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Eat All The Food In Your House - Take 2

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SisterX:
I'm going to revive this challenge because my husband and I are [almost certainly] moving out of state next May.  Since life in our state encourages more of a subsistence lifestyle, we have a freezer full of fruits and veggies, a chest freezer full of moose meat and fish, cellared root veggies, and canned goods.  We do a pretty good job of eating through our stores of food each year but we've never quite gotten to the bottom of the chest freezer.  Well, we don't want to move this food (and when it comes to frozen food, how could we keep it cold through a multi-state and even multi-country--we'll have to drive through Canada--adventure?) so we need to really get to work eating it.  The good news is, it's yummy!  And healthy!  I try to tell myself that when I'm like, "Ugh, we have to eat salmon yet again."
Probably the worst part is that it's the tail end of summer so I'm still filling up our stores of food.  Still canning things, still freezing things, but always things we like to eat.  We just need to buckle down and eat them.  My plan of attack is to make at least one fish meal and 1-2 moose meals per week.  Since those always lead to leftovers, that will take up most of a week's meals right there.  We'll be forced to reduce the amount of bought meat (chicken and pork) that we bring home (monetary savings!).
I suspect that we'll find some badly freezer-burned salmon fillets in the bottom of the freezer, but those won't get wasted either.  They'll go to the dog.

Join me, or not, on this less-than-9-month culinary adventure!  I just wanted to have an external way to be accountable when I get sick of eating the same two base proteins over and over again, and to set a goal which I can update once in a while so that it stays in my mind.

WESTOFTHEHUDSON:
I will absolutely join you!  We have a freezer that keeps filling up (A lot of it is homebaked items or produce from the reduced rack that is about to expire and I buy it dirt cheap and turn it into a casserole or soup or other meal) and a decent pantry. I'd like to work through the inventory we have and force myself to get a bit more creative with meals.

We won't be moving in 9 months but we'll have baby #3 crawling and at that point I'd like to fill the freezer with part of a cow to save on supermarket shopping with 3 in tow....

My goal is also to limit spending to let's say $10 a week for milk and yogurt starter and some fresh produce as we have an abundance of every other staple already in the house.

4alpacas:
I'm still in!  I never completed it the last time around.  We have so many random food items in our cabinets from our impulse shopping. 

Wolf_Stache:
I'm in. I never finished everything in my cupboards during the last challenge, although I can see the back of them now!

I'm still trying to figure out what to make with a bag of Quinoa and a can of Squash Bisk, for example.

Fi(re) on the Farm:
I will interestingly watch from the side lines. I'm so busy feeding the freezer and the pantry this time of year and my garden is still producing more than we can it that it would serve no purpose to start eating what I've made.  I will, however, endeavour to eat whatever I've bought that's in my pantry.

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