Healthy & Delicious Meals From My Pantry #6

 

I feel like I’ve been unintentionally doing another pantry challenge this past month.  It has been a fun culinary adventure to clear out some things I still had squirreled away in my refrigerator, freezer and pantry.  I even pulled a few things from the deep freezer like a package of chicken breasts, Italian sausages and some bacon.

 

Sausage & pasta

My meals were super simple and basic.  I had a drawer full of fresh produce so I made a lot of salads this month.  Topped with a variety of things like taco meat or chopped bacon and sliced eggs.  I was able to finish up the dribs and drabs of open containers of salad dressing I had and use up that produce so nothing went to waste.

 

Grilled tuna sandwich with diced egg

The chickens are in high production and blessing me with eggs daily.  I used quite a few to make various meals such as bacon and egg sandwiches on my seeded low carb bread I get from Costco as well as omelets, egg scrambles and egg salad.  I used up the red potatoes I had and the last of the package of bacon I had pulled from the deep freezer to make a breakfast hash.

 

A single lone hot dog in the refrigerator was thinly sliced and added to a box of Annie’s macaroni and cheese to make two servings for quick and easy lunches.

 

I used up a can of chicken breast that was just past its best buy date along with a small container of my homemade green chile verde to make a delicious sour cream enchilada stack.  I have the recipe coming soon because it was really good.  Super easy to make too.

 

I had quite a bit of taco meat in containers in the freezer so I ended up making tacos as well as the taco salads quite a bit.  I used up a box of crisp corn taco shells and my low carb flour tortillas as well as a bottle of green Cholula sauce.  Tacos are one of my favorite foods.  I even had a friend over one evening and we made a really good dent in my taco meat stash.

 

Although I hadn’t really planned any type of a pantry challenge I loved using up all these extra things so that nothing was wasted.  In the process I enjoyed a lot of really good meals in the process.  Super quick and easy to prepare too.