{"id":25967,"date":"2011-11-17T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=25967"},"modified":"2011-11-17T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T00:04:00","slug":"pantry-challenge-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=25967","title":{"rendered":"Pantry Challenge Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I did a Pantry Challenge<\/a>. It happened because I had tons of duplicates and the pantry was just overflowing with “stuff.” We made amazing progress last year and I wanted to do that again. Our pantry is once again disorganized and overwhelming.<\/p>\n

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\nOver the weekend Michael and I worked really hard cleaning out several hall closets, the bedroom closet, the freezer and kitchen drawers. Fat Kitty helped:<\/p>\n

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I took three big bags and two boxes of junk to Goodwill (KITTY-FREE!) and it felt awesome to purge it all!<\/p>\n

Pantry Dinner #1<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The first dinner was a “throw everything together” kind of meal. I found a very large chicken breast in the freezer when I cleaned it out. I made a box of garlic and olive oil couscous from the pantry, mixed in some frozen peas and then Michael cooked up that chicken breast with some shallots.<\/p>\n

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\nI liked the flavors of the shallots and peas in the couscous. The dinner was really easy and used up three things we needed to get rid of! Excellent. I made us side salads to go with dinner:<\/p>\n

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\nThe dinner was easy and would have been a good meal to prepare during the week when we’re short on time and desire to cook. I also had leftovers for lunch for 2 days.<\/p>\n

Pantry Dinner #2<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Pan-seared salmon and a Savory Carrot Salad<\/a> was on the menu.\u00a0For the salmon Michael heated the skillet and coated the salmon with olive oil. I seasoned with salt, peppers and capers (from the Pantry! Yay!).<\/p>\n

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He flipped the salmon over until cooked–like 5 minutes or so.<\/p>\n

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I garnished the salmon with some lemon slices and had the Carrot Salad.<\/p>\n

Pantry Dinner #3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Okay. Technically NOT dinner but…. for dessert one night after work I made pudding.<\/p>\n

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\nI’ve has these mini shells in the pantry since this summer. The plan was to make them for a potluck and then I never ended up doing that.<\/p>\n

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\nI made up the chocolate pudding in these crusts and we desserts for the week–less than 250 calories each.<\/p>\n

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The pantry and freezer are a work in progress. We’ll continue to work through the food in there and try to clear some things out. But we’re making progress!<\/p>\n

QUESTION: How often do you clean out your pantry? What creative meals have you made?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year I did a Pantry Challenge. It happened because I had tons of duplicates and the pantry was just overflowing with “stuff.” We made amazing progress last year and I wanted to do that again. Our pantry is once again disorganized and overwhelming. Over the weekend Michael and I worked really hard cleaning out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1621,314,315,2372,104,1785,152,3205,167,201,230,231,237,288,2932],"tags":[5026,5028,5027,516,8770,5025,1508,937,8711,5029],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2349.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25967"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26147,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions\/26147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}