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Pantry Eating and Chores

May 11th, 2006 at 03:35 am

As a way of cutting my grocery budget, I have been trying to eat down my stores in the cupboards and freezer this month and have been pretty successful with it.

Tonight I cooked the last of the $0.79 per pound turkey legs (purchased after Christmas) and one of the many packages of organic mashed potatoes, adding a salad. Very good. Roasted the turkey so no oil on that but did have some macadamia nut oil (from the scratch and dent) on the salad.

I still have a huge amount of the $0.29 per pound chicken and quite a few steaks, possibly another roast, hamburger, ribs, and various seafood. So still a lot of protein to go. The cupboards are beginning to show empty spots.

I really don't like leftovers, but had them anyway. Lunch was leftover taco meat salad with some cheese (still from my stash) and I skipped breakfast this morning. Okay, well I slept through it. After getting the kids on the bus, I went back to bed, just exhausted. I had food poisoning a month ago and sometimes I still get exhausted, doctor says it just lingers sometimes. So no guilt over the sleep-in.

Mowed the front ditches and the side lawn today. Still have to do the front patch by the propane tank and the whole back yard. I don't want to do that back yard at all. But DH won't be home most likely for 3 weeks so I will have to do it. Wish I could afford to hire it out. I'm allergic to grass as it is, cutting it just goes after my breathing and leaves me all itchy.

Hung a load of laundry and have come to the conclusion that I should never do just a load of socks and unders again. Or at least the socks. I ran out of clothes pins! Ended up hanging the longest ones over the line and a few towels also. I'll wash the socks with the regular clothes from now on. Live and learn.

2 Responses to “Pantry Eating and Chores”

  1. Tightwad Kitty Says:
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    I am planning to start living off my pantry storage for next few months.
    I am making inventories of what I have got too!

  2. markio26 Says:
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    i have been working on my stash also... everyday, i make something from the freezer, today it will be crab salad with cream cheese, birds eye brocolli with cheese, ravoli in light tomato sauce, then i made boiled potatoes, corn bread, fruit salad ( to use up 8 oz cool whip, huge can of peaches, drained, and a large container of sour cream with a lil sugar added), and i made apple tarts from the apples i crockpoted the other day... yummmmmmmm!!!!!! also made frozen punch and water launch drinks.

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