It's been a LONG week.... being gone last week left me with a lot of chores! The yard is overgrown.... the house needs attention.... and my son needed his annual homeschool testing done. I am late with that one - I've been pre-occupied with son #1 and graduation / college stuff and completely forgot the testing for son #2.
Anyway - on to the PURGE!
This is a weird list of food - not an interesting list - just weird! I'll be glad when I have PURGED it and can come up with a new list!
Many are loose items, bought for my grazing... so using them up will be virtuous, but not creative :-) I can't think of much to do with an individual container of sweet gherkin pickles... except eat them, of course! I could throw them in a cold salad (which no one in my house will eat except me!) but I have an open jar of homemade relish for that so I may as well just eat the things...
All the fruit makes me think of smoothies.... I ran across a recipe for a Blueberry-Ginger Smoothie
at Money-Saving Mom , one of my favorite "GO TO' sites.
It wasn't bad.... I like both blueberry AND ginger.. but am not wild about the combo.... great to try though! I think I prefer my own version.... blueberries, 1/2 banana, a bit of vanilla, protein powder & almond milk.... yum :-)
By merging a store special on Vidalia onions, the bread project and my frozen Swiss cheese, we had a super supper of Crockpot Onion Soup with homemade bread & melted Swiss. SO easy and so good! I will have to put this on our menu more often!
I am starting to eat the Laughing Cow cheeses with Wasa bread.... one at a time. I had purchased a couple of these on sale just before I was advised to give up all 'cow products'. They used to be a 'go to' crunch snack - 3 Wasa crackers and a little cheese wedge - less than 150 calories and reasonably healthy food. Now they will be again until they are gone. Apparently 'cow products' aggravate my allergies - and while I have no evidence to dispute it, I have learned that a little won't bother me too much one way or the other.... AT this point in time! So, I will work my way through those.
That's it for this week... but am planning to make a bigger DENT next week :-)
Used up:
open container of mayo
1 pkg bacon pieces
1 container cottage cheese
2 containers sour cream
jar roasted red peppers *used in salads
1 pkage sliced Swiss cheese
1 bags frozen blueberries
1 banana
1 cntr sweet gherkins
REFRIGERATOR
Last Month Leftovers:
3/4 jar wheat germ
ADDED:
2 containers of Laughing Cow cheese
FREEZER:
Last Month Leftovers:
frozen orange juice (not to drink)
ADDED:
1 bag of dough balls (for rolls or monkey bread)
1 box of veggie bacon
1 frozen banana
1 bags frozen blueberries
PANTRY:
Last Month Leftovers:
bag sundried tomatoes
ADDED:
Spicy brown mustard *opened to use
Bleu Cheese Dressing
Green Salsa
German chocolate cake mix & icing
yellow cake mix
brownie mix
Liquid Smoke (what is this, why do I have it and what do I do with it? LOL!!)
individual envelopes of Italian dressing
cream of chicken soup
canned carrots
3 different bottles of hot sauce
1 pkgs bacon bits
french-fried onions
4 ind cntrs of berry flavored applesauce (didn't care for the flavor)
1 ind cntrs of sweet gherkin pickles
box chicken soup
jar pepperoncini
tomato soup
can water chestnuts
jar szechuan sauce
wasabi sandwich spread
marinated artichokes
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