So it has been an interesting food journey doing 100 days, and using so much freezer food that I made, and stored during a move and the Office Stash. Today is mostly using up the last of everything, and planning tomorrow’s big shop.
This shop will be a bit front loaded as I will pretty much be starting from scratch I have some basic pantry items and oils and spices and condiments. But other than that starting from empty, but kinda excited to get back to normal 2 shops per month and how I plan around that, work the sales, seasonal, and specials to keep the variety.
Sometimes a shop is working with what you find on sale and how easy it is to build around it rather than buying for a specific recipe and forcing the ingredients. The key is seasonings and spices and flavors. Beef, pork, chicken, eggs, beans are all universal just the flavors differ by region and cuisine. Every cuisine has a meatball, all have soups and stews, all have filled dough/bread. But I digress.
Today is planning the shop, I have three major stores to choose from, looking over weekly adds and finding whole chickens on sale for $ .88 a pound was a big factor so we will be redoing 2 Chickens – Making the Most 2 Chickens – using the rest in the next days.
Meanwhile.
Breakfast Orange Cranberry Muffins
Lunch Dal Style Lentils & Chicken
Dinner Arroz con Pollo or Chicken with Rice
And other than a couple chipotle’s the freezer is frighteningly empty. We shall remedy that, and keep it full going forward.
