As I said to one of my kids, it’s an apocalyptic pantry challenge: “Canned tuna, pasta, bouillon cubes, shoe polish – GO!”
I can probably make it more than a month with what I have in the house since H is only home for a few hours.
I could survive a month on what we have I think, but I wouldn’t want to get that low. I want a reserve so that if we get sick we can stay home. We actually normally only go to restaurants for special occasions, so we are eating “out” more. I’ve always been pretty comfortable with making substitutions. I know if I use kale instead of spinach I’ll have to cook it longer for example.
Out of fresh fruit and only have potatoes and a few carrots left but doing good on everything else.
I’d like to get more fruit but other than that, I’m feeling good for at least another week. I only like to look forward a week though. Probably could go more.
I now am more than aware that I have a lot in stock and have been preparing for this lol
Have a bunch of fresh meat in fridge that I need to stage for cooking or freezing today. Some fresh produce I scored yesterday included a lovely cabbage head. St. Pat’s meal today.
Husband has breakfast and dinner at home and takes a lunch from home to work so as to avoid cafeteria line. That’s three hot meals a day, and the man can eat. Thanking all that is holy my kids aren’t 12 and 15 any more.
I think we could survive a month–we’ve got a pantry with pasta, rice, and dried beans and a freezer with fish and meat. I’d miss fresh veggies and fruits and yogurt.
Foodie husband is enjoying cooking. Last night, I suggested ordering out from a local cafe, but H said he had a great recipe. Actually, he was right. He made these toasted cheese sandwiches: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/ham-and-gruyere-french-toast-sandwiches
I defrosted butternut squash soup and served it with the sandwiches. It was a great meal and filling; none of ate a whole sandwich. We had the leftovers for breakfast today.
We did the same.
We’ve decided to do that twice a week. Which is a fair amount for us, since my husband and I prefer quality over quantity and prefer to eat out infrequently but well ($$) We’re changing that for The Duration, as the Brits used to say in WW2
Here, here Toledo I fully agree. We all need to learn that with food, it doesn’t have to be EXACTLY what you want, it can just be GOOD.
I think we could make it a month with current food in the house.
Did I mention this here before? Have you frozen milk before? A friend mentioned it yesterday and my mom told me she has done this for years. “Just in case”. Open it and pour a little bit out so the container doesn’t crack with expansion. Anyone do this and how long does the unfrozen milk then last??
I made this delicious and relatively healthy cookie today. Only 5 ingredients. Great in place of bars for a snack. I really love them!
https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/5-ingredient-chocolate-dipped-peanut-butter-cookies/
I like that cookie recipe. Any other baking suggestions? My son is home now and feeling about concerned about everything. I’m enjoying cooking and baking to cheer us all up.
^^^ I think chocolate chip cookies fix everything. If you can’t find chocolate chips, cut up baking chocolate.
I love this thread! I’m feeding 6 now that kids are home for the foreseeable future. This is a huge change but I’m embracing it. I’m not currently working so I thinking of it as my job to serve the others. But everyone is helping with ideas and preparation, cleaning up not so much! For me the hardest part is thinking of things to make so I just love reading what others are making. I have set regular meal times because it was starting to become an issue… Anyway my best idea recently was breakfast for dinner.
My D is going to try these today:
https://www.pbs.org/food/the-history-kitchen/katharine-hepburn-brownie-recipe/
Will report on them later.
Yes, please do! Those look great. I feel the same way. My job is to keep everyone’s morale up through food, good tv selection and games. My son is 25 and came home from NYC yesterday after social distancing. He had landed his dream job in September and now that’s been put on hiatus indefinitely. He’s disappointed.
I made the one bowl baker’s chocolate brownies. Not impressed. Not chocolate enough and too sweet.
Trying to decide if I should just pitch them.
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I sure hope for everyone’s sake that things approach normal by September. Sorry for your son. I hope it does work out for him.
I’ve got the No-Knead Bread started. If ever there was a good time for that recipe, now is the time.
@SCgirl1 if meal times are an issue, maybe a stew or something? Dump the world into a dutch oven, bake at 375 degrees for a few hours, and let people help themselves when it suits. I’d still have a coffee / dessert / something at some point to get everyone all together but not keep pressure on myself to have it necessarily be dinner time.
Thank you @bookworm. He has been working at the job since this past September. They just went on hiatus indefinitely. He has to get rehired each July to begin the following September so hopefully that will happen and nothing gets lost in the cracks. It’s disappointing for a 25 year old with his life disrupted. I try telling him that it could all be worse and we hope it won’t get that way.
While it’s super nice of “you” to cook and plan a schedule of meals or games or whatever for your people…I have to say that after a day of work I look forward to going down to the kitchen and cooking or planning something to eat. I personally would still ask everyone to have a hand in the meal planning/prep. You all can decide how. Maybe the non-cooks clean up. Or each family member takes one breakfast or dinner a week - and then the non working person does the rest. Or everyone does lunch from start to finish (including no dishes in the sink!) on their own.
People need variety in their day! Just my opinion!
Great time to make the no-knead bread! Did you do any add ins??