{"id":6316,"date":"2010-09-15T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2010-09-15T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T19:00:44","slug":"two-pantry-challenge-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=6316","title":{"rendered":"Two Pantry Challenge Dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the spirit of Michael and my new Pantry Challenge<\/a>, we are working our way through the pantry\/freezer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Monday Night’s Dinner<\/span><\/p>\n

It was an easy one: Turkey Burgers<\/a>. Michael buys a bunch of ground turkey at one time and makes the patties before freezing them. They are just as tasty defrosted as they are when we make them fresh.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Spicy crunchy pickles were our “side.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We used Havarti sliced cheese–awesome.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Score one for emptying the freezer!<\/p>\n

My throat has been hurting all week so I justified eating ice cream for dessert to soothe my throat. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And I was also drinking a lot of tea:<\/p>\n

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Tuesday’s Dinner<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to the gym Tuesday after work and did my weights. \u00a0I also signed up for one personal training session next week. I want to learn how to use some of the weight machines I’ve never used before.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Gym Stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time: 1:16<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calories Burned: 467<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workout: Weights only<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was on my own for dinner. And I realized two flaws in the Pantry Challenge. The first: we need to add dairy to list of “things we can go to the store for.” I realized we were out of sour cream.<\/p>\n

The second flaw: it kinda sucks having to go home and make diner after spending over an hour in the gym and not getting home until almost 7:30pm. I am determined to complete this challenge and I can suffer for the next month. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I grabbed the ingredients I was going to use:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Leftover chicken, shredded cheese, black beans, green onion and polenta. I cooked the polenta slices for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While the polenta was cooking (I flipped them once) I heated up the black beans. I sprinkled some chili powder into the pot and mixed it all together.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Next, I topped the polenta with cheese and chicken and microwaved it for a few minutes–just long enough to melt the cheese.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Topped it with black beans and the onion.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Next step: add the goodies! Like salsa, sour cream and some tortilla chips.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It looks like a mess but trust me when I say it was awesome! I always forget how much I love polenta.<\/p>\n

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It looks like a lot of food but it really wasn’t. I used polenta and black beans from the pantry and the rest were leftovers from the fridge. Makin’ progress!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>QUESTION: Tell me your favorite way to use polenta.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the spirit of Michael and my new Pantry Challenge, we are working our way through the pantry\/freezer. Monday Night’s Dinner It was an easy one: Turkey Burgers. Michael buys a bunch of ground turkey at one time and makes the patties before freezing them. They are just as tasty defrosted as they are when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,315,104,301],"tags":[8599,516,8770,8628,8640,1508,1514,8743,1507],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316"}],"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=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}