It's the FINAL PANTRY CHALLENGE WEEK! My challenges always seem to take longer than I think they are going to but it's been so much fun! I've loved trying out all your great ideas! 😀 I've loved all the wonderful comments and appreciate you all hanging in there for 10 WEEKS with me! 🧡💛🧡💛 I can't wait to start a brand new challenge! Let me know in the comments below what your favourite challenges have been that I've done...or even what OTHER CHALLENGES you enjoy that you think I SHOULD TRY OUT! I'm always up for a new challenge 😁
This French Onion Rice looked really delicious with those green beans and salad. I bought a bunch of Campbell's Tomato Soups with 30% extra just before our Dollar Tree store increased to 5 Quarters. Mom used to thin it with just a little milk, and then she would use it as a sauce on top of various things. I was thinking that this sauce would be delicious on that Onion Rice dish. You know I have loved this series. I too have some powdered kale left from last year's garden (this year I didn't plant any), and I've been sprinkling it into so many recipes just like you. Right now my lettuce and spinach is coming up so we're having fresh, and I've also been adding beet greens since their doing okay this year. My broccoli (first time planting since early 70s when I was young) plants are 9-12 feet high. I tried seed saving on some tomatoes this year and have MANY little seedlings which I'm now transferring to little pots. We'll see if I really get tomatoes (those pesky squirrels). Anyway, we're going away in June so the garden will have to be harvested by then. It's getting a little better each year. I can't wait to see what you will do next for your videos.
I really enjoyed the French onion rice 👍🏼 I’m sure your sauce would be lovely on top! I’m always happy to hear your thoughts anetzband 🧡 That kale really does stretch pretty far! Ohh I can’t wait for fresh greens in the garden but I still have so much to use up in the freezer! I think this year I will try for a very low maintenance garden because we have some long vacation plans for the summer.
Wow, you Did great! As far as a future challenge I would say whatever you think needs to get used up the most. I tend to rotate between home canned things, frozen, and pantry.
Thank you! Yes...I'm pretty keen to start the $21 challenge until I look at my freezers! I put off focusing on the freezers too long last year and I didn't have them nearly cleared out enough by the fall harvest time! I need a restock of meats when it goes on sale but I'm right full of frozen veggies this time of the year...
Great job with your pantry challenge, Jessica! You have very little left, too. My favourite challenge was your first one, where you lived off of $21 each week. I'm so curious how much that number would be with the insane increase costs of living. I'd also be curious how little a couple could live off of per week in contrast to just one person. I suspect the cost would be less per person, as the combined amount for 2 would allow for bulk buying of cheap ingredients, thereby decreasing the required total amount per week.
Thank you Rhonda! It was a great Pantry Challenge :D I always love trying the new recipe ideas! I agree that doubling the $21 would make the challenge a bit different because of the bulk buying. That's why I stuck with the $1 per meal guideline for just one person. The challenge, for me, is just to see if I can come up with 21 meals for $21 that are tasty and at least filling. I suspect that with the price increases I won't be able to accumulate the pantry that I did the first time...or maybe I'll have to cut back on meat? I'm really interested to find out!
I'm ready to tackle a freezer challenge if you're up for it. Mine is too full! (Onions are easier to caramelize if you turn the heat down a bit. They might take longer but they won't burn.)
I'll definitely need a freezer challenge sooner than last year's freezer challenge! All my freezers are looking pretty full. Love the feedback Roxanne!
Congratulations for successfully finishing your pantry challenge 🎉!!! Can’t wait to see what’s next! Thank you for including the before and after shots 😊
I'm re-watching the whole playlist and taking notes this time! Thank you souch for the ideas, they are super-helpful especially when I just can't think of what to "MAKE FOR SUPPER"! Thanks!
Awesome! I’m glad you enjoyed the ideas! It’s great to share ideas…we all can get stuck making the regular meals! The comment section is a great place to look for new ideas too! 👍🏼😀
Jessica, its been an engaging, informative and fun challenge to watch. Congratulations for keeping at it for 10 weeks I''d love to see you brainstorming camper recipes. Not necessarily cooking them but talking about them, and maybe cooking some. Also how do you put together a mini pantry for your camper? What things haven't worked. What recipes were a surprise etc. Perhaps as occasional videos
Oooooh magic cookie bars! My grandmother made them a few times and they were so good. I occasionally will pick one up at the store but I think homemade are better. I might need to make some.
Jessica you did such a great job! You saved money but the best part is you did not waste food. I think there is way too much waste of useable food in the world. In all of the no spend pantries you've done so far is there any particular food that once you were done you're like "I will never eat that again"?
Thank you! I totally agree with you about not wasting food! There isn’t much I’ve come across in my own pantry that I won’t eat again but many things that I’ve learned that I won’t stock so much of in the future! It takes a lot longer to eat through food than one might think! 😂
Congratulations on using up almost everything in the pantry. It seemed like you made a huge dent this week but maybe it was just because it was so low. Super great and can’t wait for the next challenge.
Such a fun series!!! You have made me look a little bit harder at what is in my pantry and find new ways to use what I have! I can't wait to see what you do next!! ❤
You really did well at using all of your pantry items. Are you going to stick back up or do you have more food that you will stick the pantry with? Very curious how much money you think you have saved.
Thanks Pamela! It was a great challenge :) I'm low on a few things that I'll be watching the sales for but I still have a fairly well stocked main pantry and lots of things to use up in the freezers. Without the pantry challenge I usually budget three to four hundred dollars a month for groceries and stocking the pantry. I figure that I saved 600 dollars over two and a half months with the small bits of shopping that I did a couple of times in the challenge! :D
If you make the squares again someday, use half chocolate chips and half butterscotch chips... it will change your world. 😀 (I have never used marshmallows in them.) Hello from Nova Scotia. I have really enjoyed this series- you are much my kind of down-to-earth vlogger- if I was out west we would be friends sharing frugal recipes at our kitchen tables over tea. Heehee :)
Thanks for the tip Nova Scotia! Is it butterscotch that makes them seven layer bars? I was trying to figure out what the seven layers are for awhile! lol I would be totally down for tea and recipes! You've got me figured out! :D
@@JessicaWanders The ones I make are: graham cracker base, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, flaked coconut, walnuts (or pecans, but I prefer walnuts in these), sweetened condensed milk... still only six layers...Heh! (I wonder if the butter in the graham cracker base counts as a "layer"??)
Glad you finally made hello dolly bars. It seemed perfect for the ingredients you wanted to use up! So Yummy. I like the $21 a week challenge but with inflation it might not be realistic anymore. Maybe you could up the price a bit or give yourself a $50 basic starter pantry for a 4 or 8 week challenge then spend the $21 a week. Otherwise it might be kind of grim. Start with some rice, beans, onions, oil, spices, potatoes, evaporated milk, pasta etc as much as you can get for $50. As realistically most people have some ingredients at home and aren’t starting with nothing. I think that would be interesting and something slightly different than last time.
I've been contemplating making the bars for awhile! They really were a perfect combination of my ingredients and even better with the marshmallows thrown in there :) Thanks again for the great suggestion! It is looking pretty tight when I'm looking at the possibilities! I did start the last challenge with oil and salt and pepper, if I remember correctly, and it makes starting out a bit easier! It's an interesting idea...I wonder what I would buy with $50 to make a starter pantry! That's something to think about :D Love the feedback Susan!
What’s so funny about that recipe with the rice onions to me is to use up a cup of rice which is probably like $.50 $.25 worth you made a ton of that goo which I don’t think you were all that crazy about.. I’m often guilty of the same thing. Sometimes I use up 30 ingredients which I could’ve used for some thing I really loved making up some goo to use that one left over Thing
Actually the flavour was pretty very but, as it’s often said “we eat with our eyes” too and it didn’t look very appealing to me 😂 I totally get what you mean though! It was a lot of ingredients to just use up that rice lol and it turned out not really what I wanted even! I could have put anything on rice! 😜
I had no idea coriander seeds was cilantro till you mentioned it i don't mind coriander but i honestly don't like cilantro I don't get the soap but it tastes odd to me lol..but in the states ive just heard coriander and cilantro as two different things i had no ideal they were interchangeable lol to think i could have been cooking my Street tacos with coriander powder instead of buying cilantro 😅
For sure! I don’t like cilantro too much but I use the ground seeds all the time (coriander)! They taste a lot different to me 🤷♀️ I wouldn’t use the cilantro leaves in a recipe that calls for coriander or vice versa though!
@@JessicaWanders yeah I hear you I'd switch it for some Mexican oregano or achote paste before I use cilantro there's way to many good spices to swap cilantro for...if you don't know achote is a Hispanic condiment usually made with pepper herbs and anise seed..lol it's really good
It's a bit better to keep them in a darker place. Maybe I could put my heating pad in a cupboard that I use often so that I don't forget about them lol Or maybe put a cover over them but leave them on the counter. It's a learning experiment!
Your french onion thing doesn't look that bad maybe if you put it in a casserole with bacon bits and breadcrumbs and mild cheddar cheese and a little paprika and french fried onions..and your favorite cooked sausage..it might work out..but your rice and onion thing didn't look that bad at all
Hello Dollie’s feature heavily in my favorite movie “dick” A comedy about the Nixon administration with Michelle Williams and Kristen Dunst! In fact, they save us from war with Russia.
It's the FINAL PANTRY CHALLENGE WEEK! My challenges always seem to take longer than I think they are going to but it's been so much fun! I've loved trying out all your great ideas! 😀 I've loved all the wonderful comments and appreciate you all hanging in there for 10 WEEKS with me! 🧡💛🧡💛 I can't wait to start a brand new challenge! Let me know in the comments below what your favourite challenges have been that I've done...or even what OTHER CHALLENGES you enjoy that you think I SHOULD TRY OUT! I'm always up for a new challenge 😁
I love these challenges. I'd love to see more!
This French Onion Rice looked really delicious with those green beans and salad. I bought a bunch of Campbell's Tomato Soups with 30% extra just before our Dollar Tree store increased to 5 Quarters. Mom used to thin it with just a little milk, and then she would use it as a sauce on top of various things. I was thinking that this sauce would be delicious on that Onion Rice dish. You know I have loved this series. I too have some powdered kale left from last year's garden (this year I didn't plant any), and I've been sprinkling it into so many recipes just like you. Right now my lettuce and spinach is coming up so we're having fresh, and I've also been adding beet greens since their doing okay this year. My broccoli (first time planting since early 70s when I was young) plants are 9-12 feet high. I tried seed saving on some tomatoes this year and have MANY little seedlings which I'm now transferring to little pots. We'll see if I really get tomatoes (those pesky squirrels). Anyway, we're going away in June so the garden will have to be harvested by then. It's getting a little better each year. I can't wait to see what you will do next for your videos.
I really enjoyed the French onion rice 👍🏼 I’m sure your sauce would be lovely on top! I’m always happy to hear your thoughts anetzband 🧡 That kale really does stretch pretty far! Ohh I can’t wait for fresh greens in the garden but I still have so much to use up in the freezer! I think this year I will try for a very low maintenance garden because we have some long vacation plans for the summer.
magic cookie bars are so good my granny showed me how to make this when was about 7years old and she was in her 80s.
Aww that’s so sweet 🥰 It’s wonderful how much food memories can mean so much! 🧡
Wow, you Did great! As far as a future challenge I would say whatever you think needs to get used up the most. I tend to rotate between home canned things, frozen, and pantry.
Thank you! Yes...I'm pretty keen to start the $21 challenge until I look at my freezers! I put off focusing on the freezers too long last year and I didn't have them nearly cleared out enough by the fall harvest time! I need a restock of meats when it goes on sale but I'm right full of frozen veggies this time of the year...
Great job with your pantry challenge, Jessica! You have very little left, too. My favourite challenge was your first one, where you lived off of $21 each week. I'm so curious how much that number would be with the insane increase costs of living. I'd also be curious how little a couple could live off of per week in contrast to just one person. I suspect the cost would be less per person, as the combined amount for 2 would allow for bulk buying of cheap ingredients, thereby decreasing the required total amount per week.
Thank you Rhonda! It was a great Pantry Challenge :D I always love trying the new recipe ideas!
I agree that doubling the $21 would make the challenge a bit different because of the bulk buying. That's why I stuck with the $1 per meal guideline for just one person. The challenge, for me, is just to see if I can come up with 21 meals for $21 that are tasty and at least filling. I suspect that with the price increases I won't be able to accumulate the pantry that I did the first time...or maybe I'll have to cut back on meat? I'm really interested to find out!
I'm ready to tackle a freezer challenge if you're up for it. Mine is too full! (Onions are easier to caramelize if you turn the heat down a bit. They might take longer but they won't burn.)
I'll definitely need a freezer challenge sooner than last year's freezer challenge! All my freezers are looking pretty full. Love the feedback Roxanne!
Wow! Jessica! You did sooooo good. An inspiration to all of us. So proud of you.
Thank you so much Tara! You all inspire me with your awesome suggestions! :D
Magic cookie bars were a staple in the Midwest US when I was a kid (now retired). They are so sweet & rich that you can only eat a small piece.
Wonderful! I had never tried them before! They are so easy and tasty :D
Congratulations for successfully finishing your pantry challenge 🎉!!! Can’t wait to see what’s next! Thank you for including the before and after shots 😊
Thank you! It was a great challenge!
I'm re-watching the whole playlist and taking notes this time! Thank you souch for the ideas, they are super-helpful especially when I just can't think of what to "MAKE FOR SUPPER"! Thanks!
Awesome! I’m glad you enjoyed the ideas! It’s great to share ideas…we all can get stuck making the regular meals! The comment section is a great place to look for new ideas too! 👍🏼😀
Enjoyed the whole series. You're quite creative!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the series! :D
You could chop up those onions for the freezer. Then when you need onions to cook with, use those. Chopping would be done. I love my freezer onions.
Yes, that's what I was just telling Mr. Wanders this week. I'll have to get all geared up with my snorkel mask and just get it done LOL
Jessica, its been an engaging, informative and fun challenge to watch. Congratulations for keeping at it for 10 weeks
I''d love to see you brainstorming camper recipes. Not necessarily cooking them but talking about them, and maybe cooking some. Also how do you put together a mini pantry for your camper? What things haven't worked. What recipes were a surprise etc. Perhaps as occasional videos
Interesting idea 😀 Thanks for the suggestion!
Oooooh magic cookie bars! My grandmother made them a few times and they were so good. I occasionally will pick one up at the store but I think homemade are better. I might need to make some.
They were great! I’ve never seen them in the stores before 😳 that would be great. They are super easy to whip up though!
I love all your videos and will watching what ever you like to share! Mr Wanders you are a lucky man! 😍
Thanks so much!! I’m so glad you are enjoying the channel! I’ll have to remind him! 😏🧡
Jessica you did such a great job! You saved money but the best part is you did not waste food. I think there is way too much waste of useable food in the world.
In all of the no spend pantries you've done so far is there any particular food that once you were done you're like "I will never eat that again"?
Thank you! I totally agree with you about not wasting food! There isn’t much I’ve come across in my own pantry that I won’t eat again but many things that I’ve learned that I won’t stock so much of in the future! It takes a lot longer to eat through food than one might think! 😂
Just catching up with more of this. I love how happy you are about your successful dessert. :)
Hope you enjoy! I'm not a pro baker so I'm often surprised when desserts turn out well haha
one half tablespoon is actually one and one half teaspoons which is in a lot of recipes.
Thanks for sharing that info! Could be useful!
Congratulations on using up almost everything in the pantry. It seemed like you made a huge dent this week but maybe it was just because it was so low. Super great and can’t wait for the next challenge.
Thank you! It was a good week using things up! I was so focussed! 👍🏼😀 I’m looking forward to the next challenge as well!
Bravo...you did an excellent job. Look forward to your next challenge
Thank you! 🤗
Home made onion rings with the onions and remaining pantry ingredients.
Ohh that's a great idea! Thanks for the suggestion!
Such a fun series!!! You have made me look a little bit harder at what is in my pantry and find new ways to use what I have! I can't wait to see what you do next!! ❤
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed and found some new ideas! :D
Yum, split pea soup. My fav.
It's one of my faves too! :)
cilantro/coriander come from the same base word, it just depends if you use the European or south american word that evolved over time.
Interesting :) Thank you for sharing!
You really did well at using all of your pantry items. Are you going to stick back up or do you have more food that you will stick the pantry with? Very curious how much money you think you have saved.
Thanks Pamela! It was a great challenge :) I'm low on a few things that I'll be watching the sales for but I still have a fairly well stocked main pantry and lots of things to use up in the freezers. Without the pantry challenge I usually budget three to four hundred dollars a month for groceries and stocking the pantry. I figure that I saved 600 dollars over two and a half months with the small bits of shopping that I did a couple of times in the challenge! :D
Its nice to see your channel growing!
Yes, thank you! :D
I've been thinking about different meals from other countries. How about once a week do a meal from someplace foreign to us all?
Ohh that would really be fun! :) Great idea Samantha!
If you make the squares again someday, use half chocolate chips and half butterscotch chips... it will change your world. 😀 (I have never used marshmallows in them.) Hello from Nova Scotia. I have really enjoyed this series- you are much my kind of down-to-earth vlogger- if I was out west we would be friends sharing frugal recipes at our kitchen tables over tea. Heehee :)
Thanks for the tip Nova Scotia! Is it butterscotch that makes them seven layer bars? I was trying to figure out what the seven layers are for awhile! lol I would be totally down for tea and recipes! You've got me figured out! :D
@@JessicaWanders The ones I make are: graham cracker base, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, flaked coconut, walnuts (or pecans, but I prefer walnuts in these), sweetened condensed milk... still only six layers...Heh! (I wonder if the butter in the graham cracker base counts as a "layer"??)
I think that there must be some kind of secret layer in the 7 layers bars for sure! Yours sounds delicious!
You could give homemade pasta a try to use the semolina flour or pizza crust 😁🍕🍝
Great ideas! I think a pizza crust would be fun to try! :D
Glad you finally made hello dolly bars. It seemed perfect for the ingredients you wanted to use up! So Yummy. I like the $21 a week challenge but with inflation it might not be realistic anymore. Maybe you could up the price a bit or give yourself a $50 basic starter pantry for a 4 or 8 week challenge then spend the $21 a week. Otherwise it might be kind of grim. Start with some rice, beans, onions, oil, spices, potatoes, evaporated milk, pasta etc as much as you can get for $50. As realistically most people have some ingredients at home and aren’t starting with nothing. I think that would be interesting and something slightly different than last time.
I've been contemplating making the bars for awhile! They really were a perfect combination of my ingredients and even better with the marshmallows thrown in there :) Thanks again for the great suggestion! It is looking pretty tight when I'm looking at the possibilities! I did start the last challenge with oil and salt and pepper, if I remember correctly, and it makes starting out a bit easier! It's an interesting idea...I wonder what I would buy with $50 to make a starter pantry! That's something to think about :D Love the feedback Susan!
What’s so funny about that recipe with the rice onions to me is to use up a cup of rice which is probably like $.50 $.25 worth you made a ton of that goo which I don’t think you were all that crazy about.. I’m often guilty of the same thing. Sometimes I use up 30 ingredients which I could’ve used for some thing I really loved making up some goo to use that one left over Thing
Actually the flavour was pretty very but, as it’s often said “we eat with our eyes” too and it didn’t look very appealing to me 😂 I totally get what you mean though! It was a lot of ingredients to just use up that rice lol and it turned out not really what I wanted even! I could have put anything on rice! 😜
I had no idea coriander seeds was cilantro till you mentioned it i don't mind coriander but i honestly don't like cilantro I don't get the soap but it tastes odd to me lol..but in the states ive just heard coriander and cilantro as two different things i had no ideal they were interchangeable lol to think i could have been cooking my Street tacos with coriander powder instead of buying cilantro 😅
For sure! I don’t like cilantro too much but I use the ground seeds all the time (coriander)! They taste a lot different to me 🤷♀️ I wouldn’t use the cilantro leaves in a recipe that calls for coriander or vice versa though!
@@JessicaWanders yeah I hear you I'd switch it for some Mexican oregano or achote paste before I use cilantro there's way to many good spices to swap cilantro for...if you don't know achote is a Hispanic condiment usually made with pepper herbs and anise seed..lol it's really good
The recipe on the condensed milk, is much better
And chill overnight
Thanks for the tip! I’ll have to give it a try!
Put a little bit of butter 🧈 to cook the pancakes taste much better 😋
Well, butter makes everything better! :D
Half a tablespoon is the same as 1 1/2 teaspoons. Lots of recipes call for 1 1/2 teaspoons.
Good to know!
If you have eggs you could make homemade pasta with the semolina and whole wheat flours
Sounds yummy! :D
You could get a heating pad for the counter so you can see the jar…
It's a bit better to keep them in a darker place. Maybe I could put my heating pad in a cupboard that I use often so that I don't forget about them lol Or maybe put a cover over them but leave them on the counter. It's a learning experiment!
The crust would be more solid if you pressed it down very hard.
Thanks for the tips! :D
Your french onion thing doesn't look that bad maybe if you put it in a casserole with bacon bits and breadcrumbs and mild cheddar cheese and a little paprika and french fried onions..and your favorite cooked sausage..it might work out..but your rice and onion thing didn't look that bad at all
Thanks Lola!
@@JessicaWanders hey no problem and I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it
Hello Dollie’s feature heavily in my favorite movie “dick” A comedy about the Nixon administration with Michelle Williams and Kristen Dunst! In fact, they save us from war with Russia.
I'm going to have to watch that movie now
That's interesting fact bits! :P
@@roxanne533 it’s hilarious!
@@JessicaWanders it’s hilarious!