Still working on pantry clean up menu plan

This isn't my regular pantry. Normally I have a much larger area, with big wooden shelves and alot more space. Instead we moved on of our bookshelves out into the hallway and I tried to organize it as a temporary pantry. The amount of items in it has gone down significantly lately.

Looking at the contents now, it doesn't look like I'm using too much from the pantry this week for dinners. Of course it is meager pickings there anyways.

Monday: Roast beef with gravy, mashed potatoes and carrots and bean mix (yes, I know this was supposed to be yesterday's meal, but yesterday was very busy and turned into the kids eating hot dogs and pizza they received free at the Santa Claus parade, the hubby eating left overs and my making alfredo with salmon and shrimp late at night.)

Tuesday: spaghetti with homemade sauce, made using the oven roasted tomatoes from the freezer, augmented with a can or two of tomatoes from the pantry

Wednesday: Roast chicken with roasted potatoes and broccoli

Thursday: turkey meatballs with pineapple sauce and rice

Friday: we are away for the next two nights

In the meantime, today I am working on the November baking challenge recipe, and in a few days expect to be working on a special birthday cake. As I still have several pounds of butter in my other freezers (along with waffles, frozen bananas, hamburgers and a mountain of freezies), making cake still counts towards cleaning up the pantry and freezer.

2 comments:

Megan said...

Hey, it sounds like you are making progress.

Exactly how many freezers do you have?

Anonymous said...

Isn't it fun to see how small of a structure you can store you pantry items on! Just look at like this, you won't be packing a bunch of boxes full of food.