{"id":11074,"date":"2025-09-21T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=11074"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:22:23","slug":"pantry-challenge-saving-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=11074","title":{"rendered":"Pantry Challenge\/ Saving Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes I am writing this on a Sunday. I did most of the work for this on Saturday. But I wanted to share about the building that feels like it is sucking up most if not all of our time.<\/p>\n

I work all summer long to get easy to prepare meals in the freezer to make the school year go easier. I also wanted to start using up alot of the food we have here so that I can reduce the food bill for the rest of the year.\u00a0 I have\u00a0 not been to Costco since the first of August before school started.\u00a0 I am picking up items that we are completely out of but I am making a conscience effort not to buy items unless absolutely needed.\u00a0 We are about 6 weeks in and at the point where our convivence foods are gone. Yesterday we finished up both the chicken nuggets and bagel bites. One of the items that I have the most of is ground beef. When we purchase a whole cow, we get alot of ground beef and I know we can eat it. I am thinking that at this point we have almost 50 # left in the freezer.\u00a0 \u00a0We used up the last of the Costco meatball about a week ago.<\/p>\n

On Friday, I took a pound of ground beef and decided to make some meatballs to go with our spaghetti.\u00a0 They turned awesome, so good in fact that I decided to go ahead and make a huge batch. I turned 5 pounds of ground beef into 96 meatballs that can be used for spaghetti, meatball subs and even Swedish meatballs.<\/p>\n

While the last batch of these were baking yesterday, I ended up gathering up all the ingredients for Taco Soup. I decided to make a double batch so that I could can up some for quick and easy lunches.\u00a0 We are eating the soup for dinner this evening and I will have 5 half pints and 12 pints of taco soup to use for lunches or even future meal!\u00a0 I am excited to have these convivence items instead of purchasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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