Part 2 – Eat from the Pantry Challenge
Today (Jan. 4) marks day six in our Eat from the Pantry Challengeand I have not been back to the grocery store. I have been to Walgreens to buy a few things and practice my first “couponing” lesson, and it was a smashing success!! That information is in this post and I’m really excited about it.
But, back to the Eat from the Pantry Challenge and a few updates:
1) So far we’ve had chicken and dressing one night for dinner and beef barley casserole another night. Plus, we have managed to eat all lunches and breakfasts from the pantry or the $97 worth of groceries that I purchased to supplement the pantry. I know that only constitutes two dinners, but we’ve had two meals at my in-laws home and one meal at a friend’s house on New Year’s Eve, for which I brought a salad and appetizer from those $97 worth of groceries, too.
2) I still think I will be able to make these dinners from the pantry last until Jan. 9 or 10 – maybe longer if my in-laws keep inviting us over. 
I will be forced to buy more stuff for lunches, fresh fruit, juice and laundry detergent.
3) My teen is still miserable and keeps texting her aunt about the whole thing to get some sympathy. She did LOUDLY proclaim this a.m. that I HAVE TO BUY SOME SNACKS FOR HER LUNCH and some granola bars for her to eat before swim practice. Okay, okay. Enough already. I satisfied these demands with the above-mentioned Walgreens trip.
4) I will have to make a trip to the grocery store tonight to buy the stuff to make a salad for a swim team pasta party tomorrow. That salad is supposed to feed about 20 girls, I think. While I’m there, I’ll pick up the laundry detergent and some more bananas and fresh vegetables.
5) When I run out of pantry meals, I’m going to do a grand total of the money I spent on groceries from Dec. 30 until that date and I’ll share my total savings with you.
6) I mentioned in the original Eat from the Pantry post that I’ve begun following a few couponing queen mom bloggers, and I’m starting to get my feet wet on this whole “cut your grocery bill in half” thing. That may distort my cost savings a little, because I’m starting to learn how to stock up on items we use when the deal is super cheap because of coupons. Again, I wrote about my first days in the world of couponing here.
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