Great Thanksgiving Challenge

Bobby and I are going to try to do Kath’s Great Thanksgiving Challenge!

Our rules:

• spend $126 on groceries between yesterday and Thanksgiving, including Thanksgiving dinner
• whatever is in the house already is fair game
• 1 night out per week not included
• Bobby gets to buy lunch once a week without counting it (because I get free lunch from work on Fridays)

Other info:

• my dad is visiting us this coming weekend (Thursday through Monday morning) so we will have to buy food for him as well for a few days
• Bobby and I are going to Miami for 4 days next week, and we won’t have to buy any food those days (next Thursday through Monday morning)
• we are hosting our own Thanksgiving dinner, so we will have to get a decent amount of food for that… we’re buying a Tofurky meal and having a few other things, which I’ll post about eventually.

This is what’s in my fridge right now (the last time we shopped was on Thursday night):

Some highlights:

• 13 eggs
• various fake meats & turkey bacon
• shirataki tofu noodles
• applesauce
• orange juice
• some veggies – plum tomatoes, lettuce, 1 eggplant, 2 red peppers, a few carrots, apples
• whole wheat wraps, regular tortilla wraps
• yogurt (Fage 0%)
• peanut butter, almond butter, bbq sauce, various other sauces and jams

And the freezer:

Highlights:

• soy ice cream
• lots of bagels
• chicken sausages
• various fake meats
• bread
• gyoza
• frozen seafood (shrimp and an assorted bag)

And we also have food in the pantry – pasta, oatmeal, nuts, bars, etc…  And I have a bunch of fruit in my fruit bowl (more apples, persimmons, and pears).  I also have 3 acorn squash, 2 butternut squash, a weird squash that I don’t know the name of, and 2 pumpkins.

At first I thought this challenge would be impossible, but after looking at what we already have I think we have a very good chance of succeeding.  Let’s see how it goes!  Let me know if you join up!