Summertime Pantry Challenge #3

This is so much fun trying to come up with recipes with what I already have or using up what we stocked in the freezer:

*Special K Casserole- freezer meal
*Turkey Lasagna (Finding Joy in My Kitchen)- lasagna noodles and cottage cheese to use, homemade pasta sauce from the pantry,  spinach from the garden, I don't like mushrooms so I won't put them in
*Italian Chicken- freezer meal with fun noodles I got at Costco
*Quebecois Chicken (Hospitality Haven) with potatoes
*Cheesy Beef and Rice Casserole- (Hospitality Haven) made with ground turkey



Snacks:
*Honey-Oat Cookies (from Simple Bites)- I used chocolate chips and raw sunflower seeds and cooked for 10 min.  These will be great to take on our plane trip!
*Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies-  I added chocolate chips
*Dark Chocolate Cherry Dessert- (Finding Joy in my Kitchen) I will use semi-sweet chocolate chips,  my husband just picked a bunch a cherries this week!

*Banana Peanut Butter Smoothie-  got to use up some bananas, milk and yogurt




This will be the last of my Summertime Pantry Challenge posts.  I have WAY too much going on and I can't keep up, but I had fun.

Summertime Pantry Challenge Week #2

Here is what we ate this week:

*Breakfast Egg Casserole-  I had some extra sausage that needed to be used up.  This is yummy!  I made the 9x13 pan to last longer.
*Haystacks- similar to Taco salad except with beans
*Burritos- using the beans from Haystacks
*Parsley Parmesan Chicken- one of my favorite freezer meals!
*Fondue- used tomato soup, cheese, Johnny's Seasoning and milk, but had to buy everything else!

Snacks:
*One-Bowl Oatmeal Muffins (from Simple Bites)-  I made two batches of these.  My first batch I put in chocolate chips, chopped pecans and dried cranberries.  My second batch was made with coconut oil instead of butter and I put in coconut and peanut butter chips (from the pantry).  This is a very easy and yummy recipe.  You just have to wait one hour for the oats to soak.
*Yummy Banana Loaf- I added extra nuts and was this ever good!

Summertime Pantry Challenge Week #1

Here is what we ate this week:

*BBQ Chicken Salad-  BBQ chicken came from leftovers from a party at my husband's work and the lettuce came from our garden
*Homemade Pizza- using homemade spaghetti sauce (my husband makes this from our tomatoes)
*Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup in the crockpot- used some cans of cream of chicken soup
*Taco salad- using ground turkey from freezer and lettuce from the garden
*Fried Rice- using some chunky deli meat turkey that we got on sale and veggies in our refrig
*Baked Spaghetti Pie- spaghetti sauce with ground turkey, noodles, cottage cheese (mixed and put in a baking dish), shredded cheddar on top and sprinkled with pizza seasoning (will post a recipe soon)

I also made smoothies for breakfast and Banana Pudding Loaf using Alison's Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding in the recipe.  The chocolate pudding is YUMMY!!!

I'm much better at writing what we ate rather than what we will eat.  It just depends on my mood what we will have on the menu.  I love this challenge.  The only thing that I bought was the cottage cheese, but I bought 2 big tubs from Costco to last awhile.

Summertime Pantry Challenge

Well, I'm joining up with Life As Mom over at Good Cheap Eats for Summertime Pantry Challenge. Basically, I'm going to try to spend as little as possible and look through my freezer and pantry as well as food from the garden to make my meals. So I'll be posting a few things that we've had for food. Looks like fun!