For the month of October, my sweetie and I will be eating at and from home. The only food shopping permitted will be for locally grown produce.
This will accomplish a number of goals:
1. Eat foods that need to be eaten up in the pantry storage rotation. It's fine to have some extra food on hand for emergencies, but that food has to be rotated so that when one needs it, it is not stale and/or moldy.
2. Save money, especially on eating out and impulse buys.
3. Eat healthy. We won't have a choice since I don't have unhealthy foods on hand and don't plan to go shopping today.
4. Be creative when something runs out. For instance, I've got a handful of recipes to try for homemade nondairy milk but I've not bothered to try them since I've kept oat, potato, or almond milk stocked in the pantry.
You are welcome to join in on the challenge but I will not be hosting it officially as I have for past challenges. It's just too discouraging to have tons of people sign up enthusiastically and then disappear never to be seen again during the challenge. If you do follow along, please feel free to leave comments, though, reporting your progress and any difficulties you face.
Happy Autumn!
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6 comments:
Funny, I just put up that we would be doing a eat out of the pantry/farm, cook from scratch for the month of oct as well.
I am looking forward to it, and its nice that I will have a few other folks to check in and see how they are doing as well.
I had decided to basically do this as well in October. I will probably have to augment it some with some staples as I don't keep a large enough amount of dried beans, rice, etc for the whole month. But there's definitely a lot of "stuff" in my pantry that really needs to be used up.
Interesting that both of you were already planning to do this. Must be flip-season pantry "spring cleaning"!
Funny that I'm also doing a similar sort of thing. I call it "Frugal McDougall" based on recipes posted in the newsletter awhile back of recipes that would feed a person for just a few dollars a day. I decided to for a couple of reasons: short on money due to miscalculations and car issues, lots of bulk staples that need to be used, and the best time of year for the farmer's market. This will be interesting!
I'm not going to do the challenge because I'll start feeling guilty midway and then hate myself. BUT, I did do a total use up whatever for my soup. And, for the Midtown Market, made a total fresh from the farmer's market pumpkin-peanut soup. It's a start... I've been so busy, I feel like I'm neglecting my blogging friends and hope I'm forgiven. Check out my new video!
Great idea for a challenge. Count me in!
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