Its the start of a brand new month, and a brand new challenge, and to be honest, I am incredibly excited about doing this right by your side.
I intentionally picked an easy month for this challenge, because many people have gardens coming in, or food is available more inexpensively than during the winter months. I plan on doing a second one of these when winter hits, so be prepared for that challenge coming up after a few months of recovery from this one *Smile and wink*
For those of you who are new to the Welcoming House, we have been chatting about using a food pantry, and getting seriously about having a good stock on hand, for as long as this blog has had life breathed into it. Where we live, the rural prairies of Minnesota, you have to learn to be a lot more self sufficient than living in a town or city, because public resources are often interrupted or unavailable during winter months due to extremely harsh weather.
However, those are good things, and we have lost sight of being able to take care of ourselves instead of leaving it up to someone else, or a number of companies we rely too heavily on.
SO welcome to the challenge.
We started this morning with a simple breakfast of eggs and potatoes (canned) that had onions (garden) in them. As my friend has been selling us eggs from her farm for the summer, I have been stashing away eggs for the cold months by freezing them in ice cube trays. While we used fresh eggs for this morning, I am pretty sure we will be breaking into those eggs by the end of this challenge.
Lunch is also simple, just hummus and homemade tortilla chips, with a side of apple slices.
Dinner will be one of our favorite meals from food storage–-homemade mac and cheese with bacon pieces and onion in it. We also have a whole host of green beans from the garden that are going in as a side dish.
If you click on highlighted links, you will find recipes as they have been added to the site over the years. I will be giving out a list of this weekend’s meals, including a few new ones from food storage that I have adapted from favorites, tomorrow!
We are all in this together—if you are going to participate, then comment and let me know! I would love to dialogue with you through it and encourage you!
What do you have planned for your first day of eating straight out of food storage?
I would love to hear from you!
Blessings
~Heather <3
We started today off pretty simple because I have a wonky work schedule today. I worked this morning and skipped breakfast (was running late lol) but the kids had oatmeal for breakfast (with maple syrup and walnuts in it from my stockpile) and for lunch they had chicken bombs (jalapeño pepper cored and deseeded, stuffed with seasoned chicken tender strips and wrapped with bacon. They are sprinkled with brown sugar and baked until done) milk, and pineapple chunks (that I canned recently). I had a couple of slices of ham and some cheese with crackers. Supper tonight is a small seasoned beef roast that we will have with potatoes and carrots.
We had a really rough time this last year and my food storage is pretty small (we used ours up last summer) so I’m needing to catch it up and this will show me my gaps. I’m really excited!!
Yesterday was eggs and toast for breakfast, lunch just sandwiches, supper homemade pizza. Today is peach smoothies, then left over pizza for lunch and fried chicken, potatoes and a veggie for supper 🙂
Our dinner the first night wasn’t very exciting, just some leftover baked ziti made with our home made goat’s milk ricotta cheese. I made some garlic bread from a loaf of french bread we had, to go with the pasta.
Other than that I just had a bowl of cereal with some goat’s milk. I’m not sure what the girls ate during the day.
Man I wish we could have a goat. I would be having a blast making that cheese and using them for milk!
~Heather <3
We have so much food stored between dry goods and chest freezers, that we are going an entire month. =) I don’t have a blog, but anyone interested can follow me on FB to see how it goes. https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.zara
We are also trying to minimize food waste, so we are starting by eating mostly leftovers. We have a big chicken we roasted a few days ago, a bif dish of baked pasta to finish up, and we just finished the leftover rabbit stew from the other day. A good start. =)
yes, we roll everything forward into meals, or put them in freezer for quick lunches for folks. 😀
Good plan, use up what you have on hand. 😀
Thanks for commenting.
~Heather <3
yes, we have enough to do this easily too, but many readers are new and want to get started. I can not tell you how many people struggled with not picking up one or two things during the first two week challenge we did a couple years ago—me included because we somehow skipped having COFFEE on hand (*gasp choke*). I am glad you are an advanced food storage user, because that is totally awesome. 😀
Blessings,
~Heather <3
For our first day of the challenge we had egg and ham sandwiches for breakfast, Powedered whole eggs rehydrated and cooked like an omelet ) ham slices out of freezer and homemade whole wheat bread. Coffee and milk for beverage.( I have powdered milk but will not use it until the milk in fridge is gone.
lunch was leftovers from the night before
dinner was steak from the freezer, baked potatoes and salad all from food already at the house. I know this is not exactly food storage but it is food I already have .
Actually, I think it is, because you are finding creative ways to use the food you already had.
Good job. 😀