Meal Plan: Freezer & Pantry Challenge

I hope y’all don’t tire of freezer and pantry challenges because they sure are a money saver. It is a bit of time investment upfront to assess, to face the freezer and pantry. But this handy inventory print out from Once a Month Mom helps with the planning. Click freezer inventory.

Plus, a freezer and pantry challenge helps me to see just how blessed we already are. Many of these are standard Hodgepodge favorites I’ve built this two week plan around.

Middle girl made Hodgepodgedad’s birthday cake all on her own. She picked out the boxed mix from the cook box, followed the directions. I was just there for supervision and help  🙂

And, we’ll be planning some time for Cooking Fun. (Some links lead to our archived site. Still working on pulling recipes over to our new Hodgepodge  🙂

• Lime Cake, pictured above

• Sunbutter cookies
• microwave fudge
• morning bars for…

Breakfasts:

• Oatmeal, grits, cereal, cheese toast, cinnamon toast, fruit and grain bars
• From batch cooking sessions: whole wheat pancakes, muffins

Snacks/Tea Time:

• apples, microwave popcorn, Sunbutter crackers, Sunbutter with apple, our favorite Oatmeal Flax Cookie, chocolate milk, cheese slice

Lunches:

• Pizza Bites, nibble trays, Sunbutter sandwiches, quesadillas, tortilla wraps, mac and cheese, salad with avocado and apple, stromboli, Cheesy Pasta

Fast Food for Slow Sundays: Slow Cooker BBQ chicken, Slow Cooker Spinach Lasagna

Suppers:

• Forget It Chicken
• Pizza x 2
• Spaghetti x 2 (Jenny’s Pink Sauce one night), salad, homemade bread
• Tacos
• Slow Cooker Mac and Cheese, veggies, cornbread
• Breakfast for supper x 2: pancakes, turkey bacon one night. Hashbrown casserole, fruit, biscuits and gravy another.

• Slow Cooker Tilapia (a few filets left in the freezer) plus the rest of a bag of fish sticks

• Sandwiches with Homemade Bread

*all Hodgepodge meals prepared with care due to our Trials and Triumphs with allergies

How about you? Have you held a pantry and freezer challenge before?