Biggest recent win: my MIL was visiting and bought one of the giant packs of fresh basil, rather than the small one like I asked for. Then she left. Instead of letting all that extra basil go bad I turned it into pesto, then combined it with homemade hummus (using up more of that giant bag of dried chickpeas!). The only bad part was that I made way, way too much and my toddler, apparently, does not like it. (Pesto, ok. Hummus, ok. Pesto hummus, nose wrinkled in disgust and food spat out. Ah, toddlers!) So I gave some to my landlady when I saw her yesterday, and will try to give some to our babysitter and our good friend/neighbor today, in addition to eating quite a bit of it for lunch. Spreading goodwill. :)
I think I've finally pulled out our last pack of ground moose meat for tonight's dinner. There might be one more lurking somewhere, but I'm pretty sure this is the last. Need to get back on my game and remember to cook up more of those awful fish fillets for the dog.
Have used up dates and raisins, and got through a small portion of our stash of nuts, cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and coconut. I made German chocolate energy bites with all that and it's been my sweet treat all week. Knowing that I don't have the stuff to make more has helped me portion them out really well, since I didn't want to run out.
Will be making yummy peanut butter maple cookies next weekend using the last of my barley flour, from a recipe found on the sack of said barley flour. Yum!