicious but after days of lunch and dinner….im beaned out. I even froze a small package of diced ham for pea soup later on. 😑
2 Adults and a 13yr old that eats the same amount as we do, 7 cats, a dog and 2 beta fish LOL! .. We live in a very small rural area, about 3hours from stores so I shop bulk for all staples, meats etc, and just buy fresh produce, bread type items and cold stuff on a weekly basis .. I rotate as I replenish bulk items so I dont want those to go down to much since our 1 grocery store is very expensive and I only buy what I have to buy from there, occasionally there is decent sales that I pick up but usually we like to do out of town trips to do big grocery shops.. Ive been doing a food challenge twice a year for several years now, mostly to use up odds and ends, half used packages, frozen leftovers that sort of deal, so I still shop as normal during the challenge (fresh produce, bread type items and cold stuff), but I focus on using those items during the challenge ... this year I did a pantry update and found things that we arent going thru as frequently as others so I will focus on using that and wont buy bulk in the future, eg. certain canned good during case sales ... and really low on some stuff that I now know to buy more off when either buying during out of town trips, case sale or ordering online in bulk ... I really like the challenge because it makes you take inventory and look at what you have on hand, what your using and not using
Is bison like venison my nephew hunts and blesses me with gifts of lots it i am single and with beef being $5.00a pound i thank God
Black eyed peas 🤤
So good!