A great deal of the rest of the day, I did the inventory of the pantry, down to the detail. My strategy was to take it off the shelf, write it down, clean the shelf off, and put it back more organized than it was before. I'm not a neat freak when it comes to the pantry though so mine will never look like an advertisement for Tupperware, but this is good for me:
I was amazed at what I had in there. It really is enough to feed a large group of people for a month. However, that is if you are going to eat a LOT of legumes. Which, I dare say we will be!
I was not going for fancy in the documentation either. I simply got an old notebook out and noted what I had by "canned goods" (which I put boxes by how many of them I had so that when I use a can, I can check it off and I know how many I have left -this method works best for me), and "Dry Goods". This is just the canned goods page.
(...hey, no checking my spelling!:)
The other pages that had mostly dry goods, did not use the boxes system, I just stated an estimate of what it looked like I had such as "1 cup raisins" or "1/2 cup almond slivers".
I have yet to do the Freezer but my freezer is not too big so that should be easy. Tomorrow I hope to post the menu for the first week. This will involve school lunches and lunches for Rick so I'm pulling out the old bread machine as well and cranking her back up!
The first meal of 2010 on the Pantry challenge was not too skimpy however. We never got to have our Christmas ham due to outings for the Christmas Eve service and the fact that no one was hungry after Christmas munchies all day, so I made it for New Years. Since I agreed to document the meals of the month entirely however:
Jan 1st: Breakfast: Cereal and milk (exciting)
Lunch: Leftover homemade subway sandwich from last nights family night
Dinner: Christmas Ham w/ Pineapple and Cherries, Green Bean Casserole, and Garlic mashed potatoes.
3 comments:
I look forward to reading how this month goes. I need to figure out how to cut back on our food budget without using legumes.
Hey Alicia!
Thanks for saying HI. I think of you from time to time. Glad to see that you are well and joining the Challenge. Should be interesting.... ;)
I've seen a few doing this challenge. I haven't taken a good look at my pantry. I do keep a little inventory similar to yours though its on a posterboard on my pantry wall. I should give this a try.
We've eaten out so much over the last few weeks, we need to cool our heels and eat in. That first dinner sounds good.
♥ Joy
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