Success

The Pantry/Freezer challenge is wrapping up today and it has been an unqualified success.  I cleaned out the pantry, which needed it desperately, and also found several things to make in there.  The freezer didn't need as much work, but it provided more substantial eats.  Tuesday night was another nice piece of beef, roasted and served with a steam pack of pasta with veggies.  On Wednesday I made pizza dough and AJ had a little cheese pizza while Beth and I had calzones with ricotta, mozzarella, and a pack of spicy sausage from the freezer, with a little frozen ground beef mixed in just to use it up.  The calzones were really tasty, and AJ devoured his entire mini-pie.  Then last night we had plenty of the sausage and cheese filling leftover, so we did breakfast for dinner, mixing the cheesy sausage into scrambled eggs and having that with some frozen potatoes with onions and peppers and a few frozen tea biscuits.  I even had enough still leftover to roll some up into a breakfast burrito that I enjoyed this morning.

And that's it.  It never got as challenging as I thought it might, although it would have if I kept at it another day or two.  But we were well fed for a week, we saved money on groceries, and the pantry and freezer are both in much better shape than when we began.  I think I'll make this an annual exercise.

Now, time to start the "Eat Healthy Foods Again and Get The Kids Used To The Gym Day Care For The Summer" challenge...