We are doing so well with our spring pantry challenge and I have decided to continue it a third week! We have ½ of a heritage pig coming the end of the month so I will continue to create meals with what we have on hand to make room in our freezer. I enjoy challenging myself and creating meals with what we have on hand. We’ve been following the menu I wrote out last week with a couple of exceptions, I switched the days around on a few meals.
I did make our delicious Chicken Soup from scratch using two chicken carcasses I had in the freezer. Whenever we enjoy a roast chicken I will either make soup right away or put the carcass in the freezer. We have been enjoying leftovers all week, but I also ended up making delicious Creamy Chicken Lasagna, which I will share here. I used leftover chicken from the roast chicken, which worked out just fine.
Here is our menu for next week:
Monday: Chicken Parmesan (leftovers in the freezer)
Tuesday: Spinach Quiche (used up some frozen spinach I had on hand)
Wednesday: Penne with Vodka Sauce (leftovers in the freezer)
Thursday: Chicken and Pepper Stir Fry (used up frozen peppers I had in the freezer)
Friday: Taco Soup (In the freezer)
Saturday: Muffin Meat Loaf (in the freezer)
Sunday: (Roast Chicken – only 4 meat birds left in the freezer)
Has anyone else joined me in this Spring Pantry Challenge? How is your freezer/pantry looking? Are you making progress with using leftovers and frozen meals in your freezer? Please let me know how you are doing! I figure by the end of next week we will have made an incredible dent in our freezer. I can then look forward to filing it with the garden’s bounty this year!
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