I came close to screwing up the challenge yesterday. I was in so much pain and so tired that if it hadn't been for how dirty I was, I would have bought fast food 😳

Sorry to hear it, that the day you open a jar of soup or eat canned fruit from the jar.. feel better soon

I came close to screwing up the challenge yesterday. I was in so much pain and so tired that if it hadn't been for how dirty I was, I would have bought fast food 😳

Sorry to hear it, that the day you open a jar of soup or eat canned fruit from the jar.. feel better soon

very true but I didn't want to wait the hour it takes to get from mom's place to my place. I waited to long to eat. 🙁

Day 4: Brunch-Fruit smoothie & bran muffins-Hubby had eggs, sausages
Supper: Fried green pepper, mushroom & onion with 3 meatballs & a bun
Hubby on nights this week so meals will change

Day 5: Breakfasat- Apple/orange/banana
Lunch- Egg fried rice with vegetables
Supper-salad with homemade dressing, homemade pasta noodles & meatballs

I screwed up yesterday. It wasn't until I was almost to my appointment to get my new tats that I realized that I forgot about taking an energy drink & something solid to eat in case of a sugar drop while getting the tats. I bought a gator-aid and 2 ham & cheese tea biscuits yesterday. I feel bad for screwing up but I am thankful that I bought the stuff...I didn't it part way through.

No worries, keeping blood sugar level at that time for sure more important, so far lgsbrooks is rockin the challenge, I have one opps, old school one opps, my last two days have been good, but very basic, my meals are currently based around the idea of 80 percent storage or farm fresh and 20 percent fresh from the store, I don't want to waste anthing I have but I do want to stretch it.

No worries, keeping blood sugar level at that time for sure more important, so far lgsbrooks is rockin the challenge, I have one opps, old school one opps, my last two days have been good, but very basic, my meals are currently based around the idea of 80 percent storage or farm fresh and 20 percent fresh from the store, I don't want to waste anthing I have but I do want to stretch it.

thank you, that makes me feel better 🙂

my meals are 100% storage but the greens that I started are now about an inch in length

I pretty much stay home everyday & I only shop 2x a month at the best of times and so I am fine all around due to food storage in cold room, dry storage room, huge pantry, fridge/freezer. I will notice it when I run out of fresh fruits/veg but frozen, dehydrated or canned will have to do. I must say I am surprised that there are only 3 of us doing this challenge as it is the perfect opportunity to find out where you are lacking so I think this is excellent!
Day 6: Brunch- orange, yogurt (I will make homemade when store bought runs out)- every morning I have warm lemon water then a magnesium water, I drink water or kombucha throughout the day.
snack- homemade Bounty Bar
Supper-Hubby (work)-homemade frozen meal: cabbage rolls/mashed potatoes, homemade Raison cinnamon swirl bread & last 3 homemade raspberry pop tarts for him & the boys at work, I had home canned tomato soup with crackers & salad

I have been experimenting with different ingredients since the challenge started. It has been kind of nice. I guess I was stuck in the rut of eating the same old foods on a regular bases. This is making me think. 🙂

I am going to spend a few days with my mom, we will be eating from her pantry, I will log in again once I am home.

I'm going to give it a try. Done a week before but why not a month. I have enough food in my pantry to last a family of four for a year. 😀

Hit my first missing item, it was very minor, but I went huh, I went to make a roast beef sandwhich and while I have lots of keens (my favorite mustard), "I thought, I would like a homemade rough ground mustard, Opps, between canning last year and curing of meats this fall, I am out.. had to settle for a hot mustard.. Good thing I plan to expland the mustard growing area of my garden..

Hubby said, can we have porgies for supper, me sure.. check the freezer, dang, all out.. so homemade it is.. not bad, potato, garlic, steak and sheep milk soft cheese, but they turned out huge, three was a full meal.

I'm going to give it a try. Done a week before but why not a month. I have enough food in my pantry to last a family of four for a year. 😀

A week is good, but you need at least a month to start to see patterns and gaps and to think a little outside the box, it makes you more creative in the cooking, planning and it also can (if not already) make you more aware of the amount of time needed to be booked per day for cooking.

Just noticed this interesting thread. I've been doing something like this myself , except for
Milk, which I get home delivery of. But planning ahead for Milk I do have powdered milk on hand.

Looking forward to April when the snow has melted and I can restock up on stuff.
I'm running LOW of frozen chicken, so have been rationing each piece into
3 servings. LOL I am also running LOW of frozen carrots. I have been rationing them out for few weeks now.

I've only seen tiny size dehydrated carrots, so have been using frozen carrots. I need to get into
dehydrating this summer and try my own dehydrated carrots , and if that doesn't work, perhaps I should get into
canning carrots ? I've not found any freeze dried carrots, they all seem to be dehydrated.

Also been making notes of things that I need to keep more of, or to add to my list. Such as
powdered egg and powdered egg whites.

I have really enjoyed using my Flaker this winter to roll oat groats .

I only have one tin of 100oz applesauce left, and 1 tin of freeze dried applesauce,
so I'm trying to eat canned plain pumpkin instead. Blah
Will take some getting used to. I added a bit of spice, but tomorrow I need to add some sugar.

.. I love to have applesauce every day

I've also run out of more MOUSE TRAPS.