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Meal Planning from the Pantry
This afternoon I am beginning a major “overhaul” and inventory of my extensive pantry. This week’s meals will come solely from those items in our pantry that need to be eaten. We have always stockpiled food. Unfortunately, I don’t always do the best with keeping things rotated. So, as I inventory, I will be making menu plans for the days (weeks?) to come.
My goal is to have a rotating menu plan that will help me to cook healthy foods from our stockpile/ pantry. The rotating menu plan should help me to be sure we have at least a years supply of food stored up. Currently, we have several month’s worth of food stored, but because I have not had a real plan for the food I can’t determine how much food is stored and how long it will feed us. I do know that we have been eating mostly out of the pantry for the last few months without doing much grocery shopping at all. I will share more about this almost overwhelming undertaking later!
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I do this every once in a while because we store a lot of food, too. I developed a week menu plan using only food from our pantry for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It's very basic, but we did it for a few months to figure it out and make it as simple and friendly as possible. It only required me buying fruits and veggies – or using canned, frozen, or home-grown.
Now that I have it its really great because I can pull it out and use it any week I don't want to do a lot of grocery shopping and meal planning. Its like a default setting. I have all my prep work and everything typed up, since some things have to be done in advance (I do a lot of baking). And its all stuff my family likes to eat. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. It took me a while to make something that was really useful to me
This is my first time on your blog. I love it!
dordfian, thanks for your comment! I hope you will come back and visit often! I have been gone for much of the last two weeks and have not had a chance too blog much, but will be home next week.
I am excited about getting more organized in the pantry!
Melissa Ringstaff