Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Use It Up! A challenge for June

Okay, so I told you on the 1st that sometime this week, I'd pull all my 2018 cans off the shelf and start working on making those go away.

The idea was that I'd challenge myself to finish them off in June.

Piece. Of. Cake.


That is everything.

Just the fact that they are sitting on my freezer is probably going to be enough.  I need to actually think a bit for the water chestnuts.  The soups will just be eaten for lunch at some point.  I'll probably add olives to a couple Mexican-inspired dishes this month.

And I was already thinking I would either grill a turkey, or at least cook up a turkey breast (to use that stupid can of turkey gravy from my last two posts!), so that will take care of one can of cranberries.  If we have potato sausage, we can make the other can go away.  A can of salmon could turn into a lot of different dishes.

I should have NO PROBLEM meeting this goal.  Now if I can just finish off the last couple things from my May challenge...

And in the time it took me to finish writing this post, I managed to actually use some of this.  The soup and the salmon are gone.   I made salmon cakes for dinner.  I used the soup from the May challenge too.  Haven't gotten rid of anything else though.

Next week, I will post a photo of the chickens eating that can of squid.  I can't feed it to them until after the weekend.




Saturday, June 1, 2019

Use it Up! An update

I failed.

The goal I set about two weeks ago was to use up all the truly old cans in my pantry.

This is what it looked like after I completed my sorting of stuff.

That is quite a bit of food.  And I made serious progress, because this is what it looks like on June 1:


I clearly am not all that excited about the two desserts.

I already said I'm not excited about the squid.

I think I'm going to:
  1. Have the French Onion Soup as lunch for me one of these days when the rest of the family eats Dale's chili.  I even bought some provolone cheese to go on it.
  2. Maybe suggest Dale use the chipotles into his chili?
  3. Clam Chowder still sounds good.  Or maybe some linguini?
  4. Gravy?  Umm.  Just heat it up and offer it with mashed potatoes?  
  5. Suck it up and make the desserts.  
  6. I'm giving Dale until the end of the week to use that squid.  It becomes chicken food after that.

Sometime this week, I'm pulling all the cans marked 2018 off my shelf and starting this challenge again.  I might even post about that, mostly to force me into actually doing it.