TWO(Ish) WEEKS OF HOME COOKED MEALS FROM OUR PANTRY & FREEZER #threeriverschallenge #pantry

First of all I apologize that I haven’t recorded all the meals that we eat. The long, cold January days always increase my pain levels and I’m not up to filming everyday.
Rest assured that every meal (breakfast, lunch and supper) are all made from scratch from our pantry and freezers! So far we have bought milk for $7.54 and we got a major bargain on coffee cream for $2.25 😃 so we bought 8 that will last us through the whole pantry challenge.
Hopefully going forward, I’m able to increase the amount of meals I film and have more variety to show you 💜

Pizza yeast:

Fleischmann’s Yeast Pizza, 0.25-Ounce Pouches 3 Count(Pack of 5) https://a.co/d/aFHPJ0V

#threeriverschallenge #pantry #homestead #cookingfromscratch

Hi everybody welcome to just the two of us Welcome to The Pantry Challenge from free Rivers Homestead my name is Colleen today’s actually January 2nd yesterday we just had leftovers we cleaned out the fridge of any leftovers we had so I didn’t really do any cooking but today

We’re going to start we had canned turkey soup for lunch from Christmas I made a turkey soup and I forgot to film that for lunch but that’s what we had so tonight we’re going to have chicken parmesan with our homemade pasta sauce with meat and I forgot to get a knife hold

On so when I did my freezer inventory I completely forgot that when we got our chicken breast from the Amish I had taken some of it and I pounded some of it out and I breaded it in some flour and Seasonings and it’s all

Uncooked but I did it I did a few of these ahead of time to make life easier down the road but I completely forgot about them that’s why it’s good to do freezer inventories so I took out a package of these and it’s just lightly breaded with flour

And I put salt pepper a bit of paprika onion powder garlic powder and just smallish pieces and I’m going to take our homemade sauce I’m just going to put a bit of sauce on each one and let them cook in the oven for a good half hour or so just like

This and then for the last 10 minutes or so I’m going to put on mozzarella cheese I don’t want the cheese on the whole time cuz these aren’t cooked and the cheese will be totally disintegrated probably by the time the chicken breasts are ready so I’m just going to let them cook like

That and in the meantime I’ll get our water boiling for the spaghetti I’ll grate the cheese and then you’ll see when we put it all together so this is today the official first day of the pantry challenge see you in a bit I’m going to put a little bit more sauce on the

Chicken and we’ve already encountered a problem on day one of the pantry challenge the mozzarella cheese is in the freezer and I forgot to take it out and I don’t want to put it frozen on the chicken so I’m going to improvise with this it’s not going to

Taste quite the same but it’ll get the job done is when I buy it I get it in a big brick and then I usually cut it up and vacuum seal it into sections so we don’t cuz we don’t go through it that fast and I forgot to take it

Up but I do have parmesan so I’ll add a bit of that I’m going to put them back for about another 10 15 minutes and then supper is ready all right day one supper spaghetti with homemade sauce Frank made garlic toast our chicken parmesan with not the right

Cheese we have tomato we don’t have any cucumber or lettuce I’m just going to top it with a bit of Parmesan again and that’s it we’re going to sit down and enjoy a delicious supper see you Tomorrow right tonight’s supper is canned potatoes from last year Italian sausages from our cow cuz we have so many of those and I just canned some baked beans and we’re going to open a jar of those there we roasted the potatoes and I did German sausage too with the

Italian we opened a jar of beans if there’s any leftovers we’ll just make a breakfast casserole with it nothing fancy but really delicious tonight we’re having breakfast for supper we’re going to have some really good omelets here I have some leftover breakfast sausage from a couple

Of days ago when we had french toast and breakfast sausage and here I have some red pepper and cubanelle peppers that are in the freezer from the garden here’s some chopped onion from the freezer this is the cheese that’s left over from when I did the chicken

Parmesan and we have some eggs I’m trying to use up these little silky eggs cuz I don’t use them in baking or anything cuz I don’t get the right measurement so it’s going to be a really good supper we love breakfast for supper today marks one week of the

Pantry Challenge and I haven’t been so good about recording all our meals because generally by the end of the day I’m done I’m too tired but also we enjoy eating leftovers and I purposely will cook when I cook supper I make enough so there is leftovers and for example tonight we’re

Going to have hot chicken sandwiches which is one of our all-time favorite things to eat and when I did the freezer inventory I had a frozen Costco rotisserie chicken well last night we ate half of it just just like chicken like and it works out perfectly I like

Dark meat Frank likes white meat but tonight we’re going to use the other half slice up the meat and unfortunately it’s the only time we use store bought gravies and I’ll show you what we do how we assemble it but this one chicken for $8 is going to feed two adults for meals

So this is just kind of a convenience meal but I’m not going to be good about showing every single meal but also because a lot of it is leftover so I’ll probably only do an update every two weeks because I Pro won’t have enough to

Fill a whole week but we’ll see how it goes so we take the homemade bread and I’ll take mine I like the dark meat and a bit of white there’s not as much dark there’s a piece take a layer of gravy put the top on some more gravy we mix hot chicken

Sandwich gravy and barbecue and no hot chicken sandwiches complete without what are these baby peas little peas now Frank has french fries with his but to me that’s enough for mine and that’s how we have theer tender peas that’s what they are and that’s how we have our hot

Chicken sandwich it’s one of our favorite meals hamburger soup for lunch our breakfasts are usually yogurt and toast or bagels and maybe once or twice a week we’ll have bacon and eggs or french toast but generally it’s something like this and I’ve been on a bagel making Extravaganza lately so this

Is what we normally have today is bread making day and I usually make two white ones but today I’m going to make one white and one raisin bread I love raisin toast so I’ve just adapted my white bread recipe a little bit for the raisin bread We usually have pizza about once every two weeks at least on a fun food Friday for sure we have it and a friend of mine introduced me to this fleshman’s PE Pizza yeast and it makes the perfect pizza dough every single time there’s no rising of the dough there’s no resting

Of the dough once you mix it it’s ready to make your pizza pie right away and it goes so quickly in less than 5 minutes you have your dough it’s ready to roll out instantly it doesn’t make a thick pie crust it doesn’t make a thin

One for us it makes the perfect perf pie Crest I buy it in bulk from Amazon because I can’t find it in our local grocery stores I’m using our homemade pizza sauce and I don’t usually end up using the whole half pint so after I’ve made two pizzas

What I do is I freeze what’s left in the jar put it in the freezer and then after two pizzas that I’ve made what’s left in the two jars I can make a whole other pizza so I get three Pizza out of two half pints and I kind of go heavy on the

Pepperoni it’s not a spicy pepperoni at all we like it with lots of pepperoni but I don’t like spice and these are one of my favorite toppings to put on the pizza this is the roasted or they were roasted the adari peppers that I grow in the garden they

Were roasted and then marinated and then they were pressure canned and they’re my favorite thing to put on a pizza I just drain them a little bit before I cut them up and they’re just delicious is the cheese I buy in bulk and then I section it off and vacuum seal it and

Freeze it and I do it in the size that I need for each Pie pizza so then I never have any waste I measure it out exactly what I need and when I cook the pizza I cook it to make the top go really golden brown

So it’s a little bit crusty on the top but ooey gooey cheesy on the inside tonight’s supper is going to be Teryaki chicken I marinated it this morning I just did like soya sauce brown sugar some garlic and um a bit of lemon juice and it’s

Been in the fridge all day so we’re going to sear that and then put it in the oven Frank made rice this morning and it’s been in the fridge all day cuz we’re going to make fried rice and it’s better when it’s cold we took broccoli

That we grew last summer out of the freezer and we’re going to roast that with a bit of olive oil and just salt and pepper and in the rice I’m going to use up the rest of these Peppers that were in the freezer from the garden and some of these

Onions and some garlic from the summer and a bit of use some of this soya sauce and that will be tonight’s supper kind of like a Chinese them this night we had sweet potatoes from the garden I still have a few left and we’re enjoying them so much I tried a

New recipe in the insta poot with tornado steaks they didn’t turn out so tender but my gosh the gravy that made was absolutely delicious we Ed some canned carrots some canned sweet corn I used canned beef broth for the gravy and it did turn out to be quite a good

Dinner a friend of mine just came over and brought all these Tomatoes they’re all Frozen that she didn’t have time to do anything with this summer or fall and she asked if I would make her pizza sauce which I’m happy to do and and what’s left of making the

Pizza sauce I’m going to try out a marinara sauce and we will split what’s of the marinara sauce so I’m going to weigh them out as to what I need for each recipe and these are tomatoes from plants that I gave her in the summer so

They’ve just been taking up room in her freezer and I’m happy to do this for her and there we have it three marinaras and three are already downstairs and the rest are pizza sauce and I still have some of the jars to wash and take the bands off out of all those tomatoes