Almost done! and Menus

[nwhiker]

Almost done with May and Any Weeks Containing Any Bit of May that marked my yearly clean out the freezer and the cupboards. I did pretty well, overall, actually. I still have to go through the cupboards to toss anything left that isn't going to get used. There is still some overly processed food from the 'camping' stash that needs to be eaten, and I'll do that off and on over the next few weeks. I'm also finding that I need a better system for getting rid deciding what needs to be part of the Cleanout. Because chicken broth? I use enough of that there is no reason to rotate it.

Next project of that type is to inventory my homemade jams and decide what I need to make this year. Probably strawberry. Heh.

Anyhow, menus for this week. Items from the Cleanout are in CAPS. Nothing real interesting, sigh.... Next week will be better.

Monday:
Leftover saffron rice with chicken sausage, cauliflower and spinach

Tuesday:
RAVIOLI (chicken and sundried Ts) with veggie

Wednesday:
HAM casserole of some sort with mushrooms

Thursday:
POTSTICKER soup (carrots, onions, mushroom, cabbage)

Friday:
GREEN CHILI and pork tortillas. Veggie.

Saturday:
Homemade pizza with SAUCE

Sunday:
Polenta with spinach and eggs.

[eta] One of the things I have found over the past month? About three stashes of homemade pizza sauce! I've also found a whole bunch of Boboli pizza sauce, all frozen. I often buy the crusts from Costco for emergencies, and we don't really like the sauce, it's very sweet and full of HFCS, but I toss the packets unopened in the freezer? WTF, self? Heh. I do need to figure out how to pre-parbake and freeze my own crusts.