Week 2 of Food Challenge

I'm finally starting to notice a difference in our pantry and freezer!  This past week's meals consisted of ....


Wednesday - we went to Buffalo Wild Wing's because Stewart had a hankering for wings
Thursday - white chicken chili (leftovers from the freezer), bread
Friday - white chicken chili, shrimp & crab corn bisque (both of these soups are now gone!), bread
Saturday - grilled cheese, tomato basil parmesean soup (from the freezer), deer summer sausage with ritz crackers and dijon mustard
Sunday - meaty waffles (i.e. waffles with ground deer meat), summer sausage with ritz & dijon mustard, popcorn
Monday - eggs, deer sausage patties, & toast
Tuesday - banana pancakes, bacon, cheesy cherry tomatoes, deviled eggs, broccoli, roasted potatoes, backstrap, 2 different kinds of cobbler

I ended up making cupcakes and chocolate covered strawberries for one of our friend's birthdays.  I was relieved when the trip to the grocery resulted in the majority of the purchase being perishables (plus one box of cake mix).  My shopping for this week was all perishables as well!

For Valentine's Day, I wanted to make a nice meal since this was our first one together.  We have so much deer meat in the freezer, I thought grilled backstrap sounded perfect.  I made up a marinade based on what we had available (orange juice, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar).  I wanted to make sure that we had a dessert that Stewart liked as well.  He likes fruit based things so I found a recipe for small batch cobblers.  I only had to buy cherries!  I had everything else it called for.  And then, on top of that, yesterday while I was making it, I realized that we had just the right amount of mixed frozen berries in the freezer that I could double the recipe!

So while it still doesn't seem like there's a huge difference, we're making progress.  This week, we've finished off two different soups in the freezer, 1 pkg of ground deer meat, 1 pkg of backstrap, summer sausage, brown sugar, powdered sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and 1 thing of dijon mustard.

At some point this coming week, I'd like to go through the pantry and purge anything that's past it's expiration date.