2 Week Challenge!

We were challenged in church yesterday, to go 2 weeks without going to the grocery store. To live off of what we have in our pantry/food storage for 2 weeks. Luckily, I had made my bi-monthly trip to Costco the weekend before. But I actually didn't buy that much. Now, our family may have a different idea of food storage than others. I have the usual #10 cans with macaroni, spaghetti, dried fruits, and what not, from the cannery. But I also have everyday food that I KNOW my family will eat. I try to keep at least 3 months of it on hand, and we rotate through. So along with the challenge, I wanted to bare all when it comes to my food storage. Kind of like the "what's in your purse" tag. Well, here's what's in my pantry/fridges. This is our top drawer, where I keep most of my "diet" food. My frozen fruit, weight watchers Popsicles, and skinny cow ice cream.

Lovely, yummy halibut from our charter last year. Boy have we gone through this stuff. I can't wait for Matt and the boys to catch some more this June on their charter down in Homer.

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE my fridge? The wonderful owner of Allen & Petersen (Kenny Petersen) made us an offer on this beauty that we could not refuse. (price of delivery) It has a veggie drawer, meat drawer, soda drawer, and my favorite misc. drawer. We don't always keep "soda's" in this other drawer. Its usually mostly slim fast, protein shakes, vitamin waters, water bottles. It just so happens the kids (and I do mean Matt) caught me at a weak moment, and the sodas were on sale, so I grabbed some.

Ok, so here's my dirty fridge. But considering we have to live off this for 2 weeks, I'm glad for once its so full! I have a 2nd fridge out in the garage, and love it! We tend to have A LOT of fresh stuff at our house, and its so nice to have the extra storage for that. During Christmas and party times, its nice to have a place to put the extra food. salmon, salmon, salmon. Actually, we're running pretty low, and can't wait for fishing season to start so we can fill our freezers with awesome fresh Alaskan Salmon!

Our isle of Food storage is 2 shelves, facing 2 others, and right now is piled high. The kids came out last week after a Costco run and helped me organize and sort through everything.

The small pantry cupboard I had them build next to my fridge. Its narrow, but perfect for the everyday stuff we use.

Here's 2 of 4 of our "food storage" shelves in our garage. The crate is chocked full of granola bars and cracker packages the kids can grab for lunches or a quick snack. My kids are BIG Pasta Roni and Rice fans.

Matt gives me a hard time about how much Mayo I store. But come on! You can do so much with it! And you gotta have EVOO to do any cooking with!

Luckily, we have enough marshmallows and baking items to get us through a Christmas season. Plenty of after school chocolate chip cookies to be had at our house!

So, what's did we eat the first day of our challenge? I forgot to take a picture, but we had crusted halibut, baked potatoes, and green salad. If you ask my kids, green salad is pretty much a given for every meal. I don't know why. Dinner just seams incomplete without a nice green Romain salad with sweet peppers, celery, feta crumbles and cran raistins. LOVE IT!

Dinner tonight? Well, I had to work till 2, then come home and work on this blog, soooooo, enchiladas and salad it is!!! Pictures to follow. We were told to try and keep a journal for the two weeks of how our challenge went. What things we ran out of, new recipes we had to try, and things that went wrong. I will do my best to journal through my blog.