NO SPEND | PANTRY CHALLENGE | Week 2
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- This is Week #2 of my NO SPEND PANTRY CHALLENGE. My goal is to feed two people by just using food from our PANTRY and FREEZER for the entire month of JANUARY! I plan on spending NO MONEY for the month! Other goals in the challenge are to use up older canning and pantry foods at or near their "best before" dates. It's my first NO SPEND PANTRY CHALLENGE so I'm just going to do my best, USE WHAT I HAVE, SHOP FROM MY PANTRY AND FREEZERS and see what happens! This week I make Crab Pesto Pasta, Chicken Ranch Pita Pizzas, Banana Bread, Pulled Pork and Bread Pudding as well as some other tasty meals!
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Here's a link to my Freezer Challenge series:
• Freezer Challenge 2022
Here's a link to my Home Canning Pantry Challenge
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What I love about your channel as opposed to other January no spend challenges is that you are actually using what's in your pantry without an additional small monthly budget. Also, I found many TH-camrs stocked up in the previous weeks to do the challenge. How is that challenging, productive or informative?
You ROCK!
Thank you for your great feedback! I'm so glad that you are enjoying the challenge! For myself, not having an extra budget helps me see where my pantry is lacking as well as teaches me how to cook meals from what I have stocked up! I also wanted to stay home and save money! Everyone has different goals in mind and different sized pantries so I think that's why there are so many different versions of the challenge. Stocking up before my challenge would have defeated my goals :P However, if I continue the challenge into February I might have to break down and get my husband some yogurt LOL Apparently my pantry is lacking a COW! :P
Tip go through your fridge every Friday and use leftovers during the weekend as well as any open condiments, sauces and dressings. Don't open anything new until you've used up what you have in your fridge
Make carrot cake with the canned carrots
Thanks for the suggestion :) Love it, I wish that I had the cream cheese for some icing like someone suggested!
Everything looks great! I'm on day 33 of using up my freezer and pantry food. The food just keeps multiplying! 😂😂😂
That’s so awesome Ellen! 🤣😂 Eat faster!!
You can puree the carrots to make a bread just like pumpkin bread or banana bread. Or I've made carrot zucchini bread if you have shredded zucchini in the freezer.
Thanks for the great ideas! I do have some zucchini in the freezer :D
Some dressings are good mixed with a bit of mayo and put in pasta salads! I've never used ranch before but it might be worth a try! We do a lot of buffalo chicken ranch stuff and I've used the dressing in that before...it's great in wraps/tortillas...as a dip with chips or fried pita wedges...in a bun...as a nacho topping...over breaded chicken...as a casserole and even a pasta.
So many great ideas! Thanks Julie :D
Try adding honey mustard dressing to potato salad.
Grind your stringy beans up and use them in soups, sauces, lentil burgers. Those carrots you don't like can be used the same way.
I do definitely prefer those carrots in blended soups! I'd given those beans enough chances for my taste LOL Great tips :D
Nice pasta toss into the water!
Thank you! I was so impressed that it was perfect LOL
Now here’s a REAL pantry challenge! Love it
Thank you! So happy you’re enjoying the series 😀
This is very inspiring and reminding me that I don’t need to go to the store as often, just shop my house instead. Thank you!
Thank you! It’s a great time of year to stay home and save some money 👍🏼 So glad you enjoyed the video!
I've had a lot of luck using bottled salad dressings as marinades for chicken OR using it on top of chicken while baking.
I've only ever used Italian Dressing on chicken but I think I'll have to try these other ones too!
I have marinated honey mustard salad dressing on chicken and really liked it !
I just love watching your pantry challenges! You always come up with such good ideas for using up food items. I love seeing your grocery hauls, too.
I'm so glad you're enjoying the Pantry Challenge! So happy to have you here watching :D
So nice to see familiar Canadian brands in your cooking. Big thank you for your pantry challenge. Giving me ideas. Roasted red pepper chicken pasta using pantry pasta, leftover chicken breast and pantry jar of roasted red peppers. Got the idea from the Walmart flyer recipe that just came out.
I'm so happy that you are enjoying the pantry challenge! I think I saw that same flyer LOL Unfortunately I don't have any roasted red peppers canned! It looked so good! I'm happy to be staying home this month, saving money and not having to shop so Walmart will have to wait! :D
Another great week of meals! Thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks Brandy!
Loved it
I really enjoy how intentional you are with your spices! That's great how your hubby will eat everything you make, mine usually does minus fruit-related stuff lol. Very inspiring to use all the things and stay outta the store!
Thank you! It’s a great time to be staying at home, staying warm and saving some money after the holidays! Thanks for the suggestions 😀
Great video,very interesting! Please keep it up! Love from Kansas,USA❤❤
Thank you! Welcome Kansas ❤️
I love how you are using up odds and ends from the fridge. This is taking the challenge to a whole 'nother level!!!!!!! Bravo on your creativity!!! 💞
Thank you so much! So happy you are enjoying the challenge :D
I loved the meals you made this week... the bread and butter pudding was a "light bulb " moment for me - I normally put bread ends out on my bird table, but that pudding looked awesome. I will be saving them in future! Thanks for the inspiration.
Yes! Normally I have a lot left over after Christmas and try saving them to make stuffing or something but they end up in my freezer forever! This was a MUCH more enjoyable use for them! So good! :D
Great job cleaning out your freezers and pantry lots of great ideas thanks
Thank you :) Glad you liked it!!
Yum pumpkin pancakes sounds amazing and I have never done pumpkin seeds on the stove but those looked like a great soup topper. Another great week!
With the spices they taste like pumpkin pie pancakes! So good. I make that recipe a lot regularly 👍🏼 Thanks and so happy to have you watching! 😀
Nice “seeing”you again love your videos !!!
Thank you so much! Always love having you here and watching
Thank you, I enjoyed this so much.
You’re welcome! I’m so glad 🙂
I love use it up challenges and you are doing great!
Yay! Thank you!
I've recently come across this channel. I really appreciate how you use your older model gadgets to make wonderful meals.
Welcome! The older ones are still in great shape 😀
Hi, love your videos. Very inspiring and lots of great suggestions, I was inspired to pick the last of the kale in our garden to make bubble & squeak tonight. I am a "Lower Mainlander" and also a Superstore shopper here (collect those points) and I loved the shopping challenges. It shows that it is possible in Canada, with our higher prices, to put food on the table. Cheers and Happy New Year
I'm so happy that you're enjoying the videos! I loved seeing if I could make the challenge work in Canada too! I know that in some places further north it might be impossible but in the interior I managed it alright :) Happy New Year to you and yours as well
I agree… ranch or a Cesar pasta salad is a great use of dressing and even other frozen bag. And you can stuff about anything in a egg roll wrappers (shredded pork, add sautéed cabbage, shredded carrots, onions, ginger…). I love trying to be creative with leftovers and random odds and ends! Can’t see what you cook up next week! 💕
Absolutely!! It's great to find new recipes while using up pantry surpluses! Being limited in ingredients always forces creativity :D So happy you're enjoying the videos!
my new favorite thing to use up left open cranberry sauce. grilled cheese sandwich with cranberry sauce. so delicious.
That sounds interesting! I'll have to give it a try sometimes :D
You reminded me that I canned a bunch of strawberry pluot jam I need to start using. It's a beautiful color. I'm thinking sweet crepes. So far this low spend January is easy. You never realize how much you have until you stop shopping.
That jam sounds amazing and crepes sound yummy too! I agree...I didn't even know what was at the back of my fridge LOL The only challenge is trying to use at least one ingredient from the cupboard (that I set up for the challenge) in each meal but it hasn't been so hard yet!
Crazy, I looked up Thousand Island dressing and I remember my FIL used it on burgers and then I line I saw where someone used it to make Big Mac Pizza's. Someone else uses it for pasta salads, both sound great to me You are doing an amazing job, loving watching your weekly videos!!!
Yes! I call them Cheeseburger Pizzas :) Great minds think alike
Very good! The bread pudding looks so good! I haven’t made it in years!
Bread Pudding is always a favourite and it’s great to use up those bread ends!
You're very good at not letting things go to waste. 👍🤗🌻 Nice video.
Thank you! 🤗 I'm trying! Those stringy beans had to go though! Happy to have you here watching!
Glad the bread pudding was such a hit with your hubby! Now you need to try savoury bread pudding (also called Strata). They're really good too, and use up veggies!!!
I have an idea to use up the canned carrots. Mash them into some boiled potatoes and make potato pancakes! To give your potatoe pancakes some flavour, add some ranch or Caesar salad dressing. You'll need to add extra flour, to offset the liquid, but it's very tasty.
Try looking up recipes that use ranch dressing in them on Pinterest. You'll find some new ways to use that salad dressing up. Could probably sub the Caesar dressing for many of the recipes, too. I love having ranch dressing on hand. It's very versatile for recipes.
Bread pudding is always a hit with him it's just not usually me making it LOL Thanks for your great hints Rhonda :) That Strata is still on my list :D
I had way too much pumpkin puree once and in addition to all the suggestions here already, I also put some in a batch of homemade hummus and it was fantastic!
Thanks for the suggestion! Still loads of pumpkin left to use up! I could have called it "January Pumpkin Challenge" LOL
I am not sure why but you just crack me up so much lol this is such an entertaining but also inspiring video to watch!!! Can’t wait for more!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm so happy you catch my wit...it's not for everyone LOL
@@JessicaWanders oh I ENJOYED it! I was bursted into tears laughing lol please keep them coming 😊
Hahaha, you made me laugh when you gave up on the beans. I did the exact same thing with mine. They tasted like mushy tasteless twigs and I cried uncle! Into the circular file they went. Thanks for your opinions on your dishes, especially your candour.
Yes…yes…”mushy tasteless twigs” describes them perfectly! 😂 Not all my frozen green beans are so horrible but, clearly, if I label them “stringy beans” to begin with they should have just gone into the compost or saved them as dried beans! It takes a lot to make me not eat something but they were horrible 🤮
Plenty of lemons for lemonade 🍋🍋🍋
Right? I also have some bottled lemon juice! I'm making a lot of lemon iced tea lately
Nice variety! The pulled pork, banana bread and bread pudding looked wonderful! Try making a soup with the pumpkin, carrots and condensed milk. Add some Indian spices, purée and add a dollop of sour cream. The couscous makes a wonderful salad or side dish. The ranch dressing is great mixed into mashed potatoes. Add grated cheese and cooked crumbled bacon and some sour cream. Yummy side dish!
Aha I made Curried Carrot Pumpkin Soup in Week #1 of the pantry challenge ;) Great idea for the mashed potatoes! MMmmm bacon mashed potatoes sounds good! Happy to have you here watching NM Native Nurse
We love warm bread pudding with some whipping cream poured over it (in our bowl)
I love all your different jams (but I'm boring, and would love it on toast)
Great meals :)
Never heard of ground cherries?
Salad dressing can be mixed with mayonnaise when making sandwiches, pasta salads, or I use ranch on baked potatoes
All the jams are great on toast too :D If you're interested here is the garden video where I talk about the ground cherries and there are lots of comments about them in the discussion afterwards! th-cam.com/video/XsyjV2TSIX8/w-d-xo.html Great idea to use the Ranch on Baked Potatoes, I'll have to give it a try!
If you peal your banana before you freeze them it will be easier and less messy when you use them for baking :). Banana is not something I eat but my toddler loves them and I make him banana muffins so peeling them before hand is the only way I will use them.
Thank you! I’ve heard this suggestion recently and I want to try it in the future 👍🏼 These bananas have been in the freezer for awhile 😉 I’ve never had a problem with just throwing them in the freezer, peel and all, but freezing them without it seems like it would be less messy!
I’m new to your channel and really enjoying this pantry challenge.
Welcome! So glad you're enjoying the series! :D
Great week. Perhaps you could make fruit lemon loaf with your lemons. I like blackberry lemon loaf but you could use any of the fruit in your freezer. If you have icing sugar you could even make a lemon glaze for on it. Your pizza looked good. I’m a fan of bbq chicken pizza. The burritos looked great! You have pulled pork leftover. You could always use the cranberry sauce as a side garnish with that!
Hi Melanie :) Thanks for the great suggestions! Blackberry Lemon Loaf sound delicious! The pizza was really good! I'd definitely make it again with that BBQ sauce!
Everything looked delicious! I was going to suggest that to plump raisins up a bit for your rice pudding and bread pudding , I like to first soak them in a cup of hot water, or- what’s really yummy for bread pudding and apple pies is to soak the raisins in either some rum or bourbon- adds great flavor- just drain off the excess liquid before using. Can’t wait to see what you make this coming week!
So glad you enjoyed the video! :D Great suggestions! They did plump up quite a bit while they were cooking in the oven but I love your idea of soaking them in a flavouring before using! Happy to have you here watching!
Thank you so much 😊
You're welcome 😊 I'm happy you're enjoying the videos!
Ranch works great to flavor mashed potatoes instead if using milk and butter
Great tip! :)
Your crab and pasta dish is something u want to recreate! It looks so amazing.
I agree! I will definitely make it again :D
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I can't get that live chat thing to post. I'm just home from church after sending home containers of a delicious turkey vegetable soup with a bunch of people. It had fresh turnips and butternut squash in it along with other ingredients and was delicious! I'm enjoying this month.
Sorry you had problems with the chat :( Your soup sounds amazing! I love turnips! So glad you are enjoying the series
Hi Jessica i Iove watching you cooking your meals great ideas I live in Spain now but I was born in the UK England have a good day 😃x
Hello Spain! Yay! I'm so happy that you are enjoying the videos :D
I’ve never thought about making rice pudding with leftover rice! 🤦♀️ Genius! Just subscribed! 🥰
It’s so good! Welcome ❤️ I hope you enjoy the channel! 😀
Growing up, my mom would add sugar and milk to leftover rice. Served either cold or hot, it was similar to oatmeal and really yummy. I think it was for breakfast, but it could be the base for a great dessert. Maybe add some “sad looking” raisins or blueberries !
Hi there new subscriber here!
Great video!! All yours meals look delicious!
I love beets!! Also roasting the pumpkin seeds was something my mom always did!
A tip for the banana bread if you think it isn’t done yet you can cover the top with foil while it continues baking so that the top doesn’t burn!😊
Hello and Welcome! I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video! Thanks for the great tips!
Yes, lemon and sugar is our go to for crepe topping. Delicious. Im from Aus so very common there.
I’d love breakfast in Australia! 🙂
@@JessicaWanders You might not though if you were given vegemite toast!? :)
Those pizzas look amazing Jessica! I've not heard of ground cherries before!
I grow the ground cherries in the garden :) I've never seen them in the grocery store. Here's the link to the Wander, Harvest, Cook video with them if you are interested. So yummy and they grow like weeds in my garden! th-cam.com/video/XsyjV2TSIX8/w-d-xo.html
I think I've seen them called gooseberries in the grocery store, though never tried.
@@cnk2hoo oh! I know what they are! Thank you Chrystal!
Salad dressing can be used in pasta we love chicken, bacon ranch with peas,carrots, onion and cheese
Yesss please 😀
Sounds yummy! Thanks for the suggestion!
Use the thousand island in place of mayo on turkey or chicken sandwiches.
mmm you just reminded me I have a quart of canned pickled beets i made last year left. :) The recipe for them was in the USDA home canning guide and it is absolutely fantastic btw. They almost taste like aunt nellies if you have that brand. I put onions in mine though because i love pickled onions.
Yum! I love pickled beets and I have some in the back of the fridge too 😂 I made a bunch more this year with onions as well. Absolute favourite!
You could make up some couscous add some beans to it such as chickpeas if you have any or even white beans cooked can I use your Italian dressing or Caesar dressing some onion and make a salad that way. And your feta cheese. I am enjoying watching your challenge that you’re doing this is some thing I need to do to clean out my freezers and my cupboards.
Great ideas! It feels so good to have clear space appearing in the fridge and freezer! I'm so glad that you're enjoying the challenge!
Excellent
Thank you so much 😀
About the frozen strawberries, a friend of mine makes strawberry jam in the winter with frozen strawberries. Smells like summer in the winter.
Ohhh it would make the house smell wonderful! I do have a bit of jam to work through at the moment but I'll remember that for the furture!
You are so creative. I think you could go a long time without having to go to the grocery store.
Thank you! I think that I could! I might need a restock of cream for yogurt if I decide to continue throughout February...but otherwise I think I am good for quite a few more weeks!
All those beans... make chili, you can do a veggie version with beans, tomato sauce, loads of spiced aso (or bring up any meat from the freezer, put in the slowcooker and shredd) . Serve with home made bread or on rice.
Thanks for the ideas! I think that chili is definitely on the menu :D
I work in a nursing home kitchen. And we go through so many food processors. I completely understand your blender problem.
Ughh I can’t imagine! It’s so frustrating 😣 I had to go big and look for the most powerful motor I could afford 😜
Also, you could cook chicken in the Caesar dressing and eat on top of the couscous.
great way to use the leftovers! For the carrots have you ever eaten them with a sauce of brown sugar and butter? Melt butter in pan, then add in brown sugar {use amounts you want}, and let make a sauce. Add carrots, and let warm since they are already cooked! Consume! I have heart them called copper pennies too. Enjoy!
I make that kind of glazed carrot a lot for holidays but I haven't tried it with the canned carrots. It might work to dull that weird taste that mine have. I love the recipe with fresh carrots! Thanks for the suggestion :D
Pulled pork looks delicious 😋
It was so yummy!
I have never had rice pudding. It looked really good
It’s really good! My husband’s favourite and great for left over rice!
I've seen carrots as an ingredient in jarred marinara sauce. So i puree them and put them in any homemade tomato sauce recipes, the sweetness helps balance out the acid in the tomatoes.
Definitely! I often don't even puree them before I add them to spaghetti sauce!
Try cooking the rice pudding with cinnamon sticks in it. Remove before eating. So good!
Mmmm Sounds great!
The green onions in water are a waste of time, since the water lacks nutrients for the onions to keep replenish. But, you can plant actual onion seeds in a pot in a sunny window. This method does take quite longer (about 2 months before you can start harvesting green tops) but with succession planting, you can have perpetual onion harvests year round.
In the spring, plant some of the storebought green onions outside, and don't cut them. Let them go to flower and seed. Harvest seeds, and now you also have seeds.
Also, MAD props for eating frozen chicken that expired June 2020. You are my favorite channel!
Thanks so much for all the tips :) I actually grow quite a few onions and chives in the garden during the growing season and just freeze them up but it was a fun experiment to try out! I always save my onion seeds...and carrots...and spinach too :D I work so hard during the garden season that I enjoy a break from it in the winter lol So glad to have you watching and happy that you are enjoying the videos
You could make a simple spiced carrot soup with those carrots to use up that jar to help clear them out.
I do think it’ll have to be a soup! I dislike them too much to eat them whole. I’m happy that this is the last jar!
That was great 🙂. Your husband seems like a great guy. Couscous is great. Ideally with chicken, lamb and merguez sausage but hey 🤷♀️. Do you! Always so fun to watch. From a fellow Canadian, in Quebec, hope you all stay well xo
So happy to have you here from Quebec! Stay warm over there
@@JessicaWanders thanks! It's Morrocan, the sausage and true dish i suppose. My mom makes a mean one (ideally with harissa hot sauce on the side) 🙂. To me seems like red chili peppers that are salted but I'm sure if you Google you'll totally get more insight from people who actually know what they're talking about 😂 I'm not Morrocan so I'm just saying haha!
I'll definitely look it up :) I even have a lot of Harissa Sauce to use. Might just have to use a regular garlic sausage. Thanks for the idea! It's great to have a starting point when looking for new recipes
P.s been -24 or something like that for several days now 😂 + wind lol. We're hanging in there! 🇨🇦🇲🇶
@@JessicaWanders yeah the garlic sausage would work. Pretty much what it is but yeah could use some carrots and pumpkin on that one. Turnip too. Basically Morrocan stew in a sense. Look that up cuz wow! So good lol. All the best, truly
Yay for empty fridge space!!!
It is glorious! 😀
Some interesting meals here, and they all looked so yummy and appetising! The banana bread looked superb on the inside and I like the idea of the pumpkin pie spice pancakes, lovely!
You could use your canned carrots and pumpkin by blending them into a puree and making scones (biscuits), pumpkin/carrot puree bread, even pizza dough with the puree added, really lovely and something different for a change.
I would have tried to roast the green beans, maybe they would have been better if you could have done that to dry them out a bit, or use them in a risotto? Don't know if you have any more but I would have tried roasting them to crisp them up and turn them into veggie 'chips'. :)
The Banana Bread was so good! Great ideas to add the purees to baking :) Interesting solution to the beans. I think that was the only really bad bag of green beans in the freezer. Last year was a horrible year for green beans. It was too hot so we got small stringy beans! It's frustrating :( Thank you for your great feedback!
Ive used a recipe from Grateful Prayer Thankful Heart blog to use up canned yams. It's for sweet potato crumb muffins, and you could probably substitute in your canned pumpkin or carrots. It would use up some flour and oatmeal and carrots. I always cut the sugar down from the recipe so it's more breakfast than dessert.
I saw you toss those green beans and thought "toss them in with some bones and make a good bone broth" than a second later you showed chicken bones. Nothing like a good bone broth. So healthy and good for you. NEXT TIME :-)
I save all the heals and extra bread in freezer as well. It is perfect not only for bread pudding but for making stuffing
Good idea! I make my own broth a lot! That would have been a great use for them! I was so mad at them LOL I also have a ton of broth to use up at the moment! Some I bought but a lot of homemade in the freezer!
You could use the salad dressing to marinade chicken xx
Thanks for the suggestion :)
About those salad dressing bottles.... Do you have pasta?
You can make a "pasta salad" with boiled, not totaly cold pasta, peas (boil shortly in water, cool them down), some kind of onion/shives and perhaps garlic and chredded chicken or a can of tuna in water (not the oil one). Mix with some of the dressing. Perhaps add chredded cheese, some parmesan + salt and pepper.
If you´re out of chicken take some pulled pork and put on top or make some bacon and top with that. If it feels like small portions, just fry a couple of eggs and put on top.
You can have the salad as is, in a sub or rolled in some kind of flat bread like burritos.
I'm not always a big fan of pasta salads but I'm sure if I make it myself it would be great! Sometimes they have a little red thing in them that I don't prefer...pimentos maybe? Your recipe ideas sound amazing! My husband really loves pasta salad so I should give it a go :D Thanks for the suggestions!
@@JessicaWanders You can put whatevey you like in it when you make it at home ; ) or skip stuff that others have in... pimento/canned sliced bell pepper.. never seen that in a pasta salad tho I am sure it´s different from place to place (I live in Sweden, by the sea on the south west coast).
I always only "loosely" follow recipes! haha Glad to have you here from Sweden!
@@JessicaWanders Happy to be here : )
You cook about the same way as I do (tho I am strictly vegetarian, my bf isn´t...) . A recipe is just a sketch...
I used to buy Fantastik vegetarian chili now i just make a cheap batch of veg chili and use it as a base for the week for sweet potato topping, nachos, rice bowls, tacos, quesadillas. Just chop up your toppings (lettuce, cheese, onion, tomato, etc.) and your set for the week.
Great meal prep idea! So many things you can add chili to 😀
Jessica you can use the salad dressings as a marinade for meat, cook up some coascoas add bell peppers diced and diced pickles and salad dressing for a salad as a side dish, a pasta salad to make adding the salad dressing again as a side dish or even for the main meal
Just a few suggestions 😉
Thank you Ruth! I've only ever used Italian Dressing as a marinade. My husband really likes pasta salad so it might make it on the menu! Always happy to hear your suggestions!
@@JessicaWanders why thank you, I just wish I could help others like you do
Fun to watch Bx uk
Glad you're enjoying it! :)
The thousand island dressing might be good in what I've seen people use on taco salads or a big Mac bowl or big Mac burger. You could maybe do big Mac egg rolls and use that as a dip. Or the Chili's restaurant southwest type theme egg rolls with black beans and corn and peppers and taco type seasoning and ranch as a dip
Thanks for the awesome suggestions! I haven't been to a Chili's restaurant but those egg rolls sounds delicious!
@@JessicaWanders I have never made these, but I remember it being a kind of refried bean/ mashed black bean and whole black bean, corn and SPICY taco sauce with a cooling ranch dressing dip
Nice my dear, have a nice day
Thank you! You too!
I’ve seem Caesar dressing used as a marinade for meat and chicken before baking
I haven't tried that before! I always use Italian dressing though, it might be worth a try! Thanks for the suggestion :)
Maple glazed carrots. Just sauté the carrots in maple syrup. It was a side I got at Asian restaurants.
I do glazed carrots at Christmas too! So yummy :)
make some pasta salad with your dressings :) bit of chicken or sausage add some tomatos and onion?
Great idea! A few people suggesting pasta salad 👍🏼 It’s not my favourite but my hubby is rooting for it! 😂 Thanks for the suggestion!
If you cook and refrigerate the coucous it is good with fruit as a a fruit salad. Lemon juice and honey dressing?
Sounds interesting!
Have you ever tried to make pumpkin butter? It's really good on toast. I make mine in the crockpot and the freeze in small portions.
I haven't tried that. Do you make like a pumpkin SPICE butter? That would be pretty amazing :D I do have a lot of pumpkin and squashes again this year!
@JessicaWanders yes it is pumpkin spice butter... you could even add in some maple syrup!
Always more Maple Syrup! :D Sound delicious!
You can make pasta salads with salad dressings.
A few suggestions about this 🙂 I’ll have to give it a try!
NOT THE STRINGY GREEN BEANS?!? RIP. 😉
I haven't had dinner yet and you're making me HUNGRY! Everything looked wonderful. Slowly but surely you are making progress thru the hoard. 😄
That pulled pork...😲😋😋 I would have added cole slaw as a side.
Lots of yummie bread/bread pudding/rice pudding. I've got to make some of these for myself.
I need to go eat now. 😩😄
I’m starting to worry that I WILL gain weight with this challenge 😂 Some yummy meals this week! You should try some of your great ideas too! 😜😀
@@JessicaWanders Tonight I'm having lamb roast cooked long in the oven in a tomato/beef stock concoction, onions, carrots, brussel sprouts, some Uncle Ben's ready rice....lol. So fancy. Cleaned out some from freezer, pantry and veggie drawer. 😋😄
Oh! And it's Winter, especially where you are in the Frozen North. You need those extra calories. Don't worry. You'll burn them off again and be ready for wandering again in the Summer....😏
Well that sounds 5 star to me! Pinky Up fancy 🥂Yes, I’ll lose them again shovelling the snow for a couple more months anyways ⛄️
As an Aussie myself, I actually didn’t know that lemon juice and sugar was a “normal” thing to do until a friend did it to his pancakes. I was so confused 😂 but it’s not bad! Just not my favourite. 😄
Too funny! It was interesting to hear that quite a few people thought it was normal in Australia! I grew up eating it but my husband looks at me sideways every time 😂
Pumpkin Chilli I s yummy
I've seen it suggested! I might have to give it a try :)
You can also make a black bean and corn dip and make pita chips ( open pitas up brush with olive oil and sprinkle with a little garlic sal or just plain table salt) to go with dip. Green beans are only good if canned. Freezing changes texture and taste. If you like beets, try making pickled beets. If you have plenty of bread you can make a pumpkin bread pudding with the raisins. You can make a breakfast casserole out of rest of bread. Use ground sausage, 6 slices of bread, green onions, cheddar cheese, little bit of ground mustard, S&P, about 4 to 6 eggs to make up your savory custard to pour over the torn up bread. Makes up a 13 by 9 inch casserole. Place foil over mixture and place in frig over night. Uncover and bake in oven for around 40 to 45 minutes. If using a glass dish be sure to start off in a cold oven that way your casserole dish will not break. There are many versions of this just google it. The pumpkin bread pudding is delicious with a caramel sauce drizzled over it, or whipped cream, or even pancake syrup. In the blueberry one you made try adding in some cream cheese, like blueberry cheese cake flavor.
Hi Nancy! I don't mind other frozen beans usually but they have to just be barely ready from the garden. That was a bad batch for sure :( I do love beets and pickled beets were the first thing that I ever learned to can over 25 years ago. They were one of my grandmother's favourites
Toast your banana bread slice in sandwich toaster - great with butter
I just microwaved them. These were a bit thick for the toaster 😜
So if you sauté regular pumpkin seeds, you can eat them with the shuck?
I do :) If I roast them in the oven I also eat the whole seed.
Italian dressing + pasta + peas
Interesting! Cold? Like a pasta salad?
@@JessicaWanders either! My favorite is roasted red pepper Italian dressing, cheese tortellini and let it cool. But sometimes I just eat it hot.
Thanks for the suggestion 🙂👍🏼
Your husband eats like mine! But they love to show off, at work how well they are taken care of!
He says he doesn't say anything, just eats his food quietly while other people eat their "lunches of shame" bought from the gas station LOL He always appreciates my cooking ❤️
His co workers would always ask him what smelled so good! He’s usually quiet too! He thought the same as your husband. Should make you feel appreciated.
@@hollyfink3358 We're both lucky then! My husband always makes me feel so appreciated :)
Salad dressing could he used for sauces or marinades for chicken my friends mom does that.
Thanks for the tip! I've only ever tried Italian Seasoning on chicken. I might have to try some other dressings! :D
@@JessicaWanders i think an oriental or Asian salad dressing would work really good as a marinade 😊🤞
as long as theres water evrythings follows whats in there in our house.
Do you have any tuna? I can't remember. I like Caesar dressing on tuna and make a salad with it. Perhaps on the alfalfa sprouts
I haven't tried making tuna salad with Caesar! Great idea :)
Never heard of ground cherries! Are they sweet or tart?
If they are ripe enough they are quite sweet :) Here's the link to my Wander, Harvest, Cook video that has them th-cam.com/video/XsyjV2TSIX8/w-d-xo.html I don't see them in the stores but they grow well in my garden
I like betroots a lot . Last week I decided to try a new recipe : I bought raw betroots , peeled them , cut them in small cubes and roasted them in a tablespoon of olive oil . Roast until a little caramelised .when cooked add garlic and sea salt .It was delicious , makes an unusual side dish .
Roasted in a non stick frying pan
That sound delicious! How long did you have to roast them for? I've done them in the oven but always after I've cooked them for awhile to get the skins off easily.
I often wrap my beets in foil like you would baked potatoes and bake in the oven, on the barbecue or in a slow cooker. The peels slide right off when they are cooked.
@@JessicaWanders I roasted them for 25 minutes.But the cubes were small ( less than half an inch ).cooked in water beforehand they will lose a lot of flavour in my opinion
Do u have to cook the cabbage before putting it in the freezer?
I really enjoyed this week's food.
I don't cook it first. Sometimes I shred it and other times I just freeze it in quarters or chucks. I'm usually putting it in soup so it works fine. :)
@@JessicaWanders
Thank you. I just have been throwing it away if u have any left, and it's been too long in the frig. I'll remember to freezer it from how on. I appreciate it.