January Pantry Challenge - come join in! - Page 2

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

Originally Posted by Cynthia Mosher 

Forgot to ask - has anyone tried Supercook.com? It's supposed to be a recipe search engine that finds recipes you can make with the ingredients you have on hand. You just start adding ingredients you have. The more ingredients you add, the better results you will get - they say. 

thank you for this! 

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

Originally Posted by Cynthia Mosher 

lemon grass paste

This is SOOOOO something I would have in my pantry. 

Lemon grass paste is expensive!  You need to use that up

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

I made crockpot chili last night, butternut squash from the Moosewood book, and today I'm making taco salad.

Goodbye! dried red beans, butternut squash, & refried beans

[Cynthia Mosher]

Stir-fried bell peppers and broccoli with peanut butter walnut sauce and brown rice with lentils.

I'm also sprouting my mung beans.

[Cynthia Mosher]

I'm liking Supercook.com!

For tonight I'm going to make some lemon garlic pasta and try the Wasabi-Beet Sauce  

I'm also going to try the Simple Black Bean Soup

[LoveOurBabies]

Oooo, can I join too?? I don't have much in my pantry, but my fridge is full of vegetables and fruit.. So for me, it will be a fridge challenge. I want to write up a meal plan for the next 7 days but I don't know how to use up some of the food I've got. Anyone have any good ideas for:

Potato

Sweet potato

Green beans (20lbs of them)!

I hope to be back with a rough meal plan soon. This is exciting

[justmama]

Originally Posted by Cynthia Mosher 

Forgot to ask - has anyone tried Supercook.com? It's supposed to be a recipe search engine that finds recipes you can make with the ingredients you have on hand. You just start adding ingredients you have. The more ingredients you add, the better results you will get - they say. 

No, but that's EXACTLY what I've been looking for.  Seems easier than just generally googling an item trying to find a suitable recipe.  Thank you for that!

[justmama]

I was just given a TON of cherry tomatoes and 2 peppers by my mom so I'm going to use them along with some items in my pantry and freezer to make and can some salsa.  I'll NEVER go through all these tomatoes before they go bad unless I can or freeze them.  Kinda doesn't help me work my way through the pantry by putting up more jars but i'm always grateful for free food!  

[Cynthia Mosher]

LoveOurBabies, that's a LOT of green beans! 

I make a green bean salad that we eat often. It's just steamed green beans with sliced almonds and olives and a French Vinagrette dressing. It keep well in the fridge too. We also roast green beans and serve them in place of fries when we have any meal that normally would have fries. With as many beans as you have I'd probably blanch some and put them in the freezer or instead of blanching you could try this: http://www.food.com/recipe/frozen-corn-or-green-beans-238289

Sweet potato - we love them baked or cubed and steamed. And sweet potato pie is wonderful!

We are making a lot of potato soup lately. Often it's a mix - potato and pumpkin, potato and butternut squash, potato and carrot. And they freeze well so it makes for an easy lunch or dinner. 

[JunebugsMom]

Jumping in late here because I'd like to make it the rest of the month without going to the grocery store (except for produce and milk, probably).

freezer

stir fry veggies

ham pieces

green peas

kielbasa

corn

turkey bacon

shredded zucchini

cranberries

pantry

hard taco shells

dried garbanzos

quinoa

gf pasta

alfredo sauce

regular spaghetti

GF bisquick

white beans

pinto beans

pizza sauce (2)

crab (2)

salmon (2)

black beans

cranberry sauce

lentils

spanish rice mix

GF pizza crust mix (x2)

refried beans

1 butternut squash

potatoes

dinner ideas for the rest of the month

1. baked chicken breasts, broccoli, rice

2. California rolls

3. pork tacos

4. lentil soup with ham

5. southwestern chicken breasts

6. white chicken chili

7. pasta with alfredo sauce and peas

8. salmon cakes, corn, potatoes

9. honey baked lentils, rice, swiss chard

10. GF pancakes, eggs, turkey bacon

Edited by JunebugsMom - 1/20/13 at 2:30pm

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

Originally Posted by Cynthia Mosher 

Stir-fried bell peppers and broccoli with peanut butter walnut sauce and brown rice with lentils.

I'm also sprouting my mung beans.

Cynthia we have similar pantries.  I have mung bean seeds in mine too...and I just dug out my sprouting jar.  I'm doing the same thing. 

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

Originally Posted by LoveOurBabies 

Oooo, can I join too?? I don't have much in my pantry, but my fridge is full of vegetables and fruit.. So for me, it will be a fridge challenge. I want to write up a meal plan for the next 7 days but I don't know how to use up some of the food I've got. Anyone have any good ideas for:

Potato

Sweet potato

Green beans (20lbs of them)!

I hope to be back with a rough meal plan soon. This is exciting

I was going to suggest potato soup too -- just because that uses up sooooo many potatoes.

The green beans you can steam and chop up and throw them in salads.

Also green beans freeze very easily.  So you could Ziploc them, put them in the freezer and pull them out to throw in soups and casseroles.

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

Frozen Chicken

Thai Curry Paste

Coconut Milk

Dried Shiitake Mushrooms

All going in my Thai Stir Fry tonight. 

Yeast Packet

And I'm making some home-made bread...which I ~NEVER~ make and will probably never make again.  But I have to use up this yeast.  And lesson learned.  I don't like making bread so I'm never buying yeast again.

[veganmama44]

super easy and delish bread recipe for you http://steamykitchen.com/168-no-knead-bread-revisited.html i make it all the time and i am NOT a baker, at all

i am making stirfry with chinese noodles tonight, i dont have a recipe yet, but i have tons of stuff to throw in there

[veganmama44]

super easy and delish bread recipe for you http://steamykitchen.com/168-no-knead-bread-revisited.html i make it all the time and i am NOT a baker, at all

i am making stirfry with chinese noodles tonight, i dont have a recipe yet, but i have tons of stuff to throw in there

[Cynthia Mosher]

Wild rice with almonds, currants, and sweet peas

Steamed carrots and green beans

Pineapple with coconut cream smoothies

Frozen vegetable ravioli in pasta sauce, green salad with an orange juice walnut dressing

Lite fruit cocktail - added to a cake batter to make a fruit cake

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

Originally Posted by Crunchy*VT*Mom 

My Goal =  Cross Everything off this list. 

Start date  = January 17th, 2013   

Thin Spaghetti  1 2 3

Canned Clams

Boves Sauce

Canned Pumpkin   1 2 3 4 5

Szechuan Sauce

Spicy Bean Sauce

Thai Curry + Coconut Milk  1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Veggie Stock  1 2 3

WW Penne Pasta

Oyster Sauce

Fish Sauce

Fish Sauce

Butternut Squash   1   2

Beef Stew Packet

Sprouting Seeds

Yeast Packets   1  2  3 

Sesame Seeds

Rice Wine

Champagne Vinegar

White Wine Vinegar

Sherry

Sprouting Seeds

Fridge & Freezer

Cabbage

Pesto

Lentil Hummus

Pork Loin

Pork cut up for Stir Fry

Pork Chops

Chicken Thighs   1  2  3  4

Turkey Legs in a bag

Turkey Parts in a bag

Ground Turkey   1  2  3  4

Chicken Breasts  1  2  3  4  5 

Ham Bone

Zucchini in a bag

Pie Crusts  1  2 

Salmon

Peppers in a bag

WW Rotini

Refried Beans

Shiitake Mushrooms

[Greenlea]

I don't have much in there now anyways but I found a 1/2 bag of lentils and a 1/2 bag of barley. So I'm making mushroom barley & lentil stew on Thurs. in my crock pot.

Tonight I'm using up the last of my brown rice and making a zucchini, black bean, & rice casserole.

And tomorrow I'm combining the 3 boxes of pancake mix that have like one cup each in them and making waffles.

Other than that my pantry and freezer are pretty bare because we are moving at the end of the week. 

[veganmama44]

i made chinese noodle stirfry tonight with random frozen veggies and rice noodles, braggs liquid aminos, water chestnuts and ground ginger from the pantry. the baby loves it, the boy say its just ok.

wednesday i will make fired greek garlic and bean stew with my lonely giant sweet potato coiple can of tomato an a can o White beans. http://mouthwateringvegan.com/2010/11/23/fired-greek-garlic-bean-stew/ it is delish, i have made it several times now
good luck everyone

[veganmama44]

forgive my typos, my kindle auto correct is set to spanish an i dont know how to fix it