Pantry Challenge: Day Six

Phew! Now we're back in business!

Breakfast was muffins from La Leche League's fabulous Whole Foods for the Whole Family cookbook. We had ours with all-fruit, and it was delicious! Our grocery outlet often has King Arthur's whole wheat and unbleached white flour for 79 cents, and I have quite a bit of that in the deep freeze still.

Morning snack was whole grain crackers and some yummy cheese from our local Amish store.

Lunch... lunch was lovely. Down in the deep freeze I found 2.35 pounds of ox tails I bought from the Amish store because... um... because... well... I don't know why. Because I thought I could do something traditional food-ish with them and because it was only $1.50 for 2.35 pounds. In my Little House Cookbook, I found a great recipe and made a delicious stew for lunch. I actually only followed their directions for making the broth, and then added organic alphabet pasta (50 cents a box) and tons of green beans, peas, and corn.

For afternoon snack, we had smoothies. You see, I had this brilliant idea-- let's pick our own fruit and freeze it! Which I did, and then promptly forgot all about it. Do you see now why this pantry challenge is necessary?

Dinner was delicious-- mashed potatoes, asparagus (again, frozen on a whim), and London broil (buy one, get one). For desert, I used some canned plums to make a plum crumble. Everyone loved it. The kids said if I was on Top Chef, I would win, which is complete and utter bull, but still, lovely to hear.